US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for detecting building events and trends" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,677, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for detecting building events and trends" was invented by Craig Benjamin Cope (Bloomington, Ill.), Emily Kate Schneider (Bloomington, Ill.), Kara Lynn Heuer (Normal, Ill.), Burton J. Floyd (Mackinaw, Ill.) and Kevin Joseph Alcozar (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building analysis ("BA") system for detecting events of a building includes a plurality of sensors positioned within a building, at least one memory device and a building analysis ("BA") computing device communicatively coupled to th...