US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on July 29 for "Systems and methods for weather-related vehicle damage prevention" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,896, issued on July 29, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for weather-related vehicle damage prevention" was invented by Aaron Chan (Bloomington, Ill.), Christina P. Mullen (Bloomington, Ill.), Rosemarie Grant (Bloomington, Ill.), John Nepomuceno (Bloomington, Ill.) and Cynthia L. Garretson (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insurance computing device is provided. The insurance computing device may include a processor and a memory. The processor may be programmed to receive a registration request from a vehicle computing device associated with a vehi...