ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,269, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus to compress telematics data" was invented by Alexander Gataric (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to capture and compress telematics data are disclosed herein. An example computer-implemented method, executed by a processor, to represent telematics data includes identifying, with the processor, a physical intersection of roads, identifying, with the processor, virtual lines crossing the roads, assigning, with the processor, ordinals to the ...