US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Sept. 9 for "Methods and systems for sensing a road surface" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,082, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Methods and systems for sensing a road surface" was invented by Kannan Srinivasan (Columbus, Ohio) and Wei Sun (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system for remote sensing of a road surface includes an antenna configured to transmit and receive radiofrequency (RF) signals, where the antenna is configured to attach to a front end of a vehicle; at least one radiofrequency identification (RFID) tag, where the at least one RFID tag is configured to attach to the front end of a vehicle; and an RFID reader, wherein the RFID r...