ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,225, issued on July 15, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Audio handler for intelligent voice interface" was invented by Duane Lee Marzinzik (Springfield, Ill.), Eric R. Moore (Heyworth, Ill.), Gregory D. Carter (Bloomington, Ill.), Harsh Lalwani (Normal, Ill.), Matthew Mifflin (Bloomington, Ill.), Padmaja Uppaluri (Bloomington, Ill.), Ryan Jewell (Bloomington, Ill.) and Richard J. Lovings (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method provides identification of relevant caller dialog with an intelligent voice interface configured to lead callers through pathways of an algorit...