ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,671, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Damage detection apparatus and method" was invented by Ivaylo Popov (Hatfield, Great Britain), Georgi Pachov (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Tom Clancy (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method to automatically detect vehicle damage which minimises the time taken to detect damage per vehicle. For example, the action of damage detection is also performed with an action of causing the fixing of any detected damage, where appropriate. A damage detection unit is configured and arran...