US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Aug. 5 for "Delivery hand off procedure when electric vehicle (EV) is about to lose power" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,881, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Delivery hand off procedure when electric vehicle (EV) is about to lose power" was invented by Aaron Williams (Congerville, Ill.), Joseph Robert Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.), John Donovan (Bloomington, Ill.) and Brian N. Harvey (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for power transfer and routing in a compartmentalized electric vehicle (EV) having detachable compartments, and for handing off a load from one EV to another EV for delivering the load to a destination are described herein. Each detachab...