ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,996, issued on April 14, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).
"Autonomous vehicle traffic control at hubs" was invented by Harish Pullagurla (Blacksburg, Va.), Omid Karimpour (Blacksburg, Va.) and Himanshu Sardesai (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of automatic correction of map data for autonomous vehicle navigation are disclosed. One or more servers can receive an indication of a traffic condition at an autonomous vehicle hub; upon receiving the indication of the traffic condition at the autonomous vehicle hub, identify an autonomous vehicle traveling a route that includes the aut...