US Patent Issued to TORC ROBOTICS on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods of fleet road de-icing with autonomous vehicles" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,108, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TORC ROBOTICS INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods of fleet road de-icing with autonomous vehicles" was invented by Akshay Pai Raikar (Austin, Texas), Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Austin, Texas), William Davis (Austin, Texas), Dakota James Hebert (Austin, Texas) and Justin Yurkanin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle is provided. The autonomous vehicle includes one or more sensors and an autonomy computing system. The autonomy computing system includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The at least one processor is prog...