ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,718, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Copart Inc. (Dallas).
"Undercarriage imaging rover" was invented by Victor Tang (Flower Mound, Texas), Priyam Dalwadi (Addison, Texas), Raveena Jadhav (Addison, Texas), Akshay Ganesh (Addison, Texas), William An (Arlington, Texas) and Nikhil Ajay Kadalge (Irving, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for scanning an undercarriage of a vehicle including a rover for moving back and forth under the vehicle. At least one processor generates control signals to control movement of the rover and to control capture of a video of the undercarriage of the vehicle. A drive system responsive to...