US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Sept. 2 for "Three dimension wind speed detection using pitot tube for automated vehicles" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,831, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Three dimension wind speed detection using pitot tube for automated vehicles" was invented by John Hutchinson (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include an automated vehicle having a pitot tube mounted to a side-view mirror of the automated vehicle. The pitot gathers samples of wind speed information for calculating three-dimensional wind measurements using the information gathered by the pitot tube. The pitot tube is installed at an area that offers the pitot tube access to outside "clean air," undisturbed by the ...