ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,730, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ACV Auctions Inc. (Buffalo, N.Y.).

"Systems and techniques for vehicle inspection and condition analysis" was invented by Mark Brighton (Buffalo, N.Y.), Margaret Donnelly (Buffalo, N.Y.), Livio Forte III (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.), William Giegerich (Buffalo, N.Y.), Frank Pollina (Pendleton, N.Y.), Philip Schneider (Amherst, N.Y.) and Prajwal Shubhodaya Shetty (Buffalo, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for inspecting vehicles, such as cars or trucks. Some embodiments provide a method for inspecting a vehicle using a vehicle inspection system. The vehicle inspection system ma...