US Patent Issued on July 28 for "System for inspecting and assessing the condition of the pavement of a roadway segment" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,502, issued on July 28.

"System for inspecting and assessing the condition of the pavement of a roadway segment" was invented by Javier Joaquin Losada Vazquez (Madrid) and Juan Manuel Pan Veiga (Oleiros, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inspecting and assessing the condition of the pavement of a roadway segment using at least one drone configured to capture image data of the pavement, operational data of the drone and its components, and environmental data. Image data portions comprising pixels corresponding to candidate pavement defects are extracted from the captured image data and independently processed by multip...