US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for guiding autonomous vehicles within a transport hub" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,972, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for guiding autonomous vehicles within a transport hub" was invented by Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Blacksburg, Va.), Pablo Smith (Blacksburg, Va.), William Davis (Blacksburg, Va.), Akshay Pai Raikar (Blacksburg, Va.), Mihir Deshingkar (Blacksburg, Va.) and Justin Yurkanin (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for guiding an autonomous vehicle through known and unknown environments by following a remote vehicle are disclosed. An autonomous vehicle in accordance with the present disclosure comprises a computing ...