US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Dec. 16 for "World model generation and correction for autonomous vehicles" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,252, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"World model generation and correction for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Harish Pullagurla (Blacksburg, Va.), Ryan Chilton (Blacksburg, Va.) and Harish Karunakaran (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of generating and updating a world model for autonomous vehicle navigation are disclosed. An autonomous vehicle system can receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors of an autonomous vehicle, where the sensor data is captured during operation of the autonomous vehicle; access a world model generated based at least on ...