ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,384, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Security systems and methods for detecting hazards using smart sensors" was invented by Jennifer Curiel (Anna, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor for detecting hazards is described that includes a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to generate sensor profile data associated with a location and apply the sensor profile data to a sensor model profile associated with the location wherein the sensor model profile includes a plurality of parameter levels for the location generated by a machine learning...