US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Sept. 29 for "Systems, program products, and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles traveling within environments" (Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,916, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems, program products, and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles traveling within environments" was invented by Dushyant Ulhas Wadivkar (Austin, Texas) and Hing Fei Wong (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle is provided. The autonomous vehicle comprises sensor(s) configured to detect data relating to an environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle and object(s) included within the environment. The autonomous vehicle also includes an autonomy computing system(s) in communication with the sensor(s). The autonomy c...