ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,363, issued on March 4, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"System and method for generating data regarding a vehicle crash" was invented by Eric Bellas (Bloomington, Ill.), Shawn M. Call (Bloomington, Ill.), Gregory D. Carter (Bloomington, Ill.), Ronald R. Duehr (Normal, Ill.), Jeffrey David Hevrin (Bloomington, Ill.) and Sara Elizabeth Collins (Pontiac, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving initial sensor data and additional sensor data; and generating combined sensor data. A computing device for includes one or more processors; and one or more memories coup...