ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,552, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Lytx Inc. (San Diego).

"Road condition tagging" was invented by Daniel Witriol (Kirkland, Wash.) and Dennis Cheng (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for determining a road condition classification for one or more road segments. The method includes (i) determining a set of one or more images for a particular geographic area, (ii) obtaining a set of one or more images for the particular geographic area, (iii) determining a set of road classifications for the set of road segments based at least in part on querying a...