ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,594, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zesty.ai Inc. (San Francisco).

"Hail severity predictions using artificial intelligence" was invented by Michael Ulin (Portland, Ore.), Masoumeh Rezaei Abkenar (Brossard, Canada), Bryn Ronalds (Montreal), Frederick Dube Fortier (Oakland, Calif.) and Kristie Sarkar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes systems and methods for identifying, using one or more processors, a set of properties that experienced hail damage; determining, using the one or more processors, a first set of features associated with each property in the set of properties, the first set of featu...