ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,954, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).
"Automated bump and/or depression detection in a roadway" was invented by Shivali Chandra (Pittsburgh) and Sean David Vig (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, products, apparatuses, and/or methods for identifying a speed bump for an autonomous vehicle on a roadway by determining at least one beginning location in the one or more subsets of the plurality of subsets associated with a greatest positive change or a greatest negative change in the one or more parameters and at least one ending location in the one or more subsets of the plu...