ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,215, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Mower" was invented by Shinsuke Sato (Toyota, Japan) and Takehito Sakakibara (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mower includes a mower main body and a controller. The mower main body includes a mowing blade for mowing grass. The controller identifies subsidence on a ground surface where the mower main body is not able to travel based on three-dimensional point cloud data composed of three-dimensional data of multiple positioning points in a target area, and sets a travel route of the mower main body by avoiding the identified subsidence."
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