US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Oct. 28 for "Determining risk for a user of an autonomous vehicle" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,277, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Determining risk for a user of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Brian Mark Fields (Normal, Ill.), 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: "Vehicles may have autonomous capabilities that permit the vehicle to navigate according to varying levels of participation by a human operator. A human operator may be associated with a driving capability profile and the environment surrounding a vehicle may be associated with an en...