US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Sept. 8 for "Automated management of a fifth-wheel hitch for an autonomous vehicle" (Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,885, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Automated management of a fifth-wheel hitch for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz (Austin, Texas) and Nicholas Atanasov (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this technical solution can include generating, by a processor, a first metric corresponding to a first signal from one or more first sensors, the first sensor configured to detect a position of a fifth-wheel hitch of a vehicle with the fifth-wheel hitch in a first position, generating, by the processor, a second metric corresponding to a second signal f...