US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on April 22 for "Error monitoring and prevention in computing systems based on future fault prediction and historical values of a network characteristic" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,379, issued on April 22, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Error monitoring and prevention in computing systems based on future fault prediction and historical values of a network characteristic" was invented by Michael Shawn Jacob (LeRoy, Ill.), Benjamin D. Schappaugh (Bloomington, Ill.), William Guthrie (Mesa, Ariz.), Frank Matthew McCully (Hudson, Ill.), Timothy J. Nickel (Bloomington, Ill.), Brian W. Batronis (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Robert D. Rariden (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying faults in a collaborative computing system including a plurali...