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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2022
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL (US);
Aaron Williams, Congerville, IL (US);
Joseph Robert Brannan, Bloomington, IL (US);
John Donovan, Bloomington, IL (US);
Brian N. Harvey, Bloomington, IL (US);
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Bloomington, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for power transfer and routing in a compartmentalized electric vehicle (EV) having detachable compartments, and for handing off a load from one EV to another EV for delivering the load to a destination are described herein. Each detachable compartment in the compartmentalized EV may have a separate power supply, motor, set of wheels, and/or autonomous operation features. The detachable compartments may attach to each other, such that each of the detachable compartments combine to form a compartmentalized EV that travels to a particular location.