United Services Automobile Association (USAA) Assigned Patent

By Targeted News Service

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 19 -- United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,289,160) developed by Bradly Jay Billman, San Antonio, for "systems and methods for recording and using information about conditions present in a house or other location." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data recorder may be installed in a house or other type of building in order to record conditions present at the building. The data recorded may be analyzed in order to forensically assess conditions that have led to damage or destruction of the building, or to prospectively forecast the possibility of future damage or destruction. A decision may be made based on analysis of the data, and an action may be taken based on the decision. Examples of data that may be recorded include temperature, wind speed, humidity, or any other information. Examples of decisions that may be made include insurance claim decisions, underwriting decisions, reinsurance decisions, alert decisions, or any other types of decisions."

The patent application was filed on May 29, 2009 (12/474,551). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,289,160.PN.&OS=PN/8,289,160&RS=PN/8,289,160

Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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