ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,716, issued on June 2, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Three-dimensional risk maps" was invented by Mark Slusar (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems including one or more sensors, coupled to a vehicle, may detect sensor information and provide the sensor information to another computing device for processing. The processing may include analyzing the sensor information to identify one or more risk objects, such as animals, pedestrians, potholes, etc. The processing may further include generating a three-dimensional (3D) risk map, which may be displayed to a passenger in the vehicle. The 3D risk ma...