Fuel additive mixture providing rapid injector clean-up in high pressure gasoline engines
Patent No. 11,390,821
The present disclosure relates to methods and fuel compositions for reducing or eliminating fuel injector deposits in high pressure gasoline engines. The fuel compositions include gasoline and a synergistic combination of a fuel injector clean-up mixture including a heterocyclic amine, diamine, or open chain derivative thereof and a hydrocarbyl substituted dicarboxylic anhydride derivative selected from a diamide, acid/amide, acid/ester, diacid, amide/ester, diester, and imide.
Inventors: Charles Shanahan (Richmond), Michel Nuckols (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
July 19, 2022
Inhibition of undesired sensory effects by the compound camphor
Patent No. 11,388,923
A smokeless tobacco product or medicinal nicotine product includes nicotine and camphor dissolved in a non-flavored oily carrier. Preferably, the camphor is present in a concentration ranging from about 600 ppm to about 1300 ppm. Also disclosed are methods of making such products.
Inventors: Gerd Kobal (Sandy Hook, Virginia), Prasad Polur (Woodbridge, Virginia), Maria Gogova (Richmond), Diana McKinney (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 19, 2022
Assessing completion of events
Patent No. 11,394,601
A method for assessing completion of events in a network environment is provided. The method includes receiving a first event vector, generating a second event vector, machine matching the first event vector to the second event vector, and generating an output that includes a variable indicating whether an event corresponding to the first event vector is complete. If each of a plurality of first nodes of the first event vector matches a corresponding one of a plurality of the second nodes of the second event vector, the variable indicates that the event corresponding to the first event vector is complete. If at least one of the plurality of the first nodes of the first event vector is mismatched with the corresponding one of the plurality of the second nodes of the second event vector, the variable indicates that the event corresponding to the first event vector is incomplete.
Inventors: Wesley Boles (Fort Walton Beach, Florida), Alan Scott (Franklin, Tennessee), Julie Leraun Nash (Spring Hill, Tennessee), Donna Ann Nayduch (Ocala, Florida), Gregory McCormack (Gallatin, Tennessee), Thomas Hoy (Nashville, Tennessee), Sean Albert (Chesterfield, Virginia)
Assignee: C/HCA (Nashville, Tennessee)
July 19, 2022
Method, device and system for sensing neuromuscular, physiological, biomechanical, and musculoskeletal activity
Patent No. 11,389,083
A neuromuscular, physiological, biomechanical, or musculoskeletal activity monitoring system for a subject is provided. The system includes a wearable inertial measurement unit including at least one accelerometer and/or at least one gyroscope. The system also includes a controller in communication with an output component. The controller is configured to: receive and process information from the inertial measurement unit representative of one or more physical actions performed by the subject; generate an inertial data set for the one or more physical actions based on the received and processed information; compare the generated inertial data set to reference data stored on computer readable memory in communication with the controller; and cause the output component to provide feedback including predictive injury information. The predictive injury information is based, at least in part, on the comparison between the generated data set and the reference data.
Inventors: Heather Bansbach (Chesterfield, Virginia), Timothy Crawford Sell (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Assignee: University of Pittsburgh–Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
July 19, 2022
Credit data analysis
Patent No. 11,392,919
A device may receive transaction data associated with a plurality of merchants. The transaction data may include a first set of transactions and, for each transaction included in the first set of transactions: data identifying a merchant and a method of payment. The device may identify, from the first set of transactions, a second set of transactions associated with a credit account method of payment from the first set of transactions. The device may train, based on the first set of transactions and the second set of transactions, a merchant model. The merchant model may be trained to: receive, as input, data identifying the merchant, and produce, as output, a measure of likelihood that the merchant accepts the credit account method of payment. The device may perform an action based on the merchant model.
Inventors: Heather Ramos (Glen Allen, Virginia), Shankar Chithambarana (Henrico, Virginia), Mark Mendez (Henrico, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 19, 2022
Data certification process for cloud database platform
Patent No. 11,392,715
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify criteria that limit access to the records stored by the database. The one or more first rules may be received via a user interface. The data sharing platform may perform, based on the rules, a data access certification process on the records stored by the database to generate a table of certification results. The data sharing platform may generate, based on the table of certification results, and without modifying the records stored by the database, a limited consumer view definition. Based on updates to the records, a new limited consumer view definition may be generated.
Inventors: Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Virginia), Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Virginia), Syed Shamaz Salim (Potomac, Maryland), Praveen Kandukuri (Aldie, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 19, 2022
Rule generation and data certification onboarding process for cloud database platform
Patent No. 11,392,587
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify criteria that limit access to the records stored by the database. The one or more first rules may be received via a user interface. The data sharing platform may perform, based on the rules, a data access certification process on the records stored by the database to generate a table of certification results. The data sharing platform may generate, based on the table of certification results, and without modifying the records stored by the database, a limited consumer view definition. Based on updates to the records, a new limited consumer view definition may be generated.
Inventors: Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Virginia), Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Virginia), Syed Shamaz Salim (Potomac, Maryland), Praveen Kandukuri (Aldie, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 19, 2022
Systems and methods for providing online and hybridcard interactions
Patent No. 11,392,933
Various embodiments are generally directed to authenticating a user for non-payment purposes utilizing a payment protocol, a computer device and a contactless card. The payment protocol may be consistent with an EMV standard. An application may determine that authorization or verification of a user may be required to access non-payment features of another application associated with the user and the computer device. The application may then receive and/or facilitate transmission of encrypted data from a communications interface of a contactless card associated with an account and utilizing either an offline or online technique to do so. The offline or online technique may involve one or more operations that can verify the identity of the user and/or otherwise authorize the user to have access to various aspects of the other application.
Inventors: Lara Mossler (Farmville, Virginia), Evan Lerner (Midlothian, Virginia), Aravindhan Manivannan (Henrico, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 19, 2022
Curvilinear surface classification of feed stock
Patent No. 11,389,833
A method and system for air classification of a milled feed stock includes generating a feed stream by combining the milled feed stock with at least one gasflow element, wherein the milled feed stock includes a plurality of particle sizes. The method and system includes directing the feed stream across a curvilinear surface, such that the milled feed stock in the feed stream separates into a plurality of classification streams, each of the plurality of classification streams based on the particle sizes of the milled feed stock. Therein, the method and system separates the plurality of classification streams and collects each of the plurality of classification streams, thereby classifying the milled feed stock contained therein based on the particle sizes for each of the plurality of classification streams.
Inventors: Krisan Singh (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Tate & Lyle Solutions USA (Hoffman Estates, Illinois)
July 19, 2022
Tricyclic P2-ligand containing potent HIV-protease inhibitors against HIV/AIDS
Patent No. 11,390,630
Various embodiments relate to a compound of the formula (I) and (II), wherein X, X.sup.1, X.sup.2, X.sup.3, and R.sup.1-R.sup.4 are defined herein, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the formula (I) and/or (II) and methods of treating an HIV infection comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or more compounds of formula (I) and/or (II), or a pharmaceutical composition comprising compounds of the formula (I) and/or (II), to a patient in need thereof.
Inventors: Arun K. Ghosh (West Lafayette, Indiana), Hiroaki Mitsuya (Kumamoto, Japan), Prasanth Reddy Nyalapatla (Henrico, Virginia)
Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana)
July 19, 2022
Filter for an e-vaping device, e-vaping device with the filter, and method of forming the filter
Patent No. 11,395,507
The filter includes a contained filter material with one or more portions of a filter material. The one or more portions define interstices running through a longitudinal length of the contained filter material. The interstices allow an airflow to pass through the longitudinal length of the contained filter material. A consumable substance is infused within the filter material. The consumable substance includes nicotine, a flavorant, a pre-vapor formulation, a sub-combination thereof, or a combination thereof.
Inventors: Dwight David Williams (Richmond), Rebecca Secrist (Petersburg, Virginia), Danielle Crawford (Chester, Virginia), Terry Bache (Richmond), Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Virginia), Maria Del Carmen Jarquin (Henrico, Virginia), Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Virginia), Shaoyong Yu (Glen Allen, Virginia)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 27, 2022
Rod forming apparatus
Patent No. 11,395,505
An apparatus for the formation of machine-made tobacco rods for use in the production of smoking articles, such as cigars, from tobacco comprising a tacky material. The apparatus includes a pair of transfer and compression belts for receiving and compressing the stream of tobacco, the transfer and compression; a pair of squeeze bars for compressing the tobacco in a direction perpendicular to the pair of transfer and compression belts, the pair of squeeze bars produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone); a tongue for receiving the compressed tobacco, the tongue produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone); and a folder for folding a wrapper material around the compressed tobacco so as to form a continuous rod of tobacco, the wrapper material provided from a source of wrapper material, the folder produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone).
Inventors: Dwight David Williams (Powhatan, Virginia), Mark A. Derigo (Richmond), Gerald M. Dale (Richmond), Charles David Howe (Crewe, Virginia)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 27, 2022
Devices and methods for selective contactless communication
Patent No. 11,397,941
A card having an antenna, one or processors, and memory having stored thereon a first application and a second application configured to receive an input of the card and determine a request associated with the input. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a contactless EuroPay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) data standard, the first application. The first application is configured to communicate, via near field communication (NFC), data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the EMV data standard for payment purposes. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a near field communication data exchange format (NDEF) standard, the second application. The second application is configured to communicate, via NFC, data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the NDEF standard for verification/identification purposes.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Maryland), Kaitlin J. Newman (Washington, D.C.), Wayne David Lutz (Fort Washington, Maryland), Kevin Grant Osborn (Newton Highlands, Massachusetts), Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 27, 2022
Methods and systems for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media
Patent No. 11,397,967
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media. For instance, the method may include: obtaining a media file; determining whether the media file includes transition-coded media; in response to determining the media file includes the transition-coded media, setting up a dynamic media environment; detecting whether a user is interacting with the transition-coded media; and in response to detecting the user is interacting with the transition-coded media, executing the transition-coded media with the dynamic media environment.
Inventors: Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 27, 2022
System and method for automatically authenticating a caller
Patent No. 11,397,953
Embodiments of the disclosed technology include systems and methods that can establish a communication link with a customer device, can receive call information from the customer device, can retrieve a customer profile based on a comparison of the call information to stored call information, and can save the customer profile as temporary profile data. Embodiments can receive identifying information from the customer device and, responsive to determining, based on a comparison of the identifying information to the temporary profile data, that the communication link is authenticated, connect the communication link to an authenticated call path. Responsive to determining that a predetermined amount of time has elapsed without determining that the communication link is authenticated, embodiments can determine that the communication link is unauthenticated and can connect the communication link to an unauthenticated call path and delete the temporary profile data.
Inventors: Christopher D. Martin (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 27, 2022
Bucket with external organizer
Patent No. 11,396,400
An integrally formed bucket and external organizer is provided. A bucket is provided having a tubular sidewall with an open upper end and a closed bottom end. An integrally formed brim connects to an outside surface of the tubular sidewall proximate to the open upper end. The brim extends radially outward from the tubular sidewall to an external or exterior edge. The brim includes a plurality of apertures that extend though its surface (e.g., between an interior edge attached to the tubular sidewall and the exterior edge). Such apertures may support various items (e.g., tools, fishing gear, etc.).
Inventors: Ronald C. Shiflett Jr. (Midlothian, Virginia), Grant H. Caldwell (Midlothian, Virginia), Timothy J. Powell (Steinhatchee, Florida), Kenneth D. Robertson (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: N/A
July 27, 2022
Immersion mixer with trigger manipulable from multiple grasping locations
Patent No. 11,395,996
An immersion mixer includes: a housing; a drive motor residing within the housing; a shaft attached to the motor and configured to rotate relative to the housing; blades attached to and rotatable with the shaft; a handle attached to the housing, the handle including a first segment and a second segment attached to the first segment and to the housing; and a trigger attached to the handle and operatively associated with the motor. The trigger includes a first segment that is generally parallel with the first segment of the handle and a second segment that is generally parallel with the second segment of the handle. Engagement by a user of either the first segment of the trigger or the second segment of the trigger causes the drive motor to rotate the shaft and blades.
Inventors: Joseph R. Elliott (Henrico, Virginia)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Virginia)
July 27, 2022
Fuel additive mixture providing rapid injector clean-up in high pressure gasoline engines
Patent No. 11,390,821
The present disclosure relates to methods and fuel compositions for reducing or eliminating fuel injector deposits in high pressure gasoline engines. The fuel compositions include gasoline and a synergistic combination of a fuel injector clean-up mixture including a heterocyclic amine, diamine, or open chain derivative thereof and a hydrocarbyl substituted dicarboxylic anhydride derivative selected from a diamide, acid/amide, acid/ester, diacid, amide/ester, diester, and imide.
Inventors: Charles Shanahan (Richmond), Michel Nuckols (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
July 19, 2022
Inhibition of undesired sensory effects by the compound camphor
Patent No. 11,388,923
A smokeless tobacco product or medicinal nicotine product includes nicotine and camphor dissolved in a non-flavored oily carrier. Preferably, the camphor is present in a concentration ranging from about 600 ppm to about 1300 ppm. Also disclosed are methods of making such products.
Inventors: Gerd Kobal (Sandy Hook, Virginia), Prasad Polur (Woodbridge, Virginia), Maria Gogova (Richmond), Diana McKinney (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 19, 2022
Assessing completion of events
Patent No. 11,394,601
A method for assessing completion of events in a network environment is provided. The method includes receiving a first event vector, generating a second event vector, machine matching the first event vector to the second event vector, and generating an output that includes a variable indicating whether an event corresponding to the first event vector is complete. If each of a plurality of first nodes of the first event vector matches a corresponding one of a plurality of the second nodes of the second event vector, the variable indicates that the event corresponding to the first event vector is complete. If at least one of the plurality of the first nodes of the first event vector is mismatched with the corresponding one of the plurality of the second nodes of the second event vector, the variable indicates that the event corresponding to the first event vector is incomplete.
Inventors: Wesley Boles (Fort Walton Beach, Florida), Alan Scott (Franklin, Tennessee), Julie Leraun Nash (Spring Hill, Tennessee), Donna Ann Nayduch (Ocala, Florida), Gregory McCormack (Gallatin, Tennessee), Thomas Hoy (Nashville, Tennessee), Sean Albert (Chesterfield, Virginia)
Assignee: C/HCA (Nashville, Tennessee)
July 19, 2022
Method, device and system for sensing neuromuscular, physiological, biomechanical, and musculoskeletal activity
Patent No. 11,389,083
A neuromuscular, physiological, biomechanical, or musculoskeletal activity monitoring system for a subject is provided. The system includes a wearable inertial measurement unit including at least one accelerometer and/or at least one gyroscope. The system also includes a controller in communication with an output component. The controller is configured to: receive and process information from the inertial measurement unit representative of one or more physical actions performed by the subject; generate an inertial data set for the one or more physical actions based on the received and processed information; compare the generated inertial data set to reference data stored on computer readable memory in communication with the controller; and cause the output component to provide feedback including predictive injury information. The predictive injury information is based, at least in part, on the comparison between the generated data set and the reference data.
Inventors: Heather Bansbach (Chesterfield, Virginia), Timothy Crawford Sell (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Assignee: University of Pittsburgh–Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
July 19, 2022
Credit data analysis
Patent No. 11,392,919
A device may receive transaction data associated with a plurality of merchants. The transaction data may include a first set of transactions and, for each transaction included in the first set of transactions: data identifying a merchant and a method of payment. The device may identify, from the first set of transactions, a second set of transactions associated with a credit account method of payment from the first set of transactions. The device may train, based on the first set of transactions and the second set of transactions, a merchant model. The merchant model may be trained to: receive, as input, data identifying the merchant, and produce, as output, a measure of likelihood that the merchant accepts the credit account method of payment. The device may perform an action based on the merchant model.
Inventors: Heather Ramos (Glen Allen, Virginia), Shankar Chithambarana (Henrico, Virginia), Mark Mendez (Henrico, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 19, 2022
Data certification process for cloud database platform
Patent No. 11,392,715
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify criteria that limit access to the records stored by the database. The one or more first rules may be received via a user interface. The data sharing platform may perform, based on the rules, a data access certification process on the records stored by the database to generate a table of certification results. The data sharing platform may generate, based on the table of certification results, and without modifying the records stored by the database, a limited consumer view definition. Based on updates to the records, a new limited consumer view definition may be generated.
Inventors: Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Virginia), Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Virginia), Syed Shamaz Salim (Potomac, Maryland), Praveen Kandukuri (Aldie, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 19, 2022
Rule generation and data certification onboarding process for cloud database platform
Patent No. 11,392,587
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify criteria that limit access to the records stored by the database. The one or more first rules may be received via a user interface. The data sharing platform may perform, based on the rules, a data access certification process on the records stored by the database to generate a table of certification results. The data sharing platform may generate, based on the table of certification results, and without modifying the records stored by the database, a limited consumer view definition. Based on updates to the records, a new limited consumer view definition may be generated.
Inventors: Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Virginia), Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Virginia), Syed Shamaz Salim (Potomac, Maryland), Praveen Kandukuri (Aldie, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 19, 2022
Systems and methods for providing online and hybridcard interactions
Patent No. 11,392,933
Various embodiments are generally directed to authenticating a user for non-payment purposes utilizing a payment protocol, a computer device and a contactless card. The payment protocol may be consistent with an EMV standard. An application may determine that authorization or verification of a user may be required to access non-payment features of another application associated with the user and the computer device. The application may then receive and/or facilitate transmission of encrypted data from a communications interface of a contactless card associated with an account and utilizing either an offline or online technique to do so. The offline or online technique may involve one or more operations that can verify the identity of the user and/or otherwise authorize the user to have access to various aspects of the other application.
Inventors: Lara Mossler (Farmville, Virginia), Evan Lerner (Midlothian, Virginia), Aravindhan Manivannan (Henrico, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 19, 2022
Curvilinear surface classification of feed stock
Patent No. 11,389,833
A method and system for air classification of a milled feed stock includes generating a feed stream by combining the milled feed stock with at least one gasflow element, wherein the milled feed stock includes a plurality of particle sizes. The method and system includes directing the feed stream across a curvilinear surface, such that the milled feed stock in the feed stream separates into a plurality of classification streams, each of the plurality of classification streams based on the particle sizes of the milled feed stock. Therein, the method and system separates the plurality of classification streams and collects each of the plurality of classification streams, thereby classifying the milled feed stock contained therein based on the particle sizes for each of the plurality of classification streams.
Inventors: Krisan Singh (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Tate & Lyle Solutions USA (Hoffman Estates, Illinois)
July 19, 2022
Tricyclic P2-ligand containing potent HIV-protease inhibitors against HIV/AIDS
Patent No. 11,390,630
Various embodiments relate to a compound of the formula (I) and (II), wherein X, X.sup.1, X.sup.2, X.sup.3, and R.sup.1-R.sup.4 are defined herein, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the formula (I) and/or (II) and methods of treating an HIV infection comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or more compounds of formula (I) and/or (II), or a pharmaceutical composition comprising compounds of the formula (I) and/or (II), to a patient in need thereof.
Inventors: Arun K. Ghosh (West Lafayette, Indiana), Hiroaki Mitsuya (Kumamoto, Japan), Prasanth Reddy Nyalapatla (Henrico, Virginia)
Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana)
July 19, 2022
Filter for an e-vaping device, e-vaping device with the filter, and method of forming the filter
Patent No. 11,395,507
The filter includes a contained filter material with one or more portions of a filter material. The one or more portions define interstices running through a longitudinal length of the contained filter material. The interstices allow an airflow to pass through the longitudinal length of the contained filter material. A consumable substance is infused within the filter material. The consumable substance includes nicotine, a flavorant, a pre-vapor formulation, a sub-combination thereof, or a combination thereof.
Inventors: Dwight David Williams (Richmond), Rebecca Secrist (Petersburg, Virginia), Danielle Crawford (Chester, Virginia), Terry Bache (Richmond), Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Virginia), Maria Del Carmen Jarquin (Henrico, Virginia), Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Virginia), Shaoyong Yu (Glen Allen, Virginia)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 27, 2022
Rod forming apparatus
Patent No. 11,395,505
An apparatus for the formation of machine-made tobacco rods for use in the production of smoking articles, such as cigars, from tobacco comprising a tacky material. The apparatus includes a pair of transfer and compression belts for receiving and compressing the stream of tobacco, the transfer and compression; a pair of squeeze bars for compressing the tobacco in a direction perpendicular to the pair of transfer and compression belts, the pair of squeeze bars produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone); a tongue for receiving the compressed tobacco, the tongue produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone); and a folder for folding a wrapper material around the compressed tobacco so as to form a continuous rod of tobacco, the wrapper material provided from a source of wrapper material, the folder produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone).
Inventors: Dwight David Williams (Powhatan, Virginia), Mark A. Derigo (Richmond), Gerald M. Dale (Richmond), Charles David Howe (Crewe, Virginia)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 27, 2022
Devices and methods for selective contactless communication
Patent No. 11,397,941
A card having an antenna, one or processors, and memory having stored thereon a first application and a second application configured to receive an input of the card and determine a request associated with the input. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a contactless EuroPay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) data standard, the first application. The first application is configured to communicate, via near field communication (NFC), data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the EMV data standard for payment purposes. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a near field communication data exchange format (NDEF) standard, the second application. The second application is configured to communicate, via NFC, data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the NDEF standard for verification/identification purposes.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Maryland), Kaitlin J. Newman (Washington, D.C.), Wayne David Lutz (Fort Washington, Maryland), Kevin Grant Osborn (Newton Highlands, Massachusetts), Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 27, 2022
Methods and systems for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media
Patent No. 11,397,967
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media. For instance, the method may include: obtaining a media file; determining whether the media file includes transition-coded media; in response to determining the media file includes the transition-coded media, setting up a dynamic media environment; detecting whether a user is interacting with the transition-coded media; and in response to detecting the user is interacting with the transition-coded media, executing the transition-coded media with the dynamic media environment.
Inventors: Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 27, 2022
System and method for automatically authenticating a caller
Patent No. 11,397,953
Embodiments of the disclosed technology include systems and methods that can establish a communication link with a customer device, can receive call information from the customer device, can retrieve a customer profile based on a comparison of the call information to stored call information, and can save the customer profile as temporary profile data. Embodiments can receive identifying information from the customer device and, responsive to determining, based on a comparison of the identifying information to the temporary profile data, that the communication link is authenticated, connect the communication link to an authenticated call path. Responsive to determining that a predetermined amount of time has elapsed without determining that the communication link is authenticated, embodiments can determine that the communication link is unauthenticated and can connect the communication link to an unauthenticated call path and delete the temporary profile data.
Inventors: Christopher D. Martin (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
July 27, 2022
Bucket with external organizer
Patent No. 11,396,400
An integrally formed bucket and external organizer is provided. A bucket is provided having a tubular sidewall with an open upper end and a closed bottom end. An integrally formed brim connects to an outside surface of the tubular sidewall proximate to the open upper end. The brim extends radially outward from the tubular sidewall to an external or exterior edge. The brim includes a plurality of apertures that extend though its surface (e.g., between an interior edge attached to the tubular sidewall and the exterior edge). Such apertures may support various items (e.g., tools, fishing gear, etc.).
Inventors: Ronald C. Shiflett Jr. (Midlothian, Virginia), Grant H. Caldwell (Midlothian, Virginia), Timothy J. Powell (Steinhatchee, Florida), Kenneth D. Robertson (Midlothian, Virginia)
Assignee: N/A
July 27, 2022
Immersion mixer with trigger manipulable from multiple grasping locations
Patent No. 11,395,996
An immersion mixer includes: a housing; a drive motor residing within the housing; a shaft attached to the motor and configured to rotate relative to the housing; blades attached to and rotatable with the shaft; a handle attached to the housing, the handle including a first segment and a second segment attached to the first segment and to the housing; and a trigger attached to the handle and operatively associated with the motor. The trigger includes a first segment that is generally parallel with the first segment of the handle and a second segment that is generally parallel with the second segment of the handle. Engagement by a user of either the first segment of the trigger or the second segment of the trigger causes the drive motor to rotate the shaft and blades.
Inventors: Joseph R. Elliott (Henrico, Virginia)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Virginia)
July 27, 2022