US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on April 8 for "System and method of using an image object as a visual data container" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,953, issued on April 8, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"System and method of using an image object as a visual data container" was invented by Amy Engelhorn (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for associating information regarding an object with image objects is disclosed, wherein each image object is a visual data containers including an image associated with the object and data items relating to the object. A user may interact with a graphical user interface to create, modify, and associate image objects by means of the associated images. Information ...