US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Feb. 3 for "Service status determination framework" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,484, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Service status determination framework" was invented by Grant McKim (Skiatook, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and techniques to facilitate rapid and effective notification of issues that may affect services and applications configured at a cloud-based system. A service monitoring system may be queried regularly for status data for services operating in a cloud-based system. The service status data received in response may be compared to previously stored service status data to identify new and chan...