ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,871, issued on March 3, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for verifying data via blockchain" was invented by Melinda Teresa Magerkurth (Utica, Ill.), Eric Bellas (Bloomington, Ill.), Jaime Skaggs (Chenoa, Ill.), Shawn M. Call (Bloomington, Ill.), Eric R. Moore (Heyworth, Ill.), Vicki King (Bloomington, Ill.), Burton J. Floyd (Mackinaw, Ill.), David Turrentine (Normal, Ill.), Steven T. Olson (Bloomington, Ill.), Timothy Caleb Wells (Bloomington, Ill.), Corin Rebekah Chapman (Bloomington, Ill.), Edward W. Breitweiser (Bloomington, Ill.), Robert Gomez (Bloomington, Ill.) and Shelia Cummings Smith (Bloomington, Ill...