US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on June 16 for "Damage detection and analysis using three-dimensional surface scans" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,914, issued on June 16, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Damage detection and analysis using three-dimensional surface scans" was invented by George Hayman (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for damage assessment using multi-dimensional surface scans. In an example embodiment, an electronic damage assessment request related to the property is received. One or more autonomous drones are dispatched to the property associated with the damage assessment request and capture sensor data associated with a surveyed area of the property. Based o...