Electronic Vaping Device And Vapor Generating Apparatus
Patent No. 11678407
A flavored vapor generator (100, 200, 300, 400) used for an electronic smoking apparatus (10) comprises a housing; a liquid retention material (155, 255) which is filled, soaked or immersed with a flavored liquid and received inside the housing; an electric heater (150, 350, 450) for heating the liquid retention material (155, 255) to generate flavored vapor; and a sensor (156, 356, 456) for monitoring soaking or wetness conditions of the liquid retention material (155, 255) and providing signals for determining whether the flavored liquid in the liquid retention material (155, 255) is exhausted or almost exhausted.
Inventor: Loi Ying Liu (Hong Kong, China)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
Non-combustible Vaping Element With Tobacco Insert
Patent No. 11672277
An e-vaping device may include a pre-vapor formulation tank configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation, an adaptor that includes a vaporizer assembly configured to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation, and a flavor insert positioned to receive vapors formed by the vaporizer assembly. The flavor insert may hold at least one flavorant. The tank, adaptor, and flavor insert may be a non-combustible vaping element that includes a channel into which the flavor insert may be inserted to be positioned to receive the vapors. The flavor insert and the vaporizer assembly may be at opposing ends of the channel. The flavor insert may be a detachable insert configured to be inserted into the tank element. The flavor element may be a tobacco element. The tobacco element may be at least a portion of a cigarette.
Inventors: San Li (Midlothian, Va.); Ben Ragland (Providence Forge, Va.); Diane Gee (Chesterfield, Va.); Raquel Olegario (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
Preparation Of Recombinant Tetrameric N-acetylated Alpha-synuclein
Patent No. 11673913
Tetrameric N-terminally acetylated α-synuclein is prepared by transforming an expression system with an expression vector encoding α-synuclein, wherein the expression system expresses a native NatB acetylase complex or ortholog thereof and/or wherein an exogenous NatB acetylase complex or ortholog thereof is co-expressed in the expression system, inducing protein expression in the transformed expression system, lysing cells in the transformed expression system to produce a cell lysate, performing salt precipitation of the cell lysate, recovering tetrameric N-terminally acetylated α-synuclein by centrifugation, and purifying the tetrameric N-terminally acetylated α-synuclein. Compositions comprising the same and methods for identifying compounds that stabilize natively folded tetrameric α-synuclein are also provided.
Inventors: Heather R. Lucas (Richmond); Ricardo D. Fernandez (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
Charger Assembly And Charging System For An Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 11677252
A charger assembly is configured to charge the electronic vaping device. The charger assembly includes a base including a housing defining a port. The port is configured to receive a tip end of an electronic vaping device. The port includes a magnetic electrical contact centrally positioned at a bottom of the port and a first pin positioned at the bottom of the port. The charger assembly also includes a microprocessor electrically connected to the magnetic electrical contact and the first pin.
Inventors: Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Barry S. Smith (Richmond); Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Sean Sundberg (Richmond); Berina Yerkic-Husejnovic (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
System And Method For Tracking Progression Toward A Customized Goal
Patent No. 11675791
A system, method, server, and computer readable medium for tracking progression toward a customized goal. Input establishing accounts for clients is received. Each of the clients is assigned to one or more of the providers in response to selections from an administrator. Customized goals are established for each of the clients based on treatment or assistance required. Data associated with each of the clients is received from the one or more providers. Data associated with each of the clients received from the providers is compiled. A determination is made whether the customized goals are being met in response one or more thresholds for the compiled data. Alerts are automatically communicated to at least the one or more providers in response to the compiled data varying from the one or more thresholds to become significant for one or more of the clients.
Inventors: Lisa A. Marshall (Richmond); James Gaynor (Winchester, Va.)
Assignee: Data Health Partners (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
June 13, 2023
System And Method For N-modular Redundant Communication
Patent No. 11675650
A fault tolerant consensus generation and communication system and method is described. Each processing node in the system receives a plurality of measurements from a sensor, calculates a consolidated value for the received plurality of measurements, transmits the consolidated value to other processing nodes, receives consolidated values from the other processing nodes, calculates a consensus value based on the calculated consolidated value and the received one or more consolidated values, transmits the calculated consensus value to the other processing nodes, receives consensus values from the other processing nodes, generates a consensus message based on the calculated consensus value, the received one or more consensus values, and a predefined criterion, and, in a case where the consensus message is not present in a consensus queue, adds the consensus message to the consensus queue.
Inventors: Jacob Tarren (Richmond); Austin Charles Suhler (Charlottesville, Va.); Cameron Patrick Calpin (Charlottesville, Va.); Rick A. Jones (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: Mission Secure (Charlottesville, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Impedance Sensor
Patent No. 11674914
A sensor having a sensor head including a unibody construction, a first electrode, and at least one second electrode is provided. The first electrode can include a first pair of sensing elements coupled to each over via at least one bridge element extending from a first sensing element to a second sensing element. The at least one second electrode can include a second pair of sensing elements interleaved with the first pair of sensing elements. The second pair of sensing elements can be coupled to each other via at least one second bridge element extending from a third sensing element to a fourth sensing element. A method of manufacturing the sensor is also provided.
Inventors: Andrew Walter Hutchinson (Richmond); James Michael Lustig (Newbury, Ohio); Scott Anderson (Clinton, Ohio); Claudia Leon (Houston, Texas); Edward Baus (Akron, Ohio)
Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings (Houston, Texas)
June 13, 2023
Fetal Aneuploidy Detection By Sequencing
Patent No. 11674176
A sensor having a sensor head including a unibody construction, a first electrode, and at least one second electrode is provided. The first electrode can include a first pair of sensing elements coupled to each over via at least one bridge element extending from a first sensing element to a second sensing element. The at least one second electrode can include a second pair of sensing elements interleaved with the first pair of sensing elements. The second pair of sensing elements can be coupled to each other via at least one second bridge element extending from a third sensing element to a fourth sensing element. A method of manufacturing the sensor is also provided.
Inventors: Roland Stoughton (The Sea Ranch, Calif.); Ravi Kapur (Sharon, Mass.); Barb Ariel Cohen (Watertown, Mass.); Mehmet Toner (Charlestown, Mass.)
Assignees: Verinata Health (Redwood City, Calif.); The General Hospital Corp. (Boston, Mass.); GPB Scientific LLC (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
System And Method For Monitoring The Health Of Dialysis Patients
Patent No. 11674903
A system and method for monitoring the health of dialysis patients with Raman spectroscopy measurements of one or more target analytes is described. The methods include irradiating one or more fluids of interest with light to produce one or more spectrum and detecting the spectrum with a detector. The fluids of interest are preferably those related to dialysis, including hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. In a preferred embodiment, the fluids are irradiated with monochromatic light, and one or more Raman spectra are detected as a result of the irradiation. The fluids may be irradiated within the dialysis tubing itself, or removed from the dialysis tubing and irradiated in a separate chamber. The Raman spectra of one or more target analytes of a dialysis patient may be followed over time or compared to one or more reference spectra, thereby providing information on the health of dialysis patients.
Inventors: John L. Robertson (Floyd, Va.); Ryan Senger (Chesterfield, Va.); Pang Du (Blacksburg, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties (Blacksburg, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Lineage-driven Source Code Generation For Building, Testing, Deploying, And Maintaining Data Marts And Data Pipelines
Patent No. 11675690
In some implementations, an analytics platform may process a data lineage configuration to identify one or more data sources storing one or more data sets associated with a data analytics use case and identify one or more data relations associated with the one or more data sets. The analytics platform may parse a source code template defining one or more functions to build a data mart and a data pipeline that enables the data analytics use case. The source code template may include one or more tokens to specify elements that define the one or more data sources, data sets, and data relations identified in the data lineage configuration. The analytics platform may automatically generate source code that is executable to build a data mart and a data pipeline to enable the data analytics use case based on the data lineage configuration and the source code template.
Inventor: Venkateshwara Mudumba (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Browser Extension For Limited-use Secure Token Payment
Patent No. 11677737
Methods and systems for a browser extension system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a browser extension server includes a communication device configured to communicate with a first computing device executing a browser extension application and a web browser application and a second computing device executing an authentication application. The browser extension server further includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving from the first computing device an indication of a financial service account associated with the first computing device, detecting a payment field in a web page provided by the computing device through the web browser application and, in response, generating a secure token mapped to the financial service account. The operations may further include sending the second computing device an authentication request, receiving an authentication response, and populating the payment field with the secure token.
Inventors: Matthew de Ganon (Hartsdale, N.Y.); Kunal Arora (Great Falls, Va.); Thomas Poole (Chantilly, Va.); Daniel Kahn (San Francisco, Calif.); Dwij Trivedi (Oakton, Va.); Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Transaction Exchange Platform Having Configurable Microservices
Patent No. 11675840
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Moseley, Va.); William Planck (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Secure Communication Of Sensitive Genomic Information Using Probabilistic Data Structures
Patent No. 11676683
Techniques for securely encoding, communicating, and comparing genomic information using probabilistic data structures are provided. In some embodiments, genomic information in a secure computing environment may be encoded and/or anonymized by building a probabilistic data structure that represents sub-strings of the genomic information as members of a set; the probabilistic data structure may then be securely transmitted outside the secure computing environment. In some embodiments, a probabilistic data structure representing sub-strings of sensitive genomic information as members of a set may be received in an unsecure computing environment and may be queried to generate output data indicating whether reference sub-strings are probable members of the set. In some embodiments, querying the probabilistic data structure, and other techniques of analyzing the probabilistic data structure, may be used to determine whether the sensitive genomic information corresponds to an organism associated with the reference genomic information.
Inventor: Tyler W. Barrus (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Noblis (Reston, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 11672646
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.)
June 13, 2023
Systems And Methods For Generating And Reading Intrinsic Matrixed Bar Codes
Patent No. 11675985
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for generating intrinsic matrixed bar codes, such as Quick Response (“QR”) codes. In one implementation, system for generating an intrinsic matrixed bar code may include an image-receiving device, a processor configured to execute instructions, and a memory storing the instructions. The instructions may include instructions to: receive an image using the image-receiving device, generate a registration mark corresponding to the received image, select coordinates on the received image, overlay one or more matrixed bar codes on the selected coordinates, update the registration mark with the selected coordinates, and overlay the registration mark on the received image.
Inventor: Eric Barnum (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Testing Agent For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 11675692
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 (Arlington, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Natural Language Based Electronic Communication Profile System
Patent No. 11676604
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for generating a quantifiable communication profile of a participant, then using that communication profile to identify fake media and/or verify media as authentic. An exemplary system can receive communications in which a participant was one of the parties communicating, perform natural language processing and statistical analyses on the received communications, and generate a participant communication profile which details how the participant communicates and prefers to be communicated with. The system can also receive media purported to be from the participant, perform natural language processing on the purported media, compare the syntax of the purported media to the participant’s communication profile, and identify, based on word usage, the media as a fake.
Inventors: Christopher Camenares (Falls Church, Va.); Joseph Boayue (Reston, Va.); Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Ana Cruz (Arlington, Va.); Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Electronic Vaping Device And Vapor Generating Apparatus
Patent No. 11678407
A flavored vapor generator (100, 200, 300, 400) used for an electronic smoking apparatus (10) comprises a housing; a liquid retention material (155, 255) which is filled, soaked or immersed with a flavored liquid and received inside the housing; an electric heater (150, 350, 450) for heating the liquid retention material (155, 255) to generate flavored vapor; and a sensor (156, 356, 456) for monitoring soaking or wetness conditions of the liquid retention material (155, 255) and providing signals for determining whether the flavored liquid in the liquid retention material (155, 255) is exhausted or almost exhausted.
Inventor: Loi Ying Liu (Hong Kong, China)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
Non-combustible Vaping Element With Tobacco Insert
Patent No. 11672277
An e-vaping device may include a pre-vapor formulation tank configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation, an adaptor that includes a vaporizer assembly configured to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation, and a flavor insert positioned to receive vapors formed by the vaporizer assembly. The flavor insert may hold at least one flavorant. The tank, adaptor, and flavor insert may be a non-combustible vaping element that includes a channel into which the flavor insert may be inserted to be positioned to receive the vapors. The flavor insert and the vaporizer assembly may be at opposing ends of the channel. The flavor insert may be a detachable insert configured to be inserted into the tank element. The flavor element may be a tobacco element. The tobacco element may be at least a portion of a cigarette.
Inventors: San Li (Midlothian, Va.); Ben Ragland (Providence Forge, Va.); Diane Gee (Chesterfield, Va.); Raquel Olegario (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
Preparation Of Recombinant Tetrameric N-acetylated Alpha-synuclein
Patent No. 11673913
Tetrameric N-terminally acetylated α-synuclein is prepared by transforming an expression system with an expression vector encoding α-synuclein, wherein the expression system expresses a native NatB acetylase complex or ortholog thereof and/or wherein an exogenous NatB acetylase complex or ortholog thereof is co-expressed in the expression system, inducing protein expression in the transformed expression system, lysing cells in the transformed expression system to produce a cell lysate, performing salt precipitation of the cell lysate, recovering tetrameric N-terminally acetylated α-synuclein by centrifugation, and purifying the tetrameric N-terminally acetylated α-synuclein. Compositions comprising the same and methods for identifying compounds that stabilize natively folded tetrameric α-synuclein are also provided.
Inventors: Heather R. Lucas (Richmond); Ricardo D. Fernandez (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
Charger Assembly And Charging System For An Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 11677252
A charger assembly is configured to charge the electronic vaping device. The charger assembly includes a base including a housing defining a port. The port is configured to receive a tip end of an electronic vaping device. The port includes a magnetic electrical contact centrally positioned at a bottom of the port and a first pin positioned at the bottom of the port. The charger assembly also includes a microprocessor electrically connected to the magnetic electrical contact and the first pin.
Inventors: Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Barry S. Smith (Richmond); Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Sean Sundberg (Richmond); Berina Yerkic-Husejnovic (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
System And Method For Tracking Progression Toward A Customized Goal
Patent No. 11675791
A system, method, server, and computer readable medium for tracking progression toward a customized goal. Input establishing accounts for clients is received. Each of the clients is assigned to one or more of the providers in response to selections from an administrator. Customized goals are established for each of the clients based on treatment or assistance required. Data associated with each of the clients is received from the one or more providers. Data associated with each of the clients received from the providers is compiled. A determination is made whether the customized goals are being met in response one or more thresholds for the compiled data. Alerts are automatically communicated to at least the one or more providers in response to the compiled data varying from the one or more thresholds to become significant for one or more of the clients.
Inventors: Lisa A. Marshall (Richmond); James Gaynor (Winchester, Va.)
Assignee: Data Health Partners (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
June 13, 2023
System And Method For N-modular Redundant Communication
Patent No. 11675650
A fault tolerant consensus generation and communication system and method is described. Each processing node in the system receives a plurality of measurements from a sensor, calculates a consolidated value for the received plurality of measurements, transmits the consolidated value to other processing nodes, receives consolidated values from the other processing nodes, calculates a consensus value based on the calculated consolidated value and the received one or more consolidated values, transmits the calculated consensus value to the other processing nodes, receives consensus values from the other processing nodes, generates a consensus message based on the calculated consensus value, the received one or more consensus values, and a predefined criterion, and, in a case where the consensus message is not present in a consensus queue, adds the consensus message to the consensus queue.
Inventors: Jacob Tarren (Richmond); Austin Charles Suhler (Charlottesville, Va.); Cameron Patrick Calpin (Charlottesville, Va.); Rick A. Jones (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: Mission Secure (Charlottesville, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Impedance Sensor
Patent No. 11674914
A sensor having a sensor head including a unibody construction, a first electrode, and at least one second electrode is provided. The first electrode can include a first pair of sensing elements coupled to each over via at least one bridge element extending from a first sensing element to a second sensing element. The at least one second electrode can include a second pair of sensing elements interleaved with the first pair of sensing elements. The second pair of sensing elements can be coupled to each other via at least one second bridge element extending from a third sensing element to a fourth sensing element. A method of manufacturing the sensor is also provided.
Inventors: Andrew Walter Hutchinson (Richmond); James Michael Lustig (Newbury, Ohio); Scott Anderson (Clinton, Ohio); Claudia Leon (Houston, Texas); Edward Baus (Akron, Ohio)
Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings (Houston, Texas)
June 13, 2023
Fetal Aneuploidy Detection By Sequencing
Patent No. 11674176
A sensor having a sensor head including a unibody construction, a first electrode, and at least one second electrode is provided. The first electrode can include a first pair of sensing elements coupled to each over via at least one bridge element extending from a first sensing element to a second sensing element. The at least one second electrode can include a second pair of sensing elements interleaved with the first pair of sensing elements. The second pair of sensing elements can be coupled to each other via at least one second bridge element extending from a third sensing element to a fourth sensing element. A method of manufacturing the sensor is also provided.
Inventors: Roland Stoughton (The Sea Ranch, Calif.); Ravi Kapur (Sharon, Mass.); Barb Ariel Cohen (Watertown, Mass.); Mehmet Toner (Charlestown, Mass.)
Assignees: Verinata Health (Redwood City, Calif.); The General Hospital Corp. (Boston, Mass.); GPB Scientific LLC (Richmond)
June 13, 2023
System And Method For Monitoring The Health Of Dialysis Patients
Patent No. 11674903
A system and method for monitoring the health of dialysis patients with Raman spectroscopy measurements of one or more target analytes is described. The methods include irradiating one or more fluids of interest with light to produce one or more spectrum and detecting the spectrum with a detector. The fluids of interest are preferably those related to dialysis, including hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. In a preferred embodiment, the fluids are irradiated with monochromatic light, and one or more Raman spectra are detected as a result of the irradiation. The fluids may be irradiated within the dialysis tubing itself, or removed from the dialysis tubing and irradiated in a separate chamber. The Raman spectra of one or more target analytes of a dialysis patient may be followed over time or compared to one or more reference spectra, thereby providing information on the health of dialysis patients.
Inventors: John L. Robertson (Floyd, Va.); Ryan Senger (Chesterfield, Va.); Pang Du (Blacksburg, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties (Blacksburg, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Lineage-driven Source Code Generation For Building, Testing, Deploying, And Maintaining Data Marts And Data Pipelines
Patent No. 11675690
In some implementations, an analytics platform may process a data lineage configuration to identify one or more data sources storing one or more data sets associated with a data analytics use case and identify one or more data relations associated with the one or more data sets. The analytics platform may parse a source code template defining one or more functions to build a data mart and a data pipeline that enables the data analytics use case. The source code template may include one or more tokens to specify elements that define the one or more data sources, data sets, and data relations identified in the data lineage configuration. The analytics platform may automatically generate source code that is executable to build a data mart and a data pipeline to enable the data analytics use case based on the data lineage configuration and the source code template.
Inventor: Venkateshwara Mudumba (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Browser Extension For Limited-use Secure Token Payment
Patent No. 11677737
Methods and systems for a browser extension system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a browser extension server includes a communication device configured to communicate with a first computing device executing a browser extension application and a web browser application and a second computing device executing an authentication application. The browser extension server further includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving from the first computing device an indication of a financial service account associated with the first computing device, detecting a payment field in a web page provided by the computing device through the web browser application and, in response, generating a secure token mapped to the financial service account. The operations may further include sending the second computing device an authentication request, receiving an authentication response, and populating the payment field with the secure token.
Inventors: Matthew de Ganon (Hartsdale, N.Y.); Kunal Arora (Great Falls, Va.); Thomas Poole (Chantilly, Va.); Daniel Kahn (San Francisco, Calif.); Dwij Trivedi (Oakton, Va.); Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Transaction Exchange Platform Having Configurable Microservices
Patent No. 11675840
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Moseley, Va.); William Planck (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Secure Communication Of Sensitive Genomic Information Using Probabilistic Data Structures
Patent No. 11676683
Techniques for securely encoding, communicating, and comparing genomic information using probabilistic data structures are provided. In some embodiments, genomic information in a secure computing environment may be encoded and/or anonymized by building a probabilistic data structure that represents sub-strings of the genomic information as members of a set; the probabilistic data structure may then be securely transmitted outside the secure computing environment. In some embodiments, a probabilistic data structure representing sub-strings of sensitive genomic information as members of a set may be received in an unsecure computing environment and may be queried to generate output data indicating whether reference sub-strings are probable members of the set. In some embodiments, querying the probabilistic data structure, and other techniques of analyzing the probabilistic data structure, may be used to determine whether the sensitive genomic information corresponds to an organism associated with the reference genomic information.
Inventor: Tyler W. Barrus (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Noblis (Reston, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 11672646
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.)
June 13, 2023
Systems And Methods For Generating And Reading Intrinsic Matrixed Bar Codes
Patent No. 11675985
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for generating intrinsic matrixed bar codes, such as Quick Response (“QR”) codes. In one implementation, system for generating an intrinsic matrixed bar code may include an image-receiving device, a processor configured to execute instructions, and a memory storing the instructions. The instructions may include instructions to: receive an image using the image-receiving device, generate a registration mark corresponding to the received image, select coordinates on the received image, overlay one or more matrixed bar codes on the selected coordinates, update the registration mark with the selected coordinates, and overlay the registration mark on the received image.
Inventor: Eric Barnum (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Testing Agent For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 11675692
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 (Arlington, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023
Natural Language Based Electronic Communication Profile System
Patent No. 11676604
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for generating a quantifiable communication profile of a participant, then using that communication profile to identify fake media and/or verify media as authentic. An exemplary system can receive communications in which a participant was one of the parties communicating, perform natural language processing and statistical analyses on the received communications, and generate a participant communication profile which details how the participant communicates and prefers to be communicated with. The system can also receive media purported to be from the participant, perform natural language processing on the purported media, compare the syntax of the purported media to the participant’s communication profile, and identify, based on word usage, the media as a fake.
Inventors: Christopher Camenares (Falls Church, Va.); Joseph Boayue (Reston, Va.); Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Ana Cruz (Arlington, Va.); Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
June 13, 2023