ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,258, issued on March 25.
"Surface asset management mapping system" was invented by Mike Morgan (Fayetteville, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asset management mapping system including a microphone recording the audio of the asset inspector and a condition signal generator generating an condition signal based on asset inspector input from a keypad including condition selectors recorded into a global positioning system recorder that associates the audio, condition signal, and video with a gps location to create a pavement condition database. The database is interpreted to generate a condition output map of the areas inspected a...