US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Sept. 22 for "Autonomous vehicle remote teleoperations system with virtual path suggestion constraints" (California, Pennsylvania, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,093, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Autonomous vehicle remote teleoperations system with virtual path suggestion constraints" was invented by Thomas Van Hout (Pittsburgh), Godiva Reisenbichler (Portland, Ore.), Jessica Zheng (San Francisco) and Andreas Hansen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleoperations system may be used to generate virtual paths of travel for an autonomous vehicle based upon teleoperations system-provided suggestions, and virtual path suggestion constraints, e.g., based upon physical constraints associated with an autonomous vehicle such as minim...