US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Feb. 4 for "System and method for indicating whether a vehicle crash has occurred" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,312, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"System and method for indicating whether a vehicle crash has occurred" was invented by Eric Bellas (Bloomington, Ill.), Shawn M. Call (Bloomington, Ill.), Gregory Dwayne Carter (Bloomington, Ill.), Ronald R. Duehr (Normal, Ill.), Jeffrey David Hevrin (Bloomington, Ill.) and Sara Elizabeth Collins (Pontiac, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for detecting vehicle crashes is presented. The method may include detecting, at a first mobile computing device a condition corresponding to a potential crash ...