US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Oct. 7 for "Coordinated asynchronous and real-time database update processing" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,970, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Coordinated asynchronous and real-time database update processing" was invented by Richard Carl Brown (Normal, Ill.), Ryan Leverton (Bloomington, Ill.), Stephanie Langland (El Paso, Ill.), Ketih Sartain (Yorkville, Ill.), Deepak Maheshwari (Bloomington, Ill.) and Merril Myers (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for handling asynchronous and synchronous requests to update a database field. Asynchronous update requests are stored in a queue and processed later, while synchronous reque...