US Patent Issued to Emergent Network Intelligence on March 25 for "Automatic image based object damage assessment" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,536, issued on March 25, was assigned to Emergent Network Intelligence Ltd. (Newcastle Tyne and Wear, Great Britain).

"Automatic image based object damage assessment" was invented by Christopher Campbell (South Shields, Great Britain), Karl Hewitson (Tyne and Wear, Great Britain), Karl Brown (Tyne and Wear, Great Britain), Jon Wilson (Consett, Great Britain) and Sam Warren (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based method for automatically evaluating validity and extent of at least one damaged object from image data, comprising: (a) receiving image data comprising one or more images of at least one damaged objec...