ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,666, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).
"Deep learning image processing method for determining vehicle damage" was invented by He Yang (The Colony, Texas), Bradley A. Sliz (Normal, Ill.), Carlee A. Clymer (Atlanta) and Jennifer Malia Andrus (Champaign, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer-implemented method and associated tangible non-transitory computer-readable medium, an image of a damaged vehicle may be analyzed to generate a repair estimate. A dataset populated with digital images of damaged vehicles and associated claim data may be used to train a ...