US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on July 7 for "Smart energy platforms and methods for a property" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,503, issued on July 7, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Smart energy platforms and methods for a property" was invented by Alexander Cardona (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart energy platform for controlling energy consumption at a property, the smart energy platform configured to: (i) receive an input from a user associated with the property indicating a maximum comfort temperature and a minimum comfort temperature of the property; (ii) receive property data; (iii) retrieve weather data; (iv) determine property usage; (v) receive energy pricing data from an energy co...