US Patent Issued to The Travelers Indemnity on July 22 for "Systems and methods for autonomous hazardous area data collection" (Connecticut, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,777, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Travelers Indemnity Co. (Hartford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for autonomous hazardous area data collection" was invented by Adriaan J. Van Meeteren (East Greenwich, R.I.), Alex A. Shyshkov (Roxbury, Conn.), Ryan W. Bachiochi (Windsor Locks, Conn.), Nichole D. Fratini (Plainville, Conn.) and Pawel T. Parobek (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically identifying and ascertaining an estimated amount of damage at a location by utilizing one or more autonomous vehicles, e.g., "drone" devices, to autonomously capture data of the location and uti...