US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on July 1 for "Systems and methods to assess the condition of a vehicle" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,939, issued on July 1, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to assess the condition of a vehicle" was invented by Todd Binion (Bloomington, Ill.), Kelly S. Minter (Normal, Ill.), Heidi Brown-McCreery (Bloomington, Ill.), Michael Harris (Tempe, Ariz.), Jeremy Myers (Phoenix), Brian Fields (Phoenix) and Joe Harr (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving a vehicle condition query via a computer network and retrieving condition data corresponding to a vehicle from a vehicle condition database. Further, the method in...