US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for operating drones in response to an incident" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,364, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for operating drones in response to an incident" was invented by Bryan Flick (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A response system may be provided. The response system may include an autonomous drone. The drone may include a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, and a drone sensor. The processor may be programmed to receive the deployment request from a security system, navigate to the one or more zones of the coverage area included in the deployment request, collect drone senso...