ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,004, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).
"Vehicle of interest detection by autonomous vehicles based on amber alerts" was invented by Daniel Travis Geyer (Tucson, Ariz.) and Gary Lee McCarthy Jr. (Flower Mound, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an autonomous vehicle and a control device associated with the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle comprises sensors. The control device accesses sensor data captured by the sensors. The control device identifies a vehicle of interest from the sensor data. The control device communicates information associated with the vehicle of interest ...