US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Oct. 7 for "System and method for scrubbing data to be shared between organizations" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,112, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"System and method for scrubbing data to be shared between organizations" was invented by Murali Chittiprolu (Bloomington, Ill.) and George R. Lewis (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scrubbing data to be shared between organizations to test a joint solution, and for preventing the introduction of unscrubbed data. Each organization captures a subset of data, which may be customer data from a line of business. The first organization scrubs its data according to scrubbing rules, and then passes th...