US Patent Issued to Helm.ai on June 2 for "Road surface detection and prediction system for vehicle safety and performance enhancement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,557, issued on June 2, was assigned to Helm.ai Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Road surface detection and prediction system for vehicle safety and performance enhancement" was invented by Vladislav Voroninski (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael Anthony Viscardi (Redwood City, Calif.) and Tobias Constantin Wessels (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive road surface detection and safety feature activation includes receiving an image captured by a camera, the image comprising a road surface ahead of a vehicle. It further includes providing the image to an image-based road surface condition prediction model that is trained at...