State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Assigned Patent for System and Method for Controlling Remote Aerial Device for Up-close Inspection

By Targeted News Service

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance, Bloomington, Illinois, has been assigned a patent (8,818,572) developed by Nathan Lee Tofte, Downs, Illinois, James M. Freeman, Normal, Illinois, and Brian N. Harvey, Bloomington, Illinois, for a "system and method for controlling a remote aerial device for up-close inspection."

The patent application was filed on May 14, 2013 (13/893,904). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,818,572.PN.&OS=PN/8,818,572&RS=PN/8,818,572

Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

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