US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on April 14 for "Using lighting zones to communicate pre-trip diagnostics" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,958, issued on April 14, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Using lighting zones to communicate pre-trip diagnostics" was invented by Akshay Pai Raikar (Austin, Texas), Christopher Harrison (Austin, Texas) and Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomy computing system and method of an autonomous vehicle for indicating vehicle status includes an electronic control unit for operating an indicator on an autonomous vehicle, the electronic control unit comprising a memory storing computer executable instructions and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor, upon executi...