State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Assigned Patent for Enhancing, Developing Accident Scene Visualizations

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance, Bloomington, Illinois, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,373,387, initially filed April 7, 2017) developed by two co-inventors for "systems and methods for enhancing and developing accident scene visualizations." The co-inventors are Brian Mark Fields, Normal, Illinois, and Lee Marvin John Assam, El Paso, Illinois.

The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10,373,387.PN.&OS=PN/10,373,387&RS=PN/10,373,387

The abstract states: "Systems and methods are disclosed for enhancing and developing a damage scene virtual reality (VR) visualization. Annotated immersive multimedia image(s) may be received from a first user, where the annotated immersive multimedia image(s) can be associated with a damage scene. A VR visualization of the annotated immersive multimedia image(s) may be rendered using a VR device associated with a second user. The VR visualization may be used to determine a damage amount, where the damage amount is determined from one or more damaged items identifiable in the annotated immersive multimedia image(s)."

Written by Ranjan Behera; edited by Sudarshan Harpal.