Hartford Fire Insurance Assigned Patent for Remote Sensor Data Systems

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31 -- Hartford Fire Insurance, Hartford, Connecticut, has been assigned a patent (9,881,342) developed by seven co-inventors for "remote sensor data systems." The co-inventors are Jonathan A. Helitzer, Simsbury, Connecticut, Joseph R. Carvalko Jr., Milford, Connecticut, Kelly L. Frey Sr., Nashville, Tennessee, G. Stewart Murchie, West Hartford, Connecticut, Susannah Chen, West Hartford, Connecticut, Steven Rippel, Newington, Kentucky, and Casey Ellen Campbell, Glastonbury, Connecticut. The abstract states: "The invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing data collected from sensors monitoring property. In particular, the systems and methods analyze the data to make property insurance underwriting decisions based on the collected sensor data using a computerized process that varies the way in which it manipulates the collected sensor data based on a characteristic of the property being insured, a characteristic of the entity seeking the insurance, and/or on the value of one or more collected data parameters. The invention also relates to systems and methods of making property insurance pricing decisions based on a similarly dynamic computerized process."

The patent application was filed on April 8, 2016 (15/094,711). 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=9,881,342.PN.&OS=PN/9,881,342&RS=PN/9,881,342

Written by Ranjan Behera; edited by Sudarshan Harpal.