ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,611, issued on June 17, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Digital imagery, audio, and meta-data" was invented by Gregory David Hansen (Helotes, Texas) and Andre R. Buentello (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, to process audio and visual data. One of the methods includes receiving, from a mobile device, image data and audio data, wherein the image data and audio data were obtained within the same time frame. The method includes processing the image data to identify a first set of facts. T...