ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,735, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for evaluating buildings" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided herein for evaluating a physical building, utilizing an automated image capture apparatus, a spatial computing apparatus, a machine learning model, a blockchain network, and a computer processor, the method including capturing and analyzing images of the building, dividing the building into sections, identifying defective characteristic(s) in and assigning a status to each section, sharing the images an...