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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2024
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL (US);
Catherine Espel-Logan, Plano, TX (US);
Brian Mark Fields, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Joshua John Freitas, Peoria, AZ (US);
Melissa Collette Miles, Normal, IL (US);
Jeanne Koehler, Bloomington, IL (US);
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Bloomington, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for monitoring and analyzing vehicle seats, vehicle seat installation, and/or vehicle seat operation. The systems and methods may include (1) obtaining, by one or more processors, image data of a vehicle seat located within a vehicle, wherein the image data may include one or more connecting points of the vehicle seat to the vehicle; (2) inputting, by the one or more processors, the image data into a machine vision model that is trained: (a) using historical image data of vehicle seats within vehicles, (b) to learn a relationship between extracted features of the historical image data and a properness of an installation of a vehicle seat, and/or (c) to output a determination of a properness of an installation of a vehicle seat in response to detecting input image data; and/or (3) presenting, by the one or more processors, an indication of the output of the machine vision model.