ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,576, issued on July 21, was assigned to UVeye Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Vehicle inspection system and method with adaptive template matching and temporal defect tracking" was invented by Amir Hever (Tenafly, N.J.) and Itai Orr (Or Akiva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle inspection system captures multi-view images and retrieves vehicle-specific reference templates that evolve through gated learning based on validated inspection outcomes. The system computes multiple spatially-registered similarity maps, generates deviation maps, and compares against prior inspections to distinguish persistent defects from transient con...