US Patent Issued to RENU ROBOTICS on Sept. 16 for "Autonomous vehicle sensing through visually obscuring vegetation" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,492, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RENU ROBOTICS CORP. (San Antonio).

"Autonomous vehicle sensing through visually obscuring vegetation" was invented by Michael Odell Blanton Jr. (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are solutions for proactively sensing terrain features and obstacles in the path of an autonomous vehicle that may be otherwise visually obscured by vegetation-said proactive sensing providing a view beyond that available to the autonomous vehicle by physically removing or pushing aside said obscuring vegetation-for the purpose of mitigating the risks the autonomous vehicle might otherwise encounte...