ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,060, issued on July 21, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Securing and optimizing multi-domain data access using workflow parallelization" was invented by Richard Carl Brown (Normal, Ill.), Ryan Leverton (Bloomington, Ill.), Stephanie Langland (El Paso, Ill.), Keith Sartain (Yorkville, Ill.) and Deepak Maheshwari (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a system for securely and efficiently accessing enterprise data stored across heterogeneous databases and domains. In some examples the system employs a parallelized workflow architecture that optimally ...