US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Dec. 16 for "Policyholder setup in secure personal and financial information storage and chatbot access by trusted individuals" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,497, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Policyholder setup in secure personal and financial information storage and chatbot access by trusted individuals" was invented by Edward W. Breitweiser (Bloomington, Ill.), Larry Ingrum (Mahomet, Ill.), Brian A. Steigerwald (Bloomington, Ill.) and Shreeti Banerjee (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implement method and computer system may be configured to facilitate policyholder setup in connection with estate handling. An audible or visible chatbot avator or doppleganger may lead a trustee, beneficiary,...