US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on June 16 for "Blockchain based account activation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,585, issued on June 16, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Blockchain based account activation" was invented by Jacob J. Alt (Downs, Ill.), Eric Bellas (Bloomington, Ill.), Jaime Skaggs (Chenoa, Ill.), Shawn M. Call (Bloomington, Ill.), Melinda Teresa Magerkurth (Utica, Ill.), Vicki King (Bloomington, Ill.), Charles H. Roscow (Bloomington, Ill.), Scott Shoop (Heyworth, Ill.), Greg Hayes (Bloomington, Ill.), Robert Alpine Jennings (Bloomington, Ill.), Amber Nelson-Wolfe (Bloomington, Ill.) and Shyam Tummala (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present methods and syste...