US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on April 29 for "Automated delegation of domain name system (DNS) configuration operations by hosted zones" (Illinois, Arizona, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,289, issued on April 29, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Automated delegation of domain name system (DNS) configuration operations by hosted zones" was invented by Tyler Deknecht (Bloomington, Ill.), Todd D. Wigginton (Congerville, Ill.), Matthew Cole (Gilbert, Ariz.), Connor Schwirian (Tempe, Ariz.), Luke Cernetic (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Kesav Kadalazhi (Chandler, Ariz.) and Krishna Nagarajan (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes example techniques for automatically configuring domain name system (DNS) servers to handle custom hostnames assigned to hosted...