ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,674, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).
"Mobile roadway sensing" was invented by Ziyuan Pu (Seattle), Ruimin Ke (Seattle), Chenxi Liu (Seattle), Hao Yang (Seattle) and Yinhai Wang (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile roadway sensing unit can include an image sensor that can sense image data, a network sensor that can acquire wireless signal data, and a weather sensor that can sense weather condition data. The mobile roadway sensing unit can include a processor and a memory. The memory can include instructions executable by the processor for causing the processor to acquire the sensor data...