US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on June 17 for "Systems and methods for using unmanned aerial vehicles" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,609, issued on June 17, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for using unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by John Chandler Hopkins III (San Antonio), Michael Patrick Bueche Jr. (San Antonio), Andre Rene Buentello (San Antonio), James Philip Hillman (San Antonio) and Bradly Jay Billman (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to process overhead imagery received from overhead image sources are described herein. Examples include accessing an aerial image of properties, determining damage estimates, and reserving resources to repair the properties ba...