ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,703, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hung Ming Information Co. Ltd. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Smart road surface detection method and edge collection device, cloud-based road surface recognition module and system thereof" was invented by Chia Chun Yen (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a smart road surface detection method and edge collection devices, a cloud-based road surface recognition module and system thereof that mainly uses edge mobile devices to film and analyze the pavement condition indexes (PCI) characteristics of the MP4 in the bounding box of road surface, and corre...