ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,335, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for enhancing and developing accident scene visualizations" was invented by Brian Mark Fields (Normal, Ill.) and Lee Marvin John Assam (El Paso, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for enhancing and developing a damage scene virtual reality (VR) visualization. Annotated immersive multimedia image(s) may be received from a first user, where the annotated immersive multimedia image(s) can be associated with a damage scene. A VR visualization of the annotated immersive multimedia ...