ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,571, issued on July 22, 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.) and Philip Schneider (Amherst, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for inspecting vehicles. Some embodiments provide a system for vehicle inspection, including a support member having a first portion and a second portion angled relative to the first, and a plurality of sensor arrays c...