Uses Of Oxygenated Cholesterol Sulfates (OCS)
Patent No. 11612609
Methods of preventing and/or treating ischemia, organ dysfunction and/or organ failure, including multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), and necrosis and apoptosis associated with organ dysfunction/failure, are provided. For instance, the methods involve contacting organ(s) with an oxygenated cholesterol sulfate (OCS), e.g. 5-cholesten-3,25-diol, 3-sulfate (25H-C3S). The organ(s) may be in vivo (e.g. in a patient that is treated with the OCS) or ex vivo (e.g. an organ that has been harvested from a donor and is to be transplanted).
Inventors: Shunlin Ren (Richmond); Felix Theeuwes (Los Altos Hills, Calif.); James E. Brown (Los Gatos, Calif.); WeiQi Lin (Emerald Hills, Calif.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond) & Durect Corp. (Cupertino, Calif.)
March 28, 2023
Aerosol-generating System With Pump
Patent No 11617230
An aerosol generating system includes a heater assembly and a manually operated pump. The pump includes a hollow member with an inlet portion and an outlet portion. The inlet portion of the hollow member is configured connectable with a liquid storage portion. The outlet portion of the hollow member is in fluid communication with a dispensing assembly. The pump is configured to dispense a liquid material onto the heater assembly. The pump is configured to pump the liquid material from the liquid storage portion via the dispensing assembly and onto the heater assembly.
Inventors: Laurent Manca (Sullens, Switzerland); Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
March 28, 2023
Pod Assembly, Dispensing Body, And E-vapor Apparatus Including The Same
Patent No. 11615179
An e-vapor apparatus may include a pod assembly and a dispensing body configured to receive the pod assembly. A vaporizer may be disposed in the pod assembly and/or the dispensing body. The pod assembly may include a pre-vapor formulation compartment, a device compartment, and a vapor channel extending from the device compartment and traversing the pre-vapor formulation compartment. The pod assembly is a smart pod configured to receive, store, and transmit information that can be communicated with the dispensing body and/or another electronic device. The proximal portion of the dispensing body includes a vapor passage and a through-hole. The vapor passage may extend from an end surface of the proximal portion to a side wall of the through-hole. The through-hole is configured to receive the pod assembly such that the vapor channel of the pod assembly is aligned with the vapor passage of the dispensing body.
Inventors: Raymond Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Richmond); Alistair Bramley (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
March 28, 2023
Authentication For Third Party Digital Wallet Provisioning
Patent No. 11615395
Various embodiments are directed to securely verifying an identity of a user who is requesting to add or link a financial instrument to a third-party digital wallet using one-tap contactless card authentication. The financial instrument may be added or linked to the third-party wallet in at least two scenarios: pull provisioning and push provisioning. In either provisioning scenarios, the user may be required to authenticate the financial instrument being added or linked by successfully verifying the identity of the user via the one-tap contactless card authentication at a banking application associated with the financial instrument.
Inventors: Katherine McHugh (Richmond); Lesley Newton (Richmond); Casey Barrett (San Francisco, Calif.); Patrick Zearfoss (Leesburg, Va.)
March 28, 2023
Electronic Vaping Device And Components Thereof
Patent No. 11612184
A cartomizer of an electronic vaping device includes a heater circuit which is located adjacent an air passage thereof. The heater circuit includes an electrically resistive heater in electrical communication with a secondary coil. A wick extends across the air passage. The wick is configured to draw pre-vapor formulation from a reservoir toward the heater. The heater is configured to heat the pre-vapor formulation to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation and form a vapor. The cartomizer is connectable to a power supply component which includes a power source in electrical communication with a primary coil. The power supply component is configured to induce sufficient voltage in the secondary coil of the heater circuit such that the secondary coil is configured to heat the heater and vaporize the pre-vapor formulation when the primary coil is powered by the power source.
Inventors: Edmond J. Cadieux (Mechanicsville, Va.); Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.); Patrick J. Cobler (Andover, Mass.); Barry S. Smith (Hopewell, Va.); Peter Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.); Kai Cao (Somerville, Mass.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
March 28, 2023
Preemptive Power Transfer Switching
Patent No. 11616364
An electrical load system includes one or more electrical loads, a power transfer switch, and an electronic control system. The power transfer switch is coupled with and can provide power to one or more electrical loads from a first power source or a second power source. The electronic control system evaluates a source impedance of the first source and controls the power transfer switch in response to the source impedance of the first source indicating a fault condition of the first power source that would interrupt power from the first power source to the one or more electrical loads prior to the fault condition disrupting power from the first power source to the one or more electrical loads.
Inventors: David E. Sharpe (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: ABB Schweiz Ag (Baden, Germany)
March 28, 2023
Selecting A Target Queue For An Electronic Communication
Patent No. 11616881
In some implementations, a cloud computing system that executes a function may receive an indication of an electronic communication to occur between a customer and an agent. The cloud computing system that executes the function may determine a classification of the electronic communication based on a first set of rules stored in a database of the cloud computing system and attributes associated with the electronic communication. The cloud computing system that executes the function may select, based on the classification of the electronic communication, a target queue from a plurality of potential queues to be associated with the electronic communication based on a second set of rules stored in the database. The cloud computing system that executes the function may select the agent from a plurality of potential agents for the electronic communication based on an association between the agent and the target queue.
Inventors: Selvakannan Dhandapani (Glen Allen, Va.); Srividya Bodduluri (Glen Allen, Va.); Gregory C. Deignan (Midlothian, Va.); Casey M. Minner (Brightwood, Va.); Christine H. Lindsey (Midlothian, Va.); Narasimhan Mepperia (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
March 28, 2023
Determining Problem Dependencies In Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 11614943
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
Inventors: Muralidharan Balasubramanian (Gaithersburg, Md.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.); Julie Dallen (Vienna, Va.); David Watson (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
March 28, 2023
System And Method For Z-PAT Defect-guided Statistical Outlier Detection Of Semiconductor Reliability Failures
Patent No. 11614480
A system and method for Z-PAT defect-guided statistical outlier detection of semiconductor reliability failures includes receiving electrical test bin data with semiconductor die data for a plurality of wafers in a lot generated by a statistical outlier detection subsystem configured to perform Z-direction Part Average Testing (Z-PAT) on test data generated by an electrical test subsystem after fabrication of the plurality of wafers in the lot, receiving characterization data for the plurality of wafers in the lot generated by a semiconductor fab characterization subsystem during the fabrication of the plurality of wafers in the lot, determining a statistical correlation between the electrical test bin data and the characterization data at a same x, y position on each of the plurality of wafers in the lot, and locating defect data signatures on the plurality of wafers in the lot based on the statistical correlation.
Inventors: David W. Price (Austin, Texas); Robert J. Rathert (Mechanicsville, Va.); Chet V. Lenox (Lexington, Texas); Oreste Donzella (San Ramon, Calif.); John Charles Robinson (Austin, Texas)
Assignee: KLA Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.)
March 28, 2023
Cable Adaptor
Patent No. 11616323
An adaptor is provided for connecting an electrical cable with an electrical connector. The adaptor includes a housing and an insert which are coaxially arranged and connected for free rotation relative to each other. The outer surface of the insert contains an annular recess and at least one pin is arranged on an inner surface of the housing. When a portion of the insert including the recess is arranged within a portion of the housing, the pin is inserted into the recess to connect the insert with the housing while permitting rotation therebetween. The free rotation prevent torque from being transmitted to an electrical cable connected with the insert.
Inventors: Xuefeng Ge (Henrico, Va.); Matthias Bönsch (Bielefeld, Germany)
Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GMBH & Co. Kg (Detmold, Germany)
March 28, 2023
Turbo Decoder With Reduced Processing And Minimal Re-transmission
Patent No. 11621802
Disclosed is a method for processing code blocks as implemented by a baseband processor. The method involves performing a cyclic redundancy check on decoded and deinterleaved code blocks until one fails its CRC check. On first failure the baseband processor requests a retransmission of the code blocks and resumes CRC checks on the retransmitted code blocks, beginning at the code block that had failed. In the event of subsequent failures, the baseband processor performs a soft combine on the failed retransmitted block with its original transmitted counterpart. Only if the soft combined code block fails does the baseband processor request another retransmission. In this case, subsequent CRC failures result in soft combines of three corresponding code words, making the process more robust. The method reduces the number of retransmissions as well as the computing resources needed for processing incoming code blocks.
Inventors: Rodney Bryant (Richmond); Stephen Turner (Mechanicsville, Va.); Jeffrey Masters (Ashland, Va.)
Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates (Liverpool, N.Y.)
April 4, 2023
Aerosol-generating Systems With Overheating Prevention
Patent No. 11621570
An aerosol-generating system includes an electric heater, a battery and control circuitry. The electric heater is configured to vaporize an aerosol-forming substance. The battery is configured to power the electric heater. The control circuitry is configured to: prevent charging of the battery in response to detecting that the electric heater is in an operation state; or prevent operation of the electric heater in response to detecting that the battery is in a charging state.
Inventors: Guillaume Colotte (Lausanne, Switzerland); Stephane Bilat (Areuse, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 4, 2023
Method Of Making Delivery Apparatus
Patent No. 11618596
The method includes providing a body with an upper mounting surface and a lower end, an interior surface of the body defining a cavity, the cavity including a first inlet and a first outlet in the upper mounting surface and the lower end, respectively, the interior surface including a frustoconical inner surface with a first tapered end that is connected to the first outlet. The method further includes first inserting an adjustable member within the cavity, the adjustable member defining a bore with a second inlet and a second outlet, the adjustable member including a frustoconical external surface with a second tapered end that coaxially aligns with the first tapered end, and first connecting a funnel with a projecting land to the body.
Inventors: Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 4, 2023
Systems And Methods For Providing A Separate Interest Rate For An Individual Transaction
Patent No. 11625773
Systems and methods for providing a separate interest rate for an individual transaction are disclosed. A system may provide a service associated with a account having an account balance and an associated first interest rate. The system may include a service device having one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform a separate interest rate service process. The process may include providing a separate interest rate service offer to a client device and receiving a separate interest rate selection from the client device. The process may also include determining a selected portion of the account balance corresponding to an amount to which a second interest rate, different from the first interest rate, is to be applied based on the separate interest rate selection.
Inventors: Marcie Apelt (Richmond); Megan Edds (Glen Allen, Va.); Keith Barron (Henrico, Va.); Ashley Gibbs (Richmond); Matthew Vischulis (Vienna, Va.); Carl Ashby (Montpelier, Va.); Baining Hu (Vienna, Va.); Yi Liu (Oakton, Va.); David Schardt (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 11, 2023
Re-seal Label And Container With Re-seal Label
Patent No. 11623808
In an example embodiment, a re-sealable label for covering an opening of a box includes a sheet of polymer material that includes a re-sealable adhesive on an underside thereof. A liner is adhered to the underside of the sheet of polymer material. The liner is configured to cover the opening and includes a foil layer and a paper layer. The sheet of polymer material includes a line of perforations wherein one or more of the perforations of the line of perforations include a rectilinear portion and a non-rectilinear portion.
Inventors: Stephen Bellamah (Richmond); Scott A. Fath (Henrico, Va.); Andrew Peeler (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
System Adapted To Promote Re-utilization Of A Rejected Container Loaded With Content
Patent No. 11623779
A high-speed automated separation apparatus includes a pair of flexible discs, a driver to rotate the flexible discs, a feeder to position a rigid body at a first location between the flexible discs, a spreader and a converger operable upon the flexible discs such that opposing portions of the flexible disc converge upon the positioned rigid body. The rotating flexible discs rotate the rigid body beyond the first location, and content from the rigid body is expelled. The rigid body and the expelled content are then available for reuse.
Inventors: Loren Duvekot (Goochland, Va.); James D. Evans (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
Fitment For Dispensing Fluids From A Flexible Container And Related Applications
Patent No. 11623809
A fitment assembly for use with a spout of a fluid container. The assembly includes a fitment and a poppet seal with a flexible element. The fitment includes a top portion and a bottom portion. The poppet seal extends from the bottom portion into the top portion. An attachment portion secures the flexible element within the bottom portion of the fitment. The flexible element provides a closing force to move the poppet seal from a closed to an open position. The poppet seal has a closed position, an open position, and a transport position. The poppet seal has a central support member that extends from the sealing surface of the poppet seal into the top portion of the fitment in the closed and transport condition.
Inventors: James W. Johnson (Delaware, Ohio)
Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Volt-ampere Reactive Control And Optimization
Patent No. 11626735
A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for optimizing and controlling volt-amperes reactive on an electrical control system. System-level and local-level measurements are determined and analyzed to prioritize and optimize which VAR adjusters are adjusted.
Inventors: Stephen J. Tyler (Henrico, Va.); Melissa A. Peskin (Richmond, Va.)
Assignee: Dominion Energy (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
Aerosol-generating Device With Sealed Compartment
Patent No. 11622578
An aerosol-generating device may include a housing defining at least one internal compartment. The housing may be waterproof. The aerosol-generating device may further include a power supply, an electric heater, and/or a haptic feedback device. Each of the power supply, electric heater, and/or haptic feedback device may be positioned within one or more of the at least one internal compartment.
Inventors: Michel Bessant (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Lauren Golay (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland); Omer Kesici (Renens, Switzerland); Nikolaus Ricketts (Geneva, Switzerland); Laurent Martin Ernest Wilhelm Seydoux (Gillarens, Switzerland); Alain Tabasso (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
Implantable Neurostimulator
Patent No. 11623092
A system for stimulating a tissues to obtain therapeutic effects, such as pain relief. The system can include stimulating leads that are operably coupled to a control unit. The control unit can include processors for generating desired waveform pattern of electrical pulses. The system can further include magnetic sensors to measure the magnetic fields generated by action potentials in the excited tissue and using the measured magnetic field to optimize the neurostimulation pattern.
Inventors: Nazmi Peyman (Richmond); Edmond Zahedi (Burnaby, Canada)
Assignee: N/A
April 11, 2023
Augmented Reality Vehicle Display Systems
Patent No. 11625787
Aspects described herein may allow displaying of augmented reality content items associated with selected vehicle models, as well as price or budget information associated with the displayed vehicle to facilitate the user to make purchasing or financing decisions. For example, a computing device may detect a plurality of physical anchors attached to a vehicle husk and determine location information for each of the plurality of physical anchors. The computing device may receive one or more augmented reality (AR) content items corresponding to one or more vehicle features for the selected vehicle model and display via an AR interface, the one or more AR content items positioned relative to the vehicle husk based on the location of each of the plurality of physical anchors, as well as a price associated with the selected vehicle model having the one or more vehicle features.
Inventors: Michael Anthony Young Jr. (Henrico, Va); Matthew Louis Nowak (Midlothian, Va.); Christopher McDaniel (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 11, 2023
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 11622847
A composite scaffold having a highly porous interior with increased surface area and void volume is surrounded by a flexible support structure that substantially maintains its three-dimensional shape under tension and provides mechanical reinforcement during repair or reconstruction of soft tissue while simultaneously facilitating regeneration of functional tissue.
Inventors: Kevin A. Rocco (New Haven, Conn.); Bhavana Mohanraj (Philadelphia, Penn.); Jeffrey Ott (New Haven, Conn.); Justin Bendigo (Reading, Penn.); Jacob Edward Komenda (New Haven, Conn.); Mark Theodore Aronson (Midlothian, Va.); Andrew James Carter (Stow, Mass.)
Assignee: Biorez (New Haven, Conn.)
April 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Semiconductor Defect-guided Burn-in And System Level Tests
Patent No. 11624775
Systems and methods for semiconductor defect-guided burn-in and system level tests (SLT) are configured to receive a plurality of inline defect part average testing (I-PAT) scores from an inline defect part average testing (I-PAT) subsystem, where the plurality of I-PAT scores is generated by the I-PAT subsystem based on semiconductor die data for a plurality of semiconductor dies, where the semiconductor die data includes characterization measurements for the plurality of semiconductor dies, where each I-PAT score of the plurality of I-PAT scores represents a defectivity determined by the I-PAT subsystem based on a characterization measurement of a corresponding semiconductor die of the plurality of semiconductor dies; apply one or more rules to the plurality of I-PAT scores during a dynamic decision-making process; and generate one or more defect-guided dispositions for at least one semiconductor die of the plurality of semiconductor dies based on the dynamic decision-making process.
Inventors: Robert J. Rathert (Mechanicsville, Va.); David W. Price (Austin, Texas); Chet V. Lenox (Lexington, Texas); Oreste Donzella (San Ramon, Calif.); John Charles Robinson (Austin, Texas)
Assignee: KLA Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.)
April 11, 2023
Power Distribution Terminal
Patent No. 11626679
A modular power distribution terminal includes an outer housing containing a chamber and a bottom opening. The outer housing includes a top wall, a pair of spaced end walls and a pair of spaced parallel side walls having first fasteners. At least one module slice is arranged in the outer housing chamber and includes a slice housing including a pair of spaced parallel side walls having first fasteners configured for fastening with the first fasteners of one of the outer housing side walls and a current bar connected with and extending along a length of the slice housing. An input screw connection terminal and at least two output push-in connection terminals are connected with the current bar.
Inventors: Xuefeng Ge (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. (Detmold, Germany)
April 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Automated Subjective Self-refraction
Patent No. 11622680
Systems and methods for allowing a user with no prior training to receive automated vision measurements without assistance of another individual by using subjective inputs from a user, which may be supplemented by a predictive method. The predictive method comprising artificial intelligence, patient data, user inputs, automated inputs from cameras and the like. The system may make use of a specific algorithm, decision tree, set of instructions, programming instructions, and the like, in order to provide vision measurements. The system combines programming instructions executed by a processor, output devices, input controls, and a plurality of corrective lenses to find a patient or user’s vision measurements.
Inventors: Ryan R. Merriam (Henrico, Va.); Matthew A. Phares (Plano, Texas)
Assignee: N/A
April 11, 2023
Uses Of Oxygenated Cholesterol Sulfates (OCS)
Patent No. 11612609
Methods of preventing and/or treating ischemia, organ dysfunction and/or organ failure, including multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), and necrosis and apoptosis associated with organ dysfunction/failure, are provided. For instance, the methods involve contacting organ(s) with an oxygenated cholesterol sulfate (OCS), e.g. 5-cholesten-3,25-diol, 3-sulfate (25H-C3S). The organ(s) may be in vivo (e.g. in a patient that is treated with the OCS) or ex vivo (e.g. an organ that has been harvested from a donor and is to be transplanted).
Inventors: Shunlin Ren (Richmond); Felix Theeuwes (Los Altos Hills, Calif.); James E. Brown (Los Gatos, Calif.); WeiQi Lin (Emerald Hills, Calif.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond) & Durect Corp. (Cupertino, Calif.)
March 28, 2023
Aerosol-generating System With Pump
Patent No 11617230
An aerosol generating system includes a heater assembly and a manually operated pump. The pump includes a hollow member with an inlet portion and an outlet portion. The inlet portion of the hollow member is configured connectable with a liquid storage portion. The outlet portion of the hollow member is in fluid communication with a dispensing assembly. The pump is configured to dispense a liquid material onto the heater assembly. The pump is configured to pump the liquid material from the liquid storage portion via the dispensing assembly and onto the heater assembly.
Inventors: Laurent Manca (Sullens, Switzerland); Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
March 28, 2023
Pod Assembly, Dispensing Body, And E-vapor Apparatus Including The Same
Patent No. 11615179
An e-vapor apparatus may include a pod assembly and a dispensing body configured to receive the pod assembly. A vaporizer may be disposed in the pod assembly and/or the dispensing body. The pod assembly may include a pre-vapor formulation compartment, a device compartment, and a vapor channel extending from the device compartment and traversing the pre-vapor formulation compartment. The pod assembly is a smart pod configured to receive, store, and transmit information that can be communicated with the dispensing body and/or another electronic device. The proximal portion of the dispensing body includes a vapor passage and a through-hole. The vapor passage may extend from an end surface of the proximal portion to a side wall of the through-hole. The through-hole is configured to receive the pod assembly such that the vapor channel of the pod assembly is aligned with the vapor passage of the dispensing body.
Inventors: Raymond Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Richmond); Alistair Bramley (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
March 28, 2023
Authentication For Third Party Digital Wallet Provisioning
Patent No. 11615395
Various embodiments are directed to securely verifying an identity of a user who is requesting to add or link a financial instrument to a third-party digital wallet using one-tap contactless card authentication. The financial instrument may be added or linked to the third-party wallet in at least two scenarios: pull provisioning and push provisioning. In either provisioning scenarios, the user may be required to authenticate the financial instrument being added or linked by successfully verifying the identity of the user via the one-tap contactless card authentication at a banking application associated with the financial instrument.
Inventors: Katherine McHugh (Richmond); Lesley Newton (Richmond); Casey Barrett (San Francisco, Calif.); Patrick Zearfoss (Leesburg, Va.)
March 28, 2023
Electronic Vaping Device And Components Thereof
Patent No. 11612184
A cartomizer of an electronic vaping device includes a heater circuit which is located adjacent an air passage thereof. The heater circuit includes an electrically resistive heater in electrical communication with a secondary coil. A wick extends across the air passage. The wick is configured to draw pre-vapor formulation from a reservoir toward the heater. The heater is configured to heat the pre-vapor formulation to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation and form a vapor. The cartomizer is connectable to a power supply component which includes a power source in electrical communication with a primary coil. The power supply component is configured to induce sufficient voltage in the secondary coil of the heater circuit such that the secondary coil is configured to heat the heater and vaporize the pre-vapor formulation when the primary coil is powered by the power source.
Inventors: Edmond J. Cadieux (Mechanicsville, Va.); Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.); Patrick J. Cobler (Andover, Mass.); Barry S. Smith (Hopewell, Va.); Peter Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.); Kai Cao (Somerville, Mass.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
March 28, 2023
Preemptive Power Transfer Switching
Patent No. 11616364
An electrical load system includes one or more electrical loads, a power transfer switch, and an electronic control system. The power transfer switch is coupled with and can provide power to one or more electrical loads from a first power source or a second power source. The electronic control system evaluates a source impedance of the first source and controls the power transfer switch in response to the source impedance of the first source indicating a fault condition of the first power source that would interrupt power from the first power source to the one or more electrical loads prior to the fault condition disrupting power from the first power source to the one or more electrical loads.
Inventors: David E. Sharpe (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: ABB Schweiz Ag (Baden, Germany)
March 28, 2023
Selecting A Target Queue For An Electronic Communication
Patent No. 11616881
In some implementations, a cloud computing system that executes a function may receive an indication of an electronic communication to occur between a customer and an agent. The cloud computing system that executes the function may determine a classification of the electronic communication based on a first set of rules stored in a database of the cloud computing system and attributes associated with the electronic communication. The cloud computing system that executes the function may select, based on the classification of the electronic communication, a target queue from a plurality of potential queues to be associated with the electronic communication based on a second set of rules stored in the database. The cloud computing system that executes the function may select the agent from a plurality of potential agents for the electronic communication based on an association between the agent and the target queue.
Inventors: Selvakannan Dhandapani (Glen Allen, Va.); Srividya Bodduluri (Glen Allen, Va.); Gregory C. Deignan (Midlothian, Va.); Casey M. Minner (Brightwood, Va.); Christine H. Lindsey (Midlothian, Va.); Narasimhan Mepperia (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
March 28, 2023
Determining Problem Dependencies In Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 11614943
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
Inventors: Muralidharan Balasubramanian (Gaithersburg, Md.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.); Julie Dallen (Vienna, Va.); David Watson (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
March 28, 2023
System And Method For Z-PAT Defect-guided Statistical Outlier Detection Of Semiconductor Reliability Failures
Patent No. 11614480
A system and method for Z-PAT defect-guided statistical outlier detection of semiconductor reliability failures includes receiving electrical test bin data with semiconductor die data for a plurality of wafers in a lot generated by a statistical outlier detection subsystem configured to perform Z-direction Part Average Testing (Z-PAT) on test data generated by an electrical test subsystem after fabrication of the plurality of wafers in the lot, receiving characterization data for the plurality of wafers in the lot generated by a semiconductor fab characterization subsystem during the fabrication of the plurality of wafers in the lot, determining a statistical correlation between the electrical test bin data and the characterization data at a same x, y position on each of the plurality of wafers in the lot, and locating defect data signatures on the plurality of wafers in the lot based on the statistical correlation.
Inventors: David W. Price (Austin, Texas); Robert J. Rathert (Mechanicsville, Va.); Chet V. Lenox (Lexington, Texas); Oreste Donzella (San Ramon, Calif.); John Charles Robinson (Austin, Texas)
Assignee: KLA Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.)
March 28, 2023
Cable Adaptor
Patent No. 11616323
An adaptor is provided for connecting an electrical cable with an electrical connector. The adaptor includes a housing and an insert which are coaxially arranged and connected for free rotation relative to each other. The outer surface of the insert contains an annular recess and at least one pin is arranged on an inner surface of the housing. When a portion of the insert including the recess is arranged within a portion of the housing, the pin is inserted into the recess to connect the insert with the housing while permitting rotation therebetween. The free rotation prevent torque from being transmitted to an electrical cable connected with the insert.
Inventors: Xuefeng Ge (Henrico, Va.); Matthias Bönsch (Bielefeld, Germany)
Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GMBH & Co. Kg (Detmold, Germany)
March 28, 2023
Turbo Decoder With Reduced Processing And Minimal Re-transmission
Patent No. 11621802
Disclosed is a method for processing code blocks as implemented by a baseband processor. The method involves performing a cyclic redundancy check on decoded and deinterleaved code blocks until one fails its CRC check. On first failure the baseband processor requests a retransmission of the code blocks and resumes CRC checks on the retransmitted code blocks, beginning at the code block that had failed. In the event of subsequent failures, the baseband processor performs a soft combine on the failed retransmitted block with its original transmitted counterpart. Only if the soft combined code block fails does the baseband processor request another retransmission. In this case, subsequent CRC failures result in soft combines of three corresponding code words, making the process more robust. The method reduces the number of retransmissions as well as the computing resources needed for processing incoming code blocks.
Inventors: Rodney Bryant (Richmond); Stephen Turner (Mechanicsville, Va.); Jeffrey Masters (Ashland, Va.)
Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates (Liverpool, N.Y.)
April 4, 2023
Aerosol-generating Systems With Overheating Prevention
Patent No. 11621570
An aerosol-generating system includes an electric heater, a battery and control circuitry. The electric heater is configured to vaporize an aerosol-forming substance. The battery is configured to power the electric heater. The control circuitry is configured to: prevent charging of the battery in response to detecting that the electric heater is in an operation state; or prevent operation of the electric heater in response to detecting that the battery is in a charging state.
Inventors: Guillaume Colotte (Lausanne, Switzerland); Stephane Bilat (Areuse, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 4, 2023
Method Of Making Delivery Apparatus
Patent No. 11618596
The method includes providing a body with an upper mounting surface and a lower end, an interior surface of the body defining a cavity, the cavity including a first inlet and a first outlet in the upper mounting surface and the lower end, respectively, the interior surface including a frustoconical inner surface with a first tapered end that is connected to the first outlet. The method further includes first inserting an adjustable member within the cavity, the adjustable member defining a bore with a second inlet and a second outlet, the adjustable member including a frustoconical external surface with a second tapered end that coaxially aligns with the first tapered end, and first connecting a funnel with a projecting land to the body.
Inventors: Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 4, 2023
Systems And Methods For Providing A Separate Interest Rate For An Individual Transaction
Patent No. 11625773
Systems and methods for providing a separate interest rate for an individual transaction are disclosed. A system may provide a service associated with a account having an account balance and an associated first interest rate. The system may include a service device having one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform a separate interest rate service process. The process may include providing a separate interest rate service offer to a client device and receiving a separate interest rate selection from the client device. The process may also include determining a selected portion of the account balance corresponding to an amount to which a second interest rate, different from the first interest rate, is to be applied based on the separate interest rate selection.
Inventors: Marcie Apelt (Richmond); Megan Edds (Glen Allen, Va.); Keith Barron (Henrico, Va.); Ashley Gibbs (Richmond); Matthew Vischulis (Vienna, Va.); Carl Ashby (Montpelier, Va.); Baining Hu (Vienna, Va.); Yi Liu (Oakton, Va.); David Schardt (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 11, 2023
Re-seal Label And Container With Re-seal Label
Patent No. 11623808
In an example embodiment, a re-sealable label for covering an opening of a box includes a sheet of polymer material that includes a re-sealable adhesive on an underside thereof. A liner is adhered to the underside of the sheet of polymer material. The liner is configured to cover the opening and includes a foil layer and a paper layer. The sheet of polymer material includes a line of perforations wherein one or more of the perforations of the line of perforations include a rectilinear portion and a non-rectilinear portion.
Inventors: Stephen Bellamah (Richmond); Scott A. Fath (Henrico, Va.); Andrew Peeler (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
System Adapted To Promote Re-utilization Of A Rejected Container Loaded With Content
Patent No. 11623779
A high-speed automated separation apparatus includes a pair of flexible discs, a driver to rotate the flexible discs, a feeder to position a rigid body at a first location between the flexible discs, a spreader and a converger operable upon the flexible discs such that opposing portions of the flexible disc converge upon the positioned rigid body. The rotating flexible discs rotate the rigid body beyond the first location, and content from the rigid body is expelled. The rigid body and the expelled content are then available for reuse.
Inventors: Loren Duvekot (Goochland, Va.); James D. Evans (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
Fitment For Dispensing Fluids From A Flexible Container And Related Applications
Patent No. 11623809
A fitment assembly for use with a spout of a fluid container. The assembly includes a fitment and a poppet seal with a flexible element. The fitment includes a top portion and a bottom portion. The poppet seal extends from the bottom portion into the top portion. An attachment portion secures the flexible element within the bottom portion of the fitment. The flexible element provides a closing force to move the poppet seal from a closed to an open position. The poppet seal has a closed position, an open position, and a transport position. The poppet seal has a central support member that extends from the sealing surface of the poppet seal into the top portion of the fitment in the closed and transport condition.
Inventors: James W. Johnson (Delaware, Ohio)
Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Volt-ampere Reactive Control And Optimization
Patent No. 11626735
A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for optimizing and controlling volt-amperes reactive on an electrical control system. System-level and local-level measurements are determined and analyzed to prioritize and optimize which VAR adjusters are adjusted.
Inventors: Stephen J. Tyler (Henrico, Va.); Melissa A. Peskin (Richmond, Va.)
Assignee: Dominion Energy (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
Aerosol-generating Device With Sealed Compartment
Patent No. 11622578
An aerosol-generating device may include a housing defining at least one internal compartment. The housing may be waterproof. The aerosol-generating device may further include a power supply, an electric heater, and/or a haptic feedback device. Each of the power supply, electric heater, and/or haptic feedback device may be positioned within one or more of the at least one internal compartment.
Inventors: Michel Bessant (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Lauren Golay (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland); Omer Kesici (Renens, Switzerland); Nikolaus Ricketts (Geneva, Switzerland); Laurent Martin Ernest Wilhelm Seydoux (Gillarens, Switzerland); Alain Tabasso (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
April 11, 2023
Implantable Neurostimulator
Patent No. 11623092
A system for stimulating a tissues to obtain therapeutic effects, such as pain relief. The system can include stimulating leads that are operably coupled to a control unit. The control unit can include processors for generating desired waveform pattern of electrical pulses. The system can further include magnetic sensors to measure the magnetic fields generated by action potentials in the excited tissue and using the measured magnetic field to optimize the neurostimulation pattern.
Inventors: Nazmi Peyman (Richmond); Edmond Zahedi (Burnaby, Canada)
Assignee: N/A
April 11, 2023
Augmented Reality Vehicle Display Systems
Patent No. 11625787
Aspects described herein may allow displaying of augmented reality content items associated with selected vehicle models, as well as price or budget information associated with the displayed vehicle to facilitate the user to make purchasing or financing decisions. For example, a computing device may detect a plurality of physical anchors attached to a vehicle husk and determine location information for each of the plurality of physical anchors. The computing device may receive one or more augmented reality (AR) content items corresponding to one or more vehicle features for the selected vehicle model and display via an AR interface, the one or more AR content items positioned relative to the vehicle husk based on the location of each of the plurality of physical anchors, as well as a price associated with the selected vehicle model having the one or more vehicle features.
Inventors: Michael Anthony Young Jr. (Henrico, Va); Matthew Louis Nowak (Midlothian, Va.); Christopher McDaniel (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 11, 2023
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 11622847
A composite scaffold having a highly porous interior with increased surface area and void volume is surrounded by a flexible support structure that substantially maintains its three-dimensional shape under tension and provides mechanical reinforcement during repair or reconstruction of soft tissue while simultaneously facilitating regeneration of functional tissue.
Inventors: Kevin A. Rocco (New Haven, Conn.); Bhavana Mohanraj (Philadelphia, Penn.); Jeffrey Ott (New Haven, Conn.); Justin Bendigo (Reading, Penn.); Jacob Edward Komenda (New Haven, Conn.); Mark Theodore Aronson (Midlothian, Va.); Andrew James Carter (Stow, Mass.)
Assignee: Biorez (New Haven, Conn.)
April 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Semiconductor Defect-guided Burn-in And System Level Tests
Patent No. 11624775
Systems and methods for semiconductor defect-guided burn-in and system level tests (SLT) are configured to receive a plurality of inline defect part average testing (I-PAT) scores from an inline defect part average testing (I-PAT) subsystem, where the plurality of I-PAT scores is generated by the I-PAT subsystem based on semiconductor die data for a plurality of semiconductor dies, where the semiconductor die data includes characterization measurements for the plurality of semiconductor dies, where each I-PAT score of the plurality of I-PAT scores represents a defectivity determined by the I-PAT subsystem based on a characterization measurement of a corresponding semiconductor die of the plurality of semiconductor dies; apply one or more rules to the plurality of I-PAT scores during a dynamic decision-making process; and generate one or more defect-guided dispositions for at least one semiconductor die of the plurality of semiconductor dies based on the dynamic decision-making process.
Inventors: Robert J. Rathert (Mechanicsville, Va.); David W. Price (Austin, Texas); Chet V. Lenox (Lexington, Texas); Oreste Donzella (San Ramon, Calif.); John Charles Robinson (Austin, Texas)
Assignee: KLA Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.)
April 11, 2023
Power Distribution Terminal
Patent No. 11626679
A modular power distribution terminal includes an outer housing containing a chamber and a bottom opening. The outer housing includes a top wall, a pair of spaced end walls and a pair of spaced parallel side walls having first fasteners. At least one module slice is arranged in the outer housing chamber and includes a slice housing including a pair of spaced parallel side walls having first fasteners configured for fastening with the first fasteners of one of the outer housing side walls and a current bar connected with and extending along a length of the slice housing. An input screw connection terminal and at least two output push-in connection terminals are connected with the current bar.
Inventors: Xuefeng Ge (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. (Detmold, Germany)
April 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Automated Subjective Self-refraction
Patent No. 11622680
Systems and methods for allowing a user with no prior training to receive automated vision measurements without assistance of another individual by using subjective inputs from a user, which may be supplemented by a predictive method. The predictive method comprising artificial intelligence, patient data, user inputs, automated inputs from cameras and the like. The system may make use of a specific algorithm, decision tree, set of instructions, programming instructions, and the like, in order to provide vision measurements. The system combines programming instructions executed by a processor, output devices, input controls, and a plurality of corrective lenses to find a patient or user’s vision measurements.
Inventors: Ryan R. Merriam (Henrico, Va.); Matthew A. Phares (Plano, Texas)
Assignee: N/A
April 11, 2023