US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 13 for "Configuration tool for deploying software application to a cloud computing environment" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,442, issued on May 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Configuration tool for deploying software application to a cloud computing environment" was invented by Song Zheng (Duluth, Ga.) and Michelle DeLynn Adler (Sugar Hill, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration tool receives user input associated with a project to deploy a software application to a cloud computing environment. Based on the user input, the configuration tool generates an application package that includes application files, infrastructure configuration data, and customized deployment instructions. A user can ...