ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,002, issued on June 16, was assigned to SHGI Corp. (Ashville, New Caledonia).

"Inspection apparatus and methods" was invented by Terrence Arthur Fagan (Mokena, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for conducting a property inspection are provided. A mobile computing device receives voice input from the user via an inspection application. The inspection application includes a plurality of features of a property and an associated information field that corresponds to each of the plurality of features for storing information about the feature. The mobile computing device identifies, from the voice input, a feature of ...