Vaporizer For Vaporizing A Constituent Of A Plant Material
Patent 11696598
Apparatus and methods are described for use with a vaporizer that vaporizes at least one active ingredient of a plant material. In response to receiving a first input to the vaporizer, the plant material is heated, in a first heating step. An indication of the temperature of the plant material is detected, and, in response to detecting an indication that the temperature of the plant material is at a first temperature, the first heating step is terminated, by withholding causing further temperature increase of the plant material. The first temperature is less than 95 percent of the vaporization temperature of the active ingredient. Subsequently, a second input is received at the vaporizer. In response thereto, the plant material is heated to the vaporization temperature, in a second heating step. Other applications are also described.
Inventor: Yossef Raichman (Herzliya, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services
July 11, 2023
Vaporizer For Vaporizing An Active Ingredient
Patent No. 11696989
Apparatus and methods are described for use with a vaporizer that vaporizes at least one active ingredient of a material. In response to receiving a first input to the vaporizer, the material is heated, in a first heating step. An indication of the temperature of the material is detected, and, in response to detecting an indication that the temperature of the material is at a first temperature, the first heating step is terminated, by withholding causing further temperature increase of the material. The first temperature is less than 95 percent of the vaporization temperature of the active ingredient. Subsequently, a second input is received at the vaporizer. In response thereto, the material is heated to the vaporization temperature, in a second heating step. Other applications are also described.
Inventor: Yossef Raichman (Herzliya, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services
July 11, 2023
Vaporizer For Vaporizing A Constituent Of A Plant Material
Patent No. 11696599
Apparatus and methods are described for use with a vaporizer that vaporizes at least one active ingredient of a plant material. In response to receiving a first input to the vaporizer, the plant material is heated, in a first heating step. An indication of the temperature of the plant material is detected, and, in response to detecting an indication that the temperature of the plant material is at a first temperature, the first heating step is terminated, by withholding causing further temperature increase of the plant material. The first temperature is less than 95 percent of the vaporization temperature of the active ingredient. Subsequently, a second input is received at the vaporizer. In response thereto, the plant material is heated to the vaporization temperature, in a second heating step. Other applications are also described.
Inventor: Yossef Raichman (Herzliya, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 11, 2023
Heat-not-burn (HNB) Aerosol-generating Devices With Compression Assembly
Patent No. 11696602
An aerosol-generating device includes a heating chamber structure, a heater coupled to the heating chamber structure, and a compression assembly. The heating chamber structure defines a fixed-volume enclosure and is configured to hold an aerosol-forming substrate within a first region of the enclosure. The heater is proximate to a first surface that at least partly defines the first region and is configured to generate heat that is transmitted into the first region to cause the aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol without any combustion. The compression assembly includes a compression plate and a compression actuator. The compression plate and the first surface define opposing boundaries of the first region. The compression actuator moves the compression plate through the enclosure to adjustably compress the aerosol-forming substrate in the first region against the first surface.
Inventor: Jason Flora (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services
July 11, 2023
Computer-based Systems And Methods Configured For One Or More Technological Applications For The Automated Assisting Of Telephone Agent Services
Patent No. 11700330
At least some embodiments, a system includes a memory, and a processor configured to convert an audio stream of a speech of a customer during a customer call session into customer-originated text. The customer-originated text is displayed in a first chat interface. A request from a first call center agent is sent to a second call center agent via the first chat interface to interact with the customer during the customer call session and displayed in a second chat interface. The second agent is allowed to participate in the customer call session when the second call center agent accepts the request from the first call center agent. First agent-originated text and second agent-originated text during the customer call session is merged to form a combined agent-originated text and synthesized to computer-generated agent speech having a voice of a computer-generated agent based on the combined agent-originated text communicated to the customer over the voice channel.
Inventors: Srikanth Reddy Sheshaiahgari (Henrico, Va.); Jignesh Rangwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Glen Allen, Va.); Muthukumaran Vembuli (Glen Allen, Va.); Mehulkumar Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.); Mehulkumar Jayantilal Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.); Soumyajit Ray (Glen Allen, Va.); Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Access Control For A Databank System
Patent No. 11698895
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for managing a databank system. The databank system may have multiple databanks and each databank may have one or more repositories storing records (e.g., test data). The databank system exposes an application programming interface (API) and the databank system is managed by transmitting API calls to the exposed API. These API calls may be displayed to a user via GUI such that the user can copy the API call and paste the API call (or a modified version of the API call) into the code of other software application. Further, the databank system enables the owner of a databank or repository to share the databank or repository with other users accordingly to various access privileges. Further still, the databank system enables individual records to be reserved by a user, rendering the record invisible to other users until an expiration.
Inventors: Andrew Troy Hartwell (Prosper, Texas); Siwatm Piyasirisilp (Herndon, Va.); Suresh Vadigi (Kennette Square, Penn.); Neeraj Sharma (Glen Allen, Va.); Jason Bean (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Contactless Card Applet Communication
Patent No. 11699047
Example embodiments of systems and methods for contactless card verification include a contactless card including a substrate, a processor, and a memory, wherein the memory contains a first applet and a second applet, and a recipient device in data communication with the contactless card, wherein the second applet is configured to retrieve one or more parameters from the first applet via an interface; and wherein the second applet is configured to transmit the one or more parameters to the recipient device for verification.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); James Ashfield (Midlothian, Va.); Srinivasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.); Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Overmolding A Card To Prevent Chip Fraud
Patent No. 11699058
Systems and methods for overmolding a card are provided. A chip fraud prevention system include a device including a chip and a substrate. The chip may be at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket, and the substrate may be at least partially encompassed by the overmold.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Smooth And Low Density Paperboard Structures And Methods For Manufacturing The Same
Patent No. 11697908
A method for manufacturing a paperboard structure includes passing a paperboard substrate through a hot-hard calender to yield a calendered paperboard substrate, the hot-hard calender including a nip defined by a thermo-roller and a counter roller, wherein a contact surface of the thermo-roller is heated to an elevated temperature. The method then includes applying a basecoat to the calendered paperboard substrate to yield a basecoated paperboard substrate, the basecoat includes a basecoat binder and a basecoat pigment blend. The method further includes applying a topcoat to the basecoated paperboard substrate.
Inventors: Sergio A. Giuste (Midlothian, Va.); Steven Parker (Raleigh, N.C.); Terrell J. Green (Raleigh, N.C.)
Assignee: WestRock MWV (Atlanta, Ga.)
July 11, 2023
Aggregated Service Status Reporter
Patent No. 11700314
Systems as described herein may include generating an aggregated service status report for a real-time service delivery platform. A plurality of services running in a service domain may be determined. A request for a status of system behavior corresponding to a particular service may be received. Service connection details of the particular service may be discovered and metric data of real-time data movement may be tracked. Real-time snapshot aggregation of the particular service may be provided. In a variety of embodiments, a real-time system behavior report for the service across availability zones may be presented.
Inventor: Brian Burnett (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Insulation Panel
Patent No. 11701872
An insulation panel has an insulation core layer disposed that includes at least a first particulate and a second particulate of a plurality of discrete puffed polysaccharide particulates that defines a plurality of voids within the core layer. The first particulate is at least partially adhered to at least the second particulate at one or more bonded areas without the use of external non-water-soluble adhesives.
Inventors: Charles-Alexandre Vincent (St. Bruno de Montarville, Canada); James McGoff (Silver Spring, Md.)
Assignee: TemperPack Technologies (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
Methods And Machines For Making Oral Products
Patent No. 11701810
A method of forming an oral product includes extruding a mixture, conveying the extruded mixture through one or more pairs of forming rollers, and cutting the extruded mixture into one or more oral products. The mixture can include polymer and at least one flavorant, sweetener, active ingredient, or combination thereof. The extruded mixture forms an extrudate having a predetermined cross-sectional shape. The one or more pairs of forming rollers abut to define a passage there between as each forming roller rotates. The passage has a cross-sectional shape corresponding to the predetermined cross-sectional shape. The method can be performed using a machine including an extruder, one or more pairs of forming rollers, and a cutting device.
Inventors: Carl Gregory Miller (Richmond); Charles Lester Dendy (Ruther Glen, Va.); Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Va.); Gregory James Griscik (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
High Speed Poucher
Patent No. 11702232
An apparatus and methods for producing at extremely high production speeds small pouches filled with tobacco or other granular, powdered or solid content is provided. An endless web substrate, with or without flavor film thereon, is formed into a tubular shape with a longitudinal seam. The tube is cut to individual lengths, and a procession of tubes is crimp-closed at one end, filled and crimp-closed at the other end to complete pouch production. During production, the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch are parallel to one another and the longitudinal seam of the pouch is midway between the sides of the pouch and orthogonal to the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch.
Inventors: Martin T. Garthaffner (Richmond); Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.); Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Va.); David J. Webb (Richmond); Carl G. Miller (Richmond)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
Menthol Cigarette
Patent No. 11700877
Cigarettes are provided which contain a filtering system and flavorants encapsulated with polyvinyl acetate, wherein deactivation of a sorbent by the flavorant is reduced through the encapsulation of the flavorant within the polyvinyl acetate. A preferred flavorant is menthol. The encapsulated flavorants are prepared by mixing at least one flavorant with polyvinyl acetate and a solvent, such as ethanol, and forming the encapsulated flavorants. Methods of making cigarettes and smoking the articles are also provided.
Inventors: Ulrike Becker (Richmond); Tony Howell (Midlothian, Va.); Lixin Xue (Midlothian, Va.); Georgios D. Karles (Richmond); Jay A. Fournier (Richmond)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
Airflow In Aerosol Generating System With Mouthpiece
Patent No. 11700888
An aerosol generating system includes a liquid storage portion, a liquid transfer element, a power supply, and a heating element operably coupled to the power supply and configured to heat the aerosol generating substrate. The system also includes a cover over the liquid storage portion.
Inventor: Eric Force (Bevaix, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
Abstraction Layer To Cloud Services
Patent No. 11706153
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing cloud computing resources from one or more cloud service providers for a client computing device through a computing platform. The client computing device may benefit from an economy of scale while being able to obtain different types of cloud services over a plurality of cloud providers. The client computing device may request an initial amount of cloud services and subsequently may request cloud services that utilize a requested amount of cloud resources. The requested amount of cloud resources may be apportioned among the plurality of cloud service providers, to provide the requested cloud service. The computing platform may also support a cloud abstraction layer interacting between client computing device and one or more cloud providers so that the client computing device can obtain cloud service in a transparent manner.
Inventors: Jayachandra Varma (Irving, Texas); Manu Kurian (Dallas, Texas); Lixian Huang (Plano, Texas); Hemantkumar D. Gajjar (Charlotte, N.C.); Ganesh Bonda (Charlotte, N.C.); Floyd Franklin Rock Jr. (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.)
July 18, 2023
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 11701217
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 Inc. (New Haven, Conn.)
July 18, 2023
Software Pipeline Configuration
Patent No. 11704115
In certain embodiments, a software pipeline (“pipeline”) is configured by the use of gates for progressing an application from one stage to another (e.g., from a development stage to a production stage). A configuration file having a set of attribute values that is descriptive of an application, and a gate mapping file having information associated with the gates to be invoked for different combinations of attribute values are obtained. The configuration file is processed using the gate mapping file to determine a set of gates to be invoked for progressing the application in the pipeline based on the attribute values of the application. The set of gates are invoked to cause a corresponding set of software routines to be executed for progressing the application.
Inventors: Luis Mirantes (Chevy Chase, Md.) Ryan McEntee (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023
Medium For Temporary Account Access
Patent No. 11704399
In some implementations, a physical medium may include a radio frequency (RF) component and an integrated circuit (IC) chip component. The physical medium may be configured to detect, via the RF component, that the physical medium is within a communicative proximity of a first user device or a first medium associated with a first account. The physical medium may communicate, via the RF component, with the first user device or the first medium based on detecting that the physical medium is within the communicative proximity of the first user device or the first medium. The physical medium may configure the IC chip component to indicate that the physical medium is paired with the first account. The physical medium may transmit, via the RF component or the IC chip component and to a terminal, an indication that the physical medium is paired with the first account.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.); Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.); Christopher Camenares (Falls Church, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023
Systems And Methods For Saw Tooth Milling To Prevent Chip Fraud
Patent No. 11701725
Example embodiments of systems and methods for milling patterns for a card are provided. A chip fraud prevention system include a device including a chip. The chip may be at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket. The chip pocket may include one or more shapes. The one or more shapes may include one or more peaks and one or more valleys. One or more connections may be communicatively coupled to at least one surface of the chip. The one or more connections may be placed between at least one of the one or more peaks or one or more valleys.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023
Automated Teller Machine Card Ejection Mechanism
Patent No.11704982
In some implementations, an automated teller machine (ATM) may accept a card. The ATM may eject the card at a first time. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that a threshold amount of time has elapsed from the first time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may eject the card at a second time after retracting the card. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that the threshold amount of time has elapsed from the second time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may provide the card to a card storage compartment of the ATM after retracting the card and based on a determination that the card has been ejected or retracted a threshold number of times.
Inventors: Stephen Young (Keswick, Va.); Matthew Kolesaric (Mechanicsville, Va.); Michael Kidd (Litchfield, N.H.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023
System And Method For Detecting Fraudulent Bank Transactions
Patent No. 11704675
A system for detecting a fraudulent ATM transaction is disclosed. The system relates to an ATM machine that receives a bank/ATM card from a customer. The ATM first attempts to read information from the card chip, but is unable to do so due to a read error. The ATM then instead reads the information from the magnetic strip, and initiates a fraud detection procedure. In one such procedure, the ATM uses a local wireless access point to detect a customer’s device, such as a phone, in the vicinity of the ATM. In another such procedure, the ATM communicates with a backend server. The backend server then determines the location of the customer device either by transmitting a message to request authorization, or by utilizing GPS or other location-detection means on the customer device to determine whether the customer device is within the ATM vicinity.
Inventor: Richard Allen Post (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023
Vaporizer For Vaporizing A Constituent Of A Plant Material
Patent 11696598
Apparatus and methods are described for use with a vaporizer that vaporizes at least one active ingredient of a plant material. In response to receiving a first input to the vaporizer, the plant material is heated, in a first heating step. An indication of the temperature of the plant material is detected, and, in response to detecting an indication that the temperature of the plant material is at a first temperature, the first heating step is terminated, by withholding causing further temperature increase of the plant material. The first temperature is less than 95 percent of the vaporization temperature of the active ingredient. Subsequently, a second input is received at the vaporizer. In response thereto, the plant material is heated to the vaporization temperature, in a second heating step. Other applications are also described.
Inventor: Yossef Raichman (Herzliya, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services
July 11, 2023
Vaporizer For Vaporizing An Active Ingredient
Patent No. 11696989
Apparatus and methods are described for use with a vaporizer that vaporizes at least one active ingredient of a material. In response to receiving a first input to the vaporizer, the material is heated, in a first heating step. An indication of the temperature of the material is detected, and, in response to detecting an indication that the temperature of the material is at a first temperature, the first heating step is terminated, by withholding causing further temperature increase of the material. The first temperature is less than 95 percent of the vaporization temperature of the active ingredient. Subsequently, a second input is received at the vaporizer. In response thereto, the material is heated to the vaporization temperature, in a second heating step. Other applications are also described.
Inventor: Yossef Raichman (Herzliya, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services
July 11, 2023
Vaporizer For Vaporizing A Constituent Of A Plant Material
Patent No. 11696599
Apparatus and methods are described for use with a vaporizer that vaporizes at least one active ingredient of a plant material. In response to receiving a first input to the vaporizer, the plant material is heated, in a first heating step. An indication of the temperature of the plant material is detected, and, in response to detecting an indication that the temperature of the plant material is at a first temperature, the first heating step is terminated, by withholding causing further temperature increase of the plant material. The first temperature is less than 95 percent of the vaporization temperature of the active ingredient. Subsequently, a second input is received at the vaporizer. In response thereto, the plant material is heated to the vaporization temperature, in a second heating step. Other applications are also described.
Inventor: Yossef Raichman (Herzliya, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 11, 2023
Heat-not-burn (HNB) Aerosol-generating Devices With Compression Assembly
Patent No. 11696602
An aerosol-generating device includes a heating chamber structure, a heater coupled to the heating chamber structure, and a compression assembly. The heating chamber structure defines a fixed-volume enclosure and is configured to hold an aerosol-forming substrate within a first region of the enclosure. The heater is proximate to a first surface that at least partly defines the first region and is configured to generate heat that is transmitted into the first region to cause the aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol without any combustion. The compression assembly includes a compression plate and a compression actuator. The compression plate and the first surface define opposing boundaries of the first region. The compression actuator moves the compression plate through the enclosure to adjustably compress the aerosol-forming substrate in the first region against the first surface.
Inventor: Jason Flora (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services
July 11, 2023
Computer-based Systems And Methods Configured For One Or More Technological Applications For The Automated Assisting Of Telephone Agent Services
Patent No. 11700330
At least some embodiments, a system includes a memory, and a processor configured to convert an audio stream of a speech of a customer during a customer call session into customer-originated text. The customer-originated text is displayed in a first chat interface. A request from a first call center agent is sent to a second call center agent via the first chat interface to interact with the customer during the customer call session and displayed in a second chat interface. The second agent is allowed to participate in the customer call session when the second call center agent accepts the request from the first call center agent. First agent-originated text and second agent-originated text during the customer call session is merged to form a combined agent-originated text and synthesized to computer-generated agent speech having a voice of a computer-generated agent based on the combined agent-originated text communicated to the customer over the voice channel.
Inventors: Srikanth Reddy Sheshaiahgari (Henrico, Va.); Jignesh Rangwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Glen Allen, Va.); Muthukumaran Vembuli (Glen Allen, Va.); Mehulkumar Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.); Mehulkumar Jayantilal Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.); Soumyajit Ray (Glen Allen, Va.); Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Access Control For A Databank System
Patent No. 11698895
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for managing a databank system. The databank system may have multiple databanks and each databank may have one or more repositories storing records (e.g., test data). The databank system exposes an application programming interface (API) and the databank system is managed by transmitting API calls to the exposed API. These API calls may be displayed to a user via GUI such that the user can copy the API call and paste the API call (or a modified version of the API call) into the code of other software application. Further, the databank system enables the owner of a databank or repository to share the databank or repository with other users accordingly to various access privileges. Further still, the databank system enables individual records to be reserved by a user, rendering the record invisible to other users until an expiration.
Inventors: Andrew Troy Hartwell (Prosper, Texas); Siwatm Piyasirisilp (Herndon, Va.); Suresh Vadigi (Kennette Square, Penn.); Neeraj Sharma (Glen Allen, Va.); Jason Bean (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Contactless Card Applet Communication
Patent No. 11699047
Example embodiments of systems and methods for contactless card verification include a contactless card including a substrate, a processor, and a memory, wherein the memory contains a first applet and a second applet, and a recipient device in data communication with the contactless card, wherein the second applet is configured to retrieve one or more parameters from the first applet via an interface; and wherein the second applet is configured to transmit the one or more parameters to the recipient device for verification.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); James Ashfield (Midlothian, Va.); Srinivasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.); Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Systems And Methods For Overmolding A Card To Prevent Chip Fraud
Patent No. 11699058
Systems and methods for overmolding a card are provided. A chip fraud prevention system include a device including a chip and a substrate. The chip may be at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket, and the substrate may be at least partially encompassed by the overmold.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Smooth And Low Density Paperboard Structures And Methods For Manufacturing The Same
Patent No. 11697908
A method for manufacturing a paperboard structure includes passing a paperboard substrate through a hot-hard calender to yield a calendered paperboard substrate, the hot-hard calender including a nip defined by a thermo-roller and a counter roller, wherein a contact surface of the thermo-roller is heated to an elevated temperature. The method then includes applying a basecoat to the calendered paperboard substrate to yield a basecoated paperboard substrate, the basecoat includes a basecoat binder and a basecoat pigment blend. The method further includes applying a topcoat to the basecoated paperboard substrate.
Inventors: Sergio A. Giuste (Midlothian, Va.); Steven Parker (Raleigh, N.C.); Terrell J. Green (Raleigh, N.C.)
Assignee: WestRock MWV (Atlanta, Ga.)
July 11, 2023
Aggregated Service Status Reporter
Patent No. 11700314
Systems as described herein may include generating an aggregated service status report for a real-time service delivery platform. A plurality of services running in a service domain may be determined. A request for a status of system behavior corresponding to a particular service may be received. Service connection details of the particular service may be discovered and metric data of real-time data movement may be tracked. Real-time snapshot aggregation of the particular service may be provided. In a variety of embodiments, a real-time system behavior report for the service across availability zones may be presented.
Inventor: Brian Burnett (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 11, 2023
Insulation Panel
Patent No. 11701872
An insulation panel has an insulation core layer disposed that includes at least a first particulate and a second particulate of a plurality of discrete puffed polysaccharide particulates that defines a plurality of voids within the core layer. The first particulate is at least partially adhered to at least the second particulate at one or more bonded areas without the use of external non-water-soluble adhesives.
Inventors: Charles-Alexandre Vincent (St. Bruno de Montarville, Canada); James McGoff (Silver Spring, Md.)
Assignee: TemperPack Technologies (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
Methods And Machines For Making Oral Products
Patent No. 11701810
A method of forming an oral product includes extruding a mixture, conveying the extruded mixture through one or more pairs of forming rollers, and cutting the extruded mixture into one or more oral products. The mixture can include polymer and at least one flavorant, sweetener, active ingredient, or combination thereof. The extruded mixture forms an extrudate having a predetermined cross-sectional shape. The one or more pairs of forming rollers abut to define a passage there between as each forming roller rotates. The passage has a cross-sectional shape corresponding to the predetermined cross-sectional shape. The method can be performed using a machine including an extruder, one or more pairs of forming rollers, and a cutting device.
Inventors: Carl Gregory Miller (Richmond); Charles Lester Dendy (Ruther Glen, Va.); Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Va.); Gregory James Griscik (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
High Speed Poucher
Patent No. 11702232
An apparatus and methods for producing at extremely high production speeds small pouches filled with tobacco or other granular, powdered or solid content is provided. An endless web substrate, with or without flavor film thereon, is formed into a tubular shape with a longitudinal seam. The tube is cut to individual lengths, and a procession of tubes is crimp-closed at one end, filled and crimp-closed at the other end to complete pouch production. During production, the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch are parallel to one another and the longitudinal seam of the pouch is midway between the sides of the pouch and orthogonal to the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch.
Inventors: Martin T. Garthaffner (Richmond); Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.); Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Va.); David J. Webb (Richmond); Carl G. Miller (Richmond)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
Menthol Cigarette
Patent No. 11700877
Cigarettes are provided which contain a filtering system and flavorants encapsulated with polyvinyl acetate, wherein deactivation of a sorbent by the flavorant is reduced through the encapsulation of the flavorant within the polyvinyl acetate. A preferred flavorant is menthol. The encapsulated flavorants are prepared by mixing at least one flavorant with polyvinyl acetate and a solvent, such as ethanol, and forming the encapsulated flavorants. Methods of making cigarettes and smoking the articles are also provided.
Inventors: Ulrike Becker (Richmond); Tony Howell (Midlothian, Va.); Lixin Xue (Midlothian, Va.); Georgios D. Karles (Richmond); Jay A. Fournier (Richmond)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
Airflow In Aerosol Generating System With Mouthpiece
Patent No. 11700888
An aerosol generating system includes a liquid storage portion, a liquid transfer element, a power supply, and a heating element operably coupled to the power supply and configured to heat the aerosol generating substrate. The system also includes a cover over the liquid storage portion.
Inventor: Eric Force (Bevaix, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 18, 2023
Abstraction Layer To Cloud Services
Patent No. 11706153
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing cloud computing resources from one or more cloud service providers for a client computing device through a computing platform. The client computing device may benefit from an economy of scale while being able to obtain different types of cloud services over a plurality of cloud providers. The client computing device may request an initial amount of cloud services and subsequently may request cloud services that utilize a requested amount of cloud resources. The requested amount of cloud resources may be apportioned among the plurality of cloud service providers, to provide the requested cloud service. The computing platform may also support a cloud abstraction layer interacting between client computing device and one or more cloud providers so that the client computing device can obtain cloud service in a transparent manner.
Inventors: Jayachandra Varma (Irving, Texas); Manu Kurian (Dallas, Texas); Lixian Huang (Plano, Texas); Hemantkumar D. Gajjar (Charlotte, N.C.); Ganesh Bonda (Charlotte, N.C.); Floyd Franklin Rock Jr. (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.)
July 18, 2023
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 11701217
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 Inc. (New Haven, Conn.)
July 18, 2023
Software Pipeline Configuration
Patent No. 11704115
In certain embodiments, a software pipeline (“pipeline”) is configured by the use of gates for progressing an application from one stage to another (e.g., from a development stage to a production stage). A configuration file having a set of attribute values that is descriptive of an application, and a gate mapping file having information associated with the gates to be invoked for different combinations of attribute values are obtained. The configuration file is processed using the gate mapping file to determine a set of gates to be invoked for progressing the application in the pipeline based on the attribute values of the application. The set of gates are invoked to cause a corresponding set of software routines to be executed for progressing the application.
Inventors: Luis Mirantes (Chevy Chase, Md.) Ryan McEntee (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023
Medium For Temporary Account Access
Patent No. 11704399
In some implementations, a physical medium may include a radio frequency (RF) component and an integrated circuit (IC) chip component. The physical medium may be configured to detect, via the RF component, that the physical medium is within a communicative proximity of a first user device or a first medium associated with a first account. The physical medium may communicate, via the RF component, with the first user device or the first medium based on detecting that the physical medium is within the communicative proximity of the first user device or the first medium. The physical medium may configure the IC chip component to indicate that the physical medium is paired with the first account. The physical medium may transmit, via the RF component or the IC chip component and to a terminal, an indication that the physical medium is paired with the first account.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.); Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.); Christopher Camenares (Falls Church, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023
Systems And Methods For Saw Tooth Milling To Prevent Chip Fraud
Patent No. 11701725
Example embodiments of systems and methods for milling patterns for a card are provided. A chip fraud prevention system include a device including a chip. The chip may be at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket. The chip pocket may include one or more shapes. The one or more shapes may include one or more peaks and one or more valleys. One or more connections may be communicatively coupled to at least one surface of the chip. The one or more connections may be placed between at least one of the one or more peaks or one or more valleys.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023
Automated Teller Machine Card Ejection Mechanism
Patent No.11704982
In some implementations, an automated teller machine (ATM) may accept a card. The ATM may eject the card at a first time. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that a threshold amount of time has elapsed from the first time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may eject the card at a second time after retracting the card. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that the threshold amount of time has elapsed from the second time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may provide the card to a card storage compartment of the ATM after retracting the card and based on a determination that the card has been ejected or retracted a threshold number of times.
Inventors: Stephen Young (Keswick, Va.); Matthew Kolesaric (Mechanicsville, Va.); Michael Kidd (Litchfield, N.H.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023
System And Method For Detecting Fraudulent Bank Transactions
Patent No. 11704675
A system for detecting a fraudulent ATM transaction is disclosed. The system relates to an ATM machine that receives a bank/ATM card from a customer. The ATM first attempts to read information from the card chip, but is unable to do so due to a read error. The ATM then instead reads the information from the magnetic strip, and initiates a fraud detection procedure. In one such procedure, the ATM uses a local wireless access point to detect a customer’s device, such as a phone, in the vicinity of the ATM. In another such procedure, the ATM communicates with a backend server. The backend server then determines the location of the customer device either by transmitting a message to request authorization, or by utilizing GPS or other location-detection means on the customer device to determine whether the customer device is within the ATM vicinity.
Inventor: Richard Allen Post (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 18, 2023