US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for simulating water intrusion in a structure and testing sump pump performance" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,411, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for simulating water intrusion in a structure and testing sump pump performance" was invented by John R. Donovan (Bloomington, Ill.) and Richard Jan Tjaden (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present aspects relate to techniques for testing water mitigation equipment (e.g., sump pumps and sensors) using a testing platform that simulates a water intrusion environment. The methods and systems of simulating a water intrusion environment discussed herein improve testing and verification of wat...