US Patent Issued to TORC ROBOTICS on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for automatically dispensing road markings for autonomous vehicle signaling" (Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,800, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TORC ROBOTICS INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for automatically dispensing road markings for autonomous vehicle signaling" was invented by Akshay Pai Raikar (Blacksburg, Va.) and Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle comprises a sensor, a plurality of paint dispensers, and one or more processors. The processors can be configured to collect, using the sensor, data regarding an environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle as the autonomous vehicle is moving on a surface; detect an event in the environment surrounding the autonomou...