US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on Feb. 3 for "Enhanced unmanned aerial vehicles for damage inspection" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,799, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Enhanced unmanned aerial vehicles for damage inspection" was invented by Clint J. Marlow (Barrington Hills, Ill.) and Bryan Keith Corder (Gurnee, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing insurance damage inspection by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are provided. A computing device may receive a request to inspect a vehicle, the request comprising a location of the vehicle. The computing device may identify a UAV from a plurality of UAVs that is located closest to the location of the vehicle from other UAVs in the pluralit...