US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for controlling a fleet of drones for data collection" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,335, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for controlling a fleet of drones for data collection" was invented by Matthew L. Floyd (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damage identification (DI) system for identifying property damage may include a drone fleet including several autonomous or semi-autonomous drones communicatively coupled together and a DI computing device. Each drone may collect drone-collected damage data, including image data. The DI computing may assign a geographical region to the drone fleet. The drone fleet may automat...