ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,833, issued on June 23, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Vehicle diagnostic platform using augmented reality for damage assessment" was invented by Clint J. Marlow (Barrington Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing platforms that apply augmented reality techniques for vehicle diagnostics. A computing platform may receive images of a vehicle. By applying image recognition and machine learning algorithms to the images of the vehicle, the computing platform may identify the vehicle. The computing platform may identify schematics corresponding to the vehicle. Us...