ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,822, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CarMax Enterprise Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for capturing standardized images of a vehicle interior" was invented by Edward Eric Buchholz Jr. (Midlothian, Va.) and Richard Hunt Benfer (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a vehicle image capture system having a support structure, a telescoping hollow support beam, a second hollow support beam, a securing device, a support beam mount, a memory device storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute instructions to perform the steps of a method to position the vehi...