US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Oct. 21 for "Automatically tracking driving activity" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,667, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Automatically tracking driving activity" was invented by Kristopher Keith Gaudin (Bloomington, Ill.), Andrew J. Zeglin (Normal, Ill.), Craig Benjamin Cope (Bloomington, Ill.), Joseph Harr (Bloomington, Ill.) and Aaron Williams (Congerville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer-implemented method detect and act upon deactivated vehicle components. The system and method include receiving measurements data associated with driving activity. The measurements data includes an indication that at least one feature of ...