ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,800, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Image-based processing for products" was invented by Bryan Keith Corder (Gurnee, Ill.), John A. Riggio (Mundelein, Ill.) and Carlos D. Sanchez (Bartlett, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial image system may generate images of structures providing views that might otherwise be difficult to obtain. These images may be used to determine various characteristics of the structure, which may then be processed for a variety of tasks including product marketing, claim processing and post-claim analysis. The images may be analyzed by the aerial image sy...