ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,571, issued on July 21, was assigned to UVeye Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Interior defect detection through vehicle glazing using multi-view motion analysis and asymmetric illumination" was invented by Itai Orr (Or Akiva, Israel) and Amir Hever (Tenafly, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting interior defects in vehicles through glazing without requiring door opening or interior sensor installation. The system captures multi-view images of vehicle window panes from spatially separated viewpoints during relative motion between vehicle and imaging device. Motion field data representing pixel displacement is...