US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Nov. 11 for "Future visual frame prediction for autonomous vehicles using long-range acoustic beamforming and synthetic aperture expansion" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,889, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Future visual frame prediction for autonomous vehicles using long-range acoustic beamforming and synthetic aperture expansion" was invented by Felix Heide (Blackburg, Va.) and Jim Aldon D'Souza (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle including a microphone array of a plurality of microphones, a visual sensor network configured to receive visual signals, at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions is disclosed. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one process...