ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,856, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).
"Autonomous vehicle blind spot management" was invented by Nemanja Djuric (Pittsburgh), Shivam Gautam (Austin, Texas) and Abhishek Mohta (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle comprising a tractor and a trailer. For example, a system may determine that a line from a position of a first sensor on the autonomous vehicle to a position of a first actor in an environment of the autonomous vehicle intersects the trailer. The system may determine that the first ac...