US Patent Issued to TORC ROBOTICS on Sept. 15 for "Methods and systems for rescue of autonomous vehicles" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,166, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TORC ROBOTICS INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Methods and systems for rescue of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Blacksburg, Va.), Pablo Smith (Blacksburg, Va.), William Davis (Blacksburg, Va.), Akshay Pai Raikar (Blacksburg, Va.), Justin Yurkanin (Blacksburg, Va.) and Christopher Harrison (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at an application server from an autonomous vehicle, telematics data, and based upon analysis of the received telematics data, determining, by the application ser...