ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,932, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Determining optimal water sensor placement using a machine learning chatbot" 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 determining an optimal placement location of one or more water sensors proximate a structure using a machine learning (ML) chatbot. The ML chatbot may detect a request to identify the optimal placement location of the water sensors. In response to the request, structure information is provided t...