US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Nov. 11 for "Robust laser scanning for generating a 3D model" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,039, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Robust laser scanning for generating a 3D model" was invented by Nathan L. Tofte (Downs, Ill.), Patrick H. Boyer (Bloomington, Ill.) and James M. Freeman (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method and system for scanning a structure, a structure scanner may acquire multiple scans of a surface of a structure. Each of the scans may correspond to different portions of the surface. The property inspection system may generate a 3D model of the surface using the scans. To account for potential changes in position and/o...