US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Oct. 27 for "Trailer load monitoring and notification system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,002, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Trailer load monitoring and notification system" was invented by William Gray Davis (Austin, Texas), Manan Bhatt (Austin, Texas) and Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle selectively coupled to a load includes a sensor configured to capture signals of an autonomous vehicle and an autonomy computing system operably coupled to the sensor including a memory device and a processor programmed to receive the signals from the sensor as the autonomous vehicle coupled to the load is executing a driving maneuver...