US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on April 8 for "Managing self-driving behavior of autonomous or semiautonomous vehicle based upon actual driving behavior of driver" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,485, issued on April 8, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Managing self-driving behavior of autonomous or semiautonomous vehicle based upon actual driving behavior of driver" was invented by Brian M. Fields (Normal, Ill.), Joseph P. Harr (Bloomington, Ill.) and Jeremy Myers (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for measuring a driver's actual driving behaviors (e.g., acceleration, deceleration) in a manual driving mode to determine their preferred driving style, and then causing an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle to operate itself, within limits, in accor...