ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,758, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (Hartford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods to remotely monitor machine usage" was invented by Connor Walsh (Lake Forest, Ill.), Maureen King (Burlington, Conn.), Nandini Kannappan (Lewis Center, Ohio) and Matthew Lamoureux (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments may monitor utilization of a machine. A risk relationship data store may contain electronic records that represent a plurality of risk relationships with an enterprise. A device located proximate to the machine includes a plurality of sensors, each sensor configured to monitor at lea...