ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,006, issued on April 14.
"Crowdsourcing road conditions from abnormal vehicle events" was invented by Junichi Sato (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for crowdsourcing reporting of road conditions from abnormal vehicle events. Abnormal vehicle events (such as sudden braking, sharp turns, evasive actions, pothole impact, etc.) can be detected and reported to a road condition monitoring system (RCMS). The RCMS can identify patterns in reported road conditions to generate advisory information or instructions for vehicles and users of vehicles. For example, suspected obstacles can be identified and used to instruct...