US Patent Issued to ACV Auctions on April 14 for "Machine learning methods for evaluating vehicle conditions" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,101, issued on April 14, was assigned to ACV Auctions Inc. (Buffalo, N.Y.).

"Machine learning methods for evaluating vehicle conditions" was invented by Philip Schneider (Amherst, N.Y.), Michael Pokora (Tonawanda, N.Y.), Justas Birgiolas (Lockport, N.Y.), Livio Forte III (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.) and Dennis Christopher Fedorishin (East Amherst, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using a trained machine learning (ML) model to detect presence of vehicle defects from audio acquired at least in part during operation of an engine of a vehicle. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: ob...