US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Aug. 19 for "Distributed ledger for vehicle feature updates" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,253, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Distributed ledger for vehicle feature updates" was invented by Jaime Skaggs (Chenoa, Ill.), Jody Thoele (Bloomington, Ill.) and Angela Glusick (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following relates generally to tracking effectiveness of an update to a vehicle feature using a distributed ledger. In some embodiments, a distributed ledger including a vehicle feature is added to or constructed. Information indicating an update to the vehicle feature, and accident record information may then be received. A first d...