Element For An Aerosol-generating System Comprising Disabling Mechanism
Patent No. 11864591
An element for an aerosol-generating system, a cartridge for an aerosol-generating system, and an aerosol-generating system, wherein the element, the cartridge and the aerosol-generating system each include a storage portion for storing an aerosol-forming substrate and a manually operated disabling mechanism for rendering the element, the cartridge, or the aerosol-generating system irreversibly inoperable. The element, the cartridge, and the aerosol-generating system may include an aerosol generator and one or more air passages. The disabling mechanism may be configured to render at least one of the storage portion, the aerosol generator, and the one or more air passages irreversibly inoperable.
Inventor: Tony Reevell (London, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device Having Formulation Level Indicator
Patent No. 11865251
The e-vaping device includes a vaporizer assembly, which includes a heating element, a pre-vapor formulation reservoir, a pre-vapor formulation level indicator including a plurality of discrete indicator segments, and at least one processor. The pre-vapor formulation reservoir may be configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation and the at least one processor may be configured to determine a difference between a first duty cycle of power supplied to the heating element and a second duty cycle of power supplied to the heating element; and adjust the indicator based on the determined duty cycle difference.
Inventors: Terrance Theodore Bache (Richmond); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
Oral Product
Patent No. 11864578
An oral product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-soluble polymer matrix, cellulosic fibers embedded in the mouth-soluble polymer matrix, and nicotine or a derivative thereof dispersed in the mouth-soluble polymer matrix. The oral product is adapted to release the nicotine or a derivative thereof from the body when the body is received within the oral cavity and exposed to saliva.
Inventors: Feng Gao (Midlothian, Va.); Frank Scott Atchley (Tarpon Springs, Fla.); Gregory Griscik (Midlothian, Va.); Christopher Joseph Dinovi (Ruther Glen, Va.); Phillip M. Hulan (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
Method Of Installing Mounting System With Insertable Brackets And Support Brackets
Patent No. 11864649
The method includes sliding at least one first slideable bracket onto at least one first crossbar, inserting a first insertable bracket and a second insertable bracket into a first cavity and a second cavity on respective ends of the at least one first crossbar, connecting a first support bracket and a second support bracket onto a first vertical upright and a second vertical upright of a consumer product display, the first vertical upright and the second vertical upright opposing each other on the consumer product display, and attaching the first insertable bracket and the second insertable bracket to the first support bracket and the second support bracket, respectively.
Inventors: James Buck (Richmond); Greg Gannon (Richmond); Dennis Polvere (Richmond); Adam P. Kiteley (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
Facilitating Responding To Multiple Product Or Service Reviews Associated With Multiple Sources
Patent No. 11869050
A monitoring platform may obtain information that identifies a product or service and may collect one or more reviews associated with the product or service from a plurality of sources, wherein each review includes respective review information. The monitoring platform may process the one or more reviews to determine respective additional review information associated with each review of the one or more reviews. The monitoring platform may select, using a machine learning model, a particular review, of the one or more reviews, based on the review information and the additional review information associated with the one or more reviews. The monitoring platform may cause display, on a display of a client device, of a prompt for a response to the particular review and may obtain the response from the client device. The monitoring platform may cause the response to be posted to a source associated with the particular review.
Inventors: Jerry Wagner (Chesterfield, Va.); Mario Munoz (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Heterogeneous Fiber Fluid Reservoirs
Patent No. 11865857
The instant disclosure is directed to a heterogeneous fiber fluid reservoir for holding and delivering fluid. A reservoir may comprise a rod having a core component and a surrounding component. Each of the core component and the surrounding component may comprise fibers. The core component may have a first property, and the surrounding component may have a second property different from the first property, or the core component and the surrounding component may each have a different value or range of values for the same property. Alternatively, a reservoir may comprise a rod that includes fibers and has a cross-sectional diameter. At least one property of the rod may vary in value along the cross-sectional diameter of the rod. The property may include, for example, fiber bulk density, fiber diameter, fiber material, fiber morphology, fiber surface tension, capillary force, fluid absorption capacity, color, or combinations thereof.
Inventors: David Bradley Harris (Midlothian, Va.); Kevin Sporrer (Sharpsburg, Ga.); Janie Wiezbicki (Richmond); Rondal Eugene Billups (Mechanicsville, Va.); Yelena Rogova (Richmond); Thomas E. Harris (Colonial Heights, Va.); Qiang Zhou (Moseley, Va.); Timothy Allen Martin (Newnan, Ga.); Zingguo Li (Peachtree, Ga.); Guoqiang Mao (Peachtree City, Ga.)
Assignee: Porex Technologies Corp. (Colonial Heights, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Tip Device For Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 11864586
A tip device for an electronic vaping device may include a first conduit structure and a second conduit structure. The first conduit structure may be configured to direct a generated vapor through a first conduit. The second conduit structure may be configured to direct an air flow from an ambient environment through a second conduit. The second conduit structure may include an additive material on a surface of the second conduit structure, the additive material including an additive, the additive material configured to release the additive into the air flow directed through the second conduit. An interposing structure of the first conduit structure and the second conduit structure may physically isolate the additive material from the first conduit, such that the additive material is configured to release the additive into the air flow directed through the second conduit independently of the generated vapor directed through the first conduit.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Va.); Raymond Lau (Richmond); Zack Blackmon (Richmond); Kelli McKenna (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
User Interfaces For Sharing An Account With Another User Identity
Patent No. 11868461
The present disclosure generally relates to displaying a user interface for sharing an account associated with a first user identity with a second user identity. The user interface includes a first sharing option and a second sharing option. One or more inputs corresponding to a request to share the account are detected. If the one or more inputs include a selection of the first sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a joint owner of the account is transmitted. If the one or more inputs include a selection of the second sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a participant of the account without becoming a joint owner of the account is transmitted.
Inventors: Mischa McLachlan (San Francisco, Calif.); Steven Eastcott (Mountain View, Calif.); Brian Jett (San Francisco, Calif.); Katie McIndoe (San Jose, Calif.); Thomas John Miller (San Jose, Calif.); Ashish Chandrakant Nagre (Sunnyvale, Calif.); Rachel Reddy (Morris Plains, N.J.); Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.); Vinay Ventatesh (San Jose, Calif.); Haya Iris Villanueva Gaviola (San Jose, Calif.); Nicole Marie Weaver (Chesterfield, Va.); Jennifer Bailey (Los Altos Hills, Calif.); Corey Fugman (Saratoga, Calif.); Richard Heard (San Francisco, Calif.); Akila Suresh (San Jose, Calif.)
Assignee: Apple Inc (Cupertino, Calif.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Devices And Methods For Selective Contactless Communication
Patent No. 11868988
A card having an antenna, one or processors, and memory having stored thereon a first application and a second application configured to receive an input of the card and determine a request associated with the input. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a contactless EuroPay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) data standard, the first application. The first application is configured to communicate, via near field communication (NFC), data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the EMV data standard for payment purposes. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a near field communication data exchange format (NDEF) standard, the second application. The second application is configured to communicate, via NFC, data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the NDEF standard for verification/identification purposes.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Kaitlin J. Newman (Washington, D.C.); Wayne David Lutz (Fort Washington, Md.); Kevin Grant Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.); Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Intelligent Services For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 11868237
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
Inventors: Muralidharan Balasubramanian (Gaithersburg, Md.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.); Julie Dallen (Vienna, Va.); David Watson (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Vapor-permeable, Substantially Water-impermeable Multilayer Article
Patent No. 11866863
This disclosure relates to an article that includes a nonwoven substrate and a film supported by the nonwoven substrate. The film can include a first polymer and a polymer that is immiscible with the first polymer. The first polymer can include a polyolefin and the second polymer can include a polycycloolefin, a polymethylpentene, or a copolymer thereof.
Inventor: Mehdi Afshari (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Berry Global (Evansville, Ill.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Sterile Dental Setup Pack
Patent No. 11864966
A system and method for forming a sterile dental pack is disclosed. The method includes preparing a first wrap and a second wrap; arranging a plurality of dental disposable supplies on the first wrap; and wrapping the plurality of dental disposable supplies within the first wrap and the second wrap to form an airtight container. Also disclosed is a sterile dental pack dispensing system. The sterile dental pack dispensing system may include a storage container with an opening, the storage container being configured to store a wrapped sterile dental pack; an output configured to receive the wrapped sterile dental pack from the storage container; and a fiber optic indicator configured to cause the wrapped sterile dental pack to move from the storage container to the output through the opening.
Inventors: Paula Evette Nesbitt (Hopewell, Va.); Jarrett Anthony Scott (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Assignee: N/A
Jan. 9, 2023
Demand-based Water Distribution And Management Systems And Methods
Patent No. 11869101
Systems and methods for demand-based water distribution and management are disclosed. The system may determine a first price for each water distributor of a plurality of water distributors based on a plurality of demand factors. The system may transmit a plurality of water distributor locations to a first customer device, each location associated with a respective water distributor. The system may receive a selection of a first water distributor location from the first customer device and, in response, transmit directions to the first water distributor location to the first customer device. In response to the first customer device being authenticated by a first water-distribution device associated with the first water distributor, the system may transmit a signal to the first water-distribution device to transition to an unlocked state to allow the first customer to make a first purchase of water at a first price.
Inventor: Cyrus Kump II (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: N/A
Jan. 9, 2024
Optimize Shopping Route Using Purchase Embeddings
Patent No. 11869063
Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses that provide new capabilities for recommending purchases to a user based on the user’s past purchasing history and the purchase history of others. A new descriptor referred to as “purchase embeddings” is disclosed, which are data records in a new multi-dimensional space for describing and tracking purchases of goods and services.
Inventors: Kate Key (Powhatan, Va.); Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.); Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.); Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.); Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.); Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Extreme Pressure Additives With Improved Copper Corrosion
Patent No. 11873461
A sulfurized extreme pressure additive and lubricant including the same providing good copper corrosion and seal compatibility.
Inventors: David Edwards (Richmond); LeAnna Hobbs (O’Fallon, Mo.); Magdalena Makowska (Richmond); Jon Jacoby (Millstadt, Ill.)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Air Intake Assembly
Patent No. 11871784
A vapor generator assembly for an e-vaping device may include a reservoir configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation, a vaporizer assembly configured to heat pre-vapor formulation drawn from the reservoir to form a vapor, and an air intake assembly configured to direct ambient air into the vaporizer assembly. The air intake assembly may at least partially define an air inlet that extends at least partially around an outer surface of the vapor generator assembly. The air inlet may be an arcuate air inlet or an annular air inlet. The air intake assembly may at least partially define an inlet channel extending from the air inlet into an interior of the vapor generator assembly to at least partially establish fluid communication between the arcuate air inlet and the vaporizer assembly. The inlet channel may extend coaxially in relation to a longitudinal axis of the vapor generator assembly.
Inventors: Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Mik Dahl (Lapu-Lapu, Philippines); Jon Jarantilla (Lapu-Lapu, Philippines); Galen Salvador (Lapu-Lapu, Philippines); Jose Jesus Paola Montalvan (Manduae, Philippines); Jeroen Kok (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Cloud Infrastructure Optimization
Patent No. 11874757
A processor may receive at least one test application corresponding to an application profile. The processor may simulate the at least one test application in a non-production environment for a plurality of infrastructure configurations to generate a plurality of test performance results. The processor may evaluate the plurality of test performance results to identify an optimal infrastructure configuration from among the plurality of infrastructure configurations for the application profile. The processor may apply the optimal infrastructure configuration to an application corresponding to the application profile that is deployed in a production environment.
Inventors: Jonathan H. Bryant (McLean, Va.); Jagadesh V. Gadiyaram (Richmond); Thomas Caputo (Arlington, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Service (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 16, 2024
Smoking Article With Manually Releasable Odorant
Patent No. 11871780
A smoking article has an outer surface and a plurality of frangible microcapsules provided on the outer surface, wherein the microcapsules are capable of being manually ruptured by a consumer to release an odorant encapsulated therein. The smoking article preferably comprises a wrapped tobacco rod; and a filter attached to the wrapped tobacco rod by tipping paper, a mouth end portion of which is “over tipped” with a band or strip of “Peel and Sniff” microcapsules and/or a band or strip of “Scratch and Sniff” microcapsules.
Inventors: Clement Besso (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Anne Wyss-Peters (Lausanne, Switzerland); Charles Kuersteiner (Jouxens-Mezery, Switzerland)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Elongate Heater For An Electrically Heated Aerosol-generating System
Patent No. 11871788
An electrically heated aerosol-generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes a heating element including a first electrically conductive element electrically insulated from a second electrically conductive element by an electrically insulating portion. The first and second elements are elongate and are electrically connected to each other by an electrically resistive portion. At least one electrically conductive element and the electrically resistive portion are arranged such that they are at least partially in contact with the aerosol-forming substrate.
Inventors: Olivier Greim (Villars-Burquin, Switzerland); Julien Plojoux (Geneva, Switzerland); Dani Ruscio (Cressier, Switzerland)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Genetic Locus Imparting A Low Anatabine Trait In Tobacco And Methods Of Using
Patent No. 11873500
Provided herein are genetic markers and a coding sequence associated with a low- or ultra-low anatabine trait in tobacco.
Inventors: Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.); Alec J. Hayes (Chesterfield, Va.); Robert Frank Hart (Midlothian, Va.); Yanxin Shen (Glen Allen, Va.); Jesse Frederick (Richmond); Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
E-vaping Cartridge And Device
Patent No. 11871792
Example embodiments relate to a cartridge including a housing, a pre-vapor formulation reservoir configured to store a pre-vapor formulation in the housing, a vaporizer, and an airflow diverter. The vaporizer may be configured to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation. The vaporizer may include a heater and a wick, the wick may be in fluid communication with the pre-vapor formulation reservoir, and the heater may be configured to vaporize at least a portion of the pre-vapor formulation in the wick to form a vapor. The heater may be positioned in a transverse direction in the housing, and the airflow diverter may be located on an opposite side of the heater relative to a mouth-end portion.
Inventor: David Kane (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Susceptor For Use With An Inductively Heated Aerosol-generating Device Or System
Patent No. 11871790
An inductively heatable susceptor for use with an inductively heated aerosol-generating device or system includes an open-porous inductively heatable ceramic material configured to hold an aerosol-forming liquid and configured to heat the aerosol-forming liquid under the influence of an alternating electromagnetic field. A cartridge for use with an aerosol-generating device includes an aerosol-forming liquid and a susceptor. An aerosol-generating device includes a susceptor.
Inventors: Jerome Courbat (Colombier, Switzerland); Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland); Oleg Mironov (Cudrefin, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Systems And Methods For Providing A Separate Interest Rate For An Individual Transaction
Patent No. 11875399
Systems and methods for providing a separate interest rate for an individual transaction are disclosed. A system may provide a service associated with a account having an account balance and an associated first interest rate. The system may include a service device having one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform a separate interest rate service process. The process may include providing a separate interest rate service offer to a client device and receiving a separate interest rate selection from the client device. The process may also include determining a selected portion of the account balance corresponding to an amount to which a second interest rate, different from the first interest rate, is to be applied based on the separate interest rate selection.
Inventors: Marcie Apelt (Richmond); Megan Edds (Glen Allen, Va.); Keith Barron (Henrico, Va.); Ashley Gibbs (Richmond); Matthew Vischulis (Vienna, Va.); Carl Ashby (Montpelier, Va.); Baining Hu (Vienna, Va.); Yi Liu (Oakton, Va.); David Schardt (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 16, 2024
Computer-based Platforms And Systems Configured To Enhance A Call Screen With User-controlled Notes Associated With The Call And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 11874918
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include steps of obtaining a permission from the user to monitor a plurality of activities executed within the computing device; continually monitoring the plurality of activities executed within the computing device for a predetermined period of time; identifying an indication of an incoming interaction session within the predetermined period of time; verifying at least one session interaction parameter associated with the incoming interaction session to identify the incoming interaction session as a repeat interaction session; dynamically retrieving at least one relation-specific notation from a plurality of relation-specific notations to display; instructing an input GUI element to display input data associated with the repeat interaction; automatically updating the plurality of relation-specific notations associated with the historical data relationship; and instructing at least one programmable output GUI to display a notification identifying the update of the plurality of relation-specific notations.
Inventors: Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (New York, N.Y.); Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.); Shabnam Kousha (Washington, D.C.); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 16, 2024
Systems And Methods For Facilitating Candidate Interviews
Patent No. 11875312
A system for determining candidate answers during an interview. The system may include a memory storing executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include capturing, by an image sensor, a plurality of images comprising a plurality of candidate answers; detecting, based on the captured images, a first bounding box comprising the plurality of the candidate answers; detecting, based on the captured images, a second bounding box comprising a plurality of alphanumeric characters, a first one of the alphanumeric characters being located on a line of software code; calculating a distance from a side of a first bounding box to a side of a second bounding box; and determining, based on the calculated distance, a source code alignment.
Inventors: Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.); Kate Key (Powhatan, Va.); Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.); Reza Farivar (Champaign, Ill.); Vincent Pham (McLean, Va.); Austin Walters (Champaign, Ill.); Mark Watson (Sedona, Ariz.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 16, 2024
Shaped Elastomeric Container With Integrated Leak Resistant Seal And Pressure Shield
Patent No. 11873143
A container made of an elastomer such as silicone with an integrated leak resistant seal and pressure shield. The seal incorporates press-fit elements with sizes and shapes sufficient to provide a strong seal that resists leakage of liquids from inside the container. The seal is integrated into the container and requires no external clips or clasps. The pressure shield increases leak resistance by at least 300% and is formed by adding material to the inside of the container and not to the engaging portions of the seal and works by deflecting pressure away from the two leak resistant seal portions. Additional features are provided to facilitate opening such as extended flaps for pulling the sides open, and asymmetric cavities for press-fit elements to reduce the initial opening force. The container itself may be of asymmetrical shape, such as trapezoidal, to provide a wide opening along with a strong seal.
Inventors: Paul Maguire (Goochland, Va.); Katousha Ghaemi Nouri (Emeryville, Calif.); Angelo Carpinelli (Emeryville, Calif.); Bryan Kin Fo Au (Hong Kong, China)
Assignee: Stasher Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.)
Jan. 16, 2024
Element For An Aerosol-generating System Comprising Disabling Mechanism
Patent No. 11864591
An element for an aerosol-generating system, a cartridge for an aerosol-generating system, and an aerosol-generating system, wherein the element, the cartridge and the aerosol-generating system each include a storage portion for storing an aerosol-forming substrate and a manually operated disabling mechanism for rendering the element, the cartridge, or the aerosol-generating system irreversibly inoperable. The element, the cartridge, and the aerosol-generating system may include an aerosol generator and one or more air passages. The disabling mechanism may be configured to render at least one of the storage portion, the aerosol generator, and the one or more air passages irreversibly inoperable.
Inventor: Tony Reevell (London, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device Having Formulation Level Indicator
Patent No. 11865251
The e-vaping device includes a vaporizer assembly, which includes a heating element, a pre-vapor formulation reservoir, a pre-vapor formulation level indicator including a plurality of discrete indicator segments, and at least one processor. The pre-vapor formulation reservoir may be configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation and the at least one processor may be configured to determine a difference between a first duty cycle of power supplied to the heating element and a second duty cycle of power supplied to the heating element; and adjust the indicator based on the determined duty cycle difference.
Inventors: Terrance Theodore Bache (Richmond); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
Oral Product
Patent No. 11864578
An oral product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-soluble polymer matrix, cellulosic fibers embedded in the mouth-soluble polymer matrix, and nicotine or a derivative thereof dispersed in the mouth-soluble polymer matrix. The oral product is adapted to release the nicotine or a derivative thereof from the body when the body is received within the oral cavity and exposed to saliva.
Inventors: Feng Gao (Midlothian, Va.); Frank Scott Atchley (Tarpon Springs, Fla.); Gregory Griscik (Midlothian, Va.); Christopher Joseph Dinovi (Ruther Glen, Va.); Phillip M. Hulan (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
Method Of Installing Mounting System With Insertable Brackets And Support Brackets
Patent No. 11864649
The method includes sliding at least one first slideable bracket onto at least one first crossbar, inserting a first insertable bracket and a second insertable bracket into a first cavity and a second cavity on respective ends of the at least one first crossbar, connecting a first support bracket and a second support bracket onto a first vertical upright and a second vertical upright of a consumer product display, the first vertical upright and the second vertical upright opposing each other on the consumer product display, and attaching the first insertable bracket and the second insertable bracket to the first support bracket and the second support bracket, respectively.
Inventors: James Buck (Richmond); Greg Gannon (Richmond); Dennis Polvere (Richmond); Adam P. Kiteley (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
Facilitating Responding To Multiple Product Or Service Reviews Associated With Multiple Sources
Patent No. 11869050
A monitoring platform may obtain information that identifies a product or service and may collect one or more reviews associated with the product or service from a plurality of sources, wherein each review includes respective review information. The monitoring platform may process the one or more reviews to determine respective additional review information associated with each review of the one or more reviews. The monitoring platform may select, using a machine learning model, a particular review, of the one or more reviews, based on the review information and the additional review information associated with the one or more reviews. The monitoring platform may cause display, on a display of a client device, of a prompt for a response to the particular review and may obtain the response from the client device. The monitoring platform may cause the response to be posted to a source associated with the particular review.
Inventors: Jerry Wagner (Chesterfield, Va.); Mario Munoz (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Heterogeneous Fiber Fluid Reservoirs
Patent No. 11865857
The instant disclosure is directed to a heterogeneous fiber fluid reservoir for holding and delivering fluid. A reservoir may comprise a rod having a core component and a surrounding component. Each of the core component and the surrounding component may comprise fibers. The core component may have a first property, and the surrounding component may have a second property different from the first property, or the core component and the surrounding component may each have a different value or range of values for the same property. Alternatively, a reservoir may comprise a rod that includes fibers and has a cross-sectional diameter. At least one property of the rod may vary in value along the cross-sectional diameter of the rod. The property may include, for example, fiber bulk density, fiber diameter, fiber material, fiber morphology, fiber surface tension, capillary force, fluid absorption capacity, color, or combinations thereof.
Inventors: David Bradley Harris (Midlothian, Va.); Kevin Sporrer (Sharpsburg, Ga.); Janie Wiezbicki (Richmond); Rondal Eugene Billups (Mechanicsville, Va.); Yelena Rogova (Richmond); Thomas E. Harris (Colonial Heights, Va.); Qiang Zhou (Moseley, Va.); Timothy Allen Martin (Newnan, Ga.); Zingguo Li (Peachtree, Ga.); Guoqiang Mao (Peachtree City, Ga.)
Assignee: Porex Technologies Corp. (Colonial Heights, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Tip Device For Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 11864586
A tip device for an electronic vaping device may include a first conduit structure and a second conduit structure. The first conduit structure may be configured to direct a generated vapor through a first conduit. The second conduit structure may be configured to direct an air flow from an ambient environment through a second conduit. The second conduit structure may include an additive material on a surface of the second conduit structure, the additive material including an additive, the additive material configured to release the additive into the air flow directed through the second conduit. An interposing structure of the first conduit structure and the second conduit structure may physically isolate the additive material from the first conduit, such that the additive material is configured to release the additive into the air flow directed through the second conduit independently of the generated vapor directed through the first conduit.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Va.); Raymond Lau (Richmond); Zack Blackmon (Richmond); Kelli McKenna (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 9, 2024
User Interfaces For Sharing An Account With Another User Identity
Patent No. 11868461
The present disclosure generally relates to displaying a user interface for sharing an account associated with a first user identity with a second user identity. The user interface includes a first sharing option and a second sharing option. One or more inputs corresponding to a request to share the account are detected. If the one or more inputs include a selection of the first sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a joint owner of the account is transmitted. If the one or more inputs include a selection of the second sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a participant of the account without becoming a joint owner of the account is transmitted.
Inventors: Mischa McLachlan (San Francisco, Calif.); Steven Eastcott (Mountain View, Calif.); Brian Jett (San Francisco, Calif.); Katie McIndoe (San Jose, Calif.); Thomas John Miller (San Jose, Calif.); Ashish Chandrakant Nagre (Sunnyvale, Calif.); Rachel Reddy (Morris Plains, N.J.); Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.); Vinay Ventatesh (San Jose, Calif.); Haya Iris Villanueva Gaviola (San Jose, Calif.); Nicole Marie Weaver (Chesterfield, Va.); Jennifer Bailey (Los Altos Hills, Calif.); Corey Fugman (Saratoga, Calif.); Richard Heard (San Francisco, Calif.); Akila Suresh (San Jose, Calif.)
Assignee: Apple Inc (Cupertino, Calif.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Devices And Methods For Selective Contactless Communication
Patent No. 11868988
A card having an antenna, one or processors, and memory having stored thereon a first application and a second application configured to receive an input of the card and determine a request associated with the input. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a contactless EuroPay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) data standard, the first application. The first application is configured to communicate, via near field communication (NFC), data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the EMV data standard for payment purposes. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a near field communication data exchange format (NDEF) standard, the second application. The second application is configured to communicate, via NFC, data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the NDEF standard for verification/identification purposes.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Kaitlin J. Newman (Washington, D.C.); Wayne David Lutz (Fort Washington, Md.); Kevin Grant Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.); Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Intelligent Services For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 11868237
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
Inventors: Muralidharan Balasubramanian (Gaithersburg, Md.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.); Julie Dallen (Vienna, Va.); David Watson (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Vapor-permeable, Substantially Water-impermeable Multilayer Article
Patent No. 11866863
This disclosure relates to an article that includes a nonwoven substrate and a film supported by the nonwoven substrate. The film can include a first polymer and a polymer that is immiscible with the first polymer. The first polymer can include a polyolefin and the second polymer can include a polycycloolefin, a polymethylpentene, or a copolymer thereof.
Inventor: Mehdi Afshari (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Berry Global (Evansville, Ill.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Sterile Dental Setup Pack
Patent No. 11864966
A system and method for forming a sterile dental pack is disclosed. The method includes preparing a first wrap and a second wrap; arranging a plurality of dental disposable supplies on the first wrap; and wrapping the plurality of dental disposable supplies within the first wrap and the second wrap to form an airtight container. Also disclosed is a sterile dental pack dispensing system. The sterile dental pack dispensing system may include a storage container with an opening, the storage container being configured to store a wrapped sterile dental pack; an output configured to receive the wrapped sterile dental pack from the storage container; and a fiber optic indicator configured to cause the wrapped sterile dental pack to move from the storage container to the output through the opening.
Inventors: Paula Evette Nesbitt (Hopewell, Va.); Jarrett Anthony Scott (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Assignee: N/A
Jan. 9, 2023
Demand-based Water Distribution And Management Systems And Methods
Patent No. 11869101
Systems and methods for demand-based water distribution and management are disclosed. The system may determine a first price for each water distributor of a plurality of water distributors based on a plurality of demand factors. The system may transmit a plurality of water distributor locations to a first customer device, each location associated with a respective water distributor. The system may receive a selection of a first water distributor location from the first customer device and, in response, transmit directions to the first water distributor location to the first customer device. In response to the first customer device being authenticated by a first water-distribution device associated with the first water distributor, the system may transmit a signal to the first water-distribution device to transition to an unlocked state to allow the first customer to make a first purchase of water at a first price.
Inventor: Cyrus Kump II (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: N/A
Jan. 9, 2024
Optimize Shopping Route Using Purchase Embeddings
Patent No. 11869063
Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses that provide new capabilities for recommending purchases to a user based on the user’s past purchasing history and the purchase history of others. A new descriptor referred to as “purchase embeddings” is disclosed, which are data records in a new multi-dimensional space for describing and tracking purchases of goods and services.
Inventors: Kate Key (Powhatan, Va.); Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.); Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.); Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.); Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.); Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 9, 2024
Extreme Pressure Additives With Improved Copper Corrosion
Patent No. 11873461
A sulfurized extreme pressure additive and lubricant including the same providing good copper corrosion and seal compatibility.
Inventors: David Edwards (Richmond); LeAnna Hobbs (O’Fallon, Mo.); Magdalena Makowska (Richmond); Jon Jacoby (Millstadt, Ill.)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Air Intake Assembly
Patent No. 11871784
A vapor generator assembly for an e-vaping device may include a reservoir configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation, a vaporizer assembly configured to heat pre-vapor formulation drawn from the reservoir to form a vapor, and an air intake assembly configured to direct ambient air into the vaporizer assembly. The air intake assembly may at least partially define an air inlet that extends at least partially around an outer surface of the vapor generator assembly. The air inlet may be an arcuate air inlet or an annular air inlet. The air intake assembly may at least partially define an inlet channel extending from the air inlet into an interior of the vapor generator assembly to at least partially establish fluid communication between the arcuate air inlet and the vaporizer assembly. The inlet channel may extend coaxially in relation to a longitudinal axis of the vapor generator assembly.
Inventors: Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Mik Dahl (Lapu-Lapu, Philippines); Jon Jarantilla (Lapu-Lapu, Philippines); Galen Salvador (Lapu-Lapu, Philippines); Jose Jesus Paola Montalvan (Manduae, Philippines); Jeroen Kok (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Cloud Infrastructure Optimization
Patent No. 11874757
A processor may receive at least one test application corresponding to an application profile. The processor may simulate the at least one test application in a non-production environment for a plurality of infrastructure configurations to generate a plurality of test performance results. The processor may evaluate the plurality of test performance results to identify an optimal infrastructure configuration from among the plurality of infrastructure configurations for the application profile. The processor may apply the optimal infrastructure configuration to an application corresponding to the application profile that is deployed in a production environment.
Inventors: Jonathan H. Bryant (McLean, Va.); Jagadesh V. Gadiyaram (Richmond); Thomas Caputo (Arlington, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Service (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 16, 2024
Smoking Article With Manually Releasable Odorant
Patent No. 11871780
A smoking article has an outer surface and a plurality of frangible microcapsules provided on the outer surface, wherein the microcapsules are capable of being manually ruptured by a consumer to release an odorant encapsulated therein. The smoking article preferably comprises a wrapped tobacco rod; and a filter attached to the wrapped tobacco rod by tipping paper, a mouth end portion of which is “over tipped” with a band or strip of “Peel and Sniff” microcapsules and/or a band or strip of “Scratch and Sniff” microcapsules.
Inventors: Clement Besso (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Anne Wyss-Peters (Lausanne, Switzerland); Charles Kuersteiner (Jouxens-Mezery, Switzerland)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Elongate Heater For An Electrically Heated Aerosol-generating System
Patent No. 11871788
An electrically heated aerosol-generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes a heating element including a first electrically conductive element electrically insulated from a second electrically conductive element by an electrically insulating portion. The first and second elements are elongate and are electrically connected to each other by an electrically resistive portion. At least one electrically conductive element and the electrically resistive portion are arranged such that they are at least partially in contact with the aerosol-forming substrate.
Inventors: Olivier Greim (Villars-Burquin, Switzerland); Julien Plojoux (Geneva, Switzerland); Dani Ruscio (Cressier, Switzerland)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Genetic Locus Imparting A Low Anatabine Trait In Tobacco And Methods Of Using
Patent No. 11873500
Provided herein are genetic markers and a coding sequence associated with a low- or ultra-low anatabine trait in tobacco.
Inventors: Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.); Alec J. Hayes (Chesterfield, Va.); Robert Frank Hart (Midlothian, Va.); Yanxin Shen (Glen Allen, Va.); Jesse Frederick (Richmond); Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
E-vaping Cartridge And Device
Patent No. 11871792
Example embodiments relate to a cartridge including a housing, a pre-vapor formulation reservoir configured to store a pre-vapor formulation in the housing, a vaporizer, and an airflow diverter. The vaporizer may be configured to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation. The vaporizer may include a heater and a wick, the wick may be in fluid communication with the pre-vapor formulation reservoir, and the heater may be configured to vaporize at least a portion of the pre-vapor formulation in the wick to form a vapor. The heater may be positioned in a transverse direction in the housing, and the airflow diverter may be located on an opposite side of the heater relative to a mouth-end portion.
Inventor: David Kane (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Susceptor For Use With An Inductively Heated Aerosol-generating Device Or System
Patent No. 11871790
An inductively heatable susceptor for use with an inductively heated aerosol-generating device or system includes an open-porous inductively heatable ceramic material configured to hold an aerosol-forming liquid and configured to heat the aerosol-forming liquid under the influence of an alternating electromagnetic field. A cartridge for use with an aerosol-generating device includes an aerosol-forming liquid and a susceptor. An aerosol-generating device includes a susceptor.
Inventors: Jerome Courbat (Colombier, Switzerland); Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland); Oleg Mironov (Cudrefin, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Jan. 16, 2024
Systems And Methods For Providing A Separate Interest Rate For An Individual Transaction
Patent No. 11875399
Systems and methods for providing a separate interest rate for an individual transaction are disclosed. A system may provide a service associated with a account having an account balance and an associated first interest rate. The system may include a service device having one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform a separate interest rate service process. The process may include providing a separate interest rate service offer to a client device and receiving a separate interest rate selection from the client device. The process may also include determining a selected portion of the account balance corresponding to an amount to which a second interest rate, different from the first interest rate, is to be applied based on the separate interest rate selection.
Inventors: Marcie Apelt (Richmond); Megan Edds (Glen Allen, Va.); Keith Barron (Henrico, Va.); Ashley Gibbs (Richmond); Matthew Vischulis (Vienna, Va.); Carl Ashby (Montpelier, Va.); Baining Hu (Vienna, Va.); Yi Liu (Oakton, Va.); David Schardt (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 16, 2024
Computer-based Platforms And Systems Configured To Enhance A Call Screen With User-controlled Notes Associated With The Call And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 11874918
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include steps of obtaining a permission from the user to monitor a plurality of activities executed within the computing device; continually monitoring the plurality of activities executed within the computing device for a predetermined period of time; identifying an indication of an incoming interaction session within the predetermined period of time; verifying at least one session interaction parameter associated with the incoming interaction session to identify the incoming interaction session as a repeat interaction session; dynamically retrieving at least one relation-specific notation from a plurality of relation-specific notations to display; instructing an input GUI element to display input data associated with the repeat interaction; automatically updating the plurality of relation-specific notations associated with the historical data relationship; and instructing at least one programmable output GUI to display a notification identifying the update of the plurality of relation-specific notations.
Inventors: Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (New York, N.Y.); Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.); Shabnam Kousha (Washington, D.C.); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 16, 2024
Systems And Methods For Facilitating Candidate Interviews
Patent No. 11875312
A system for determining candidate answers during an interview. The system may include a memory storing executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include capturing, by an image sensor, a plurality of images comprising a plurality of candidate answers; detecting, based on the captured images, a first bounding box comprising the plurality of the candidate answers; detecting, based on the captured images, a second bounding box comprising a plurality of alphanumeric characters, a first one of the alphanumeric characters being located on a line of software code; calculating a distance from a side of a first bounding box to a side of a second bounding box; and determining, based on the calculated distance, a source code alignment.
Inventors: Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.); Kate Key (Powhatan, Va.); Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.); Reza Farivar (Champaign, Ill.); Vincent Pham (McLean, Va.); Austin Walters (Champaign, Ill.); Mark Watson (Sedona, Ariz.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Jan. 16, 2024
Shaped Elastomeric Container With Integrated Leak Resistant Seal And Pressure Shield
Patent No. 11873143
A container made of an elastomer such as silicone with an integrated leak resistant seal and pressure shield. The seal incorporates press-fit elements with sizes and shapes sufficient to provide a strong seal that resists leakage of liquids from inside the container. The seal is integrated into the container and requires no external clips or clasps. The pressure shield increases leak resistance by at least 300% and is formed by adding material to the inside of the container and not to the engaging portions of the seal and works by deflecting pressure away from the two leak resistant seal portions. Additional features are provided to facilitate opening such as extended flaps for pulling the sides open, and asymmetric cavities for press-fit elements to reduce the initial opening force. The container itself may be of asymmetrical shape, such as trapezoidal, to provide a wide opening along with a strong seal.
Inventors: Paul Maguire (Goochland, Va.); Katousha Ghaemi Nouri (Emeryville, Calif.); Angelo Carpinelli (Emeryville, Calif.); Bryan Kin Fo Au (Hong Kong, China)
Assignee: Stasher Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.)
Jan. 16, 2024