US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 12 for "Systems and methods for modeling and predicting property damage" (Illinois, Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,307, issued on May 12, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for modeling and predicting property damage" was invented by Christian T. Kang (Normal, Ill.), Ross Wheeler (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Kaleb W. Ringenberg (East Peoria, Ill.), Dustin Helland (Morton, Ill.), Ashish Sawhney (Bloomington, Ill.), Anjela Spreen (Hewitt, Texas), Benjamin L. Clawson (Bloomington, Ill.), Douglas L. Dewey (Bloomington, Ill.), Joshua M. Mast (Bloomington, Ill.) and Hanpei Zhang (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof assessment (RA) computing device may be programmed to store a roof a...