ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,617, issued on May 6, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Vehicle inspection system" was invented by Paul Gerard Nistler (Lawrence Park, Pa.), Michael Altonji (Erie, Pa.), Glenn Robert Shaffer (Lawrence Park, Pa.) and David Joseph Schroeck (Erie, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system includes sensors that are selectively coupled to a vehicle during an inspection and/or maintenance event for the vehicle and a controller that is operable to cause a control system of the vehicle to initiate a first operation and a different, second operation. The controller determines whether first sensor ...