US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on June 23 for "Manual control re-engagement in an autonomous vehicle" (Arizona, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,792, issued on June 23, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Manual control re-engagement in an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Brian Mark Fields (Phoenix), Kristopher Keith Gaudin (Bloomington, Ill.), Leo Nelson Chan (Normal, Ill.) and Aaron Williams (Congerville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles may have the capability to navigate according to various levels of autonomous capabilities, the vehicle having a different set of autonomous competencies at each level. In certain situations, the vehicle may shift from one level of autonomous capability to another. The shift ma...