US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on March 25 for "Emergency vehicle detection and avoidance systems for autonomous vehicles" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,756, issued on March 25, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Emergency vehicle detection and avoidance systems for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Scott T. Christensen (Salem, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to generating emergency vehicle warnings, automatic control of autonomous vehicles based upon the emergency vehicle warnings. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to generating data representative of emergency vehicle warnings and alternate autonomous vehicle routing based upon real-time information related to an emerg...