ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,801, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NIRA Dynamics AB (Linkoping, Sweden).
"Methods, apparatuses, systems and computer program products for estimating road condition information" was invented by Johan Olof Kalvesten (Linkoping, Sweden), Jesper Harald Otterholm (Linkoping, Sweden) and Per Olof Magnus Magnusson (Linkoping, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, systems and computer program products for estimating individualized road condition information for a specific vehicle are disclosed. Generic road condition information is received, which is indicative of at least one condition of a road segment. Further...