US Patent Issued to Roofr on Oct. 21 for "Assessing property damage using a 3D point cloud of a scanned property" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,664, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Roofr Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Assessing property damage using a 3D point cloud of a scanned property" was invented by Bryan Allen Plummer (Urbana, Ill.), Drew Cross (Geneseo, Ill.) and Nathan L. Tofte (Downs, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damage assessment module operating on a computer system automatically evaluates a property, estimating damage to the property by analyzing a point cloud of a property. The damage assessment module identifies individual point clusters or segments from the point cloud and detects potentially damaged areas of the property surface by identifying outlie...