ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,909, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).
"Road defect detection" was invented by Kamran Ali (Troy, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Bo Yu (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying road defects within a roadway ahead of a moving vehicle, includes at least one camera in communication with a system controller and adapted to capture a plurality of time sequential images of the roadway ahead of the moving vehicle, and at least one motion sensor in communication with the system controller and adapted to detect when the vehicle encounters a road defect, the s...