US Patent Issued to NURO on May 27 for "Low voltage power distribution unit for autonomous vehicle" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,780, issued on May 27, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Low voltage power distribution unit for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Noopur Divekar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tao Yang (Martinez, Calif.), Heba Mustufa (Mountain View, Calif.), Bryan McLaughlin (Cambridge, Mass.), Paul White (Mountain View, Calif.), Quresh Sutarwala (Fremont, Calif.) and Prasanna Nambi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, an autonomous vehicle includes hardware systems which receive relatively low voltage from a low voltage power distribution unit (LVPDU). An LVPDU includes a power source such as a DC-D...