Patents
US 11450206 B1: Vehicular traffic alerts for avoidance of abnormal traffic conditions
- Granted
- 2022-09-20
- Filed
- 2020-04-21 application 16854543
- Type
- Utility · 20 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
Methods and systems are described for generating a vehicle-to-vehicle traffic alert and updating a vehicle-usage profile. Various aspects include detecting, via one or more processors associated with a first vehicle, that an abnormal traffic condition exists in an operating environment of the first vehicle. An electronic message is generated and transmitted wirelessly, via a vehicle-mounted transceiver associated with the first vehicle, to alert a nearby vehicle of the abnormal traffic condition and to allow the nearby vehicle to avoid the abnormal traffic condition. The first vehicle receives telematics data regarding operation of the nearby vehicle after the nearby vehicle received the electronic message, and transmits the telematics data to a remote server for updating a vehicle-usage profile associated with the nearby vehicle.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg220920.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company 2,604 patents | US company or organization | Bloomington, IL | STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO Form D issuer FUZZY medium confidence: same name (legal endings aside) and state | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Mark Fields | Normal, IL | 287 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Steven C. Cielocha | Bloomington, IL | 134 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Jacob J. Alt | Downs, IL | 102 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Laura A. Uphoff | Normal, IL | 33 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Leo Nelson Chan | Normal, IL | 94 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Mohamed A. Wazeer | Normal, IL | 63 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Kristopher Keith Gaudin | Bloomington, IL | 129 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Justin Davis | Normal, IL | 92 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Nathan W. Baumann | Bloomington, IL | 71 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Giles Roll | Bloomington, IL | 17 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| G06Q | Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes; systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not otherwise provided for | G06Q50/00 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| B60Q | Arrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general | B60Q9/008 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| B60T | Vehicle brake control systems or parts thereof; brake control systems or parts thereof, in general ; arrangement of braking elements on vehicles in general; portable devices for preventing unwanted movement of vehicles; vehicle modifications to facilitate cooling of brakes | B60T17/22 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G06F | Electric digital data processing | G06F18/214 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G06V | Image or video recognition or understanding | G06V20/58 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G07C | Time or attendance registers; registering or indicating the working of machines; generating random numbers; voting or lottery apparatus; arrangements, systems or apparatus for checking not provided for elsewhere | G07C5/008 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G08G | Traffic control systems | G08G1/0112 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G09B | Educational or demonstration appliances; appliances for teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute; models; planetaria; globes; maps; diagrams | G09B9/052 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| H04N | Pictorial communication, e.g. television | H04N5/33 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| H04W | Wireless communication networks | H04W4/02 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G06N | Computing arrangements based on specific computational models | G06N20/00 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| Y02D | Climate change mitigation technologies in information and communication technologies [ict], i.e. information and communication technologies aiming at the reduction of their own energy use | Y02D30/70 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
| Recorded | What | From | To | Reel/frame | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-23 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | BAUMANN, NATHAN W. signed 2016-09-07 CHAN, LEO NELSON signed 2016-09-07 CIELOCHA, STEVEN C. signed 2016-09-07 DAVIS, JUSTIN signed 2016-09-07 FIELDS, BRIAN MARK signed 2016-09-07 GAUDIN, KRISTOPHER KEITH signed 2016-09-07 UPHOFF, LAURA A. signed 2016-09-07 ALT, JACOB J. signed 2016-09-14 WAZEER, MOHAMED A. signed 2016-11-04 ROLL, GILES signed 2016-11-07 | STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY BLOOMINGTON, IL | 53293/66 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
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