US Patent Issued to Motional on June 3 for "Road surface condition guided decision making and prediction" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,271, issued on June 3, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Road surface condition guided decision making and prediction" was invented by Bence Cserna (Nahant, Mass.), Eric Wolff (Boston) and Shih-Yuan Liu (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, techniques are described for receiving, from at least one sensor of a vehicle, sensor data associated with a surface along a path to be traveled by a vehicle; using a surface classifier to determine a classification of the surface based on the sensor data; determining, based on the classification of the surface, drivability properties of the surface; planning...