US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Oct. 14 for "VR environment for real-time road conditions" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,095, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"VR environment for real-time road conditions" was invented by Aaron Williams (Congerville, Ill.), Joseph Robert Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.), John Donovan (Bloomington, Ill.) and Brian N. Harvey (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following relates generally to providing virtual reality (VR) alerts to a driver of an autonomous vehicle. For example, a vehicle may be driving autonomously while the driver is watching a VR movie (e.g., on a pair of VR goggles); the driver may then receive a VR alert recommending t...