US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for reconstruction of a vehicular crash" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,777, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for reconstruction of a vehicular crash" was invented by Cole Nave (Bloomington, Ill.) and Nathan Tofte (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting a vehicular collision (i) receives occupant data from at least one internal sensor; (ii) receives external data from at least one external sensor; (iii) determines positional information for at least one occupant of a vehicle; and (iv) generates a virtual reconstruction of the vehicle collision. The virtual reconstruction indicates a s...