US Patent Issued to THE TORO on Oct. 28 for "Implement and grounds maintenance vehicle including same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,299, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Implement and grounds maintenance vehicle including same" was invented by Jerrod Neal Winter (Faribault, Minn.) and Phat Toan Nghiem (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a ground working implement and a grounds maintenance vehicle that includes such implement are disclosed. The ground-working implement includes an implement frame and a tool carousel rotatably connected to the implement frame. The tool carousel includes a shaft and first and second operator-selectable ground-working tools extending outwardly from the sha...