ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,357, issued on May 27, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).
"Systems and methods for detecting water damage using energy-harvesting sensors" was invented by Brian Mark Fields (Phoenix), Shawn M. Call (Bloomington, Ill.), Jaime Skaggs (Chenoa, Ill.) and Matthew S. Megyese (Bloomington, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting water damage to a structure may include a plurality of energy-harvesting sensors on or within the structure, each sensor being configured to (i) generate sensor data indicative of one or more characteristics of air, construction materials, and/or wa...