US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Nov. 3 for "First mile and last mile ride sharing method and system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,147, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"First mile and last mile ride sharing method and system" was invented by Joseph Robert Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.) and Ryan M. Gross (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of facilitating first mile/last mile transfer of a vehicle includes: analyzing a route to determine, respectively, an incentive to be offered to a prospective user; analyzing a plurality of user profiles using a trained machine learning model to determine at least one potential user likely to accept the incentive, wherein the trained machine lea...