US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for enhanced personal property replacement" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,696, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for enhanced personal property replacement" was invented by Greg Maurer (Sachse, Texas), Timothy Joel Davis (Chicago) and Amy Engelhorn (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for enhanced personal property replacement (i) builds a virtual inventory of personal belongings, such as by performing object recognition techniques on mobile device digital images with the customer's permission or affirmative consent; (ii) receives user preferences transmitted from their mobile device; (iii) receives a req...