ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,170, issued on July 29, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Methods for inspecting a vehicle, devices, and systems for the same" was invented by Julien Maitre (Chuzelles, France) and Yann Quibriac (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for inspecting a vehicle comprising initiating an inspection method, from a processor device of a user terminal placed near the vehicle, the user terminal comprising an augmented reality display, the processor device, and a communication interface capable of establishing a short range communications link with a communications interface of an electronic ...