ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,422, issued on July 22, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"GUI for configuring machine-learning services" was invented by Sambasiva R. Murakonda (Cumming, Ga.) and Theodore Edward Domer (Sugar Hill, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data pipeline tool provides a machine-learning design interface that a user can utilize (e.g., via an electronic device such as a personal computer, tablet, or smart phone) to design or configure data pipelines or workflows defining the manner in which ML models are developed, trained, tested, validated, or deployed. Once deployed, a designed ML model may g...