ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,528, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Object damage identification using modeling based on three-dimensional scanning" was invented by John Phinizy (Midlothian, Va.) and Chih-Hsiang Chow (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may obtain scan data associated with an object, where the scan data includes a three-dimensional representation of a surface of the object. The device may identify one or more damaged regions of the object based on the scan data. The device may align the scan data with model data associated with a three-dimensional model represe...