ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,577, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HELLA GMBH & Co. KGAA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Method for determining the road temperature from inside a motor vehicle" was invented by Thomas Niemann (Delmenhorst, Germany) and Bastian Kanning (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for determining the surface temperature of a road on which a motor vehicle is travelling, the brightness of the ambient light around the motor vehicle is determined, that radiated light reflected from the road is captured, and that the measured values for brightness of the ambient light and the radiated light reflected from the road are included i...