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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2021
United Services Automobile Association (Usaa), San Antonio, TX (US);
Andrew Luke Enochs, San Antonio, TX (US);
Matthew Conrad Dahlman, Selma, TX (US);
Shawn D. Low, San Antonio, TX (US);
Daniel Diaz, San Antonio, TX (US);
Breanna Nicole Allerkamp, Boerne, TX (US);
United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A technique for assessing a vehicle condition is provided that determines whether damage has occurred to the vehicle using electrical property data acquired by one or more electrical property detection systems disposed on one or more surfaces of the vehicles. The electrical property detection system include a conductive polymer material that changes in response to chemical deformations and/or mechanical deformations in the conductive polymer material, which may result from objects and/or other vehicles damaging the conductive polymer material. Based on the electrical property data, a control system may generate a damage assessment output, such as an alert for a vehicle owner.