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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2024
Acv Auctions Inc., Buffalo, NY (US);
Philip Schneider, Amherst, NY (US);
Justas Birgiolas, Milton, VT (US);
Livio Forte, III, Lloyd Harbor, NY (US);
Shawn Galante, Depew, NY (US);
Akhil Kanna Devarashetti, Amherst, NY (US);
William Giegerich, Buffalo, NY (US);
Charles Frederick Cluss, Buffalo, NY (US);
Frank Pollina, Lockport, NY (US);
Margaret Donnelly, Buffalo, NY (US);
Dennis Christopher Fedorishin, Amherst, NY (US);
Alexander W. Stone, East Amherst, NY (US);
Michael Pokora, Tonawanda, NY (US);
ACV Auctions Inc., Buffalo, NY (US);
Abstract
The inventors have developed technology to facilitate the inspection of vehicles, such as cars, for the presence of defects. The technology may be used to facilitate detection of any defects of one or more vehicle defects before, during, and/or after inspection of the vehicle. The technology includes software and trained machine learning models for performing analyses to determine likely vehicle defects prior to completion of a vehicle inspection, to determine whether any vehicle defects are present based on data acquired during the vehicle inspection, and/or to determine, after completion of the vehicle inspection, whether there are any discrepancies between any defects identified by an inspector during the vehicle inspection and defects automatically detected by analyzing data collected during the inspection of the vehicle.