US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on June 23 for "Virtual environment generation for collaborative building assessment" (Arizona, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,987, issued on June 23, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Virtual environment generation for collaborative building assessment" was invented by Rebecca A. Little (Mesa, Ariz.), Nathan C. Summers (Mesa, Ariz.), Deanna L. Stockweather (Normal, Ill.), An Ho (Phoenix), Bryan R. Nussbaum (Bloomington, Ill.) and Vicki King (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating virtual collaboration between users within virtual environments are disclosed. A plurality of users access a collaborative virtual environment system using interface devices to establish a...