ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,972, issued on July 1, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Method and system for identifying conditions of features represented in a virtual model" was invented by Rebecca A. Little (Mesa, Ariz.), Bryan R. Nussbaum (Bloomington, Ill.), Deanna L. Stockweather (Normal, Ill.), Nathan C. Summers (Mesa, Ariz.), An Ho (Phoenix) and Vicki King (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for developing virtual models and assessing a condition of a feature of a modeled property within a virtual environment are described herein. A server may receive a data request from a use...