US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on March 17 for "Interference deterrent systems and methods" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,967, issued on March 17, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Interference deterrent systems and methods" was invented by Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Blacksburg, Va.), Akshay Pai Raikar (Blacksburg, Va.), William Davis (Blacksburg, Va.), Justin Yurkanin (Blacksburg, Va.) and Jenifer Flores (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interference deterrent system for an autonomous vehicle is provided. The interference deterrent system includes a directional speaker system and a processor configured to receive, from at least one sensor of the autonomous vehicle, sensor data, identify, from the sensor data, a pot...