ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,805, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Accident re-creation using augmented reality" was invented by Chase Davis (Richardson, Texas) and Jeraldine Dahlman (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods provide an augmented reality visualization of a real world accident scene. The system may comprise an augmented reality visualization device in communication with a display interface. The display interface may be configured to present a graphical user interface including an accident scene that corresponds to a real world location. The augmented reality visualiza...