ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,961, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).
"Road sign verification in autonomous vehicle remote teleassist system" was invented by Andreas Hansen (Mountain View, Calif.), Niels Joubert (Los Altos, Calif.) and Brian Taylor (Alameda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleassist system may be used to assist with verifying road signs encountered by an autonomous vehicle, particularly road signs that may be new and/or temporary in nature, e.g., within construction zones, and thus not maintained in a map database utilized by the autonomous vehicle. Detection of an unmapped road sign by an autonomou...