US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "Self-driving truck with mirrors to extend a field of view" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,051, issued on Oct. 20.

"Self-driving truck with mirrors to extend a field of view" was invented by James Thomas O'Keeffe (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous truck may have several blind spots. These blind spots can be regions outside the direct field of view (FOV) of on-board sensors e.g. Cameras, LIDARs or RADARs. A remote mirror can be attached to the tractor or trailer of the truck and augment the direct FOV of sensors by illuminating a blind spot with emitted light AND/OR providing light reflections from a blind spot. However, remote mirrors are prone to move as a truck moves (e.g. as a truck arti...