US Patent Issued to Roofr on June 23 for "Utilizing a 3D scanner to estimate damage to a roof" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,591, issued on June 23, was assigned to Roofr Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Utilizing a 3D scanner to estimate damage to a roof" was invented by Bryan Allen Plummer (Urbana, Ill.), Drew Cross (Geneseo, Ill.) and Nathan L. Tofte (Downs, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damage assessment module operating on a computer system automatically evaluates a roof, estimating damage to the roof by analyzing a point cloud of a roof. The damage assessment module identifies individual shingles from the point cloud and detects potentially damaged areas on each of the shingles. The damage assessment module then maps the potentially damaged areas ...