Patents Assigned to The Hagerty Group, LLC
  • Vehicle identification number decoder
    Patent number: 8548968
    Abstract: A VIN decoder system includes a VIN decoder configured to search a database for a vehicle type associated with the received VIN, determine a VIN structure associated with the vehicle type, parse the received VIN according to the VIN structure to identify one or more VIN elements of the received VIN. The VIN decoder then determines VIN element descriptions associated with values of the one VIN elements and communicates the information that includes the VIN element descriptions to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: The Hagerty Group, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Zak, Jr., Timothy J. Weadock, Karl J. Mikula