ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,264, issued on March 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing machine learning for vehicle detection of adverse conditions" was invented by Tommaso Bianconcini (Florence, Italy), Leonardo Sarti (Florence, Italy), Leonardo Taccari (Florence, Italy), Francesco Sambo (Florence, Italy), Fabio Schoen (Florence, Italy), Enrico Civitelli (Arezzo, Italy) and Simone Magistri (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may determine a plurality of driving conditions associated with an image of a road scene based on providing a set of fea...