US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on June 30 for "Methods and systems for automatic processing of images of a damaged vehicle and estimating a repair cost" (Illinois, Georgia, Texas, Washington, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,514, issued on June 30, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for automatic processing of images of a damaged vehicle and estimating a repair cost" was invented by Shane Tomlinson (Bloomington, Ill.), Marigona Bokshi-Drotar (McKinney, Texas), Jennifer Malia Andrus (Seattle), Holly Lambert (Roswell, Ga.), He Yang (The Colony, Tenn.), Bradley A Sliz (Deerfield, Ill.), Daniel J Green (Bloomington, Ill.) and Michael Bernico (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer-implemented method for processing images of a damaged vehicle and estimating a rep...