US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on July 14 for "Redundant lane detection for autonomous vehicles" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,414, issued on July 14, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Redundant lane detection for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Joseph Stamenkovich (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of automatic correction of map data for autonomous vehicle navigation are disclosed. An autonomous vehicle system can receive first sensor data from a first sensor of an autonomous vehicle and second sensor data from a second sensor of the autonomous vehicle, the first sensor data and the second sensor data captured during operation of the autonomous vehicle; generate, based on the first sensor data, a fi...