ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,928, issued on May 13, was assigned to Black Sesame Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method, device and storage medium for road slope predicating" was invented by Zhiyong Tang (Shanghai), Jiang Peng (Shanghai) and Tao Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road slope predicting method, a device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The road slope predicting method includes obtaining a road image of a road by a camera, detecting a first image lane line and a second image lane line of the road from the road image, setting a number of road image segmentation points along a road image center line of the first image lane li...