ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,867, issued on April 8, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).
"Predicting resource lifecycles and managing resources in enterprise networks" was invented by Rebecca Anne Olmstead (Bloomington, Ill.), Amy Marie Stuepfert (Le Roy, Ill.), Julie Christine Wirtjes (Bloomington, Ill.), Cheryl L. Legan (Normal, Ill.), Bruce Lininger (Normal, Ill.), Gurnek Singh Mokha (Urbana, Ill.), Mathew Farley (Champaign, Ill.), Patrick Kan (Cupertino, Calif.), Sudesh Sahu (Normal, Ill.) and Socrates Krishnamurthy (Aurora, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, devices, and techniq...