US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Aug. 25 for "Method for producing a suitable distance between an autonomous vehicle and another vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,472, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Method for producing a suitable distance between an autonomous vehicle and another vehicle" was invented by Fridtjof Stein (Ostfildern, Germany), Carlo Elwinger (Maulbronn, Germany) and Chaitra Ashok Reddy (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a suitable distance between an autonomous vehicle and a second vehicle. The method includes recording data of an environment including the second vehicle driving ahead of the autonomous vehicle along a direction of travel, the data being recorded by a sensor system posit...