ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,004, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AIDash Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for road infrastructure management" was invented by Kanishk Varshney (Gurgaon, India), Mihir Rajendra Kulkarni (Bangalore, India) and Shrijit Basak (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving multiple 360-degree images each of which include a portion of a road. Multiple images based on the multiple 360-degree images are generated. One or more road defect detection models are applied to the multiple images. A first defect in a first portion of the road in a first image and a second defect in a second ...