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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for controlling a fleet of drones for data collection
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Application No.: US16786299Application Date: 2020-02-10
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Publication No.: US11430180B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Matthew L. Floyd
- Applicant: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Bloomington
- Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Current Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Bloomington
- Agency: Armstrong Teasdale LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q40/08
- IPC: G06Q40/08 ; G06T17/05 ; G06Q50/16 ; B64C39/02 ; G05D1/10

Abstract:
A damage identification (DI) system for identifying property damage may include a drone fleet including several autonomous or semi-autonomous drones communicatively coupled together and a DI computing device. Each drone may collect drone-collected damage data, including image data. The DI computing may assign a geographical region to the drone fleet. The drone fleet may automatically navigate to, and then within, the geographical region to detect potential damage to properties. The DI computing device may further receive drone-collected damage data associated with a property within the geographical region from the drone fleet when the drone fleet determines the property is actually or potentially damaged, generate aggregated damage data associated with the property based at least partially upon the drone-collected damage data, and/or store the aggregated damage data in a blockchain structure associated with the property for damage assessment of the property.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200234493A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A FLEET OF DRONES FOR DATA COLLECTION Public/Granted day:2020-07-23
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