US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Aug. 4 for "Method and system for alerting users of incident-prone locations" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,312, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Method and system for alerting users of incident-prone locations" was invented by Joseph Robert Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.), Vicki King (Bloomington, Ill.), Brian Mark Fields (Phoenix) and Nathan L. Tofte (Downs, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for alerting a user of crime-prone locations are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the method comprises: (1) receiving, by one or more processors from a user device, location data of the user device and a destination input by the user; (2) determining, by the ...