State Farm Patent - Weather-Related Vehicle Damage Prevention Systems

ChangeBridge: Patent Grants - Business Methods (G06Q)

Published March 31st, 2026

Detected April 1st, 2026

Summary

The USPTO granted patent US12591935B2 to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company for a computer-implemented method enabling vehicles to locate and reserve covered parking spots to prevent weather-related damage. The system connects vehicle computing devices with covered parking location devices to transmit availability and enable reservation requests. The patent names five inventors and contains 18 claims.

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USPTO granted patent US12591935B2 titled 'Systems and methods for weather-related vehicle damage prevention' to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. The patent covers a computer-implemented method that transmits covered parking location identifiers and communication addresses to vehicle and insurance computing devices, signals available parking spot numbers, receives reservation requests, determines acceptance, and transmits responses granting vehicle access. The patent is classified under G06Q 40/08 (insurance) and names inventors Aaron Chan, Christina P. Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, and Cynthia L. Garretson.

Patent grants do not create regulatory obligations or compliance requirements for other entities. The assignee (State Farm) receives exclusive rights to practice the claimed invention for the patent term (typically 20 years from filing). Competitors in the vehicle insurance technology space should review the patent claims to assess potential licensing needs or design-around options, though this is a business/legal consideration rather than a regulatory compliance matter.

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Systems and methods for weather-related vehicle damage prevention

Grant US12591935B2 Kind: B2 Mar 31, 2026

Assignee

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Inventors

Aaron Chan, Christina P. Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, Cynthia L. Garretson

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for providing covered parking to vehicles is provided. The method may include transmitting a location identifier of a covered parking location and a communication address of a covered parking location (CPL) computing device to a vehicle computing device and/or an insurance computing device. The method may further include transmitting a signal to the vehicle computing device indicating a number of available parking spots of the covered parking location when the vehicle computing device contacts the CPL computing device, receiving a request from the vehicle computing device to reserve a parking spot of the covered parking location, determining whether to accept the request, and transmitting a response to the vehicle computing device. Accepting the request causes the CPL computing device to permit a vehicle associated with the vehicle computing device access to the covered parking location.