US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Dec. 23 for "Autonomous communication feature use and insurance pricing" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,488, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Autonomous communication feature use and insurance pricing" was invented by Blake Konrardy (Bloomington, Ill.), Scott T. Christensen (Gibson City, Ill.), Gregory Hayward (Bloomington, Ill.) and Scott Farris (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining risk associated with operation of autonomous vehicles using autonomous communication are provided. According to certain aspects, autonomous operation features associated with a vehicle may be determined, including features associated with auto...