ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,307, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Future Dial Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Enhanced automatic cosmetic grading" was invented by Jisheng Li (Los Altos, Calif.) and George Huang (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically inspecting and grading a device includes generating an artificial intelligence (AI) grading model based on a plurality of grade criteria associated with a plurality of models of devices. The method further includes capturing a set of one or more images of the device; and grading the device based on the set of one or more images of the device using the AI grading model."

The ...