ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,379, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for detecting emergency conditions within a roofing structure and initiating remediation procedures" was invented by John R. Donovan (Bloomington, Ill.), Joseph Robert Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.), Aaron Williams (Congerville, Ill.), Jeffrey W. Stoiber (Atlanta), Bryan R. Nussbaum (Bloomington, Ill.) and Ellakate LeFebre (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting damage to a roofing structure and initiating remediation procedures are disclosed herein. An exemplary computer-implement...