US Patent Issued to Willand (Beijing) Technology on Jan. 13 for "Charging station with marker, charging station system, method and apparatus for returning to station and lawnmowing robot with image collection apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,094, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Willand (Beijing) Technology Co. Ltd. (China).

"Charging station with marker, charging station system, method and apparatus for returning to station and lawnmowing robot with image collection apparatus" was invented by Kai Zhou (Beijing), Xu Yan (Beijing), Wanyang Qiao (Beijing) and Tianning Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging station, a charging station system, a method and apparatus for returning to a charging station and a lawn mowing robot are provided. Feature markers are provided on the charging station, and the lawn mower can acquire pose information of the feature mark...