ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,795, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to OPENLANE Inc. (Carmel, Ind.).
"Vehicle self-inspection apparatus and method" was invented by Scott Nei (Carmel, Ind.), William Doyle (Fishers, Ind.) and Michelle Kaiser Bray (Carmel, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for self-inspection of a vehicle is disclosed. The self-inspection may be performed by an application executed on a mobile device, with the application being configured to determine excessive wear and use. The mobile device may obtain images from a plurality of predetermined views of the vehicle, with damage input being determined for the plurality of predet...