ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,688, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Data recovery validation test" was invented by Victoria Michelle Passmore (Atlanta), Cesar Bryan Acosta (Atlanta), Christopher Chickoree (Atlanta), Mason Davenport (Atlanta), Ashish Desai (Suwanee, Ga.), Sudha Kalyanasundaram (Cumming, Ga.), Christopher R. Lay (Roswell, Ga.), Emre Ozgener (Anna, Texas), Steven Stiles (Sandy Springs, Ga.) and Andrew Warner (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for a data recovery validation test. In examples, a processor receives a command to be included in the validation...