Allstate Insurance Assigned Patent for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Accident Detection

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 2 -- Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, Illinois, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,460,534, initially filed Oct. 26, 2015) developed by five co-inventors for a vehicle-to-vehicle accident detection. The co-inventors are Jennifer A. Brandmaier, Chicago, Illinois, Martin Higgins, Downpatrick, United Kingdom, William Loo, Arlington Heights, Illinois, Christopher G. Plachta, Glenview, Illinois, and Philip Peter Ramirez, Arlington Heights, Illinois.

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=10,460,534.PN.&OS=PN/10,460,534&RS=PN/10,460,534

The abstract states: "One or more driving analysis computing devices in a driving analysis system may be configured to analyze driving data, determine driving behaviors, and determine whether a collision is imminent or has occurred using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. Determination of whether a collision has occurred may be based on X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis positional data from two vehicles. Driving data from multiple vehicles may be collected by vehicle sensors or other vehicle-based systems, transmitted using V2V communications, and then analyzed and compared to determine various driving behaviors by the drivers of the vehicles."

Written by Ranjan Behera; edited by Sudarshan Harpal.