ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,082, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Intelligent systems and methods for mobilizing resources and assessing vehicle damage using aerial sensor data" was invented by Brian Howard Katz (San Antonio), Surender Kumar (Palatine, Ill.), Jeffrey Thomas Cavanaugh (Sun City, Ariz.), Daniel Diaz (San Antonio), Jennifer Holly Nance (San Antonio) and Robert Christian Law (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for capturing and processing sensor data, such as aerial images of structures, to assess vehicular damage is disclosed. The system comprises a comput...