US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on April 21 for "Systems and methods for automated damage estimation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,666, issued on April 21, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for automated damage estimation" was invented by Andre Rene Buentello (San Antonio), Jose L. Romero Jr. (San Antonio), Garrett Rielly Rapport (San Antonio), Gregory Brian Meyer (San Antonio), Michael Jay Szentes (San Antonio), Mark Anthony Lopez (Helotes, Texas) and Ashley Raine Philbrick (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for virtual walkthroughs are provided. Pre-loss and post loss captures of an environment are captured and analyzed to identify loss estimates and trigger claim ful...