US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Aug. 18 for "Modular settlement distribution architecture and methods" (Illinois, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,486, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Modular settlement distribution architecture and methods" was invented by Jacob Braun (Oviedo, Fla.), Justin Johnsen (Heyworth, Ill.), Emily Burger (Boston), Michael D. Mai (Lewisville, Texas), Daniel Bugner (Clinton, Ill.), Vahini Dakavarapu (Bloomington, Ill.), Matthew S. Caplinger (Bloomington, Ill.), Joshua DeKeersgieter (Columbus, Ohio), Beth A. Mennenga (Irving, Texas) and Sheshunath Bollam (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular settlement distribution architecture includes an input node to a plurality o...