US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for supplying energy to an autonomous vehicle via a virtual interface" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,343, issued on Oct. 28, 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 energy supply station can include a mechanical arm, an energy delivery receptacle, and one or more processors. The processors can be configured to detect an arrival of a vehicle at the energy supply station; transmit an indication of the arrival to a remote computer, causing activation of a virtual interface; and move the mechanical arm, based on input at the virtual interface, to cause th...