US 11,988,520 B1
Monitoring of data to predict road conditions
Emily Margaret Gray, San Antonio, TX (US); Daniel Christopher Bitsis, San Antonio, TX (US); Qunying Kou, San Antonio, TX (US); Robert Wiseman Simpson, Fair Oaks Ranch, TX (US); Manfred Amann, San Antonio, TX (US); Donnette Moncrief Brown, San Antonio, TX (US); Eric David Schroeder, San Antonio, TX (US); Meredith Beveridge, San Antonio, TX (US); Michael J. Maciolek, Boerne, TX (US); Bobby Lawrence Mohs, San Antonio, TX (US); Brian Francisco Shipley, Plano, TX (US); Justin Dax Haslam, San Antonio, TX (US); and Ashley Raine Philbrick, San Antonio, TX (US)
Assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed by United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/823,594.
Application 17/823,594 is a continuation of application No. 16/823,008, filed on Mar. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,454,510.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/820,053, filed on Mar. 18, 2019.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01S 19/39 (2010.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3664 (2013.01) [G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G07C 5/085 (2013.01); G01S 19/39 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A processor-implemented road condition reporting method, comprising:
receiving, via a sensor, sensor information indicative of a condition in or near a vehicle;
identifying a change in road condition based at least in part on the sensor information, wherein identifying the change in road condition comprises identifying a concurrent event in vehicle operation data and the sensor information characteristic of a type of road condition;
determining a location of the identified change in road condition indicative of a road repair condition or a surface; and
in response to identifying the change in road condition and the location of the change in road condition, transmitting a notification of the change in road condition and the location, wherein the notification is transmitted to other vehicles and wherein the notification comprises a recommendation of a corrective action.