ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,555, issued on June 17, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Electronic management of license data" was invented by Shawn Everly (Bloomington, Ill.), Randall Kirchner (Dawsonville, Ga.), Steve Schierholz (Bloomington, Ill.), Joseph Waldmann (Bloomington, Ill.), Nancy Warden (Cumming, Ga.), William T. Malone (Decatur, Ill.), Troy Steffen (Fairbury, Ill.), Alex George Sarris (Eureka, Ill.), Matthew Jared Schroeder (Bloomington, Ill.), Matthew Jeffrey Wilkens (Bloomington, Ill.) and William G. Baker (Towanda, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system including a processor in commun...