US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on March 25 for "Autonomous vehicle operation feature monitoring and evaluation of effectiveness" (California, Illinois, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,726, issued on March 25, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Autonomous vehicle operation feature monitoring and evaluation of effectiveness" was invented by Blake Konrardy (San Francisco), 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 monitoring use and determining risks associated with operation of a vehicle having one or more autonomous operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, operating data may be recorded during operation of the vehicle. This may ...