ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,966, issued on April 22, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for predictively generating an insurance claim" was invented by Daryoush Hakimi-Boushehri (Bloomington, Ill.), Jackie O. Jordan II (Bloomington, Ill.), Shawn M. Call (Bloomington, Ill.), John H. Weekes (Bloomington, Ill.), Ronny S. Bryant (Bloomington, Ill.), Jennifer Criswell Kellett (Lincoln, Ill.), Todd Binion (Bloomington, Ill.), Elisabeth McDermeit (Bloomington, Ill.) and John Donovan (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for predictively generating an insurance claim in...