ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,959, issued on April 21, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America Inc. (Mason, Ohio).

"System and method for processing image data to generate a pavement surface evaluation and rating report" was invented by Brian J. Debler (Northville, Mich.), Matheus F. De Almeida (Northville, Mich.) and Michael D. Horani (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for processing image data to generate a Pavement Surface Evaluation and Rating (PASER) report for a road system. The method comprises: collecting road data including a plurality of road images; identifying a plurality of feat...