US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on July 28 for "Methods and systems for learning safe driving paths" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,905, issued on July 28, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Methods and systems for learning safe driving paths" was invented by Ryan Chilton (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for learning safe driving paths in autonomous driving adversity conditions can include acquiring, by a computer system, vehicle sensor data for a plurality of driving events associated with one or more autonomous driving adversity conditions. The vehicle sensor data can include, for each driving event, corresponding image data depicting surroundings of the vehicle and corresponding inertial measurement data. ...