US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 12 for "Distracted driving systems and methods for detection, alerting, and correction" (Illinois, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,668, issued on May 12, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Distracted driving systems and methods for detection, alerting, and correction" was invented by Craig Cope (Bloomington, Ill.), Seth L. Corin (Cumming, Ga.) and Megan Hucek (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is provided and is programmed to: (1) receive sensor data associated with a primary vehicle; (2) determine a current condition of a driver of the primary vehicle based upon the sensor data of the primary vehicle; (3) determine a threat level for the primary vehicle based upon the current conditio...