US Patent Issued on Oct. 7 for "Method and related system for estimating the International Roughness Index of a road segment" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,711, issued on Oct. 7.

"Method and related system for estimating the International Roughness Index of a road segment" was invented by Lorenzo Alleva (Rome), Alessandro Boldrini (Rome), Manfredi Massimilla (Rome), Vittorio Nicolosi (Rome) and Alberto Nantuono (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for estimating the International Roughness Index (IRI) of a road or road segment includes determining the IRI as a function of physical quantities relating to the motion of a vehicle, for instance the vertical accelerations, and to the vehicle itself, for instance the damping and stiffness coefficients of the suspensions o...