US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on April 14 for "Systems and methods for immersive weather and lateral dynamics simulation" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,017, issued on April 14, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for immersive weather and lateral dynamics simulation" was invented by Akshay Pai Raikar (Blacksburg, Va.), William Davis (Blacksburg, Va.), Dakota James Hebert (Blacksburg, Va.), Makarand Phatak (Blacksburg, Va.) and Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulator is provided. The simulator includes a kingpin configured to couple to a fifth-wheel of a vehicle, a vertical actuator attached to the kingpin and configured to vertically actuate the kingpin, a horizontal actuator attached to the vertica...