ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,665, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for enhanced situation visualization" was invented by Timothy Joel Davis (Chicago) and Amy Engelhorn (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) system for generating and displaying an enhanced situation visualization (ESV) is provided. The AR system may include an ESV computing device, a user computing device operated by a user and a reference database. The user computing device may transmit a reference request message to the ESV device, the reference request message including an ima...