US Patent Issued to Roofr on June 30 for "Technologies for using image data analysis to assess and classify hail damage" (Texas, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,531, issued on June 30, was assigned to Roofr Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Technologies for using image data analysis to assess and classify hail damage" was invented by Marigona Bokshi-Drotar (McKinney, Texas), Jing Wan (Allen, Texas), Sandra Kane (Garland, Texas) and Yuntao Li (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for analyzing image data to assess property damage are disclosed. According to certain aspects, a server may analyze segmented digital image data of a roof of a property using a convolutional neural network (CNN). The server may extract a set of features from a set of regions output by the CNN...