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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 04, 1998
Scott D. Kidd, San Antonio, TX (US);
Darrin A. Smith, San Antonio, TX (US);
John B. Bomar, Jr., San Antonio, TX (US);
David J. Pancratz, Helotes, TX (US);
Linda J. Rogers, San Antonio, TX (US);
Injury Sciences LLC, San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method enables nontechnical personnel to provide information relating to vehicle damage information via a graphical user interface of a computer system. The information provided by the user includes damaged vehicle area information, crush depth of the damaged areas information, and vehicle component-by-component damage information. This information is utilized by a &Dgr;V determination module executing on a processor to, for example, obtain respective overall vehicle damage ratings for each vehicle of two vehicles involved in a collision. The overall damage rating is obtained by applying a set of rules, based on a uniform quantification of component-by-component damage, to the subject vehicles and an identical or sister test vehicle from one or more crash tests which provide damage information.