US Patent Issued on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle damage detection system and method" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,389, issued on Oct. 7.

"Vehicle damage detection system and method" was invented by Philip Zylstra (Port Stanley, Canada) and Matthew James Gibson (Stouffville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle damage detection system operating on a computer system for evaluating specific damage to a vehicle. The vehicle damage detection system capturing a 3D point cloud of a damaged vehicle with a 3D scanner and identifies one or more sites of vehicle damage based on comparison of the captured 3D point cloud of the damaged vehicle to a baseline 3D file by identifying points within the 3D point cloud of the damaged vehicle that deviate ...