ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,248, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Synchronization of emergency call location manager settings file" was invented by BhagyaRaj Pola (Normal, Ill.), Arun Raj Elan Kumaravel Pandiyan (Normal, Ill.) and John Shaw (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency call location manager on a computer can use a settings file stored on the computer to determine a physical address that corresponds to a network address associated with the computer, such that the emergency call location manager can provide the physical address as dispatchable location information...