US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Oct. 14 for "System and method for detecting and counting road anomalies" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,815, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for detecting and counting road anomalies" was invented by Yasser Elsayed Mohamed Elalfy (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Uthman Baroudi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for executing a method of detecting road anomalies includes obtaining visual data of a road from an end computing device and inputting the visual data to a machine learning (ML) model that learns to detect and classify at least one road anomaly such as a pothol...