US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on Oct. 27 for "Real time risk assessment and operational changes with semi-autonomous vehicles" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,896, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co.

"Real time risk assessment and operational changes with semi-autonomous vehicles" was invented by Timothy W. Gibson (Barrington, Ill.), Surender Kumar (Palatine, Ill.) and Regina Madigan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route risk mitigation system and method using real-time information to improve the safety of vehicles operating in semi-autonomous or autonomous modes. The method mitigates the risks associated with driving by assigning real-time risk values to road segments and then using those real-time risk values to select less risky travel route...