US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on March 31 for "System and method for communicating driving intent of an autonomous vehicle" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,103, issued on March 31, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"System and method for communicating driving intent of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Akshay Pai Raikar (Blacksburg, Va.), Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Blacksburg, Va.), William Davis (Blacksburg, Va.), Dakota James Hebert (Blacksburg, Va.) and Justin Yurkanin (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a vehicle wireless communication equipment, and an indicium for connecting to the vehicle wireless communication equipment displayed on a body of the vehicle is disclosed. The indicium includes information to connect with the v...