US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Aug. 19 for "Biometric characteristic application using audio/video analysis" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,109, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Biometric characteristic application using audio/video analysis" was invented by Dingchao Zhang (Normal, Ill.), Jeffrey S. Myers (Normal, Ill.), Michael Bernico (Bloomington, Ill.), Marigona Bokshi-Drotar (McKinney, Texas), Edward W. Breitweiser (Bloomington, Ill.), Peter Laube (Bloomington, Ill.) and Utku Pamuksuz (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system may use computer vision techniques and machine learning analysis to automatically identify a user's biometric characteristics. A user's client computin...