ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,885, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for dynamically generating optimal routes for vehicle operation management" was invented by Aaron Williams (Congerville, Ill.), Ryan Michael Gross (Normal, Ill.) and Joseph Robert Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle routing system includes a vehicle routing and analytics (VRA) computing device, one or more databases, and one or more vehicles communicatively coupled to the VRA computing device. The VRA computing device is configured to generate an optimal route for a vehicle to tr...