US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Oct. 21 for "Conditional database synchronization" (Texas, Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,228, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Conditional database synchronization" was invented by Jeff Crouch (Bloomington, Ill.), Calvin James Scarbrough Jr. (Plano, Texas), Suresh Babu Gajendran (Fairview, Texas), Jason Young (San Tan Valley, Ariz.) and Isabelle Giovinazzo (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for conditionally updating a target database using reference data received from a reference database. In some cases, an update management system is configured to periodically retrieve reference timestamps from the reference data...