ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,731, issued on March 25, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Preemptive logical configuration of vehicle control systems" was invented by Aleksandr Likhterman (Wheeling, Ill.), Sunil Chintakindi (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Harini Anand (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for the preemptive logical configuration of vehicle control systems. A vehicle control computer may determine a location of a vehicle. The vehicle control computer may query a historical data source server for historical incident data corresponding to a firs...