US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on March 11 for "Home event detection and processing" (Illinois, Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,991, issued on March 11, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Home event detection and processing" was invented by Bryan Keith Corder (Gurnee, Ill.), Rothana Srey (Dekalb, Ill.), Nicholas A. Suizzo (Cody, Wyo.) and Sean P. Willett (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media for receiving data from one or more sensors associated with one or more home devices, such as appliances, home systems, etc. are provided. The data may be used to determine whether the home device is operating within an expected range or, if it is outside of an expected range or threshol...