ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,081, issued on June 3, was assigned to DEGOULD Ltd. (Exeter, Great Britain).

"Vehicle imaging station" was invented by Daniel George Gould (Exeter, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle imaging station for capturing images of scratches on a vehicle, the vehicle imaging station including a tunnel having an entrance and an exit, with one or more walls defining an enclosure between the entrance and exit to define a tunnel volume containing a vehicle pathway having a central axis. The station further includes a reflection source surface and a camera arranged with a field of view including an imaging volume of the tunnel v...