US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for blind zone visualization and online visualization sensor calibration" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,682, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for blind zone visualization and online visualization sensor calibration" was invented by Siegwart Bogatscher (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blind zone visualization system for an autonomous vehicle is described. The system includes at least one visual sensor mounted on a roof of the autonomous vehicle and at least one mirror mounted on a hood of the autonomous vehicle. The at least one mirror redirects a portion of a field of view (FOV) of the at least one sensor into a volume of space in front of the autonomous ...