US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for prevention of water damage from HVAC operation" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,632, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for prevention of water damage from HVAC operation" was invented by Brian N. Harvey (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for detecting and responding to a likelihood of a heating system malfunction. The method may include: (1) receiving home telematics data associated with a structure, wherein the home telematics data includes local weather data for an area associated with the structure; (2) receiving operation data regarding a functionality of a heating system...