ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,868, issued on March 17, was assigned to Lytx Inc. (San Diego).

"Inclement weather detection" was invented by Sheethal Nagaraja Gowda (Bangalore, India), Shabbeer Basha Shaik Hussain (Bangalore, India) and Jayachandra Dakala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for detecting inclement weather driving conditions. The method includes obtaining an image captured by a camera mounted to a vehicle, determining a classification for road and weather conditions using a condition prediction model to analyze the image, in response to determining that the classi...