US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on March 17 for "Systems and methods for autonomous horn activation and kidnapping detection" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,841, issued on March 17, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for autonomous horn activation and kidnapping detection" was invented by Christopher Harrison (Blacksburg, Va.) and Andrew Culhane (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle can include a horn; a sensor(s) configured to capture images; and one or more processors. The one or more processors can be configured to receive a sequence of images from the sensor(s), the sequence of images captured by the sensor(s) as the autonomous vehicle was moving; execute a machine learning model using the sequence of images as ...