ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,358, issued on March 24, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle battery delivery and electric vehicle routing" was invented by Ryan Michael Gross (Normal, Ill.), Matthew S. Megyese (Bloomington, Ill.), Joseph P. Harr (Bloomington, Ill.), Scott Thomas Christensen (Salem, Ore.), Vicki King (Bloomington, Ill.) and Shawn Renee Harbaugh (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of monitoring one or more batteries of an electric vehicle (EV) includes (i) detecting an indication of a battery failure event for an electri...