US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on July 15 for "Autonomous vehicle component maintenance and repair" (Illinois, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,927, issued on July 15, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Autonomous vehicle component maintenance and repair" was invented by Blake Konrardy (Bloomington, Ill.), Scott T. Christensen (Salem, Ore.), 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 autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle control relating to malfunctions are disclosed. Malfunctioning sensors or software of autonomous vehicles may be identified from operating data of the vehicle, and a component maintenance requirement status associated with such m...