ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,669, issued on July 15, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Adaptive learning system for improving sump pump control" was invented by Nathan L. Tofte (Downs, Ill.), Jonathan Christopher Hull (Bloomington, Ill.), John R. Donovan (Bloomington, Ill.) and Richard Jan Tjaden (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sump pump system may implement adaptive learning and machine learning techniques to facilitate improved control of sump pumps. A sump pump system may implement the described techniques to generate, train, and/or implement a machine learning model that is capable of pre...