US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on Sept. 30 for "Electrical data processing system for monitoring or affecting movement of a vehicle using a traffic device" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,017, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Electrical data processing system for monitoring or affecting movement of a vehicle using a traffic device" was invented by Regina Madigan (Mountain View, Calif.), Timothy W. Gibson (Barrington, Ill.), Howard Hayes (Glencoe, Ill.) and Surender Kumar (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring or affecting movement of a vehicle using a traffic device. An event data source may have a processor and/or a transceiver. The event data source may transmit, via the transceiver and to a vehicle and infrastru...