ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,773, issued on March 31, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for sensor calibration at an energy supply station" was invented by John Hutchinson (Blacksburg, Va.) and Joshua Wise (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle can include a perception sensor and one or more processors. The processors can be configured to automatically control the autonomous vehicle to an energy supply station to resupply the autonomous vehicle; detect an arrival of the autonomous vehicle at the energy supply station; detect a calibration target; collect data from the perception sensor corr...