ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,446, issued on March 4, was assigned to RENU ROBOTICS CORP. (San Antonio).
"Autonomous vehicle panel and post detection" was invented by Michael Odell Blanton Jr. (San Antonio), Kristopher Charles Kozak (San Antonio) and Marc Christopher Alban (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are solutions for an autonomous vehicle to real-time detect and determine dynamic and/or obscured obstacles to support navigation and services to within a desired proximity of said obstacles. Certain such implementations are specifically directed to autonomous mowers, for example, capable of real-time object detection to determine location a...