ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,298, issued on June 9, was assigned to QUANATA LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for obtaining incident information to reduce fraud" was invented by Kenneth J. Sanchez (San Francisco), Theobolt N. Leung (San Francisco), Holger Struppek (San Francisco), Scott Howard (Emeryville, Calif.), John Minichiello (Monticello, Fla.) and Vinay Kumar (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for analyzing documentation for assessing potential fraudulent user submissions are provided. According to certain aspects, a server computer may receive an initial set of documentation descriptive of damage to a property asse...