U.S. Patent 10839015 was awarded to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY on November 17, 2020 and is entitled “Systems and methods for post-collision vehicle routing via blockchain.” The first named inventor is Douglas Albert Graff of Mountain View, MO. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The present embodiments relate to systems and methods for using a blockchain or shared ledger to record information regarding a vehicle identified by a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), or other vehicle identifier. The blockchain may be used to handle vehicles after vehicle collisions based upon sensor data regarding the collision and the vehicle stored on-chain. An indication that a vehicle has been involved in a collision is received including sensor data collected at substantially the time of the vehicle collision. A transaction is broadcast to the blockchain to reflect the sensor data of the vehicle. Since the chain is searchable by VIN, any future searches for the vehicle by VIN include the sensor data collected substantially at the time of the collision. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 20, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/900054 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10839015. The primary examiner was Babar Sarwar.

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1288 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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