US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Automatic robotically steered sensor for targeted high performance perception and vehicle control" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,013, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Automatic robotically steered sensor for targeted high performance perception and vehicle control" was invented by Mark Calleija (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media that control an autonomous vehicle via at least two sensors. One aspect includes capturing an image of a scene ahead of the vehicle with a first sensor, identifying an object in the scene at a confidence level based on the image, determining the confidence level of the identifying is below a threshold, in re...