ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,728, issued on April 14, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).
"Connected home system with risk units" was invented by Floyd M. Yager (Park Ridge, Ill.), Orlando E. Mercado (Rolling Meadows, Ill.), Ralph Adam Benjamin Tyner (Gurnee, Ill.), Jennifer L. Snyder (Northbrook, Ill.), Laurie Pellouchoud (Northbrook, Ill.), Peggy Klingel (Northbrook, Ill.), Trent Bohacz (Northbrook, Ill.) and John Bradley Moats (Gurnee, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure generally relate to monitoring and/or sensing of one or more home devices from one or more homes. In particular, various aspects described he...