ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,769, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Systems and methods for detecting vehicle defects" was invented by Adil Nizam Siddiqui (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and Jonathan Engels (Tecumseh, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining an image from one or more imaging devices disposed in the interior of the vehicle, modifying the image based on a color conversion routine to generate a source image, generating a conformity value based on a comparison between the source image and a template image corresponding to the interior of the...