US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on June 24 for "Exit routes" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,123, issued on June 24, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Exit routes" was invented by Jamie Elizabeth Grahn (Lakemoor, Ill.) and Elizabeth Schreier (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device equipped with a camera may be used to assist a person in planning and traversing exit routes for a premises. For example, a user may be able to interact with one or more user interfaces generated by the computing device to determine an exit route for the premises. The user may be able to identify various objects, such as stairs or doors, along the exit route. The user may be able to identify graph...