ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,208, issued on July 8, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods of determining changes in pose of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by David Thompson (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle comprises a sensor configured to capture images and one or more processors. The one or more processors can be configured to receive a single image from the sensor, the single image captured by the sensor as the autonomous vehicle was moving; execute a machine learning model using the single image as input to generate a change in pose of the autonomous vehicle, the machine learning model trained ...