ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,812, issued on May 13, was assigned to ACCURENCE INC. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for improving property inspection efficiency" was invented by Zachary Labrie (Broomfield, Colo.), Benjamin Zamora (Arvada, Colo.) and Timothy Bruffey (Buena Vista, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for automating the management and processing of roof damage analysis. In some embodiments, methods and systems include obtaining data associated with a property. Methods and systems include using obtained data to generate a model of the property. Methods and systems include transmitting the model of the property to a user ...