US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 27 for "Shared hierarchical data design model for transferring data within distributed systems" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,232, issued on May 27, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Shared hierarchical data design model for transferring data within distributed systems" was invented by Scott D. Kussmann (Bloomington, Ill.) and Christopher L Tallyn (Minonk, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques described herein relate to using a shared hierarchical data design model for creating and transferring data within distributed systems. Components within a distributed system may access a shared hierarchical data design model when designing and creating software components, data structures, or application...