ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,133, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TORC ROBOTICS INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).
"Destructive braking systems" was invented by Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Blacksburg, Va.) and William Davis (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for destructive braking system for an autonomous truck traveling on a roadway includes an electronic control unit (ECU) configured for controlling a transmission for the autonomous truck. The destructive braking system includes a processing system communicatively coupled to the ECU, the processing system including a processor coupled to a memory. The memory stores executable instructions that, up...