US Patent Issued to TORC ROBOTICS on July 28 for "Systems and methods for sensor cleaning on autonomous vehicles" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,851, issued on July 28, was assigned to TORC ROBOTICS INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for sensor cleaning on autonomous vehicles" was invented by Fridtjof Stein (Blacksburg, Va.) and Vicent Rodrigo Marco (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for autonomous vehicle sensor cleaning utilizing at least one sensor, a processing system, and memory with executable instructions. The processor receives sensor data, detects obstructions causing operational impact on the vehicle, selects a sensor cleaning solution based on that impact, deploys it through the cleaning system, and checks for nominal sens...