US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Sept. 16 for "Hybrid blockchain network for dynamic communication with external systems" (Florida, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,454, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Hybrid blockchain network for dynamic communication with external systems" was invented by Ved Kommalapati (Bloomington, Ill.) and Jacob Braun (Oviedo, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for using a blockchain network to dynamically generate and transmit communications based on data stored on distributed records. The techniques described herein may enable an automated routine to store anonymized data on a distributed record and use such ledger data to determine whether and/or how to communic...