US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 13 for "Determining abnormal traffic conditions from a broadcast of telematics data originating from another vehicle" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,113, issued on May 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Determining abnormal traffic conditions from a broadcast of telematics data originating from another vehicle" was invented by Gregory Hayward (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of using telematics data at a destination device is provided. The destination device may be a mobile device associated with a driver, or a smart vehicle controller of a destination vehicle. The telematics data is generated by an originating mobile device (i) having a Telematics Application (or "App"), and (ii) ass...