US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Aug. 19 for "Apparatus and method for detecting a state of a road surface" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,217, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for detecting a state of a road surface" was invented by Dietrich Dumler (Munich), Franz Wenninger (Munich), Wolfgang Gerner (Neubiberg, Germany) and Harald Gossner (Neubiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide an apparatus for detecting a state of a road surface. The apparatus includes an input interface, an image divider, a parameter calculator, and a classifier. The input interface is configured to obtain recording information of the road surface, su...