Non-invasively Adjustable Spinal Stabilization Device
Patent No. 11744617
A spinal stabilization device that can be used to non-invasively correct spacing and curvature between at least two vertebral structures. The spinal stabilization device includes two telescoping tubes wherein ends of the two tubes can have pedicle screws that can be fastened to two or more vertebral bones. The overall length of the spinal stabilization device can be adjusted by moving the inner tube within the outer tube. Both the outer tube and the inner tube have multiple holes for receiving fasteners, wherein a fastener can be inserted through a hole in the outer tube into a hole in the inner tube for interlocking the inner tube and outer tube. The extension of the fastener into the holes and retraction from the holes can be controlled non-invasively from an external source. When the fastener is disengaged, the inner tube and the outer tube can freely move relative to each other, and the positions of the two or more vertebral bones can be non-invasively adjusted by subjecting a person to predefined movements and body posture. Upon achieving the desired positions, the fastener can be engaged to interlock the inner tube and the outer tube.
Inventors: Nazmi Peyman (Richmond); Edmond Zahedi (Burnaby, Canada)
Assignee: N/A
Sept. 5, 2023
Slide Measuring System For Filling Pouches And Associated Method
Patent No. 11744275
Systems and methods for measuring tobacco for packaging in pouches are disclosed. A system includes a hopper structured and arranged to hold a granular material in a hopper cavity. The system also includes a measuring system including a measuring cavity and a tube that is slidable in the hopper cavity between a first position unaligned with the measuring cavity and a second position over and aligned with the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to continuously communicate a vacuum to the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to move a portion of the granular material from the hopper cavity to the measuring cavity when the tube is in the first position. The measuring system is configured to move the portion of the granular material from the measuring cavity to a pouch making machine using pressurized gas that overcomes the vacuum when the tube is in the second position.
Inventors: Herbert C. Longest (Midlothian, Va.); Jarrod W. Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.); Tamika S. Murrell (Richmond); Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Va.); Travis M. Garthaffner (Midlothian, Va.); Leah A. Meyers (Midlothian,Va.); James D. Evans (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 5, 2023
Audience Responsiveness Analytics Index For Television Advertising
Patent No. 11750884
A system and methods are disclosed for creating and using an audience-responsiveness analytics index for television advertising, in particular, advertising for connected television viewing. The audience-responsiveness analytics index may be configured to provide data obtained or acquired by measuring audience responsiveness to video advertising placed in streaming content viewed over connected televisions. The audience-responsiveness analytics index may be a graph used to optimize advertising with households assigned scores for multiple categories of advertising.
Inventors: Jason Fairchild (Rolling Hills Estate, Calif.); David Koye (Richmond)
Assignee: tvScientific (Pasadena, Calif.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Systems And Methods For Managing Electronic Communications
Patent No. 11750540
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing electronic communications. According to certain embodiments, an enterprise directory is provided for listing a plurality of enterprises. In one embodiment, the enterprise directory may include an enterprise profile for each enterprise identifying, among other things, a mode of communication for the enterprise. Enterprises that wish to communicate with one another may form partnerships with one another. In one embodiment, a partnership may be formed between two enterprises when one enterprise accepts a partnership request submitted by the other enterprise. Information regarding partnerships between enterprises may be stored in a database. Further, an enterprise user may request to electronically communicate (e.g., via IM, voice, or email) with a user associated with a different enterprise. Users associated with different enterprises may be allowed to communicate electronically with one another if their respective enterprises are in a partnership with one another.
Inventors: Robert West (Chantilly, Va.); Charles G. Woods (Richmond); Andrew B. Warner (Cape Coral, Fla.); Donald Le (Herndon, Va.)
Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing (Basking Ridge, N.J.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Capsules Including Internal Filters, Heat-not-burn (HNB) Aerosol-generating Devices, And Methods Of Generating An Aerosol
Patent No. 11744288
A capsule for an aerosol-generating device may include a housing, a filter, and an aerosol-forming substrate. The housing may have a gas-permeable end and an impermeable end. The filter may be disposed within the housing so as to be adjacent to the impermeable end. The aerosol-forming substrate may be disposed within the housing so as to be between the filter and the gas-permeable end. The housing may be configured to facilitate a heating of the aerosol-forming substrate via one of conduction, convection, or both conduction and convection so as to generate an aerosol.
Inventors: Zack W. Blackmon (Williamsburg, Va.); Patrick Good (Richmond); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.); Jarrett Keen (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Mildothian, Va.); Yannick Hourmand (Haslingfield, Great Britain); Niall Gallagher (Cambridge, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 5, 2023
Steady State Resistance Estimation For Overheating Protection Of A Nicotine E-vaping Device
Patent 11744285
Various example embodiments relate to a nicotine electronic vaping device, system, method, and/or non-transitory computer readable medium for protecting a nicotine electronic vaping device from overheating based on a steady state resistance prediction. The nicotine electronic vaping device may include a reservoir containing a nicotine pre-vapor formulation, a heating element configured to heat nicotine pre-vapor formulation drawn from the reservoir, and control circuitry configured to monitor a resistance value of the heating element over a first time period after a first application of negative pressure to the nicotine electronic vaping device, determine an estimated steady state resistance value of the heating element based on the monitored resistance value using a trained neural network, and control power to the heating element based on the estimated steady state resistance value.
Inventor: Robert C. Lacovara (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 5, 2023
Tamper-evident Devices Equipped With Secure Re-image File(s)
Patent No. 11748470
A method of enhancing travel security features associated with a mobile device is provided. The method may include operating a time clock to store a start device confiscation time in a memory and to store an end device confiscation time in the memory, monitoring the mobile device to detect tampering occurring between the start device confiscation time and the end device confiscation time, and in response to the detecting of tampering, prompting the user for a secure identifier. Upon receipt of the secure identifier, the method may include opening a secure i/o pathway to a re-image file. The secure i/o pathway preferably enables execution of an executable re-image file. The re-image file may be used to re-image a software image of the mobile device. The re-image file may contain a pre-tampered image of the mobile device.
Inventors: Vijaya L. Vemireddy (Plano, Texas); Brandon Sloane (Charlotte, N.C.); Harvey Summers (Richmond); Eileen D. Bridges (Fort Mill, S.C.)
Assignee: Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Data Extraction From A Multidimensional Data Structure
Patent No. 11748381
In some implementations, a device may identify respective sets of unique values for multiple dimensions of a multidimensional data structure. The device may identify a plurality of subsets of permutations of a set of permutations of the unique values. The plurality of subsets of permutations are to be processed in parallel. The device may obtain, based on processing the plurality of subsets of permutations in parallel, respective data associated with each permutation of the plurality of subsets of permutations. The data for a permutation, of the plurality of subsets of permutations, is obtained based on respective unique values for the permutation that are determined independently of another permutation of the plurality of subsets of permutations.
Inventors: Anil Kumar Vallpureddy (Glen Allen, Va.); Richard Everson (Mechanicsville, Va.); Seshikanth Bandlapalli (Glen Allen, Va.); Michael Baker (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Regimens Of Tafenoquine For Prevention Of Malaria In Malaria-naïve Subjects
Patent No. 11744828
Methods of prevention of symptomatic malaria in a malaria-naïve, G6PD-normal human subject comprising administering to the human subject a compound of Formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I). A compound of Formula (I) can be administered prior to potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium, during potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium, and after potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium. The methods of the invention also pertains to kits comprising specific doses of Formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I), and instructions for administration of dosing quantity and frequency. The methods of the invention also pertain to determining doses of Formula (I) that meet the general regulatory requirement for a drug to be efficacious in the prevention of malaria in malaria-naïve subjects. The methods of the invention further pertain to using the described algorithm to derive dosing regimens which can provide protection against symptomatic malaria in malaria-naïve, G6PD-normal subjects. ##STR00001##
Inventors: Geoffrey S. Dow (Washington, D.C.); Bryan L. Smith (Chevy Chase, Md.); John P. Jones (Richmond); Moshe Shmuklarksy (Bethesda, Md.); Budda Balasubrahmanyam (Richmond)
Assignees: 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals (Washington, D.C.); The Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Fort Detrick, Md.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Augmented Reality Enhanced Interactive Robotic Animation
Patent No. 11747890
A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, one or more sensor(s), and a memory storing perception software and animation software, as well as an augmented reality (AR) headset including another processing hardware. The computing platform is configured to obtain an environmental data using the sensor(s), determine the location and orientation of the AR headset using the perception software and the environmental data, identify an action for execution by the computing platform, using the animation software and the location and orientation of the AR headset, and transmit performative data corresponding to the identified action to the AR headset. The AR headset is configured to receive, from the computing platform, the performative data, and to render at least one AR effect corresponding to the identified action using the performative data.
Inventors: Jeremie A. Papon (Los Angeles, Calif.); Michael Anthony Hopkins (Chesterfield, Va.); Kyle Michael Cesare (Burbank, Calif.); Georg Wiedebach (Glendale, Calif.)
Assignee: Disney Enterprises (Burbank, Calif.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Locking Mechanism
Patent No. 11745043
A lock mechanism which can be placed on a shaft, such as a bar or pole, in either a first direction or second direction, is secured to the shaft using two sets of balls which project out of apertures in an inner cylinder to frictionally engage the shaft. The balls are selectively retractable from their projecting position to allow the inner cylinder to slide on and/or be removed from the shaft. Biasing members, such as wavy springs, bias the two sides of the lock mechanism towards one another. In the locked configuration, the balls are forced by inclined surfaces within the two sides to project outwardly from the inner hollow cylinder. The inclined surfaces are aligned with two rows of apertures in the inner hollow cylinder, and they are inclined in opposite directions. Thus, either way the lock mechanism is installed or placed on the shaft, the balls will project out of the apertures in the inner hollow cylinder and will securely engage the shaft.
Inventors: David Robert Davies (Chesterfield, Va.); Hugh Anderson (Henrico, Va.); Randy Franks (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: SpeedClips (Henrico, Va.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Data Field Transaction Repair Interface
Patent No. 11748368
A method may include receiving a data file comprising receivable information associated with at least one transaction; detecting that the data file fails to conform to a defined format; separating the receivable information into a plurality of fields; receiving input identifying remittance information in the plurality of fields; reformatting the data file according to the input into a reformatted data file; and transmitting the reformatted data file for processing of the remittance information.
Inventors: Seth M. Blacher (San Francisco, Calif.); Karin L. Farnsworth (Glen Allen, Va.); Kellie L. Thomas (St. Johns, Fla.); Irvin J. Cooper (Columbia Heights, Minn.)
Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank (San Francisco, Calif.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Corrosion Control Using Organic Filmers And Passivators In Systems For Processing Nitrogen-containing Solutions
Patent No. 11746294
Methods and compositions for inhibiting corrosion of a corrodible metal surface that contact a nitrogen-containing solution. The method comprises adding a chemical treatment composition to the nitrogen-containing solution that includes an organic filmer and a passivator. The organic filmer may be a hydroxycarboxylic acid. The chemical treatment composition may further include a surface-active compound.
Inventors: Rajendra Prasad Kalakodimi (Glen Allen, Va.); Santanu Banerjee (Glen Allen, Va.); Jared Andrew Green (Owasso, Okla.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Biodegradable Cleaning Composition
Patent No. 11746307
The present invention is directed to biodegradable cleaning compositions, in particular hard surface cleaning compositions, and their use. The compositions according to the invention comprise one or more biosurfactants(s), one or more sorbitan ester(s) and one or more further surfactant(s), which is/are neither a biosurfactant nor a sorbitan ester.
Inventors: Zheng Xue (Henrico, Va.); Andras Nagy (Chester, Va.); Dennis Parrish (Sandston, Va.); Sam Christy (Selbyville, Del.); Jennifer Goodyear (Chester, Va.); Jeff Davidson (Beaverdam, Va.)
Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany)
Sept. 5, 2023
Method And System For Automatically Collecting Payment For A Credit Account
Patent No. 11748719
A method for automatically collecting payment for a credit account includes determining if a credit account is delinquent and determining the number of days the credit account is delinquent. The method includes automatically collecting a first amount from a first account if the number of days the credit account is delinquent comprises at least a first number of days and crediting the credit account the first amount. The first account may comprise a checking account, and the first number of days may comprise twenty days.
Inventors: Charles A. Rosenblatt (Sand Francisco, Calif.); Tyler C. Hobbs (Cambridge, Mass.); Frank L. Rotman (Manakin Sabot, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Systems And Methods For Stabilizer Control
Patent No. 11755049
A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for controlling an electric power system, including implementation of a voltage control and conservation (VCC) system used to optimally control the independent voltage and capacitor banks using a linear optimization methodology to minimize the losses in the EEDCS and the EUS. An energy validation process system (EVP) is provided which is used to document the savings of the VCC and an EPP is used to optimize improvements to the EEDCS for continuously improving the energy losses in the EEDS. The EVP system measures the improvement in the EEDS a result of operating the VCC system in the “ON” state determining the level of energy conservation achieved by the VCC system. In addition the VCC system monitors pattern recognition events and compares them to the report-by-exception data to detect HVL events. If one is detected the VCC optimizes the capacity of the EEDS to respond to the HVL events by centering the piecewise linear solution maximizing the ability of the EDDS to absorb the HVL event. The VCC stabilizer function integrates voltage data from AMI meters and assess the state of the grid and initiates appropriate voltage control actions to hedge against predictable voltage risks.
Inventors: Stephen J. Tyler (Henrico, Va.); Phillip W. Powell (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Dominion Energy (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Low Ignition Propensity Cigarette Paper And Manufacture Thereof
Patent No. 11751601
A wrapper of a smoking article includes a base web and at least one transverse banded region. The banded region includes a first zone, a second zone and a third zone of add-on material. The second zone has about 25% to about 75% less add-on material than the first zone and the third zone. The banded region is about 5 mm to about 9 mm wide and the second zone is centrally located between the first zone and the third zone. The second zone includes a plurality of dots of the add-on material spaced from adjacent dots in the second zone by a distance greater than a distance between adjacent dots in the first zone and the third zone.
Inventor: Michael H. Lee (Rogersville, Tenn.)
Assignee: Altria Client Service (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Flavor Carriers For Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 11751599
A cartridge of an electronic vaping device includes a flavor carrier. The flavor carrier includes an outer housing extending in a longitudinal direction, an inner housing extending in the longitudinal direction, and a flavor chamber between the outer housing and the inner housing. The outer housing includes at least one outer housing perforation defined in a wall of the outer housing. The inner housing includes at least one inner housing perforation defined in a wall of the inner housing. The flavor chamber is configured to contain a flavoring material.
Inventors: Ali A. Rostami (Glen Allen, Va.); Dmitriy S. Kirzhner (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Yezdi Pithawalla (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Heating Engine Control Algorithm For Non-nicotine E-vapor Device
Patent No. 11751606
A method of controlling a heater of a device including a removable container that stores a material includes detecting, from the removable container, power information indicating a first operating point and a second operating point; and supplying power to the heater based on the detected power information by, determining a first amount of power based on the first operating point, supplying the first amount of power to the heater during a first operation mode of the heater, determining a second amount of power based on the second operating point, and supplying the second amount of power to the heater during a second operation mode of the heater, the second amount of power being higher than the first amount of power, the device being a non-nicotine e-vaping device or a heat-not-burn aerosol-generating device, the material being a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation or an aerosol-forming substrate.
Inventors: Niall Gallagher (Richmond); William Wykeham (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.); Terry Bache (Richmond); Rangarag S. Sundar (Richmond); Jarrett Keen (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Lubricating Compositions For A Hybrid Engine
Patent No. 11753599
The present disclosure relates to methods for improving phosphorus retention and improving antiwear performance in an internal combustion engine of a hybrid vehicle, comprising lubricating the internal combustion engine of the hybrid vehicle with a lubricating oil composition comprising: greater than 50 wt. % of a base oil of lubricating viscosity; and an amount of one or more zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate compound(s) sufficient to provide: from about 100 ppmw phosphorus to about 1000 ppmw phosphorus, based on a total weight of the lubricating oil composition; and from about 10 ppmw zinc to about 1200 ppmw zinc, based on the total weight of the lubricating oil composition.
Inventors: Huifang Shao (Moseley, Va.); Mark Devlin (Glen Allen, Va.); Paul Ransom (Huddersfield, Great Britain); Guillaume Carpentier (Bracknell, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Aerosol-generating Device With Integral Heater Assembly
Patent No. 11754280
An electrically heated aerosol-generating device is configured for use with a consumable cartridge including a storage portion containing an aerosol-forming substrate and having a fluid permeable internal surface surrounding an open-ended passage extending through the cartridge. The device includes a housing having a cavity for receiving the cartridge and a heater assembly positioned in the cavity. The heater assembly includes an electrically conductive hollow shaft portion connected to the housing and an electric heater positioned along the hollow shaft portion and having at least one heating element for heating the aerosol-forming substrate. The hollow shaft portion defines an airflow passage forming part of an airflow pathway through the device and is arranged to extend into the open-ended passage of the cartridge. The hollow shaft portion comprises a plurality of apertures, and the heating element is one or more narrow regions of the hollow shaft portion between adjacent apertures.
Inventors: Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland); Laurent Manca (Sullens, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Car Seat Alarm System
Patent No. 11752900
A car seat alarm system including a weight-sensor plate assembly, a power source, a dashboard sensor, and a portable device including a speaker. The weight-sensor plate assembly is positioned and configured to detect a weight of a child in a car seat. The weight-sensor plate assembly is in communication with the dashboard sensor including a transceiver. The dashboard or visor sensor is configured to communicate that a child is present within the car seat. The dashboard sensor is in wireless communication with the portable device such as a key fob or smartphone. The dashboard sensor is configured to activate an alarm through the speaker when the portable device extends past a pre-determined proximity range from the dashboard sensor is reached and if the weight of the child is present within the car seat.
Inventor: Wanda McLaughlin (Richmond)
Assignee: N/A
Sept. 12, 2023
Electronic Vaping Device Having Pressure Sensor
Patent No. 11751608
At least one example embodiment discloses a section of an electronic-vaping device including a pressure sensor configured to measure a current ambient pressure, the pressure sensor further configured to output the current ambient pressure measurement in accordance with a read request frequency, and a controller configured to determine a mode of operation of the electronic-vaping device, control the read request frequency based on the determined mode of operation, and detect a threshold pressure change based on the current ambient pressure and a baseline pressure.
Inventors: Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Phillip Diana (Richmond); Sean Sundberg (Richmond); David Bennett (Richmond); Christopher Tucker (Midlothian, Va.);
Barry S. Smith (Richmond); Edmond J. Cadieux (Mechanicsville, Va.); Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.); Paul Butler (Metheun, Mass.); Jarrett Keen (Richmond); Patrick Cobler (Richmond); Kai Cao (Somerville, Mass.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Gas-based Material Compression And Portioning
Patent No. 11753190
An apparatus configured to provide portioned instances of a compressible material includes a channel assembly, a gas source, a cutting assembly, and a discharge assembly. The channel assembly holds a bulk instance of the material extending through upper and lower channels of a continuous channel. The gas source supplies gas to compress the bulk instance. The cutting assembly moves in relation to the channel assembly to isolate the upper and lower channels, severing upper and lower material portions of the bulk instance. The discharge assembly directs gas to impinge on a lower face of the cutting assembly to discharge the lower material portion as a portioned instance. The channel assembly may be moveable, where operation of the gas source, cutting assembly, and/or discharge assembly are based on moving the channel assembly between various positions. The gas supply may be controlled based on a determined property of the portioned instance.
Inventors: Dwight David Williams (Powhatan, Va.); James David Evans (Chesterfield, Va.); Patrick Sean McElhinney (Chesterfield, Va.); Jarrod Wayne Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Systems, Methods And Computer Readable Medium For Wireless Solicitations
Patent No. 11756066
Product offering systems are provided. Product offering systems may include sending an offer to a customer that possesses a mobile computing device and has agreed to receive offers for products via the mobile computing device. Agreeing to receive offers would result in the unique data about the customer being available to offer provider. Unique customer data may include data related to the customers wireless service provider or from a financial account in a financial institution, and collecting customer data about the customer, wherein the customer data comprises financial data and personal data. Product offering systems may further include registering a wireless computing device of the customer to able the device to receive the offer, and determining opportunities to send the offer to the customer by monitoring the customer and the customer data. Product offering systems may also include sending the offer to the customer’s registered device based on the determination of opportunities.
Inventors: Richard Comerford (Glen Allen, Va.); Joseph M. DeFilippo (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Vacuum Sealer And Method Of Sealing Same
Patent No. 11753196
A vacuum sealer includes: a housing comprising a vacuum chamber therein; a vacuum pump in fluid communication with the vacuum chamber; a sealing mechanism adjacent a periphery of the vacuum chamber; a valve positioned and configured to releasably seal the vacuum chamber, the valve movable between a first position, in which the valve forms a seal with the sealing chamber, and a second position, in which the valve does not form a seal with the sealing chamber; and a controller operatively connected with the vacuum pump, the sealing mechanism, and the valve. The controller is configured to move the valve from the first position to the second position during sealing.
Inventor: David Matthew Schandel (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Cable Broom
Patent No. 11751677
A gutter broom is provided. The gutter broom can include one or more block segments, each block segment having openings in which bristles are positioned. The bristles can have a first stiffness or a second stiffness different than the first stiffness. Bristles having the second stiffness can be positioned radially outward of bristles having the first stiffness on a block segment.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co. (Henrico, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Compact Material Collection System
Patent No. 11753784
A material collection system includes a conduit, a vacuum generator coupled to the conduit, an engine powering the vacuum generator, and a container mounted to a chassis of a vehicle. The vacuum generator generates airflow for drawing material into a material inlet of the conduit. The container receives collected material from the conduit. The material collection container can receive collected material from the conduit. The control system can include a load sensor and a controller in electrical communication with the load sensor. The load sensor can detect a load applied by the collected material received in the material collection container and transmit an output signal indicating the load applied by the collected material. The controller can determine a weight of the collected material received in the material collection container based on the output signal and determine an aggregate weight of the vehicle using the determined weight of the collected material.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co.
Sept. 12, 2023
System And Method For Securely Hosting Multiple Network Operators In A Shared Spectrum Access System On A Single Virtual Base Station Environment
Patent No. 11758423
Disclosed is a virtual base station capable of hosting multiple network operators and/or private networks in a single compute environment. The virtual base station includes a plurality of virtual baseband processors configured to communicate with the plurality of mobile network operators, a supervisor module, a fronthaul network interface configured to be coupled to one or more remote units, and a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) coordinator module coupled to the supervisor module and the one or more virtual baseband processors. The base station may have on or more CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) Daemons to act as a proxy for obtaining grants to CBRS channels and allocating the CBRS channels to the mobile network operators.
Inventors: Massimo Notargiacomo (Castel Bolognese, Italy); Todd Landry (Grayslake, Ill.); Jeffrey Masters (Ashland, Va.); Roberto Orlandini (Budrio, Italy); Jeffrey Courington (Chester, Va.); Francesco Foresta (Faenza, Italy); Stephen Turner (Mechanicsville, Va.); Alessandro Pagani (San Giovanni, Italy); Domenico Di Iorio (Ravenna, Italy); Kurt Jacobs (Lake Bluff, Ill.); Patrick Henkle (Homer Glen, Ill.); Vishal Agrawal (Vernon Hills, Ill.); Sasi Eswaravaka (Round Lake, Ill.); Paul Stath (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates (Liverpool, N.Y.)
Sept. 12, 2023
System And Method For Identifying Latent Reliability Defects In Semiconductor Devices
Patent No. 11754625
A system and method for identifying latent reliability defects (LRD) in semiconductor devices are configured to perform one or more stress tests with one or more stress test tools on at least some of a plurality of wafers received from one or more in-line sample analysis tools to determine a passing set of the plurality of wafers and a failing set of the plurality of wafers, perform a reliability hit-back analysis on at least some of the failing set of the plurality of wafers, analyze the reliability hit-back analysis to determine one or more geographic locations of one or more die fail chains caused by one or more latent reliability defects (LRD), and perform a geographic hit-back analysis on the one or more geographic locations of the one or more die fail chains caused by the LRD.
Inventors: David W. Price (Austin, Texas); Robert J. Rathert (Mechanicsville, Va.); Chet V. Lenox (Lexington, Texas): Robert Cappel (Pleasonton, Calif.); Oreste Donzella (San Ramon, Calif.); Kara L. Sherman (San Jose, Calif.)
Assignee: KLA Corp.
Sept. 12, 2023
Vacuum Sealer And Method Of Sealing Same
Patent No. 11753196
A vacuum sealer includes: a housing comprising a vacuum chamber therein; a vacuum pump in fluid communication with the vacuum chamber; a sealing mechanism adjacent a periphery of the vacuum chamber; a valve positioned and configured to releasably seal the vacuum chamber, the valve movable between a first position, in which the valve forms a seal with the sealing chamber, and a second position, in which the valve does not form a seal with the sealing chamber; and a controller operatively connected with the vacuum pump, the sealing mechanism, and the valve. The controller is configured to move the valve from the first position to the second position during sealing.
Inventor: David Matthew Schandel (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Flower Arrangement With Solar Lights
Patent No. 11754240
Wreath is a popular home decoration or event decorations; especially during holiday season and memorial services. Traditional wreath is made of fresh flower and plant branches. Some of the modern wreath is made of plastic flower and plant branch. Some wreath even is equipped with lights for enhancing its beauty. These lights are powered by batteries or plugged into the home outlets. The connection of the power cable and the life span of the battery lift have hindered the operation of these wreaths.
Inventor: Wen Hua (Chester, Va.)
Assignee: Kaisa USA (McKenney, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Method And System For Implementing A Fast Dataset Search Using A Compressed Representation Of A Plurality Of Datasets
Patent No. 11755552
A method includes storing, by one or more processors of one or more computing devices, a plurality of datasets in a non-transitory computer memory associated with the one or more computing devices. A plurality of index representations is generated where each one of the plurality of index representations includes a compressed representation of a respective one of the plurality of datasets. The plurality of index representations is stored in the non-transitory computer memory. A sample dataset is received by the one or more processors. A sample dataset representation is generated that includes a compressed representation of the sample dataset. A determination that at least one of the plurality of datasets is most similar to the sample dataset based on the sample dataset representation and the plurality of index representations is performed.
Inventors: Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.); Mark Watson (Philadelphia, Penn.); Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.); Reza Farivar (Champaign, Ill.); Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.); Kate Key (Powhatan, Va.); Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.); Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Non-invasively Adjustable Spinal Stabilization Device
Patent No. 11744617
A spinal stabilization device that can be used to non-invasively correct spacing and curvature between at least two vertebral structures. The spinal stabilization device includes two telescoping tubes wherein ends of the two tubes can have pedicle screws that can be fastened to two or more vertebral bones. The overall length of the spinal stabilization device can be adjusted by moving the inner tube within the outer tube. Both the outer tube and the inner tube have multiple holes for receiving fasteners, wherein a fastener can be inserted through a hole in the outer tube into a hole in the inner tube for interlocking the inner tube and outer tube. The extension of the fastener into the holes and retraction from the holes can be controlled non-invasively from an external source. When the fastener is disengaged, the inner tube and the outer tube can freely move relative to each other, and the positions of the two or more vertebral bones can be non-invasively adjusted by subjecting a person to predefined movements and body posture. Upon achieving the desired positions, the fastener can be engaged to interlock the inner tube and the outer tube.
Inventors: Nazmi Peyman (Richmond); Edmond Zahedi (Burnaby, Canada)
Assignee: N/A
Sept. 5, 2023
Slide Measuring System For Filling Pouches And Associated Method
Patent No. 11744275
Systems and methods for measuring tobacco for packaging in pouches are disclosed. A system includes a hopper structured and arranged to hold a granular material in a hopper cavity. The system also includes a measuring system including a measuring cavity and a tube that is slidable in the hopper cavity between a first position unaligned with the measuring cavity and a second position over and aligned with the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to continuously communicate a vacuum to the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to move a portion of the granular material from the hopper cavity to the measuring cavity when the tube is in the first position. The measuring system is configured to move the portion of the granular material from the measuring cavity to a pouch making machine using pressurized gas that overcomes the vacuum when the tube is in the second position.
Inventors: Herbert C. Longest (Midlothian, Va.); Jarrod W. Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.); Tamika S. Murrell (Richmond); Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Va.); Travis M. Garthaffner (Midlothian, Va.); Leah A. Meyers (Midlothian,Va.); James D. Evans (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 5, 2023
Audience Responsiveness Analytics Index For Television Advertising
Patent No. 11750884
A system and methods are disclosed for creating and using an audience-responsiveness analytics index for television advertising, in particular, advertising for connected television viewing. The audience-responsiveness analytics index may be configured to provide data obtained or acquired by measuring audience responsiveness to video advertising placed in streaming content viewed over connected televisions. The audience-responsiveness analytics index may be a graph used to optimize advertising with households assigned scores for multiple categories of advertising.
Inventors: Jason Fairchild (Rolling Hills Estate, Calif.); David Koye (Richmond)
Assignee: tvScientific (Pasadena, Calif.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Systems And Methods For Managing Electronic Communications
Patent No. 11750540
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing electronic communications. According to certain embodiments, an enterprise directory is provided for listing a plurality of enterprises. In one embodiment, the enterprise directory may include an enterprise profile for each enterprise identifying, among other things, a mode of communication for the enterprise. Enterprises that wish to communicate with one another may form partnerships with one another. In one embodiment, a partnership may be formed between two enterprises when one enterprise accepts a partnership request submitted by the other enterprise. Information regarding partnerships between enterprises may be stored in a database. Further, an enterprise user may request to electronically communicate (e.g., via IM, voice, or email) with a user associated with a different enterprise. Users associated with different enterprises may be allowed to communicate electronically with one another if their respective enterprises are in a partnership with one another.
Inventors: Robert West (Chantilly, Va.); Charles G. Woods (Richmond); Andrew B. Warner (Cape Coral, Fla.); Donald Le (Herndon, Va.)
Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing (Basking Ridge, N.J.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Capsules Including Internal Filters, Heat-not-burn (HNB) Aerosol-generating Devices, And Methods Of Generating An Aerosol
Patent No. 11744288
A capsule for an aerosol-generating device may include a housing, a filter, and an aerosol-forming substrate. The housing may have a gas-permeable end and an impermeable end. The filter may be disposed within the housing so as to be adjacent to the impermeable end. The aerosol-forming substrate may be disposed within the housing so as to be between the filter and the gas-permeable end. The housing may be configured to facilitate a heating of the aerosol-forming substrate via one of conduction, convection, or both conduction and convection so as to generate an aerosol.
Inventors: Zack W. Blackmon (Williamsburg, Va.); Patrick Good (Richmond); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.); Jarrett Keen (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Mildothian, Va.); Yannick Hourmand (Haslingfield, Great Britain); Niall Gallagher (Cambridge, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 5, 2023
Steady State Resistance Estimation For Overheating Protection Of A Nicotine E-vaping Device
Patent 11744285
Various example embodiments relate to a nicotine electronic vaping device, system, method, and/or non-transitory computer readable medium for protecting a nicotine electronic vaping device from overheating based on a steady state resistance prediction. The nicotine electronic vaping device may include a reservoir containing a nicotine pre-vapor formulation, a heating element configured to heat nicotine pre-vapor formulation drawn from the reservoir, and control circuitry configured to monitor a resistance value of the heating element over a first time period after a first application of negative pressure to the nicotine electronic vaping device, determine an estimated steady state resistance value of the heating element based on the monitored resistance value using a trained neural network, and control power to the heating element based on the estimated steady state resistance value.
Inventor: Robert C. Lacovara (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 5, 2023
Tamper-evident Devices Equipped With Secure Re-image File(s)
Patent No. 11748470
A method of enhancing travel security features associated with a mobile device is provided. The method may include operating a time clock to store a start device confiscation time in a memory and to store an end device confiscation time in the memory, monitoring the mobile device to detect tampering occurring between the start device confiscation time and the end device confiscation time, and in response to the detecting of tampering, prompting the user for a secure identifier. Upon receipt of the secure identifier, the method may include opening a secure i/o pathway to a re-image file. The secure i/o pathway preferably enables execution of an executable re-image file. The re-image file may be used to re-image a software image of the mobile device. The re-image file may contain a pre-tampered image of the mobile device.
Inventors: Vijaya L. Vemireddy (Plano, Texas); Brandon Sloane (Charlotte, N.C.); Harvey Summers (Richmond); Eileen D. Bridges (Fort Mill, S.C.)
Assignee: Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Data Extraction From A Multidimensional Data Structure
Patent No. 11748381
In some implementations, a device may identify respective sets of unique values for multiple dimensions of a multidimensional data structure. The device may identify a plurality of subsets of permutations of a set of permutations of the unique values. The plurality of subsets of permutations are to be processed in parallel. The device may obtain, based on processing the plurality of subsets of permutations in parallel, respective data associated with each permutation of the plurality of subsets of permutations. The data for a permutation, of the plurality of subsets of permutations, is obtained based on respective unique values for the permutation that are determined independently of another permutation of the plurality of subsets of permutations.
Inventors: Anil Kumar Vallpureddy (Glen Allen, Va.); Richard Everson (Mechanicsville, Va.); Seshikanth Bandlapalli (Glen Allen, Va.); Michael Baker (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Regimens Of Tafenoquine For Prevention Of Malaria In Malaria-naïve Subjects
Patent No. 11744828
Methods of prevention of symptomatic malaria in a malaria-naïve, G6PD-normal human subject comprising administering to the human subject a compound of Formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I). A compound of Formula (I) can be administered prior to potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium, during potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium, and after potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium. The methods of the invention also pertains to kits comprising specific doses of Formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I), and instructions for administration of dosing quantity and frequency. The methods of the invention also pertain to determining doses of Formula (I) that meet the general regulatory requirement for a drug to be efficacious in the prevention of malaria in malaria-naïve subjects. The methods of the invention further pertain to using the described algorithm to derive dosing regimens which can provide protection against symptomatic malaria in malaria-naïve, G6PD-normal subjects. ##STR00001##
Inventors: Geoffrey S. Dow (Washington, D.C.); Bryan L. Smith (Chevy Chase, Md.); John P. Jones (Richmond); Moshe Shmuklarksy (Bethesda, Md.); Budda Balasubrahmanyam (Richmond)
Assignees: 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals (Washington, D.C.); The Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Fort Detrick, Md.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Augmented Reality Enhanced Interactive Robotic Animation
Patent No. 11747890
A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, one or more sensor(s), and a memory storing perception software and animation software, as well as an augmented reality (AR) headset including another processing hardware. The computing platform is configured to obtain an environmental data using the sensor(s), determine the location and orientation of the AR headset using the perception software and the environmental data, identify an action for execution by the computing platform, using the animation software and the location and orientation of the AR headset, and transmit performative data corresponding to the identified action to the AR headset. The AR headset is configured to receive, from the computing platform, the performative data, and to render at least one AR effect corresponding to the identified action using the performative data.
Inventors: Jeremie A. Papon (Los Angeles, Calif.); Michael Anthony Hopkins (Chesterfield, Va.); Kyle Michael Cesare (Burbank, Calif.); Georg Wiedebach (Glendale, Calif.)
Assignee: Disney Enterprises (Burbank, Calif.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Locking Mechanism
Patent No. 11745043
A lock mechanism which can be placed on a shaft, such as a bar or pole, in either a first direction or second direction, is secured to the shaft using two sets of balls which project out of apertures in an inner cylinder to frictionally engage the shaft. The balls are selectively retractable from their projecting position to allow the inner cylinder to slide on and/or be removed from the shaft. Biasing members, such as wavy springs, bias the two sides of the lock mechanism towards one another. In the locked configuration, the balls are forced by inclined surfaces within the two sides to project outwardly from the inner hollow cylinder. The inclined surfaces are aligned with two rows of apertures in the inner hollow cylinder, and they are inclined in opposite directions. Thus, either way the lock mechanism is installed or placed on the shaft, the balls will project out of the apertures in the inner hollow cylinder and will securely engage the shaft.
Inventors: David Robert Davies (Chesterfield, Va.); Hugh Anderson (Henrico, Va.); Randy Franks (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: SpeedClips (Henrico, Va.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Data Field Transaction Repair Interface
Patent No. 11748368
A method may include receiving a data file comprising receivable information associated with at least one transaction; detecting that the data file fails to conform to a defined format; separating the receivable information into a plurality of fields; receiving input identifying remittance information in the plurality of fields; reformatting the data file according to the input into a reformatted data file; and transmitting the reformatted data file for processing of the remittance information.
Inventors: Seth M. Blacher (San Francisco, Calif.); Karin L. Farnsworth (Glen Allen, Va.); Kellie L. Thomas (St. Johns, Fla.); Irvin J. Cooper (Columbia Heights, Minn.)
Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank (San Francisco, Calif.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Corrosion Control Using Organic Filmers And Passivators In Systems For Processing Nitrogen-containing Solutions
Patent No. 11746294
Methods and compositions for inhibiting corrosion of a corrodible metal surface that contact a nitrogen-containing solution. The method comprises adding a chemical treatment composition to the nitrogen-containing solution that includes an organic filmer and a passivator. The organic filmer may be a hydroxycarboxylic acid. The chemical treatment composition may further include a surface-active compound.
Inventors: Rajendra Prasad Kalakodimi (Glen Allen, Va.); Santanu Banerjee (Glen Allen, Va.); Jared Andrew Green (Owasso, Okla.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Biodegradable Cleaning Composition
Patent No. 11746307
The present invention is directed to biodegradable cleaning compositions, in particular hard surface cleaning compositions, and their use. The compositions according to the invention comprise one or more biosurfactants(s), one or more sorbitan ester(s) and one or more further surfactant(s), which is/are neither a biosurfactant nor a sorbitan ester.
Inventors: Zheng Xue (Henrico, Va.); Andras Nagy (Chester, Va.); Dennis Parrish (Sandston, Va.); Sam Christy (Selbyville, Del.); Jennifer Goodyear (Chester, Va.); Jeff Davidson (Beaverdam, Va.)
Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany)
Sept. 5, 2023
Method And System For Automatically Collecting Payment For A Credit Account
Patent No. 11748719
A method for automatically collecting payment for a credit account includes determining if a credit account is delinquent and determining the number of days the credit account is delinquent. The method includes automatically collecting a first amount from a first account if the number of days the credit account is delinquent comprises at least a first number of days and crediting the credit account the first amount. The first account may comprise a checking account, and the first number of days may comprise twenty days.
Inventors: Charles A. Rosenblatt (Sand Francisco, Calif.); Tyler C. Hobbs (Cambridge, Mass.); Frank L. Rotman (Manakin Sabot, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 5, 2023
Systems And Methods For Stabilizer Control
Patent No. 11755049
A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for controlling an electric power system, including implementation of a voltage control and conservation (VCC) system used to optimally control the independent voltage and capacitor banks using a linear optimization methodology to minimize the losses in the EEDCS and the EUS. An energy validation process system (EVP) is provided which is used to document the savings of the VCC and an EPP is used to optimize improvements to the EEDCS for continuously improving the energy losses in the EEDS. The EVP system measures the improvement in the EEDS a result of operating the VCC system in the “ON” state determining the level of energy conservation achieved by the VCC system. In addition the VCC system monitors pattern recognition events and compares them to the report-by-exception data to detect HVL events. If one is detected the VCC optimizes the capacity of the EEDS to respond to the HVL events by centering the piecewise linear solution maximizing the ability of the EDDS to absorb the HVL event. The VCC stabilizer function integrates voltage data from AMI meters and assess the state of the grid and initiates appropriate voltage control actions to hedge against predictable voltage risks.
Inventors: Stephen J. Tyler (Henrico, Va.); Phillip W. Powell (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Dominion Energy (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Low Ignition Propensity Cigarette Paper And Manufacture Thereof
Patent No. 11751601
A wrapper of a smoking article includes a base web and at least one transverse banded region. The banded region includes a first zone, a second zone and a third zone of add-on material. The second zone has about 25% to about 75% less add-on material than the first zone and the third zone. The banded region is about 5 mm to about 9 mm wide and the second zone is centrally located between the first zone and the third zone. The second zone includes a plurality of dots of the add-on material spaced from adjacent dots in the second zone by a distance greater than a distance between adjacent dots in the first zone and the third zone.
Inventor: Michael H. Lee (Rogersville, Tenn.)
Assignee: Altria Client Service (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Flavor Carriers For Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 11751599
A cartridge of an electronic vaping device includes a flavor carrier. The flavor carrier includes an outer housing extending in a longitudinal direction, an inner housing extending in the longitudinal direction, and a flavor chamber between the outer housing and the inner housing. The outer housing includes at least one outer housing perforation defined in a wall of the outer housing. The inner housing includes at least one inner housing perforation defined in a wall of the inner housing. The flavor chamber is configured to contain a flavoring material.
Inventors: Ali A. Rostami (Glen Allen, Va.); Dmitriy S. Kirzhner (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Yezdi Pithawalla (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Heating Engine Control Algorithm For Non-nicotine E-vapor Device
Patent No. 11751606
A method of controlling a heater of a device including a removable container that stores a material includes detecting, from the removable container, power information indicating a first operating point and a second operating point; and supplying power to the heater based on the detected power information by, determining a first amount of power based on the first operating point, supplying the first amount of power to the heater during a first operation mode of the heater, determining a second amount of power based on the second operating point, and supplying the second amount of power to the heater during a second operation mode of the heater, the second amount of power being higher than the first amount of power, the device being a non-nicotine e-vaping device or a heat-not-burn aerosol-generating device, the material being a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation or an aerosol-forming substrate.
Inventors: Niall Gallagher (Richmond); William Wykeham (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.); Terry Bache (Richmond); Rangarag S. Sundar (Richmond); Jarrett Keen (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Lubricating Compositions For A Hybrid Engine
Patent No. 11753599
The present disclosure relates to methods for improving phosphorus retention and improving antiwear performance in an internal combustion engine of a hybrid vehicle, comprising lubricating the internal combustion engine of the hybrid vehicle with a lubricating oil composition comprising: greater than 50 wt. % of a base oil of lubricating viscosity; and an amount of one or more zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate compound(s) sufficient to provide: from about 100 ppmw phosphorus to about 1000 ppmw phosphorus, based on a total weight of the lubricating oil composition; and from about 10 ppmw zinc to about 1200 ppmw zinc, based on the total weight of the lubricating oil composition.
Inventors: Huifang Shao (Moseley, Va.); Mark Devlin (Glen Allen, Va.); Paul Ransom (Huddersfield, Great Britain); Guillaume Carpentier (Bracknell, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Aerosol-generating Device With Integral Heater Assembly
Patent No. 11754280
An electrically heated aerosol-generating device is configured for use with a consumable cartridge including a storage portion containing an aerosol-forming substrate and having a fluid permeable internal surface surrounding an open-ended passage extending through the cartridge. The device includes a housing having a cavity for receiving the cartridge and a heater assembly positioned in the cavity. The heater assembly includes an electrically conductive hollow shaft portion connected to the housing and an electric heater positioned along the hollow shaft portion and having at least one heating element for heating the aerosol-forming substrate. The hollow shaft portion defines an airflow passage forming part of an airflow pathway through the device and is arranged to extend into the open-ended passage of the cartridge. The hollow shaft portion comprises a plurality of apertures, and the heating element is one or more narrow regions of the hollow shaft portion between adjacent apertures.
Inventors: Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland); Laurent Manca (Sullens, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Car Seat Alarm System
Patent No. 11752900
A car seat alarm system including a weight-sensor plate assembly, a power source, a dashboard sensor, and a portable device including a speaker. The weight-sensor plate assembly is positioned and configured to detect a weight of a child in a car seat. The weight-sensor plate assembly is in communication with the dashboard sensor including a transceiver. The dashboard or visor sensor is configured to communicate that a child is present within the car seat. The dashboard sensor is in wireless communication with the portable device such as a key fob or smartphone. The dashboard sensor is configured to activate an alarm through the speaker when the portable device extends past a pre-determined proximity range from the dashboard sensor is reached and if the weight of the child is present within the car seat.
Inventor: Wanda McLaughlin (Richmond)
Assignee: N/A
Sept. 12, 2023
Electronic Vaping Device Having Pressure Sensor
Patent No. 11751608
At least one example embodiment discloses a section of an electronic-vaping device including a pressure sensor configured to measure a current ambient pressure, the pressure sensor further configured to output the current ambient pressure measurement in accordance with a read request frequency, and a controller configured to determine a mode of operation of the electronic-vaping device, control the read request frequency based on the determined mode of operation, and detect a threshold pressure change based on the current ambient pressure and a baseline pressure.
Inventors: Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Phillip Diana (Richmond); Sean Sundberg (Richmond); David Bennett (Richmond); Christopher Tucker (Midlothian, Va.);
Barry S. Smith (Richmond); Edmond J. Cadieux (Mechanicsville, Va.); Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.); Paul Butler (Metheun, Mass.); Jarrett Keen (Richmond); Patrick Cobler (Richmond); Kai Cao (Somerville, Mass.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Gas-based Material Compression And Portioning
Patent No. 11753190
An apparatus configured to provide portioned instances of a compressible material includes a channel assembly, a gas source, a cutting assembly, and a discharge assembly. The channel assembly holds a bulk instance of the material extending through upper and lower channels of a continuous channel. The gas source supplies gas to compress the bulk instance. The cutting assembly moves in relation to the channel assembly to isolate the upper and lower channels, severing upper and lower material portions of the bulk instance. The discharge assembly directs gas to impinge on a lower face of the cutting assembly to discharge the lower material portion as a portioned instance. The channel assembly may be moveable, where operation of the gas source, cutting assembly, and/or discharge assembly are based on moving the channel assembly between various positions. The gas supply may be controlled based on a determined property of the portioned instance.
Inventors: Dwight David Williams (Powhatan, Va.); James David Evans (Chesterfield, Va.); Patrick Sean McElhinney (Chesterfield, Va.); Jarrod Wayne Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 12, 2023
Systems, Methods And Computer Readable Medium For Wireless Solicitations
Patent No. 11756066
Product offering systems are provided. Product offering systems may include sending an offer to a customer that possesses a mobile computing device and has agreed to receive offers for products via the mobile computing device. Agreeing to receive offers would result in the unique data about the customer being available to offer provider. Unique customer data may include data related to the customers wireless service provider or from a financial account in a financial institution, and collecting customer data about the customer, wherein the customer data comprises financial data and personal data. Product offering systems may further include registering a wireless computing device of the customer to able the device to receive the offer, and determining opportunities to send the offer to the customer by monitoring the customer and the customer data. Product offering systems may also include sending the offer to the customer’s registered device based on the determination of opportunities.
Inventors: Richard Comerford (Glen Allen, Va.); Joseph M. DeFilippo (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Vacuum Sealer And Method Of Sealing Same
Patent No. 11753196
A vacuum sealer includes: a housing comprising a vacuum chamber therein; a vacuum pump in fluid communication with the vacuum chamber; a sealing mechanism adjacent a periphery of the vacuum chamber; a valve positioned and configured to releasably seal the vacuum chamber, the valve movable between a first position, in which the valve forms a seal with the sealing chamber, and a second position, in which the valve does not form a seal with the sealing chamber; and a controller operatively connected with the vacuum pump, the sealing mechanism, and the valve. The controller is configured to move the valve from the first position to the second position during sealing.
Inventor: David Matthew Schandel (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Cable Broom
Patent No. 11751677
A gutter broom is provided. The gutter broom can include one or more block segments, each block segment having openings in which bristles are positioned. The bristles can have a first stiffness or a second stiffness different than the first stiffness. Bristles having the second stiffness can be positioned radially outward of bristles having the first stiffness on a block segment.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co. (Henrico, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Compact Material Collection System
Patent No. 11753784
A material collection system includes a conduit, a vacuum generator coupled to the conduit, an engine powering the vacuum generator, and a container mounted to a chassis of a vehicle. The vacuum generator generates airflow for drawing material into a material inlet of the conduit. The container receives collected material from the conduit. The material collection container can receive collected material from the conduit. The control system can include a load sensor and a controller in electrical communication with the load sensor. The load sensor can detect a load applied by the collected material received in the material collection container and transmit an output signal indicating the load applied by the collected material. The controller can determine a weight of the collected material received in the material collection container based on the output signal and determine an aggregate weight of the vehicle using the determined weight of the collected material.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co.
Sept. 12, 2023
System And Method For Securely Hosting Multiple Network Operators In A Shared Spectrum Access System On A Single Virtual Base Station Environment
Patent No. 11758423
Disclosed is a virtual base station capable of hosting multiple network operators and/or private networks in a single compute environment. The virtual base station includes a plurality of virtual baseband processors configured to communicate with the plurality of mobile network operators, a supervisor module, a fronthaul network interface configured to be coupled to one or more remote units, and a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) coordinator module coupled to the supervisor module and the one or more virtual baseband processors. The base station may have on or more CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) Daemons to act as a proxy for obtaining grants to CBRS channels and allocating the CBRS channels to the mobile network operators.
Inventors: Massimo Notargiacomo (Castel Bolognese, Italy); Todd Landry (Grayslake, Ill.); Jeffrey Masters (Ashland, Va.); Roberto Orlandini (Budrio, Italy); Jeffrey Courington (Chester, Va.); Francesco Foresta (Faenza, Italy); Stephen Turner (Mechanicsville, Va.); Alessandro Pagani (San Giovanni, Italy); Domenico Di Iorio (Ravenna, Italy); Kurt Jacobs (Lake Bluff, Ill.); Patrick Henkle (Homer Glen, Ill.); Vishal Agrawal (Vernon Hills, Ill.); Sasi Eswaravaka (Round Lake, Ill.); Paul Stath (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates (Liverpool, N.Y.)
Sept. 12, 2023
System And Method For Identifying Latent Reliability Defects In Semiconductor Devices
Patent No. 11754625
A system and method for identifying latent reliability defects (LRD) in semiconductor devices are configured to perform one or more stress tests with one or more stress test tools on at least some of a plurality of wafers received from one or more in-line sample analysis tools to determine a passing set of the plurality of wafers and a failing set of the plurality of wafers, perform a reliability hit-back analysis on at least some of the failing set of the plurality of wafers, analyze the reliability hit-back analysis to determine one or more geographic locations of one or more die fail chains caused by one or more latent reliability defects (LRD), and perform a geographic hit-back analysis on the one or more geographic locations of the one or more die fail chains caused by the LRD.
Inventors: David W. Price (Austin, Texas); Robert J. Rathert (Mechanicsville, Va.); Chet V. Lenox (Lexington, Texas): Robert Cappel (Pleasonton, Calif.); Oreste Donzella (San Ramon, Calif.); Kara L. Sherman (San Jose, Calif.)
Assignee: KLA Corp.
Sept. 12, 2023
Vacuum Sealer And Method Of Sealing Same
Patent No. 11753196
A vacuum sealer includes: a housing comprising a vacuum chamber therein; a vacuum pump in fluid communication with the vacuum chamber; a sealing mechanism adjacent a periphery of the vacuum chamber; a valve positioned and configured to releasably seal the vacuum chamber, the valve movable between a first position, in which the valve forms a seal with the sealing chamber, and a second position, in which the valve does not form a seal with the sealing chamber; and a controller operatively connected with the vacuum pump, the sealing mechanism, and the valve. The controller is configured to move the valve from the first position to the second position during sealing.
Inventor: David Matthew Schandel (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Flower Arrangement With Solar Lights
Patent No. 11754240
Wreath is a popular home decoration or event decorations; especially during holiday season and memorial services. Traditional wreath is made of fresh flower and plant branches. Some of the modern wreath is made of plastic flower and plant branch. Some wreath even is equipped with lights for enhancing its beauty. These lights are powered by batteries or plugged into the home outlets. The connection of the power cable and the life span of the battery lift have hindered the operation of these wreaths.
Inventor: Wen Hua (Chester, Va.)
Assignee: Kaisa USA (McKenney, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023
Method And System For Implementing A Fast Dataset Search Using A Compressed Representation Of A Plurality Of Datasets
Patent No. 11755552
A method includes storing, by one or more processors of one or more computing devices, a plurality of datasets in a non-transitory computer memory associated with the one or more computing devices. A plurality of index representations is generated where each one of the plurality of index representations includes a compressed representation of a respective one of the plurality of datasets. The plurality of index representations is stored in the non-transitory computer memory. A sample dataset is received by the one or more processors. A sample dataset representation is generated that includes a compressed representation of the sample dataset. A determination that at least one of the plurality of datasets is most similar to the sample dataset based on the sample dataset representation and the plurality of index representations is performed.
Inventors: Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.); Mark Watson (Philadelphia, Penn.); Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.); Reza Farivar (Champaign, Ill.); Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.); Kate Key (Powhatan, Va.); Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.); Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 12, 2023