Patents by Inventor Sharon Austin

Sharon Austin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11922526
    Abstract: Aspects of distributed ledger technology are leveraged to verify subrogation settlements. In particular, two parties to a subrogation claim provide cryptographic hashes to a subrogation demand smart contract stored at an address on a blockchain. The subrogation demand smart contract determines that the parties have reached an agreement by determining that the cryptographic hashes match. A settlement amount from the subrogation claim may be appended to a set of settlement amounts to determine a net settlement amount to facilitate a single payment between the parties on a periodic basis, such as daily, to alleviate the need for the parties to send or receive a payment for each individual settlement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Ryan Maurer, Nolan White, Kyle D. Weber, Edward Austin, William Guthrie, Dustin Helland, Bharat Prasad, Sharon Kay Haverlah, Karen Marie Shackelford-George
  • Patent number: D372842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: H. J. Heinz Company
    Inventors: Wayne Cleary, Sharon Austin, Charles Stewart