ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,662, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Insurance claim generation" was invented by Rebecca A. Little (Mesa, Ariz.) and Christopher Robert Galante (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques include generating an electronic insurance claim statement. First three-dimensional image data representing an environment and a first plurality of objects disposed within the environment at a first time, is received at the first time. Second three-dimensional image data, representing the environment at a second time, is received at the second time. A difference is determ...