ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,816, issued on March 17, was assigned to Assurant Inc. (New York).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for mitigating resource usage" was invented by Rebekah Griffiths (North Tustin, Calif.), Craig Plaice (Ontario, Canada), Aery Bai (Atlanta) and Kevin Shopoff (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to apparatuses, methods, computer readable media, computer program products, and systems related to mitigating resource usage. In some embodiments, the system may comprise one or more device management servers and a mobile device. The mobile device may generate at least device triage data. The one or more d...