US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for detecting cargo lost from an autonomous vehicle" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,003, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for detecting cargo lost from an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Blacksburg, Va.), Armenio Rivero (Blacksburg, Va.), Akshay Pai Raikar (Blacksburg, Va.), William Davis (Blacksburg, Va.), Pablo Smith (Blacksburg, Va.) and Walter Grigg (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting and reporting cargo lost from an autonomous vehicle. The method includes receiving, from a plurality of sensors, at least one sensor signal representing one or more measurements of the vehicle, determining...