US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on July 29 for "Glare detection systems and methods for automated vehicular control" (Colorado, Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,220, issued on July 29, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Glare detection systems and methods for automated vehicular control" was invented by Veljko Krunic (Boulder, Colo.), Timothy W. Gibson (Barrington, Ill.), Sunil Chintakindi (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Howard Hayes (Glencoe, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and devices for automated vehicular control based on glare detected by an optical system of a vehicle. In some aspects, automated control includes controlling the operation of the vehicle itself, a vehicle subsystem, or a vehicle component...