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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2015
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL (US);
Nathan L. Tofte, Downs, IL (US);
Timothy W. Ryan, Hudson, IL (US);
Nathan W. Baumann, Bloomington, IL (US);
Michael Shawn Jacob, Le Roy, IL (US);
Joshua David Lillie, Bloomington, IL (US);
Brian N. Harvey, Bloomington, IL (US);
Roxane Lyons, Chenoa, IL (US);
Rosemarie Geier Grant, Ellsworth, IL (US);
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Bloomington, IL (US);
Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may facilitate insurance-related tasks. UAVs may actively survey an area or be dispatched to the scene of a vehicle collision or crash, such as with an insured's permission, and collect data related to the vehicle collision or crash, such as vehicle data, insurer data, images, video, audio, weather conditions, etc., and transmit this data to a computing device. The computing device may be associated with an insurer and/or utilized by an insurer to perform insurance-related tasks, such as processing the data to assign fault to one or more parties or vehicles, such as autonomous vehicles, involved in the vehicle collision or crash, using the fault assignment to open or otherwise process an insurance claim, modifying a premium price, updating qualified discounts, etc. The drone data may also assist an insurer in opening an insurance claim by prepopulating fields associated with a submitted claim form.