US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on July 7 for "Graph-based techniques for detecting and storing data set dependencies" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,483, issued on July 7, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Graph-based techniques for detecting and storing data set dependencies" was invented by Michael Myers (Heyworth, Ill.), Karen Hill (Bloomington, Ill.), Lisa Clawson (Bloomington, Ill.), Alesha Roy (Mackinaw, Ill.), Hao Ngu (Chandler, Ariz.) and Brian N. Harvey (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a method for optimizing data flow graphs to represent relationships between data sets. In an example implementation, a processor receives an initial graph showing direct links between data sets and elem...