US Patent Issued to THE TORO on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle with detection system for detecting ground surface and sub-surface objects, and method for controlling vehicle" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,179, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Vehicle with detection system for detecting ground surface and sub-surface objects, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Michael Ryan Davern (Eagan, Minn.) and Rex Ray Bergsten (Burnsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system for use with a powered ground maintenance vehicle, the detection system adapted to detect and avoid contact of a ground maintenance implement carried by the vehicle with an object associated with the ground surface. In some embodiments, the detection system may automatically disengage the implement fr...