US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for supplying energy to an autonomous vehicle via a virtual interface" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,418, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for supplying energy to an autonomous vehicle via a virtual interface" was invented by Joshua Wise (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle can include a sensor and one or more processors. The processors can be configured to automatically control the autonomous vehicle to an energy supply station responsive to determining to resupply energy to the autonomous vehicle; detect, via the sensor, an object corresponding to the energy supply station, the object indicating to initiate energy supply to the autonomous...