US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on March 3 for "Localizing vehicles using retroreflective surfaces" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,069, issued on March 3, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Localizing vehicles using retroreflective surfaces" was invented by Wade Foster (Blacksburg, Va.), Ryan Chilton (Blacksburg, Va.), Karan Vivek Bhargava (Blacksburg, Va.), Harish Pullagurla (Blacksburg, Va.), Zachary Miller (Blacksburg, Va.), Gowtham Raj Gunaseela Udayakumar (Blacksburg, Va.) and Jason Harper (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving a first set of data associated with a plurality of retroreflective features from a vehicle; retrieving a digital map comprising vectorized data associated with the plurality o...