US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Nov. 25 for "Team data clustering as a service" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,680, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Team data clustering as a service" was invented by John Westhues (Normal, Ill.), Dustin Meyer (Bloomington, Ill.), Dan Boser (Bloomington, Ill.) and Dee Engel (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques relating to clustering team data and providing the resulting cluster information as a service. The cluster information provided as a service can be efficiently incorporated into tools and services of utility for the teams from which the team data is gathered."

The patent was filed on April 29, 2024, under Applicat...