ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,402, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Automating vehicle damage inspection using claims photos" was invented by Paresh Malalur (Cambridge, Mass.), Sandeep Badrinath (Cambridge, Mass.), Onkar Trivedi (Cambridge, Mass.) and Dheeptha Badrinarayanan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an implementation, a set of images of a vehicle, is captured as a captured set of images, where the set of images are captured from different viewpoints around the vehicle. The captured set of images are organized. The captured set of images are mapped, as a mapped image set, using an i...