ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,432, issued on June 24, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"System for determining type of property inspection based on captured images" was invented by Ivan S. Ganev (Deerfield, Ill.) and James M. Berends (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for electronically detecting and determining a type of inspection to recommend for a property and/or one or more characteristics of the property using input from multiple computing devices, such as image capturing devices, mobile devices, external data sources, internal data sources, and/or other data sources. A computing d...