US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Jan. 13 for "Image analysis technologies for assessing safety of vehicle operation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,037, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Image analysis technologies for assessing safety of vehicle operation" was invented by Dingchao Zhang (Normal, Ill.), Yuntao Li (Champaign, Ill.) and Jeffrey S. Myers (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for using image analysis techniques to assess unsafe driving conditions by a vehicle operator are discloses. According to aspects, a computing device may access and analyze image data depicting the vehicle operator. In analyzing the image, the computing device may measure certain visible metrics as depi...