US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Jan. 13 for "Structural characteristic extraction from 3D images" (Illinois, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,815, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Structural characteristic extraction from 3D images" was invented by Timothy J. Spader (Bloomington, Ill.), George T. Dulee Jr. (Bloomington, Ill.), Donald Yuhas (Bloomington, Ill.), Aaron Brucker (Marietta, Ga.), Chris Stroh (Anchor, Ill.) and Jeffrey Mousty (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural analysis computing device for determining structural characteristics of an object pictured in a three-dimensional (3D) image may be provided. The structural analysis computing device may include a memory, a user interf...