Fuzzy Search Of Graph Database
Patent No. 12019683
A method may compiling, using at least one processor, a corpus of training data by obtaining, for each respective concept object in an ontology, a respective concept label and respective annotations describing the respective concept object; generating a vocabulary of terms based on the corpus of training data; training a semantic model using the corpus of training data and the vocabulary of terms, wherein input features for the semantic model are based on context words in proximity to a term in the vocabulary of terms; and storing a set of word embeddings for the vocabulary of terms based on the trained semantic model.
Inventors: David Newman (Walnut Creek, Calif.); Omar B. Khan (Richmond, Va.); Nathan Anthony Susanj (York,Penn.); Alexander Joseph Kalinowski (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank (San Francisco, Calif.)
June 25, 2024
Monitoring And Data Analysis Systems And Methods
Patent No. 12019125
A transformer monitoring device has one or more voltage sensors and/or one or more current sensors integral with a housing for detecting a voltage of a power cable of a transformer. The transformer monitoring device further has one or more environmental sensors including a smoke sensor, ambient temperature sensor, external transformer temperature sensor, a fire sensor, or a surface and/or ground temperature sensor configured to detect smoke in an area surrounding the transformer and a processor configured to monitor the smoke sensor, the processor configured to transmit an alert if smoke is detected surrounding the transformer.
Inventors: Joe Beaudet (Disputanta, Va.); Sergio Angell (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assignee: Grid20/20 (Richmond)
June 25, 2024
Fluid Permeable Heater Assembly And Cartridge For An Aerosol-generating System
Patent No. 12016999
A fluid permeable heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system includes a base including an opening through the base and an electrically conductive filament arrangement over the opening. The base includes a solid aerosol-forming substrate on the base. A cartridge includes a cartridge body including a reservoir within the cartridge body. A heater assembly is arranged at one end of the cartridge body.
Inventor: Oleg Fursa (Lignieres, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
June 25, 2024
Devices And Methods For Delivery Of Substances Within A Prefilled Syringe
Patent No. 12017047
An apparatus includes a housing, an energy storage member, a carrier, a medicament container, and a delivery control mechanism. The housing defines a gas chamber configured to receive pressurized gas from the energy storage member to pressurize the gas chamber. The carrier has a proximal surface that defines a portion of the gas chamber. The medicament container is coupled to the carrier and has a distal end portion coupled to a delivery member. The medicament container contains a medicament and includes an elastomeric member that seals the medicament within the medicament container. The delivery control mechanism is coupled to a proximal end portion of the medicament container and includes a flow restriction member for regulating a pressure supplied by the gas chamber and entering into the medicament container that acts on the elastomeric member.
Inventors: Paul F. Meyers (Fishers, Ind.); Michael J. Roe (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: kaleo (Richmond)
June 25, 2024
Processes For Forming Carbon-containing Aramid Bicomponent Filament Yarns
Patent No. 12018407
Processes for forming a yarn comprising a plurality of bicomponent filaments having a first region comprising a first polymer composition and a second region comprising a second polymer composition; the regions being distinct and present in the bicomponent filaments in a sheath-core structure or a side-by-side structure; wherein the first polymer composition comprises aramid polymer comprising 5 to 10 weight percent homogeneously dispersed discrete carbon particles and the second polymer composition comprises aramid polymer being free of discrete carbon particles and having at least one homogeneously dispersed masking pigment, the yarn having a total content of 0.5 to 5 weight percent discrete carbon particles.
Inventors: Mark William Anderson (Charlottesville, Va.); Mark T. Aronson (Midlothian, Va.); Christopher William Newton (Richmond); Thomas Wayne Steinruck (Glen Allen, Va.); B Lynne Wiseman (Richmond); Relyao Zhu (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: Dupont Safety & Construction (Wilmington, Del.)
June 25, 2024
Hydraulic Fluid
Patent No. 12018224
The present invention provides a hydraulic fluid comprising: (a) 40 to 150 ppm by weight in terms of nitrogen content of a corrosion inhibiting agent which is one or more compounds of formula (I): ##STR00001## and/or tribologically acceptable salts thereof, wherein in formula (I): each R.sup.1 is independently a hydrocarbyl group comprising 1 to 10 carbon atoms, x is 0 to 4, and R.sup.2 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms; (b) 1500 to 4000 ppm by weight of an ashless nitrogen-containing dispersant; and (c) a major amount of a base oil.
Inventors: Helen Dyer (Bracknell, Great Britain); Madeleine Partridge (Bracknell, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
June 25, 2024
Secure Data Exchange Using Format-preserving Encryption
Patent No. 12021847
Methods and systems disclosed herein describe tokenizing data to generate a secure token that is limited in scope (e.g., directed to a specific recipient) and limited in time (e.g., valid for only a specified period of time). A detokenization process may be employed to recover encrypted data of the secure token without the need for any relational database lookup processes, thereby reducing cost while maintaining robust protection against unintended recipients that attempt to recover the encrypted data.
Inventors: Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.); Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.); Ashish Gupta (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Systems And Methods For Producing Non-standard Shaped Cards
Patent No. 12020102
Example embodiments of systems and methods for card production are provided. A card may include processing circuitry including a chip and memory. The card may include one or more antennas in communication with the chip. The card may include a first layer of material aligned within a perimeter of the card via laminate encapsulation. The first layer of material may comprise a non-rectangular shape. The first layer of material may be offset with a shape of the card. The first layer of material may be in communication with the chip. The first layer of material may comprise at least one selected from the group of steel, tungsten, titanium, or any combination thereof. The card may be compliant with one or more form factors.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Suzanne Parker (Rhoadesville, Va.); Adrian Garner (Chesterfield, Va.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Token Identity Devices
Patent No. 12020237
Disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and computer-readable media configured to provide wearable devices storing tokens associated with digital versions of physical documents/cards. The wearable devices may further transfer tokens securely to interested parties without Bluetooth? or other network connectivity beyond NFC radio. In some embodiments, a token vault operator system may receive a request to establish a token vault account for a user, authenticate an identity of the user based at least on the received request, and generating a token vault ID associated with the user. The token vault operator system may further configure access to data sets generated for and associated with the token vault ID, generate tokens associated with the token vault ID, each token corresponding to one of the one or more data sets, and provide the generated plurality of tokens associated with the token vault ID to at least one user device.
Inventors: Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Methods And System For Detecting Unmanaged Resources In Cloud-based Data Warehousing System
Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media used by a cloud data management system for collecting data from accounts hosted by a cloud-based data warehousing system on different cloud platforms or in different cloud regions of a cloud platform. Collection of data in the multi-cloud platform and/or multi-cloud region environments may be facilitated by the on-demand creation of one or more data collection accounts. Based on the collected data, one or more data warehouse resources not managed by the cloud data management system may be discovered, configured, and onboarded to the cloud data management system.
Inventors: Hiren Shah (Stafford, Va.); Ganesh Bharathan (Henrico, Va.); Sridhar Maramreddy (Glen Allen, Va.); Naga Venkata Sriram Vadakattu (Frisco, Texas); Naveen Kumar Kilaru (Little Elm, Texas); David Ellis (San Diego, Calif.); Felix Li (Pittsburgh, Penn.); Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Va.); Kishore Kolanu (Glen Allen, Va.); Syed Siraj Mehmood (Aldie, Texas); Nicole Markley (Frisco, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Recognizing Text In Image Data
Patent No. 12019675
A device may receive image data representing a document, the document including: text, and edges. Based on the edges, the device may identify, a segment of interest within the image data and crop the segment of interest to obtain a portion of the image data. In addition, the device may perform optical character recognition on the portion of the image data, the optical character recognition producing recognized text. The device may obtain, based on the recognized text, validation data that includes verification text, and determine whether the recognized text is verified based on the verification text. Based on a result of the determination, the device may perform an action.
Inventors: Subhashini Tripuraneni (Glen Allen, Va.); Joseph R. Barco Jr. (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Iterative Search Tool And User Interface
Patent No. 12019626
A search tool including a user interface provides functionality organized to support iterative search tasks for software or browser-based searches. These features may be combined with existing software and browser-based search engines to provide more extensive search features that are otherwise unsupported by existing search engine user interfaces. The user interface can be applied to varying search domains, from constrained search environments, such as a corporate database, or to the Internet. Additionally, the search tool may include a project tool to provide one or more searchers the capability to access, leverage, and/or collaborate on iterative searches.
Inventors: Larry Dean Marine (Colorado Springs, Colo.); John M. Ireland (Midlothian, Va.); Michael Kobar (Old Lyme, Conn.)
Assignee: Iterative Search (Monument, Colo.)
June 25, 2024
System And Method For Serving Multiple Customers By A Live Agent
Patent No. 12022026
A system and method for allowing a single live customer service agent to simultaneously serve multiple customers. According to various embodiments, a virtual agent operates at the front end to receive and attempt to handle customer issues. The virtual agent employs speech recognition and intent mapping in order to generate a proposed response that attempts to identify and resolve customer issues. In some scenarios, the proposed response includes both a response message and a response action to be taken. A chat history and the proposed response is then provided to the live agent. The live agent reviews the information provided, and determines whether the proposed response is appropriate. The live agent then approves the response or revises or replaces the response. The final response is sent back to the virtual agent for processing and providing to the customer.
Inventors: Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Guadalupe Bonilla (Hyattsville, Md.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Vahid Khanagha (Rockville, Md.); Aysu Ezen Can (Cary, N.C.); Mia Rodriguez (Arlington, Va.); Feng Qiu (Newark, Del.); Alexander Lin (Arlington, Va.); Meredith L. Critzer (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Enterprise Server Image (ESI) Meta Tagging
Patent No. 12028212
A system prevents incorrect deployment of computer code in remote enterprise servers. The system includes a source code repository for housing computer code received from developers and housing software that maintains the code and develops version control information (VCI) for same. The system includes a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CICD) pipeline orchestrator and arranges deployment of the computer code by determining servers to which the code will be deployed. A metatag affixing engine and database creates metatag information corresponding to the computer code and stores the metatag information. The metatag information qualifies the code for deployment at the servers, as follows. A code management system schedules deployment. Prior to deployment, each of the servers reads the metatag implemented on the code and compares the metatag on the code to determine whether the metatag matches the metatag stored at the database. When the metatags matches at the server, the computer code is deployed.
Inventors: Kerry Vaughan (Pennington, N.J.); Aravind Singtalur (McKinney, Texas); Manmohan V. Datla-Viswasai (Frisco, Texas): Petar Puskarich (Plano, Texas); Srinath Chakravarty (Plano, Texas); Kenneth Boyd (Richmond); Dinesh Kumar Agrawal (Rowlett, Texas); Steven Greene (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Belton (Garden City, N.Y.)
Elina Shkodnik (Staten Island, N.Y.)
Assignee: Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.)
July 2, 2024
Refillable Aerosol-generating Article
Patent No. 120243439
A refillable heated aerosol-generating article for use with an electrically-operated aerosol-generating device has an outlet end for insertion into a user’s mouth during use, and a distal end upstream from the outlet end. The article includes a refillable liquid retention section and an aerosol-generation section located within a casing. The refillable liquid retention section includes a liquid retention medium, and the aerosol-generation section is located downstream of the refillable liquid retention section. The liquid retention medium has a capacity to absorb up to 35 microliters of liquid. The article is configured such that, during use, air can be drawn through the article from the distal end to the end, passing through the refillable liquid retention section. The article defines an opening or port for allowing the refillable liquid retention section to be charged with liquid.
Inventor: Michel Thorens (Moudon, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 2, 2024
Prediction Model Selection For Cyber Security
Patent No. 12026254
A method includes predicting, before a first period of time, a plurality of predicted event metric values and value ranges corresponding to a first plurality of events to occur over the first period of time based on a plurality of prediction models, determining an actual event metric value of the first plurality of events, and determining a plurality of model range multi-partition error (MRME) values indicative of an accuracy, precision, and relative range of the forecasting models based on the actual event metric values, value ranges, and the predicted event metric values. The method includes selecting one of the forecasting models based on the MRME values, determining a cyber security control limit based on a predicted event metric value or predicted event metric range by the selected forecasting model, and outputting an alert based on an actual event metric value being outside of the cyber security control limit.
Inventors: Ziqian Huang (Buffalo Grove, Ill.); Matthew H. Murphy (Pendleton, S.C.); Michael J. Levin (Arlington, Va.); William Casey (Richmond)
Assignee: Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.)
July 2, 2024
Filtering Fitment For Fluid Packaging
Patent No. 12024346
Filtering assemblies to be used with a flowable material container. The assembly includes a filtering screen. The assembly further includes filtering media. The filtering media includes activated carbon. The filtering media includes dissolvable material. The assembly further includes a filtering basket to contain the filtering media. The assembly further includes a valve assembly. The assembly further includes a spout with a filter. The spout further includes a removable filter. The removable filter is configured to extend beyond the end of the spout. The removable filter includes circulation holes. The removable filter is configured to be pushed into the spout by a closure cap. The removable filter is configured to contain filtering media.
Inventors: Lamy Chopin (Missouri City, Texas); James W. Johnson (Delaware, Ohio); Ronald E. Kieras (Woodstock, Ill.); Matthew Ruschmeier (Glencoe, Minn.); Paul N. Georgelos (Naperville, Ill.)
Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)
July 2, 2024
Dynamic Review Of Software Updates After Pull Requests
Patent No. 12026509
In some implementations, a system may receive, from a software repository, a difference file indicating changes, to software code, that was submitted to the software repository. The system may parse the difference file to determine files, associated with the software code, affected by the changes and to determine content associated with the changes. The system may apply rules, from a rule dictionary, based on comparing identifiers, associated with the files, with identifiers included in the rules and based on comparing the content, associated with the changes, with content included in the rules. The system may generate software review checklist items based on applying the rules and output the software review checklist items for display. The system may receive, based on input from a user, confirmation of the changes and commit the changes to the software repository based on the confirmation.
Inventors: Tallulah Kay (Los Altos, Calif.); Benjamin Simon (Washington, D.C.)’ Christina Kim (San Ramon, Calif.); Ahmad Hassan Ibrahim (Centreville, Va.); Jean-Etienne Lavallee (Richmond); George Swain (Arlington, Va.); Steven Almanzar (Arlington, Va.);
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 2, 2024
Gasoline Additive Composition For Improved Engine Performance
Patent No. 12024686
The present disclosure provides fuel additives including quaternary ammonium salt additive(s) and Mannich detergent additive(s) effective to improve engine performance in both port fuel injected and gasoline direct injection engines.
Inventors: Tim Brennan (Chesterfield, Va.); Julienne Galante-Fox (Midlothian, Va.); Janice Jianzhao Wang (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
July 2, 2024
Vaporizer For An Aerosol-generating System With Vaporizing Method
Patent No. 12022870
The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.
Inventors: Michel Bessant (Carouge, Switzerland); Fabien Duc (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Zachary Elliott (Loughborough, Great Britain); Robert Emmett (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Hossein Ostadi (Derby, Great Britain); Shaun Phillips (Peterborough, Great Britain); Bruce Renfrew (Hilltop, Great Britain); Eva Saade Latorre (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Saad Ali (Richmond, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 2, 2024
Fuzzy Search Of Graph Database
Patent No. 12019683
A method may compiling, using at least one processor, a corpus of training data by obtaining, for each respective concept object in an ontology, a respective concept label and respective annotations describing the respective concept object; generating a vocabulary of terms based on the corpus of training data; training a semantic model using the corpus of training data and the vocabulary of terms, wherein input features for the semantic model are based on context words in proximity to a term in the vocabulary of terms; and storing a set of word embeddings for the vocabulary of terms based on the trained semantic model.
Inventors: David Newman (Walnut Creek, Calif.); Omar B. Khan (Richmond, Va.); Nathan Anthony Susanj (York,Penn.); Alexander Joseph Kalinowski (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank (San Francisco, Calif.)
June 25, 2024
Monitoring And Data Analysis Systems And Methods
Patent No. 12019125
A transformer monitoring device has one or more voltage sensors and/or one or more current sensors integral with a housing for detecting a voltage of a power cable of a transformer. The transformer monitoring device further has one or more environmental sensors including a smoke sensor, ambient temperature sensor, external transformer temperature sensor, a fire sensor, or a surface and/or ground temperature sensor configured to detect smoke in an area surrounding the transformer and a processor configured to monitor the smoke sensor, the processor configured to transmit an alert if smoke is detected surrounding the transformer.
Inventors: Joe Beaudet (Disputanta, Va.); Sergio Angell (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assignee: Grid20/20 (Richmond)
June 25, 2024
Fluid Permeable Heater Assembly And Cartridge For An Aerosol-generating System
Patent No. 12016999
A fluid permeable heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system includes a base including an opening through the base and an electrically conductive filament arrangement over the opening. The base includes a solid aerosol-forming substrate on the base. A cartridge includes a cartridge body including a reservoir within the cartridge body. A heater assembly is arranged at one end of the cartridge body.
Inventor: Oleg Fursa (Lignieres, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
June 25, 2024
Devices And Methods For Delivery Of Substances Within A Prefilled Syringe
Patent No. 12017047
An apparatus includes a housing, an energy storage member, a carrier, a medicament container, and a delivery control mechanism. The housing defines a gas chamber configured to receive pressurized gas from the energy storage member to pressurize the gas chamber. The carrier has a proximal surface that defines a portion of the gas chamber. The medicament container is coupled to the carrier and has a distal end portion coupled to a delivery member. The medicament container contains a medicament and includes an elastomeric member that seals the medicament within the medicament container. The delivery control mechanism is coupled to a proximal end portion of the medicament container and includes a flow restriction member for regulating a pressure supplied by the gas chamber and entering into the medicament container that acts on the elastomeric member.
Inventors: Paul F. Meyers (Fishers, Ind.); Michael J. Roe (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: kaleo (Richmond)
June 25, 2024
Processes For Forming Carbon-containing Aramid Bicomponent Filament Yarns
Patent No. 12018407
Processes for forming a yarn comprising a plurality of bicomponent filaments having a first region comprising a first polymer composition and a second region comprising a second polymer composition; the regions being distinct and present in the bicomponent filaments in a sheath-core structure or a side-by-side structure; wherein the first polymer composition comprises aramid polymer comprising 5 to 10 weight percent homogeneously dispersed discrete carbon particles and the second polymer composition comprises aramid polymer being free of discrete carbon particles and having at least one homogeneously dispersed masking pigment, the yarn having a total content of 0.5 to 5 weight percent discrete carbon particles.
Inventors: Mark William Anderson (Charlottesville, Va.); Mark T. Aronson (Midlothian, Va.); Christopher William Newton (Richmond); Thomas Wayne Steinruck (Glen Allen, Va.); B Lynne Wiseman (Richmond); Relyao Zhu (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: Dupont Safety & Construction (Wilmington, Del.)
June 25, 2024
Hydraulic Fluid
Patent No. 12018224
The present invention provides a hydraulic fluid comprising: (a) 40 to 150 ppm by weight in terms of nitrogen content of a corrosion inhibiting agent which is one or more compounds of formula (I): ##STR00001## and/or tribologically acceptable salts thereof, wherein in formula (I): each R.sup.1 is independently a hydrocarbyl group comprising 1 to 10 carbon atoms, x is 0 to 4, and R.sup.2 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms; (b) 1500 to 4000 ppm by weight of an ashless nitrogen-containing dispersant; and (c) a major amount of a base oil.
Inventors: Helen Dyer (Bracknell, Great Britain); Madeleine Partridge (Bracknell, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
June 25, 2024
Secure Data Exchange Using Format-preserving Encryption
Patent No. 12021847
Methods and systems disclosed herein describe tokenizing data to generate a secure token that is limited in scope (e.g., directed to a specific recipient) and limited in time (e.g., valid for only a specified period of time). A detokenization process may be employed to recover encrypted data of the secure token without the need for any relational database lookup processes, thereby reducing cost while maintaining robust protection against unintended recipients that attempt to recover the encrypted data.
Inventors: Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.); Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.); Ashish Gupta (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Systems And Methods For Producing Non-standard Shaped Cards
Patent No. 12020102
Example embodiments of systems and methods for card production are provided. A card may include processing circuitry including a chip and memory. The card may include one or more antennas in communication with the chip. The card may include a first layer of material aligned within a perimeter of the card via laminate encapsulation. The first layer of material may comprise a non-rectangular shape. The first layer of material may be offset with a shape of the card. The first layer of material may be in communication with the chip. The first layer of material may comprise at least one selected from the group of steel, tungsten, titanium, or any combination thereof. The card may be compliant with one or more form factors.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Suzanne Parker (Rhoadesville, Va.); Adrian Garner (Chesterfield, Va.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Token Identity Devices
Patent No. 12020237
Disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and computer-readable media configured to provide wearable devices storing tokens associated with digital versions of physical documents/cards. The wearable devices may further transfer tokens securely to interested parties without Bluetooth? or other network connectivity beyond NFC radio. In some embodiments, a token vault operator system may receive a request to establish a token vault account for a user, authenticate an identity of the user based at least on the received request, and generating a token vault ID associated with the user. The token vault operator system may further configure access to data sets generated for and associated with the token vault ID, generate tokens associated with the token vault ID, each token corresponding to one of the one or more data sets, and provide the generated plurality of tokens associated with the token vault ID to at least one user device.
Inventors: Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Methods And System For Detecting Unmanaged Resources In Cloud-based Data Warehousing System
Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media used by a cloud data management system for collecting data from accounts hosted by a cloud-based data warehousing system on different cloud platforms or in different cloud regions of a cloud platform. Collection of data in the multi-cloud platform and/or multi-cloud region environments may be facilitated by the on-demand creation of one or more data collection accounts. Based on the collected data, one or more data warehouse resources not managed by the cloud data management system may be discovered, configured, and onboarded to the cloud data management system.
Inventors: Hiren Shah (Stafford, Va.); Ganesh Bharathan (Henrico, Va.); Sridhar Maramreddy (Glen Allen, Va.); Naga Venkata Sriram Vadakattu (Frisco, Texas); Naveen Kumar Kilaru (Little Elm, Texas); David Ellis (San Diego, Calif.); Felix Li (Pittsburgh, Penn.); Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Va.); Kishore Kolanu (Glen Allen, Va.); Syed Siraj Mehmood (Aldie, Texas); Nicole Markley (Frisco, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Recognizing Text In Image Data
Patent No. 12019675
A device may receive image data representing a document, the document including: text, and edges. Based on the edges, the device may identify, a segment of interest within the image data and crop the segment of interest to obtain a portion of the image data. In addition, the device may perform optical character recognition on the portion of the image data, the optical character recognition producing recognized text. The device may obtain, based on the recognized text, validation data that includes verification text, and determine whether the recognized text is verified based on the verification text. Based on a result of the determination, the device may perform an action.
Inventors: Subhashini Tripuraneni (Glen Allen, Va.); Joseph R. Barco Jr. (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Iterative Search Tool And User Interface
Patent No. 12019626
A search tool including a user interface provides functionality organized to support iterative search tasks for software or browser-based searches. These features may be combined with existing software and browser-based search engines to provide more extensive search features that are otherwise unsupported by existing search engine user interfaces. The user interface can be applied to varying search domains, from constrained search environments, such as a corporate database, or to the Internet. Additionally, the search tool may include a project tool to provide one or more searchers the capability to access, leverage, and/or collaborate on iterative searches.
Inventors: Larry Dean Marine (Colorado Springs, Colo.); John M. Ireland (Midlothian, Va.); Michael Kobar (Old Lyme, Conn.)
Assignee: Iterative Search (Monument, Colo.)
June 25, 2024
System And Method For Serving Multiple Customers By A Live Agent
Patent No. 12022026
A system and method for allowing a single live customer service agent to simultaneously serve multiple customers. According to various embodiments, a virtual agent operates at the front end to receive and attempt to handle customer issues. The virtual agent employs speech recognition and intent mapping in order to generate a proposed response that attempts to identify and resolve customer issues. In some scenarios, the proposed response includes both a response message and a response action to be taken. A chat history and the proposed response is then provided to the live agent. The live agent reviews the information provided, and determines whether the proposed response is appropriate. The live agent then approves the response or revises or replaces the response. The final response is sent back to the virtual agent for processing and providing to the customer.
Inventors: Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Guadalupe Bonilla (Hyattsville, Md.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Vahid Khanagha (Rockville, Md.); Aysu Ezen Can (Cary, N.C.); Mia Rodriguez (Arlington, Va.); Feng Qiu (Newark, Del.); Alexander Lin (Arlington, Va.); Meredith L. Critzer (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 25, 2024
Enterprise Server Image (ESI) Meta Tagging
Patent No. 12028212
A system prevents incorrect deployment of computer code in remote enterprise servers. The system includes a source code repository for housing computer code received from developers and housing software that maintains the code and develops version control information (VCI) for same. The system includes a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CICD) pipeline orchestrator and arranges deployment of the computer code by determining servers to which the code will be deployed. A metatag affixing engine and database creates metatag information corresponding to the computer code and stores the metatag information. The metatag information qualifies the code for deployment at the servers, as follows. A code management system schedules deployment. Prior to deployment, each of the servers reads the metatag implemented on the code and compares the metatag on the code to determine whether the metatag matches the metatag stored at the database. When the metatags matches at the server, the computer code is deployed.
Inventors: Kerry Vaughan (Pennington, N.J.); Aravind Singtalur (McKinney, Texas); Manmohan V. Datla-Viswasai (Frisco, Texas): Petar Puskarich (Plano, Texas); Srinath Chakravarty (Plano, Texas); Kenneth Boyd (Richmond); Dinesh Kumar Agrawal (Rowlett, Texas); Steven Greene (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Belton (Garden City, N.Y.)
Elina Shkodnik (Staten Island, N.Y.)
Assignee: Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.)
July 2, 2024
Refillable Aerosol-generating Article
Patent No. 120243439
A refillable heated aerosol-generating article for use with an electrically-operated aerosol-generating device has an outlet end for insertion into a user’s mouth during use, and a distal end upstream from the outlet end. The article includes a refillable liquid retention section and an aerosol-generation section located within a casing. The refillable liquid retention section includes a liquid retention medium, and the aerosol-generation section is located downstream of the refillable liquid retention section. The liquid retention medium has a capacity to absorb up to 35 microliters of liquid. The article is configured such that, during use, air can be drawn through the article from the distal end to the end, passing through the refillable liquid retention section. The article defines an opening or port for allowing the refillable liquid retention section to be charged with liquid.
Inventor: Michel Thorens (Moudon, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 2, 2024
Prediction Model Selection For Cyber Security
Patent No. 12026254
A method includes predicting, before a first period of time, a plurality of predicted event metric values and value ranges corresponding to a first plurality of events to occur over the first period of time based on a plurality of prediction models, determining an actual event metric value of the first plurality of events, and determining a plurality of model range multi-partition error (MRME) values indicative of an accuracy, precision, and relative range of the forecasting models based on the actual event metric values, value ranges, and the predicted event metric values. The method includes selecting one of the forecasting models based on the MRME values, determining a cyber security control limit based on a predicted event metric value or predicted event metric range by the selected forecasting model, and outputting an alert based on an actual event metric value being outside of the cyber security control limit.
Inventors: Ziqian Huang (Buffalo Grove, Ill.); Matthew H. Murphy (Pendleton, S.C.); Michael J. Levin (Arlington, Va.); William Casey (Richmond)
Assignee: Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.)
July 2, 2024
Filtering Fitment For Fluid Packaging
Patent No. 12024346
Filtering assemblies to be used with a flowable material container. The assembly includes a filtering screen. The assembly further includes filtering media. The filtering media includes activated carbon. The filtering media includes dissolvable material. The assembly further includes a filtering basket to contain the filtering media. The assembly further includes a valve assembly. The assembly further includes a spout with a filter. The spout further includes a removable filter. The removable filter is configured to extend beyond the end of the spout. The removable filter includes circulation holes. The removable filter is configured to be pushed into the spout by a closure cap. The removable filter is configured to contain filtering media.
Inventors: Lamy Chopin (Missouri City, Texas); James W. Johnson (Delaware, Ohio); Ronald E. Kieras (Woodstock, Ill.); Matthew Ruschmeier (Glencoe, Minn.); Paul N. Georgelos (Naperville, Ill.)
Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)
July 2, 2024
Dynamic Review Of Software Updates After Pull Requests
Patent No. 12026509
In some implementations, a system may receive, from a software repository, a difference file indicating changes, to software code, that was submitted to the software repository. The system may parse the difference file to determine files, associated with the software code, affected by the changes and to determine content associated with the changes. The system may apply rules, from a rule dictionary, based on comparing identifiers, associated with the files, with identifiers included in the rules and based on comparing the content, associated with the changes, with content included in the rules. The system may generate software review checklist items based on applying the rules and output the software review checklist items for display. The system may receive, based on input from a user, confirmation of the changes and commit the changes to the software repository based on the confirmation.
Inventors: Tallulah Kay (Los Altos, Calif.); Benjamin Simon (Washington, D.C.)’ Christina Kim (San Ramon, Calif.); Ahmad Hassan Ibrahim (Centreville, Va.); Jean-Etienne Lavallee (Richmond); George Swain (Arlington, Va.); Steven Almanzar (Arlington, Va.);
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 2, 2024
Gasoline Additive Composition For Improved Engine Performance
Patent No. 12024686
The present disclosure provides fuel additives including quaternary ammonium salt additive(s) and Mannich detergent additive(s) effective to improve engine performance in both port fuel injected and gasoline direct injection engines.
Inventors: Tim Brennan (Chesterfield, Va.); Julienne Galante-Fox (Midlothian, Va.); Janice Jianzhao Wang (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
July 2, 2024
Vaporizer For An Aerosol-generating System With Vaporizing Method
Patent No. 12022870
The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.
Inventors: Michel Bessant (Carouge, Switzerland); Fabien Duc (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Zachary Elliott (Loughborough, Great Britain); Robert Emmett (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Hossein Ostadi (Derby, Great Britain); Shaun Phillips (Peterborough, Great Britain); Bruce Renfrew (Hilltop, Great Britain); Eva Saade Latorre (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Saad Ali (Richmond, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 2, 2024