US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on July 15 for "Methods of providing insurance savings based upon telematics and driving behavior identification" (Illinois, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,463, issued on July 15, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Methods of providing insurance savings based upon telematics and driving behavior identification" was invented by Thomas Michael Potter (Normal, Ill.), Mark E. Clauss (Bloomington, Ill.), Dustin Ryan Carter (Normal, Ill.), Douglas Albert Graff (Mountain View, Mo.), Megan Michal Baumann (Bloomington, Ill.), Atlanta Bonnom (Bloomington, Ill.), Craig Cope (Bloomington, Ill.), Jennifer Luella Lawyer (Bloomington, Ill.), Curtis Simpson (Bloomington, Ill.) and Nathan W. Baumann (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system ...