US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for executing a customized home search" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,172, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for executing a customized home search" was invented by John Ryan Hailey (Bloomington, Ill.), John Andrew Schirano (Bloomington, Ill.) and Erin Ann Olander (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A home cost analysis server for executing a customized home search may include a processor programmed to define a user budget constraint, receive a list of available homes, and determine an initial monthly cost for each home. The processor may also identify one or more additional home costs based on historica...