Patent ID: 11948138
Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing thereon a set of instructions that, when executed on one or more processors in or on an autonomous vehicle, causes the one or more processors to:
determine, via a fuel level sensor, that an amount of fuel in the autonomous vehicle is less than a threshold amount of fuel;
provide navigation directions for the autonomous vehicle to navigate to a merchant location;
determine that the autonomous vehicle has arrived at the merchant location;
transmit, to a merchant communication terminal at the merchant location, a request to purchase fuel;
control a fuel tank cover to open the fuel tank cover for receiving the fuel; and
provide an indication to the merchant communication terminal that the fuel tank cover is open,
wherein, in response to receiving the indication that the fuel tank cover is open, the merchant communication terminal causes a fuel pump to provide fuel to the autonomous vehicle.