US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on March 31 for "Systems and methods for weather-related vehicle damage prevention" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,935, issued on March 31, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for weather-related vehicle damage prevention" was invented by Aaron Chan (Bloomington, Ill.), Christina P. Mullen (Bloomington, Ill.), Rosemarie Grant (Bloomington, Ill.), John Nepomuceno (Bloomington, Ill.) and Cynthia L. Garretson (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing covered parking to vehicles is provided. The method may include transmitting a location identifier of a covered parking location and a communication address of a covered parking location...