US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Feb. 10 for "Artificial intelligence for sump pump monitoring and service provider notification" (Illinois, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,095, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Artificial intelligence for sump pump monitoring and service provider notification" was invented by Aaron Williams (Congerville, Ill.), Joseph Harr (Bloomington, Ill.), Scott T. Christensen (Salem, Ore.) and Ryan M. Gross (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for sump pump monitoring and repair service provider notification may include one or more processors configured to: detect that a sump pump is faulty, transmit a prompt for service quotes to a machine learning (ML) chatbot to cause the ML chatbot ...