US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on May 20 for "Assessing driver ability to operate an autonomous vehicle" (Arizona, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,502, issued on May 20, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Assessing driver ability to operate an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Brian Mark Fields (Phoenix), Leo Nelson Chan (Normal, Ill.), Kristopher Keith Gaudin (Bloomington, Ill.) and Aaron Williams (Congerville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of assessing driver capability for operating an autonomous vehicle includes identifying a human operator of the autonomous vehicle, the human operator being associated with a driving capability profile. The method further includes signaling to the human ...