US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for blockchain-based payments" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,989, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for blockchain-based payments" was invented by Melinda Teresa Magerkurth (Utica, Ill.), Eric Bellas (Bloomington, Ill.), Jaime Skaggs (Chenoa, Ill.), Shawn M. Call (Bloomington, Ill.), Eric R. Moore (Heyworth, Ill.), Vicki King (Bloomington, Ill.), Burton J. Floyd (Mackinaw, Ill.), David Turrentine (Normal, Ill.), Steven T. Olson (Bloomington, Ill.), Timothy Caleb Wells (Bloomington, Ill.), Corin Rebekah Chapman (Bloomington, Ill.), Edward W. Breitweiser (Bloomington, Ill.), Robert Gomez (Bloomington, Ill.) and Shelia Cummings Smith (Bloomington, Ill.)....