US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on March 17 for "Systems and methods for detecting unknown objects on a road surface by an autonomous vehicle" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,816, issued on March 17, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for detecting unknown objects on a road surface by an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Dalong Li (Blacksburg, Va.), Lei Ge (Blacksburg, Va.) and Juncong Fei (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle comprises one or more processors. The processors can be configured to receive, from a sensor of the autonomous vehicle, an image of an environment outside of the autonomous vehicle. The processors can detect potential unknown objects based on the image. The processors can compare the detection based on the im...