US Patent Issued to Vehicle Service Group on Aug. 12 for "Damage detection using machine learning" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,308, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Vehicle Service Group LLC (Downers Grove, Ill.).

"Damage detection using machine learning" was invented by Bodhayan Dev (Marlborough, Mass.), Atish P. Kamble (Arlington, Mass.), Prem Swaroop (Lexington, Mass.) and Girish Juneja (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting hail damage on a vehicle are described including, receiving an image of at least a section of a vehicle. Detecting a plurality of hail damage including, detecting a plurality of damaged areas distributed over the entire section of the vehicle, and differentiating the plurality of damaged a...