ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,006, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for smart home unification via sensor-based detection" was invented by Andre Rene Buentello (San Antonio), Nathan Lee Post (Rockport, Texas), Justin Royell Nash (Little Elm, Texas), Gregory David Hansen (San Antonio), Jose L. Romero Jr. (San Antonio) and Brian Francisco Shipley (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computing device comprising a processor and a memory with instructions configured to cause the processor to identify smart devices communicating with service providers and ext...