US Patent Issued to KLIMATOR on Feb. 24 for "Method and arrangement for determining a condition of a road surface" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,110, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KLIMATOR AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and arrangement for determining a condition of a road surface" was invented by Johan Casselgren (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a classification of a condition of a road surface for vehicle traffic includes: defining a reference surface of the road surface ahead; illuminating the reference surface with a light source on the vehicle; detecting light reflected off the reference surface; and determining classification of the condition of the road surface by analyzing detected information related to the reference surfa...