ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,496, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for marking virtual objects" was invented by Brian Fields (Phoenix), Ellakate LeFebre (Mesa, Ariz.), Anthony Welcome (Mesa, Ariz.), Steve Amancha (Tempe, Ariz.) and Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Laveen, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for marking virtual objects. An exemplary system includes one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions thereon. The instructions, when executed by the one or mor...