ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,299, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus to process insurance claims using cloud computing" was invented by Mercy Behrens (Bloomington, Ill.), Donald Joseph Yuhas (Bloomington, Ill.) and Jason Beckman (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to process insurance claims using cloud computing are disclosed herein. An example system to process an insurance claim using cloud computing includes an assistance resource of a cloud computing platform configured to interact electronically with at...