US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Europe NV/SA on May 19 for "Method and system for detecting and locating obstacles/elements on road pavement that are dangerous or potentially dangerous to tire and/or vehicle integrity" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,164, issued on May 19, was assigned to Bridgestone Europe NV/SA (Zaventem, Belgium).

"Method and system for detecting and locating obstacles/elements on road pavement that are dangerous or potentially dangerous to tire and/or vehicle integrity" was invented by Lorenzo Alleva (Rome), Valerio Bortolotto (Rome), Roberto Benedetti (Rome) and Marco Pascucci (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for detecting and locating obstacles/elements on road pavement, including: acquiring driven wheel speed values, and georeferencing data indicative of corresponding motor vehicle positions; detecting obstacles/elements present on ...