ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,391, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for evaluating object tracking methodologies" was invented by Zhenghan Zhu (Austin, Texas), Jackson Maury Newton (Christiansburg, Va.) and Haseeb Chaudhry (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle including one or more sensors, at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle, determining, using a first...