US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on March 17 for "Structural characteristic extraction using drone-generated 3D image data" (Illinois, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,584, issued on March 17, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Structural characteristic extraction using drone-generated 3D image data" 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 may generate a proposed insurance claim and/or generate a proposed insurance quote for an object pictured in a three-dimensional (3D) image. The structural analysis comp...