ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,017, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"System and method for enabling capture of an image of a vehicle" was invented by Denny Devasia Kuruvilla (Toronto), Esli Gjini (Etobicoke, Canada), Sarah Reeve (Toronto), Harjot Singh Panag (Brampton, Canada), Justin Seto (Markham, Canada), Naomi Sarah Feth (Toronto) and Anurag Thakur (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for facilitating photo-based estimation are described. In an aspect, a computing device is configured to receive, from the camera, a signal comprising image data. The image data may represent at least a portion of a ve...