ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 30 -- Progressive Casualty Insurance, Mayfield Village, Ohio, has been assigned a patent (8,712,795) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for internet on-line insurance policy service." The co-inventors are Alan R. Bauer, Mill Valley, Calif., Amanda L. Bowman, Bedford, Ohio, Richard J. Keyser, Euclid, Ohio, Megan N. McNamara, Rocky River, Ohio, Cheryl L. Urminski, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Leslie Youngstrom, Sacramento, Calif., and Toby Alfred, Orange, Ohio. The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2012 (13/616,426). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,712,795.PN.&OS=PN/8,712,795&RS=PN/8,712,795 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.
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