US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 13 for "Guided vehicle capture for virtual mode generation" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,871, issued on May 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Guided vehicle capture for virtual mode generation" 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: "Methods and system for guiding user data capture during a scan of a vehicle using a mobile device are disclosed. A user may scan a vehicle using a camera or other sensors of the mobile device to capture data from which a three-dimensional virtual model may be generated. During the...