ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,425, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Road management system, server computer, and road management method" was invented by Kazuki Ikeda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road manager system and method to identify a road surface property in a convenient and stable manner, including a vehicle positional information sensor and road surface condition sensor; a server computer that manages a road surface property; and a client computer that accesses the server computer. The server computer carries out processing of receiving, from the vehicle, permission information regarding provision of road surface condit...