US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on March 24 for "System and method for assessing structural damage in occluded aerial images" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,372, issued on March 24, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"System and method for assessing structural damage in occluded aerial images" was invented by Yangqiu Hu (San Antonio), David Lamar Rogers (San Antonio), Ting Lu (San Antonio) and Jess W. Gingrich (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for processing occluded aerial images of structures to assess structural damage is disclosed. The system employs a generative model that is trained on data created by adding occlusive features to clear aerial images. Both the clear images and their simulated occluded counterpa...