US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on March 11 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for classifying digital images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,737, issued on March 11, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for classifying digital images" was invented by Aaron Scott Chan (San Jose, Calif.) and Kenneth J. Sanchez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle by comparing current image feature data to previou...