US Patent Issued to Assurant on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for automatically grading pre-owned electronic devices" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,789, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Assurant Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for automatically grading pre-owned electronic devices" was invented by Brandon P. Johnson (Brentwood, Tenn.), Roscoe R. Herald (Murfreesboro, Tenn.), Harrison A. Hanks (Nashville, Tenn.) and Carson Farley (Smyrna, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically grading a user device are provided. Such systems and methods can include (1) a lighting element positioned at an angle relative to a platform, (2) an imaging device positioned at the angle relative to the platform such that light emitted from the lighting element ...