US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 13 for "Method and system of generating generic protocol handlers" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,693, issued on May 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Method and system of generating generic protocol handlers" was invented by John M. VanAntwerp (Normal, Ill.) and Dan Kalmes (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating generic protocol handlers includes receiving a user request in a middleware, generating a request payload by analyzing the request in a protocol handler of the middleware, transforming the request payload into a set of canonical types, transmitting the set of canonical types to a path module, receiving a response payload, transforming the...