US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on March 3 for "Using augmented reality to visualize optimal water sensor placement" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,182, issued on March 3, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Using augmented reality to visualize optimal water sensor placement" was invented by Kyle Malan (Downs, Ill.) and Sean Kingsbury (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to using augmented reality (AR) to visualize an optimal placement location of one or more water sensors proximate a structure. Underlay layer data indicative of a field of view associated with an AR viewer device is correlated with overlay layer data that includes an indication of the water sensor optimal pl...