ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,582, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).
"Systems and methods for sandbag deployment" was invented by Noe Alberto Martinez (San Antonio), Megan Sarah Jennings (San Antonio), Christopher Russell (The Colony, Texas) and Justin Royell Nash (Little Elm, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for implementing the deployment of sandbags so as to mitigate any damages when flooding is forecast. The system may use local weather information, local topographical information and current flooding conditions to produce a virtual map showing suggested sandbag deployment t...