US Patent Issued to State Farm Automobile Insurance on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for augmented reality for disaster simulation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,278, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to State Farm Automobile Insurance Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for augmented reality for disaster simulation" was invented by Timothy Joel Davis (Chicago) and Amy Engelhorn (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) system for generating and displaying a pre-disaster Enhanced Situation Visualization (ESV) is provided. The AR system may include an ESV computing device, a user computing device operated by a user and a reference database. The user computing device may transmit a reference request message to the ESV device, the reference request messa...