ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,585, issued on March 17, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for maintaining a distributed ledger pertaining to autonomous vehicles" was invented by Matthew L. Floyd (Alpharetta, Ga.), Alvin Hon-Wai Yu (Johns Creek, Ga.), Antwuan Murphy (Riverdale, Ga.), Brittney Benzio (Atlanta), Lindsi Brantley (Atlanta), Matthew S. Delaney (Alpharetta, Ga.), Matthew Vulich (Marietta, Ga.), Matthew S. Rodriguez (Dunwoody, Ga.), Neha Goel (Atlanta), Sabrina Collins (Woodstock, Ga.) and Annie Pudlo Murillo (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for maintai...