US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Dec. 16 for "System and methods for predicting rental vehicle use preferences" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,457, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"System and methods for predicting rental vehicle use preferences" was invented by Brian N. Harvey (Bloomington, Ill.), Joseph Robert Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.), J. Lynn Wilson (Normal, Ill.), Matthew Eric Riley Sr. (Heyworth, Ill.) and Ryan Gross (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein generate a first set of prompts, the first set of prompts configured to prompt a vehicle owner for a first set of answers used to learn preferred vehicle renter characteristics; receive the first set of answers; ge...