Patent ID: 11861730
Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions, that, when executed, cause one or more processors of an electronic device on-board an autonomous vehicle to:
monitor one or more sensors associated with the autonomous vehicle;
identify a smart contract recorded to a distributed ledger related to the autonomous vehicle, wherein the smart contract indicates a condition of the autonomous vehicle that relates to a trigger condition or a decision condition of the smart contract, the condition of the autonomous vehicle being associated with operation, or an operational state, of an autonomous vehicle system or technology mounted on the autonomous vehicle;
detect a change in the condition indicative of a collision with a second vehicle;
receive, from the second vehicle, operating data generated by one or more sensors of the second vehicle;
analyze the operating data to determine that the first autonomous vehicle, and not the second vehicle, should generate the transaction;
update the distributed ledger to include a transaction describing the detected change in the condition of the autonomous vehicle.