US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Feb. 4 for "Systems and methods for electronically matching online user profiles" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,314, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for electronically matching online user profiles" was invented by Joseph Robert Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.), Brian N. Harvey (Bloomington, Ill.), Ryan Michael Gross (Normal, Ill.), J. Lynn Wilson (Normal, Ill.) and Matthew Eric Riley Sr. (Heyworth, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A matching computer system for electronically generating, matching, and providing online user profiles, and determining a trust score for a user based upon at least social media data and insurance data is provided. The matching compu...