US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on July 15 for "Autonomous vehicle remote teleoperations system" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,530, issued on July 15, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autonomous vehicle remote teleoperations system" was invented by Gwennael Herve Jonathan Gate (Pittsburgh), Dmitriy Kislovskiy (Pittsburgh), Narek Melik-Barkhudarov (Edgewood, Calif.) and Nathaniel Gist IV (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleoperations system may be used to modify elements in the mapping data used by an autonomous vehicle to cause the autonomous vehicle to control its trajectory based on the modified elements. In addition, in some instances, a teleoperations system may be used to generate virtual paths of travel for ...