US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on July 15 for "Subjective route risk mapping and mitigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,494, issued on July 15, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Subjective route risk mapping and mitigation" was invented by Chienlan Hsu-Hoffman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Regina Madigan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Thomas McKenna (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a subjective risk score may include a vehicle and/or a computing device associated with a user travelling within the vehicle. The computing device may receive input from the user when the user feels a sense of unease regarding a particular road segment upon which the vehicle is traveling. The system may further include a s...