US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on July 1 for "Systems and methods for operating drones in response to an incident" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,130, issued on July 1, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for operating drones in response to an incident" was invented by Bryan Flick (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A response system may be provided. The response system may include an autonomous drone. The autonomous drone may include a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, and a sensor. The processor may be programmed to build a virtual map of a coverage area, store the virtual map in the memory, receive a deployment signal, deploy the drone in response to the deployment signal, c...