US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Dec. 16 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determining vehicle operator distractions at particular geographic locations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,051, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determining vehicle operator distractions at particular geographic locations" was invented by Aaron Scott Chan (San Jose, Calif.) and Kenneth J. Sanchez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle driver distractions. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining distractions at particular geographic locations."

The patent was filed on July 14, 2021, under Application No. 17/375,859....