ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,314, issued on March 25, was assigned to CaaStle Inc (New York).

"Systems and methods for phased article inspections" was invented by Lindsey Winland (Dublin, Ohio), Jessica Guertin (Grove City, Ohio), Steven Sesshu Shimozaki (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mahan Saalabi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving one or more articles at an inspection station that includes an inspection processor, inspecting the one or more articles in view of at least one repairability criterion presented via one or more graphical elements, and updating an inspection database if the one or more articles...