US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on June 9 for "Tracking of articulated vehicles" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,476, issued on June 9, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Tracking of articulated vehicles" was invented by Nemanja Djuric (Pittsburgh) and Cuichun Xu (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improved tracking of articulated vehicles can obtain, through one or more sensor systems onboard a vehicle, sensor data descriptive of an environment of the vehicle, the environment including an articulated vehicle having at least a first portion and a second portion; generate based on the sensor data, first state data for the first portion of the articulated vehicle and second state data for the s...