ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,159, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TRACTABLE Ltd. (London).

"Inconsistent damage determination" was invented by Razvan Ranca (London), Marcel Horstmann (London), Bjorn Mattsson (London), Janto Oellrich (London), Yih Kai Teh (London), Ken Chatfield (London), Franziska Kirschner (London), Rusen Aktas (London), Laurent Decamp (London), Mathieu Ayel (London), Julia Peyre (London), Shaun Trill (London) and Crystal Van Oosterom (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the determination of damage to portions of a vehicle. More particularly, the present invention relates to determining whether determined ...