US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on July 1 for "Emergency incident detection, response, and mitigation using autonomous drones" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,306, issued on July 1, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Emergency incident detection, response, and mitigation using autonomous drones" was invented by Surender Kumar (Palatine, Ill.), Mark V. Slusar (Chicago) and Howard Hayes (Glencoe, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may be configured to detect an emergency condition at a premises; dispatch one or more autonomous drones to a location associated with the emergency condition; receive from the one or more autonomous drones, sensor data associated with the emergency condition; generate, based on the sensor data, a plan identifying an evacuation rou...