US Patent Issued to NURO on June 3 for "Methods and apparatus for providing components in an autonomous vehicle" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,244, issued on June 3, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for providing components in an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Marshall Dickens Haltom (San Francisco), James C. Owens (Waterford, Va.) and Robert Jon Kon Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a vehicle includes a chassis, a propulsion system carried on the chassis, a control system carried on the chassis, and a components arrangement carried on the chassis. The propulsion system configured to propel the vehicle, and the control system is configured to enable the vehicle to operate autonomously....