ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,571, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Autonomous vehicle control assessment and selection" was invented by Brian Mark Fields (Normal, Ill.), Chien Che Huang (Normal, Ill.), Mohamed A. Wazeer (Normal, Ill.), Shawn C. Bennett (Le Roy, Ill.), Steven C. Cielocha (Bloomington, Ill.), Ronny S. Bryant (Bloomington, Ill.), Stephen Kohaus (Bloomington, Ill.), Terry Quakenbush (Normal, Ill.), Richard A. Novak (Bloomington, Ill.), Aaron Scott Chan (Lisle, Ill.), Craig M. Main (Hagerstown, Md.), Weixin Wu (Aurora, Ill.), Torri Wollenschlager (Bloomington, Ill.), Carol Marie Csanda (Normal, Ill.), Stacey Gorsuch (Bloomington, I...