ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,673, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and method for using object recognition to facilitate the collection of insurance information" was invented by Amy Engelhorn (Normal, Ill.) and Kathryn E. Knarr (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes providing a user an electronic form with a field associated, processing an image of the object that the user submitted via a user-interactive control of the form to identify physical features of the object, using the identified physical features to determine two or more pos...