ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,481, issued on May 20, was assigned to Autel Intelligent Technology Corp. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Wheel image acquisition assembly, wheel positioning apparatus, and wheel positioning system" was invented by Dengguo Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Min Zeng (Shenzhen, China) and Yongchao Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel image acquisition assembly includes a base, a motor assembly and a camera module. One end of the base is for being connected to a support body in a wheel positioning apparatus, and the other end of the base is for being connected to the camera module. The motor assembly is mounted in the base and i...