ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,015, issued on May 27, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for managing insurance associated with devices populated within a property" was invented by Shawn M. Call (Bloomington, Ill.), Daryoush Hakimi-Boushehri (Bloomington, Ill.), John H. Weekes (Bloomington, Ill.), Ronny S. Bryant (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 processing insurance p...