US Patent Issued to Venti Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Suspended load detection for autonomous vehicles" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,535, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Venti Technologies (Singapore).

"Suspended load detection for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Sun Xin (Singapore), Mahdi Abolfazli Esfahani (Singapore) and Xinxin Du (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer programmable products are described herein for detecting a suspended load by an autonomous vehicle maneuvering about an environment. A scanning device mounted on and perpendicular to a top surface of the autonomous vehicle receives a plurality of data points surrounding the autonomous vehicle. A point detection module detects whether an object is present wi...