US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 27 for "Systems and methods for modeling and simulation in vehicle forensics" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,316, issued on May 27, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for modeling and simulation in vehicle forensics" was invented by Alexander Cardona (Gilbert, Ariz.), Jerome Scott Trayer (Mesa, Ariz.) and An Ho (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle (AV) including a vehicle body, and a vehicle computing device is provided. The vehicle computing device includes a processor in communication with a memory device. The processor is configured to identify a time and a geographic location of a traffic collision involving the AV, retrieve map data and ...