US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Dec. 2 for "Whole vehicle fault detection using centrally located gas analysis" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,151, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Whole vehicle fault detection using centrally located gas analysis" was invented by John Hutchinson (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include a system of fluid-delivery hardware, including tubes, valves, and pumps that deliver samples of fluid gathered from various exposed locations of a vehicle to commonly located gas analysis sensors. A durable sensor housing contains the gas sensors and is situated in a confined location of the vehicle, which is environmentally isolated and physically partitioned from the sample ...