US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on July 28 for "Systems and methods for utilizing electricity monitoring devices to mitigate or prevent structural damage" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,285, issued on July 28, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing electricity monitoring devices to mitigate or prevent structural damage" was invented by Erin Ann Olander (Bloomington, Ill.), Christopher N. Kawakita (Bloomington, Ill.) and Jeff Riblet (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for identifying and correcting abnormal electrical activity about a structure are provided. An electricity monitoring device may monitor electrical activity including transmission of electricity via an electrical distribution board to devices about t...