ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,011, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Method and system for virtual area visualization" was invented by Bryan R. Nussbaum (Bloomington, Ill.), Rebecca A Little (Mesa, Ariz.), Kevin L. Mitchell (Tempe, Ariz.), Nathan C. Summers (Mesa, Ariz.) and An Ho (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for virtual visualization of overall regions are disclosed. Images of an overall region may be obtained by a server and used to generate a virtual model of the overall region. The server may generate a virtual environment that includes the vi...