ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,272, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Fyusion Inc. (San Francisco).

"Multi-view visual data damage detection" was invented by Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer (San Mateo, Calif.), Matteo Munaro (San Francisco), Pavel Hanchar (Minsk, Belarus), Rodrigo Ortiz-Cayon (San Francisco) and Aidas Liaudanskas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Images of an object may be captured via a camera at a mobile computing device at different viewpoints. The images may be used to identify components of the object and to identify damage estimates estimating damage to some or all of the components. Capture coverage levels corresponding with the c...