US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on Nov. 3 for "Social journey" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,010, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co.

"Social journey" was invented by Howard Hayes (Glencoe, Ill.), Moises Norena (Northbrook, Ill.) and Robert H. Johnson (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system that may facilitate communications between drivers who share a route. The system may allow communications to be sent from one driver to another driver and allow drivers to post queries to other drivers sharing a route. Computing devices in the vehicle may collect route data for the system to evaluate and to use in identifying dri...