US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on July 8 for "Systems and methods for user authentication" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,179, issued on July 8, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for user authentication" was invented by Philip H. Miller (Mahomet, Ill.), Duane Christiansen (Eureka, Ill.) and Derek Krut (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following relates generally to data retrieval and user authentication. In some embodiments, a user is authenticated in a native mobile application. The native mobile application then obtains an authorization code, and calls an application programming interface (API) to store contextual data about the user. The API then returns, to the...