ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,170, issued on July 8, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for automatically mitigating risk of property damage" was invented by Ronny S. Bryant (Bloomington, Ill.), Shawn M. Call (Bloomington, Ill.), Daryoush Hakimi-Boushehri (Bloomington, Ill.), John H. Weekes (Bloomington, Ill.), Jennifer Criswell (Bloomington, Ill.), Todd Binion (Bloomington, Ill.), Jackie O. Jordan II (Bloomington, Ill.), Elisabeth McDermeit (Bloomington, Ill.) and John Donovan (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for automatically mitigating risks of insurance-r...