ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,733, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BacklotCars Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).
"System and method for vehicle-specific inspection and reconditioning" was invented by Shuchita Singh (Westwood, Kan.) and Jason Houseworth (Olathe, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and device for generating focused inspection recommendations and estimating a cost for reconditioning pre-owned vehicles. Embodiments of the invention provide for individualizing and streamlining the process of inspecting a pre-owned vehicle, and more particularly, for identifying components with historically high failure rates. Through analyzing several data inputs, ...