ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,114, issued on April 7, was assigned to ACV Auctions Inc. (Buffalo, N.Y.).

"Systems and techniques for vehicle inspection and condition analysis" was invented by Mark Brighton (Buffalo, N.Y.), Margaret Donnelly (Buffalo, N.Y.), Dennis Christopher Fedorishin (Buffalo, N.Y.), Livio Forte III (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.), Shawn Galante (Depew, N.Y.), William Giegerich (Buffalo, N.Y.), Frank Pollina (Pendleton, N.Y.), Philip Schneider (Amherst, N.Y.) and Prajwal Shubhodaya Shetty (Buffalo, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for inspecting vehicles, such as cars or trucks. Some embodiments provide a method for inspecting a...