Insulation Panel
Patent No. 11904584
An insulation panel has a top barrier, a bottom barrier, and an insulation core layer disposed between to the top and bottom barriers. The insulation core layer includes a plurality of discrete hydrated compressed puffed polysaccharide particulates that are mechanically and/or chemically adhered to one another and to the top and bottom barriers. The plurality of discrete particulates defines a plurality of voids within the core layer.
Inventors: Charles-Alexandre Vincent (St. Bruno de Montarville, Canada); James McGoff (Richmond)
Assignee: Temperpack Technologies (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Executing And Hashing Modeling Flows
Patent No. 11907194
The disclosed systems and methods can comprise executing a modeling sequence comprising a first model and a second model, obtaining a first result from the first model being used as an input for the second model to obtain a second result, hashing data representative of a first configuration and a second configuration to create a first hash and a second hash, respectively, storing the first result in a first location and the second result in a second location, receiving one or more configuration changes to the second model thereby creating a third configuration associated with the second model, hashing data representative of the third configuration to create a third hash, receiving a request to rerun the modeling sequence, determining that the first configuration is associated with the first model, and providing the first result to the second model without rerunning the first model.
Inventors: Bryan Der (Richmond); Steven Devisch (Reston, Va.); Justin Essert (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Guided Form Generation In A Document Management System
Patent No. 11907324
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating and modifying a workflow comprising a series of webpages based on an online document. A document management system accesses an online document selected by a user and classifies each field of the online document into one of a set of categories. For each category, the system generates a form webpage comprising questions corresponding to each field classified as the category and combines the generated webpages to create a workflow. The system may modify the workflow by generating and adding one or more additional form webpages based on one or more answers provided by an entity completing the webform page. In response to the entity completing the modified generated workflow, the system generates a completed document based on the online document and the answers provided by the entity.
Inventors: Gustavo Both Bitdinger (San Diego, Calif.); Mangesh Prabhakar Bhandarkar (Los Altos, Calif.); Nipun Dureja (Seattle, Wash.); Vasudevan Sampath (Southlake, Texas); Robert Sherwin (Kirkland, Wash.); Duane Robert Wald (Surprise, Ariz.); Mark Spencer Seabourne (Bend, Ore.); Claire Marie Small (Ypsilanti, Mich.); David Minoru Hirotsu (Torrance, Calif.); Dia A. Abulzahab (Willowbrook, Ill.); Li Xu (Kirkland, Wash.); Brent Weston Robinett (Seattle, Wash.); Jerome Levadoux (San Mateo, Calif.); Ellis David Berner (Mercer Island, Wash.); Jun Gao (Foster City, Calif.); Andrew James Ashlock (San Francisco, Calif.); Jacob Scott Mitchell (Richmond)
Assignee: DocuSign (San Francisco, Calif.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 11904090
A cartridge of an electronic vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction. The housing includes a sidewall, a transverse wall at the first end of the sidewall, and an inner tube integrally formed with the housing. The sidewall is generally cylindrical and a first end and a second end. The transverse wall includes at least one outlet therein. The inner tube extends in the longitudinal direction. The inner tube is concentrically positioned with respect to the sidewall. The inner tube communicates with the at least one outlet. The cartridge also includes a reservoir between the sidewall and the inner tube. The reservoir is configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation.
Inventors: Travis Martin Garthaffner (Chesterfield, Va.); Peter J. Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Electronic Dispersion Device
Patent No. 11904086
A dispersion device includes a first dispersion generating system, a second dispersion generating system and an outlet end element including a first outlet corresponding to the first dispersion generating system and a second outlet corresponding to the second dispersion generating system.
Inventors: Buket Sahin (Richmond); Gerd Kobal (Sandy Hook, Va.); Qiang Wang (Glen Allen, Va.); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Composite Micro-vaporizer Wicks
Patent No. 11903418
A composite wick is provided for use in a micro-vaporizer having a fluid reservoir and a heating element. The composite wick comprises a wick body positionable so that its upstream surface is in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir and the downstream surface is disposed in opposition to a surface of the heating element. The wick body comprises at least one base wick structure having a plurality of tortuous passages that collectively provide a capillary effect to draw fluid from the reservoir and transport it toward the downstream surface. The wick body further comprises an active material positioned within the wick body so that vaporizable fluid drawn through the wick body contacts and interacts with the active material. The active material is selected to impart a desired characteristic to the vaporizable fluid.
Inventors: Yongjie Xu (Richmond); Donovan Phillips (Richmond)
Assignee: Blackship Technologies Development (Chesterfield, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Smoking Article Filter With Flavorant Delivery System
Patent No. 11903412
A breakable capsule such as a seamless breakable capsule useful in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco product includes an outer shell formed of a cross-linked agar matrix including at least one filler, and an inner core surrounded by the outer shell which comprises a liquid or gel based composition of a flavorant and/or non-flavorant. The cross-linked agar matrix is reinforced with carboxymethyl cellulose that is dispersed throughout the agar matrix so as to fill empty spaces in the agar matrix and inhibit the composition from passing through the empty spaces of the agar matrix.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Va.); Alex Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Kathryn M. Draper (Moseley, Va.); Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Rules Engine For Selectively Granting Access To Secured Resources
Patent No. 11909772
Systems and methods for providing least privilege access to a resource within a secured server are disclosed. The systems and method can include receiving an access request from a client requesting access to the resource, the access request comprising a role or policy associated with the client and one or more actions associated with the resource. A rules engine can be initialized, the engine defining one or more rules usable by the system to determine whether the access request complies with a least privilege policy. The systems and method can analyze the role or policy and the access request with the rules engine to determine whether the access request complies with the least privilege policy. When the access request complies with the rules, access to the resource can be granted; when the access request does not comply with the rules, access to the resource can be denied.
Inventors: Jordan Hale (Glen Allen, Va.); Devon Powley (Reston, Va.); Wesley Sham (Jericho, N.Y.); Thomas Shaffer (Arlington, Va.); Jared Baker (Henrico, Va.); John Bollinger (Richmond); Robert Stump (Glen Allen, Va.); Gabriel Duke (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Doser Assemblies, Apparatuses Including A Doser Assembly, And/or Methods Of Making The Same
Patent No. 11905055
In an example embodiment, a doser assembly includes a hopper assembly configured to receive plant material, a bracket assembly connected to the hopper assembly, and a roller in a hopper opening defined by the hopper assembly extending through the hopper assembly. An interior surface of the hopper assembly may define the hopper opening. The bracket assembly may include a shaft extending across a portion of the hopper opening. The roller may be in the portion of the hopper opening of the hopper assembly and may extend between a first part and a second part of the interior surface of the hopper assembly. The roller may be connected to the shaft and may be configured to rotate with rotation of the shaft.
Inventors: Jarrod Wayne Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.); Loren Theodore Duvekot (Goochland, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Leader Node Election In Cluster Server Configurations
Patent No. 11907137
Disclosed are systems and methods for leader node election, comprising a cluster system including a plurality of nodes, a node registry, wherein nodes are configured to transmit registration requests to the node registry, receive node data is response, and to determine a leader node based on the earliest registered node, and wherein the leader node is configured to dynamically allocate data slots between the plurality of nodes, and each of the nodes are configured to store data associated with allocated data slots in an in-memory least recently used component and data associated with all of the data slots in a persistent storage component.
Inventors: Rohit Joshi (Plano, Texas); Ashish Gupta (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Automated Processing And Dynamic Filtering Of Content For Display
Patent No. 11907500
Disclosed are systems and methods that automatically classify, segment, and parse content data using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology, and generate graphical user interfaces that allow end users to dynamically filter content data for display. The systems processes volumes of content data to identify interrogative data, content sources that generated the interrogative data, and subject identifiers relating to the content data. The system generates graphical user interfaces that allow end users to effectively filter the data by choosing between layouts that display one or more of the various categories of data, including the interrogative data, content source identifiers, and/or subject identifiers. The user interfaces include content view input functions that utilizes mapping data to locate and extract segments of the underlying content data from which displayed data is derived, thereby allowing end users to expediently review both the aggregated and reduced content data and the underlying source data.
Inventors: Kenneth William Cluff (Powhatan, Va.); Harold Thomas Wood III (Matthews, N.C.); Peter Councill (Richmond); James Xu (Raleigh, N.C.)
Assignee: Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Aerosol-generating System With Multiple Heating Elements
Patent No. 11903420
An aerosol-generating system includes a reservoir containing an aerosol-forming substrate. The system also includes first and second heating elements and first and second liquid transfer elements. The first and second heating elements are spaced apart from the reservoir. The first and second liquid transfer elements are configured to deliver aerosol-forming substrate from the reservoir to the heating elements. The first liquid transfer element has first and second end portions and a portion between the first and second end portions at the first heating element. The second liquid transfer element has first and second end portions and a portion between the first and second end portions at the second heating element. The portion of the first liquid transfer element at the first heating element may extend in a first direction. The portion of the second liquid transfer element at the second heating element may extend in a second direction.
Inventors: Eric Force (Bevaix, Switzerland); Yonglu Guo (Shenzhen, China); Yonghai Li (Shenzhen, China)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Managing Overlapping Data Requests
Patent No. 11907225
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are described that reduce overlapping portions of data object instances. The data object instances may include requests for identifying locations of stored documents. By comparing a second data object instance to one or more first data object instances, one or more overlapping portions may be removed from the second data object instance. Once the second data object instance is returned with locations of newly identified locations of documents, the removed portions of the second data object instance may be added back with previously identified locations of the documents.
Inventors: Kyle Benedict (Chesterfield, Va.); Sally Schmidt (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Durable And Launderable Cushioning And Insulative Fabrics And Strings And Methods For Making Same
Patent No. 11905631
Disclosed is a stitch-bonded string comprising at least one stitched line extending in a machine direction and fibers emanating from the at least one stitched line. The at least one stitched line comprises a plurality of loops and said plurality of loops enclose substantially all of said fibers. The stitched line is gathered to reduce a dimension of the plurality of loops holding said fibers within the loops. The stitched line’s weight is less than 20%, preferably less than 10%, and more preferably less than 5% of the total weight of the stitch-bonded string. The fibers have a basis weight ranging between 30 and 400 grams/meter.sup.2, preferably between 40 and 350 g/m.sup.2, preferably between 50 and 300 g/m.sup.2 or between 100 and 250 g/m.sup.2. Methods for making the string are also disclosed.
Inventors: Dimitri Zafiroglu (Centreville, Del.); Jason Billups (Chesterfield, Va.); H.T. Than (Rockville, Md.)
Assignee: Xymid (Midlothian, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Thermoelectric Cooling System
Patent 11906209
A thermoelectric cooling system includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a circuit heat exchanger, and a thermoelectric subsystem. The first circuit is configured to circulate a first refrigerant. The second circuit is configured to circulate a second refrigerant. The circuit heat exchanger includes a circuit heat exchanger first passage and a circuit heat exchanger second passage. The circuit heat exchanger first passage is coupled to the first circuit and configured to receive the first refrigerant from the first circuit and provide the first refrigerant to the first circuit. The circuit heat exchanger second passage is coupled to the second circuit and configured to receive the second refrigerant from the second circuit and provide the second refrigerant to the second circuit. The thermoelectric subsystem includes a thermoelectric subsystem first heat exchanger and a first thermoelectric cell. The thermoelectric subsystem first heat exchanger has a thermoelectric subsystem first heat exchanger passage.
Inventors: Timothy D. Swofford (Midlothian, Va.); Neil Rathje (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Hill Phoenix (Conyers, Ga.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Methods And Systems For Integrating Disparate Data Domains Feature Data Over Computer Networks
Patent No. 11907314
Methods and systems for generating an integrated structure for the data from disparate data domains that may be used to aggregate, compare, and/or provide recommendations based on the data available from the disparate domains. The integrated structure may further be accessible to users to perform functions (e.g., searches, filtering operations, etc.) in real-time and receive outputs (e.g., in a user interface).
Inventors: John Moon (Glen Allen, Va.); Keith Forshew (Glen Allen, Va.); Ruhollah Farchtchi (Glen Allen, Va.); Fabio Rosati (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Snagajob (Glen Allen, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Managing Pre-provisioning Of Resources Using Bitemporal Analysis
Patent No. 11907944
Embodiments disclosed are directed to ensuring resource compliance within a cloud-based environment. The embodiments include steps for performing pre-provisioning checks of resources, such as network protocols, prior to their deployment within the cloud-based environment. These steps include using bitemporal analysis to determine the impact of deploying resources within the environment through the use of multiple execution timelines where the impact of deploying a resource may be evaluated on an alternative timeline that does not change the current resource scope of the cloud-based environment.
Inventors: Brian Lee Wong (Midlothian, Va.); Virendra K. Abelak (Ashburn, Va.); Steven Lott (McLean, Va.); Philip Austin Kedy (Oakton, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Resource Compliance System Using Bitemporal Analysis
Patent No. 11907943
Embodiments disclosed are directed to ensuring resource compliance within a cloud-based environment using a compliance system. The embodiments include steps for performing pre-provisioning checks of resources, such as network protocols, prior to their deployment within the cloud-based environment. The compliance system may include a number of components for performing the pre-provisioning check including a maintenance module, a collection module, and an evaluation module, which are used to evaluate the resource prior to deployment in the cloud-based environment.
Inventors: Brian Lee Wong (Midlothian, Va.); Virendra K. Abelak (Ashburn, Va.); Steven Lott (McLean, Va.); Philip Austin Kedy (Oakton, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Systems, Devices, And/or Methods For Managing Drone Tethering
Patent No. 11905013
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which comprises causing an article to be picked up and delivered via a working drone substantially without human intervention. The working drone is coupled to a support drone via a tether. The working drone is controlled via a wireless communication system that transmits signals from the support drone to the working drone. The wireless communication system constructed to communicate with a box that receives deliveries via the drone.
Inventors: Brandon Thomas Pargoe (Midlothian, Va.); William Stavanja (Whitsett, N.C.); Danny Neal (San Martin, Calif.); Charles Neal (San Martin, Calif.)
Assignee: Drone Delivery Systems Corp. (Midlothian, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Transaction Card Assembly
Patent No. 11907786
A modular transaction card assembly includes a card frame having the traditional dimensions of a credit card, and a transaction card that is smaller than a traditional card and that fits into a receptacle of the card frame. The card frame may include a window in which contact pads of the transaction card are positioned and flush with the surface of the card frame when the transaction card is secured in the receptacle. The card frame and transaction card assembled together may form a uniform assembly that appears and functions as a traditional transaction card (e.g., credit card).
Inventors: Phoebe Atkins (Midlothian, Va.); Michael Sala (Weehawken, N.J.); Vyjayanthi Vadrevu (Pflugerville, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Grow Cups For Hydroponic Growing Systems
Patent No. 11903351
A removable grow cup having a grow media receptacle, a nutrigation coupler extending from the grow media receptacle, the nutrigation coupler having a socket member and a mating detachable plug member. The plug member has a nutrigation inlet extending from the grow media receptacle. The nutrigation inlet is configured to distribute nutrient rich water in the grow media receptacle using at least one of a nutrient film technique and intermittent flow saturation technique. The socket member has a self-sealing valve, a socket housing, and a means for engaging said plug member. A means for attaching the grow media receptacle to at least one of a wall, planting column, and nutrigation manifold is provided. An outlet port extends from the grow media receptacle and is configured as a root growth channel and nutrient rich water exhaust port.
Inventors: Toni Sperry (Blacksburg, Va.); John Puleo (Greenville, S.C.); Rhea Davenport (Greeley, Colo.)
Assignee: Pod Farms (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Lubricating Compositions For Reduced Low Temperature Valve Train Wear
Patent No. 11912955
The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions including effective amounts of molybdenum from an oil-soluble molybdenum compound and a magnesium boost in the detergent system to achieve passing motor friction and valve train wear performance.
Inventors: Samuel Bruce Field (Windsor, Great Britain); Kenneth Garelick (Mechanicsville, Va.); Hidetaka Hoshino (Yokohama, Japan); Guillaume Carpentier (Bracknell, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Feb. 27, 2024
Automated Processing And Dynamic Filtering Of Content For Display
Patent No. 11914844
Disclosed are systems and methods that automatically classify, segment, and parse content data using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology, and generate graphical user interfaces that allow end users to dynamically filter content data for display. The systems processes volumes of content data to identify interrogative data, content sources that generated the interrogative data, and subject identifiers relating to the content data. The system generates graphical user interfaces that allow end users to effectively filter the data by choosing between layouts that display one or more of the various categories of data, including the interrogative data, content source identifiers, and/or subject identifiers. The user interfaces include content view input functions that utilizes mapping data to locate and extract segments of the underlying content data from which displayed data is derived, thereby allowing end users to expediently review both the aggregated and reduced content data and the underlying source data.
Inventors: Kenneth William Cluff (Powhatan, Va.); Harold Thomas Wood III (Matthews, N.C.); Peter Councill (Richmond); James Xu (Raleigh, N.C.)
Assignee: Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Systems And Method For Automating Detection Of Regions Of Machine Learning System Underperformance
Patent No. 11915109
In some embodiments, a method includes generating a trained decision tree with a set of nodes based on input data and a partitioning objective, and generating a modified decision tree by recursively passing the input data through the trained decision tree, recursively calculating, for each of the nodes, an associated set of metrics, and recursively defining an association between each of the nodes and the associated set of metrics. A node from a set of nodes of the modified decision tree is identified that violates a user-specified threshold value, associated with a user, for at least one of the metrics. The method also includes causing transmission of a signal to a compute device of the user, the signal including a representation of the identified node.
Inventors: Kenneth S. Chen (Dover, Mass.); Reese Hyde (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Keegan E. Hines (Richmond)
Assignee: Arthur AI (New York, N.Y.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Heat-not-burn (HNB) Aerosol-generating Devices And Capsules
Patent No. 11910826
A capsule may include a housing, an aerosol-forming substrate, and a heater. The housing defines inlet openings, outlet openings, and a chamber between the inlet openings and the outlet openings. The chamber may have a longest dimension extending from at least one of the inlet openings to a corresponding one of the outlet openings. The aerosol-forming substrate is within the chamber of the housing. The heater is embedded in the housing. The heater includes a first end section, an intermediate section, and a second end section. The intermediate section is disposed within the aerosol-forming substrate in the chamber. An aerosol-generating device may include a device body with a lid configured to open to permit an insertion of the capsule and configured to close to engage the capsule within the device body.
Inventors: Zack W. Blackmon (Williamsburg, Va.); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Dean Twite (London, Great Britain); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.); Nicolas D. Castro (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 27, 2024
Method Of Making Aerosol-generating System With Temperature Sensor
Patent No. 11917731
The method includes first arranging at least one first wick to transfer an aerosol-forming substrate from a first location within a reservoir to a heater, second arranging a first temperature sensor to interface with the reservoir, the first temperature sensor being configured to sense a first measured temperature of the aerosol-forming substrate at a second location within the reservoir, the first location and the second location being spaced apart to mitigate an increase in the first measured temperature during an activation of the heater, and configuring circuitry to operatively control the aerosol-generating system such that the operatively controlling includes determining depletion information for the aerosol-forming substrate in the reservoir based on the first measured temperature.
Inventor: Tony Reevell (London, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 27, 2024
Hot Wire Anemometer Air Flow Measurement, Puff Detection And Ambient Temperature Tracking
Patent No. 11910838
A method of controlling a hot wire anemometer (HWA) of a nicotine e-vaping device includes controlling, by a first PID controller, a level of power applied by the nicotine e-vaping device to the HWA based on a temperature of a heated element of the HWA and a temperature setpoint; generating a puff detection signal indicating whether or not a puff is currently occurring with respect to the nicotine e-vaping device; and while the puff detection signal indicates that a puff is not currently occurring with respect to the nicotine e-vaping device, detecting, by a second PID controller, a change in an ambient temperature of the HWA, and controlling, by the second PID controller, the temperature setpoint such that the temperature setpoint changes in response to the detected change in the ambient temperature of the HWA.
Inventors: Adam Parrott (Richmond); Niall Gallagher (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.); Ryan Newcomb (Richmond); Terry Bache (Richmond); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond); Jarrett Keen (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 27, 2024
Vaporizer Heating Element Assemblies And Methods Of Manufacturing Same
Patent No. 11910831
A vaporizer heating element assembly has a case structure with a plurality of walls collectively defining a case interior. An upper wall has an access opening, a left wall has a reservoir window, and a lower wall has a vaporization window. A thin plate heating element formed from an electrically conductive material is positioned within the case structure parallel to the lower wall and adjacent the vaporization window. A liquid transport structure is configured for transporting liquid by capillary action from a liquid intake surface to a liquid outflow surface and is disposed within the case interior so that the liquid intake surface is adjacent the reservoir window and the liquid outflow surface is adjacent or in contact with the thin plate heating element. The heating element assembly also has an access closure sized and configured to seal the access opening.
Inventors: Donovan Phillips (Chesterfield, Va.); Yongjie Xu (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Blackshop Technologies Development (Chesterfield, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Virtual Warehouse Query Monitoring And Reporting
Patent No. 11914595
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for tracking and generating analysis of queries submitted to virtual warehouses are described herein. A request to execute a query may be received. An organization may be determined, and the query may be modified to add an indication of the organization. A plurality of virtual warehouses may be identified. One of the plurality of virtual warehouses may be caused to execute the query. Query results and costs data may be received based on execution of the query by the first virtual warehouse. The costs data may indicate one or more costs associated with the execution of the query by the first virtual warehouse. The indication of the organization may be extracted from the query results. A user interface comprising query cost information corresponding to the organization may be generated.
Inventors: Praveen Kandukuri (Ashburn, Va.); Syed Salim (Potomac, Md.); Karamchandradatt Hardatt (Glen Allen, Va.); Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Va.); Ganesh Bharathan (Henrico, Va.); Yudhish Batra (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Updating Security Rule Sets Using Repository Switching
Patent No. 11916971
Methods and systems are described herein for updating cybersecurity enforcement rules in real-time over disparate computer networks. A rule enforcement system may receive a real-time data stream. The real-time data stream may include real-time communications requiring cybersecurity verification. Real-time data communications are processed through a first rule repository. In response to determining that rule updates to rules within the first rule repository are available, a second rule repository is retrieved and brought online. Previously received real-time communication data is processed with the first rule repository and new real-time communication data is routed to the second rule repository. When previously received real-time communication data has been processed, the first rule repository is disabled.
Inventors: Srinivas Alladi (Glen Allen, Va.); Muthukumar Kubendran (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Detecting System Events Based On User Sentiment In Social Media Messages
Patent No. 11914462
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for using anomaly detection in timeseries data of user sentiment to detect incidents in computing systems and identify events within an enterprise. An anomaly detection system may receive social media messages that include a timestamp indicating when each message was published. The system may generate sentiment identifiers for the social media messages. The sentiment identifiers and timestamps associated with the social media messages may be used to generate a timeseries dataset for each type of sentiment identifier. The timeseries datasets may be input into an anomaly detection model to determine whether an anomaly has occurred. The system may retrieve textual data from the social media messages associated with the detected anomaly and may use the text to determine a computing system or event associated with the detected anomaly.
Inventors: Vannia Gonzalez Macias (Glen Allen, Va.); Paul Cho (Astoria, N.Y.); Rahul Gupta (Midlothian, Va.); Scott Garcia (Washington, D.C.); Adithya Ramanathan (Old Bridge, N.J.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Systems And Methods For Cryptographic Authentication Of Contactless Cards
Patent No. 11915231
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key. Example embodiments of systems and methods can be used to provide further authentication and added levels of security for transactions.
Inventors: Kevin Osborn (Newton, Mass.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); James Ashfield (Midlothian, Va.); Srinivasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Customized Merchant Price Ratings
Patent No. 11915256
Aspects described herein may allow for generating a customized price rating using a machine learning algorithm. This may have the effect of improving the display of information about merchants by including customized, personalized price ratings that better reflect the tastes and preferences of a user or group of users. According to some aspects, these and other benefits may be achieved by using a machine learning model, trained to receive input corresponding to both user data and merchant data and output an indication of customized price rating(s) for the merchant that is specific to one or more users, and then to generate information about the merchant for display that includes the customized price rating(s).
Inventors: Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Kathryn Tikoian (Arlington, Va.); Phoebe Atkins (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Current Transformer With Embedded Voltage Field Detection And Thermal Sensing
Patent No. 11914004
A monitoring system for sensing electrical parameters including current and voltage can comprise a current transformer and an antenna. The current transformer can be configured to sense current passing through a conductor. The antenna can be configured to sense electrical potential of the conductor by sensing an electric field generated by the conductor. The antenna can sense the electrical potential independent of whether current is present in the conductor. The monitoring system can further comprise a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of the conductor. A sensing module can include a housing supporting the current transformer, the antenna, and the temperature sensor for monitoring an electrical power circuit.
Inventor: Alan H. Katz (Fair Oaks, Calif.)
Assignee: Anord Mardix (USA) (Henrico, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Insulation Panel
Patent No. 11904584
An insulation panel has a top barrier, a bottom barrier, and an insulation core layer disposed between to the top and bottom barriers. The insulation core layer includes a plurality of discrete hydrated compressed puffed polysaccharide particulates that are mechanically and/or chemically adhered to one another and to the top and bottom barriers. The plurality of discrete particulates defines a plurality of voids within the core layer.
Inventors: Charles-Alexandre Vincent (St. Bruno de Montarville, Canada); James McGoff (Richmond)
Assignee: Temperpack Technologies (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Executing And Hashing Modeling Flows
Patent No. 11907194
The disclosed systems and methods can comprise executing a modeling sequence comprising a first model and a second model, obtaining a first result from the first model being used as an input for the second model to obtain a second result, hashing data representative of a first configuration and a second configuration to create a first hash and a second hash, respectively, storing the first result in a first location and the second result in a second location, receiving one or more configuration changes to the second model thereby creating a third configuration associated with the second model, hashing data representative of the third configuration to create a third hash, receiving a request to rerun the modeling sequence, determining that the first configuration is associated with the first model, and providing the first result to the second model without rerunning the first model.
Inventors: Bryan Der (Richmond); Steven Devisch (Reston, Va.); Justin Essert (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Guided Form Generation In A Document Management System
Patent No. 11907324
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating and modifying a workflow comprising a series of webpages based on an online document. A document management system accesses an online document selected by a user and classifies each field of the online document into one of a set of categories. For each category, the system generates a form webpage comprising questions corresponding to each field classified as the category and combines the generated webpages to create a workflow. The system may modify the workflow by generating and adding one or more additional form webpages based on one or more answers provided by an entity completing the webform page. In response to the entity completing the modified generated workflow, the system generates a completed document based on the online document and the answers provided by the entity.
Inventors: Gustavo Both Bitdinger (San Diego, Calif.); Mangesh Prabhakar Bhandarkar (Los Altos, Calif.); Nipun Dureja (Seattle, Wash.); Vasudevan Sampath (Southlake, Texas); Robert Sherwin (Kirkland, Wash.); Duane Robert Wald (Surprise, Ariz.); Mark Spencer Seabourne (Bend, Ore.); Claire Marie Small (Ypsilanti, Mich.); David Minoru Hirotsu (Torrance, Calif.); Dia A. Abulzahab (Willowbrook, Ill.); Li Xu (Kirkland, Wash.); Brent Weston Robinett (Seattle, Wash.); Jerome Levadoux (San Mateo, Calif.); Ellis David Berner (Mercer Island, Wash.); Jun Gao (Foster City, Calif.); Andrew James Ashlock (San Francisco, Calif.); Jacob Scott Mitchell (Richmond)
Assignee: DocuSign (San Francisco, Calif.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 11904090
A cartridge of an electronic vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction. The housing includes a sidewall, a transverse wall at the first end of the sidewall, and an inner tube integrally formed with the housing. The sidewall is generally cylindrical and a first end and a second end. The transverse wall includes at least one outlet therein. The inner tube extends in the longitudinal direction. The inner tube is concentrically positioned with respect to the sidewall. The inner tube communicates with the at least one outlet. The cartridge also includes a reservoir between the sidewall and the inner tube. The reservoir is configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation.
Inventors: Travis Martin Garthaffner (Chesterfield, Va.); Peter J. Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Electronic Dispersion Device
Patent No. 11904086
A dispersion device includes a first dispersion generating system, a second dispersion generating system and an outlet end element including a first outlet corresponding to the first dispersion generating system and a second outlet corresponding to the second dispersion generating system.
Inventors: Buket Sahin (Richmond); Gerd Kobal (Sandy Hook, Va.); Qiang Wang (Glen Allen, Va.); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Composite Micro-vaporizer Wicks
Patent No. 11903418
A composite wick is provided for use in a micro-vaporizer having a fluid reservoir and a heating element. The composite wick comprises a wick body positionable so that its upstream surface is in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir and the downstream surface is disposed in opposition to a surface of the heating element. The wick body comprises at least one base wick structure having a plurality of tortuous passages that collectively provide a capillary effect to draw fluid from the reservoir and transport it toward the downstream surface. The wick body further comprises an active material positioned within the wick body so that vaporizable fluid drawn through the wick body contacts and interacts with the active material. The active material is selected to impart a desired characteristic to the vaporizable fluid.
Inventors: Yongjie Xu (Richmond); Donovan Phillips (Richmond)
Assignee: Blackship Technologies Development (Chesterfield, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Smoking Article Filter With Flavorant Delivery System
Patent No. 11903412
A breakable capsule such as a seamless breakable capsule useful in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco product includes an outer shell formed of a cross-linked agar matrix including at least one filler, and an inner core surrounded by the outer shell which comprises a liquid or gel based composition of a flavorant and/or non-flavorant. The cross-linked agar matrix is reinforced with carboxymethyl cellulose that is dispersed throughout the agar matrix so as to fill empty spaces in the agar matrix and inhibit the composition from passing through the empty spaces of the agar matrix.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Va.); Alex Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Kathryn M. Draper (Moseley, Va.); Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Rules Engine For Selectively Granting Access To Secured Resources
Patent No. 11909772
Systems and methods for providing least privilege access to a resource within a secured server are disclosed. The systems and method can include receiving an access request from a client requesting access to the resource, the access request comprising a role or policy associated with the client and one or more actions associated with the resource. A rules engine can be initialized, the engine defining one or more rules usable by the system to determine whether the access request complies with a least privilege policy. The systems and method can analyze the role or policy and the access request with the rules engine to determine whether the access request complies with the least privilege policy. When the access request complies with the rules, access to the resource can be granted; when the access request does not comply with the rules, access to the resource can be denied.
Inventors: Jordan Hale (Glen Allen, Va.); Devon Powley (Reston, Va.); Wesley Sham (Jericho, N.Y.); Thomas Shaffer (Arlington, Va.); Jared Baker (Henrico, Va.); John Bollinger (Richmond); Robert Stump (Glen Allen, Va.); Gabriel Duke (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Doser Assemblies, Apparatuses Including A Doser Assembly, And/or Methods Of Making The Same
Patent No. 11905055
In an example embodiment, a doser assembly includes a hopper assembly configured to receive plant material, a bracket assembly connected to the hopper assembly, and a roller in a hopper opening defined by the hopper assembly extending through the hopper assembly. An interior surface of the hopper assembly may define the hopper opening. The bracket assembly may include a shaft extending across a portion of the hopper opening. The roller may be in the portion of the hopper opening of the hopper assembly and may extend between a first part and a second part of the interior surface of the hopper assembly. The roller may be connected to the shaft and may be configured to rotate with rotation of the shaft.
Inventors: Jarrod Wayne Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.); Loren Theodore Duvekot (Goochland, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Leader Node Election In Cluster Server Configurations
Patent No. 11907137
Disclosed are systems and methods for leader node election, comprising a cluster system including a plurality of nodes, a node registry, wherein nodes are configured to transmit registration requests to the node registry, receive node data is response, and to determine a leader node based on the earliest registered node, and wherein the leader node is configured to dynamically allocate data slots between the plurality of nodes, and each of the nodes are configured to store data associated with allocated data slots in an in-memory least recently used component and data associated with all of the data slots in a persistent storage component.
Inventors: Rohit Joshi (Plano, Texas); Ashish Gupta (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Automated Processing And Dynamic Filtering Of Content For Display
Patent No. 11907500
Disclosed are systems and methods that automatically classify, segment, and parse content data using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology, and generate graphical user interfaces that allow end users to dynamically filter content data for display. The systems processes volumes of content data to identify interrogative data, content sources that generated the interrogative data, and subject identifiers relating to the content data. The system generates graphical user interfaces that allow end users to effectively filter the data by choosing between layouts that display one or more of the various categories of data, including the interrogative data, content source identifiers, and/or subject identifiers. The user interfaces include content view input functions that utilizes mapping data to locate and extract segments of the underlying content data from which displayed data is derived, thereby allowing end users to expediently review both the aggregated and reduced content data and the underlying source data.
Inventors: Kenneth William Cluff (Powhatan, Va.); Harold Thomas Wood III (Matthews, N.C.); Peter Councill (Richmond); James Xu (Raleigh, N.C.)
Assignee: Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Aerosol-generating System With Multiple Heating Elements
Patent No. 11903420
An aerosol-generating system includes a reservoir containing an aerosol-forming substrate. The system also includes first and second heating elements and first and second liquid transfer elements. The first and second heating elements are spaced apart from the reservoir. The first and second liquid transfer elements are configured to deliver aerosol-forming substrate from the reservoir to the heating elements. The first liquid transfer element has first and second end portions and a portion between the first and second end portions at the first heating element. The second liquid transfer element has first and second end portions and a portion between the first and second end portions at the second heating element. The portion of the first liquid transfer element at the first heating element may extend in a first direction. The portion of the second liquid transfer element at the second heating element may extend in a second direction.
Inventors: Eric Force (Bevaix, Switzerland); Yonglu Guo (Shenzhen, China); Yonghai Li (Shenzhen, China)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 20, 2024
Managing Overlapping Data Requests
Patent No. 11907225
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are described that reduce overlapping portions of data object instances. The data object instances may include requests for identifying locations of stored documents. By comparing a second data object instance to one or more first data object instances, one or more overlapping portions may be removed from the second data object instance. Once the second data object instance is returned with locations of newly identified locations of documents, the removed portions of the second data object instance may be added back with previously identified locations of the documents.
Inventors: Kyle Benedict (Chesterfield, Va.); Sally Schmidt (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Durable And Launderable Cushioning And Insulative Fabrics And Strings And Methods For Making Same
Patent No. 11905631
Disclosed is a stitch-bonded string comprising at least one stitched line extending in a machine direction and fibers emanating from the at least one stitched line. The at least one stitched line comprises a plurality of loops and said plurality of loops enclose substantially all of said fibers. The stitched line is gathered to reduce a dimension of the plurality of loops holding said fibers within the loops. The stitched line’s weight is less than 20%, preferably less than 10%, and more preferably less than 5% of the total weight of the stitch-bonded string. The fibers have a basis weight ranging between 30 and 400 grams/meter.sup.2, preferably between 40 and 350 g/m.sup.2, preferably between 50 and 300 g/m.sup.2 or between 100 and 250 g/m.sup.2. Methods for making the string are also disclosed.
Inventors: Dimitri Zafiroglu (Centreville, Del.); Jason Billups (Chesterfield, Va.); H.T. Than (Rockville, Md.)
Assignee: Xymid (Midlothian, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Thermoelectric Cooling System
Patent 11906209
A thermoelectric cooling system includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a circuit heat exchanger, and a thermoelectric subsystem. The first circuit is configured to circulate a first refrigerant. The second circuit is configured to circulate a second refrigerant. The circuit heat exchanger includes a circuit heat exchanger first passage and a circuit heat exchanger second passage. The circuit heat exchanger first passage is coupled to the first circuit and configured to receive the first refrigerant from the first circuit and provide the first refrigerant to the first circuit. The circuit heat exchanger second passage is coupled to the second circuit and configured to receive the second refrigerant from the second circuit and provide the second refrigerant to the second circuit. The thermoelectric subsystem includes a thermoelectric subsystem first heat exchanger and a first thermoelectric cell. The thermoelectric subsystem first heat exchanger has a thermoelectric subsystem first heat exchanger passage.
Inventors: Timothy D. Swofford (Midlothian, Va.); Neil Rathje (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Hill Phoenix (Conyers, Ga.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Methods And Systems For Integrating Disparate Data Domains Feature Data Over Computer Networks
Patent No. 11907314
Methods and systems for generating an integrated structure for the data from disparate data domains that may be used to aggregate, compare, and/or provide recommendations based on the data available from the disparate domains. The integrated structure may further be accessible to users to perform functions (e.g., searches, filtering operations, etc.) in real-time and receive outputs (e.g., in a user interface).
Inventors: John Moon (Glen Allen, Va.); Keith Forshew (Glen Allen, Va.); Ruhollah Farchtchi (Glen Allen, Va.); Fabio Rosati (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Snagajob (Glen Allen, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Managing Pre-provisioning Of Resources Using Bitemporal Analysis
Patent No. 11907944
Embodiments disclosed are directed to ensuring resource compliance within a cloud-based environment. The embodiments include steps for performing pre-provisioning checks of resources, such as network protocols, prior to their deployment within the cloud-based environment. These steps include using bitemporal analysis to determine the impact of deploying resources within the environment through the use of multiple execution timelines where the impact of deploying a resource may be evaluated on an alternative timeline that does not change the current resource scope of the cloud-based environment.
Inventors: Brian Lee Wong (Midlothian, Va.); Virendra K. Abelak (Ashburn, Va.); Steven Lott (McLean, Va.); Philip Austin Kedy (Oakton, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Resource Compliance System Using Bitemporal Analysis
Patent No. 11907943
Embodiments disclosed are directed to ensuring resource compliance within a cloud-based environment using a compliance system. The embodiments include steps for performing pre-provisioning checks of resources, such as network protocols, prior to their deployment within the cloud-based environment. The compliance system may include a number of components for performing the pre-provisioning check including a maintenance module, a collection module, and an evaluation module, which are used to evaluate the resource prior to deployment in the cloud-based environment.
Inventors: Brian Lee Wong (Midlothian, Va.); Virendra K. Abelak (Ashburn, Va.); Steven Lott (McLean, Va.); Philip Austin Kedy (Oakton, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Systems, Devices, And/or Methods For Managing Drone Tethering
Patent No. 11905013
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which comprises causing an article to be picked up and delivered via a working drone substantially without human intervention. The working drone is coupled to a support drone via a tether. The working drone is controlled via a wireless communication system that transmits signals from the support drone to the working drone. The wireless communication system constructed to communicate with a box that receives deliveries via the drone.
Inventors: Brandon Thomas Pargoe (Midlothian, Va.); William Stavanja (Whitsett, N.C.); Danny Neal (San Martin, Calif.); Charles Neal (San Martin, Calif.)
Assignee: Drone Delivery Systems Corp. (Midlothian, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Transaction Card Assembly
Patent No. 11907786
A modular transaction card assembly includes a card frame having the traditional dimensions of a credit card, and a transaction card that is smaller than a traditional card and that fits into a receptacle of the card frame. The card frame may include a window in which contact pads of the transaction card are positioned and flush with the surface of the card frame when the transaction card is secured in the receptacle. The card frame and transaction card assembled together may form a uniform assembly that appears and functions as a traditional transaction card (e.g., credit card).
Inventors: Phoebe Atkins (Midlothian, Va.); Michael Sala (Weehawken, N.J.); Vyjayanthi Vadrevu (Pflugerville, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Grow Cups For Hydroponic Growing Systems
Patent No. 11903351
A removable grow cup having a grow media receptacle, a nutrigation coupler extending from the grow media receptacle, the nutrigation coupler having a socket member and a mating detachable plug member. The plug member has a nutrigation inlet extending from the grow media receptacle. The nutrigation inlet is configured to distribute nutrient rich water in the grow media receptacle using at least one of a nutrient film technique and intermittent flow saturation technique. The socket member has a self-sealing valve, a socket housing, and a means for engaging said plug member. A means for attaching the grow media receptacle to at least one of a wall, planting column, and nutrigation manifold is provided. An outlet port extends from the grow media receptacle and is configured as a root growth channel and nutrient rich water exhaust port.
Inventors: Toni Sperry (Blacksburg, Va.); John Puleo (Greenville, S.C.); Rhea Davenport (Greeley, Colo.)
Assignee: Pod Farms (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Feb. 20, 2024
Lubricating Compositions For Reduced Low Temperature Valve Train Wear
Patent No. 11912955
The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions including effective amounts of molybdenum from an oil-soluble molybdenum compound and a magnesium boost in the detergent system to achieve passing motor friction and valve train wear performance.
Inventors: Samuel Bruce Field (Windsor, Great Britain); Kenneth Garelick (Mechanicsville, Va.); Hidetaka Hoshino (Yokohama, Japan); Guillaume Carpentier (Bracknell, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Feb. 27, 2024
Automated Processing And Dynamic Filtering Of Content For Display
Patent No. 11914844
Disclosed are systems and methods that automatically classify, segment, and parse content data using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology, and generate graphical user interfaces that allow end users to dynamically filter content data for display. The systems processes volumes of content data to identify interrogative data, content sources that generated the interrogative data, and subject identifiers relating to the content data. The system generates graphical user interfaces that allow end users to effectively filter the data by choosing between layouts that display one or more of the various categories of data, including the interrogative data, content source identifiers, and/or subject identifiers. The user interfaces include content view input functions that utilizes mapping data to locate and extract segments of the underlying content data from which displayed data is derived, thereby allowing end users to expediently review both the aggregated and reduced content data and the underlying source data.
Inventors: Kenneth William Cluff (Powhatan, Va.); Harold Thomas Wood III (Matthews, N.C.); Peter Councill (Richmond); James Xu (Raleigh, N.C.)
Assignee: Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Systems And Method For Automating Detection Of Regions Of Machine Learning System Underperformance
Patent No. 11915109
In some embodiments, a method includes generating a trained decision tree with a set of nodes based on input data and a partitioning objective, and generating a modified decision tree by recursively passing the input data through the trained decision tree, recursively calculating, for each of the nodes, an associated set of metrics, and recursively defining an association between each of the nodes and the associated set of metrics. A node from a set of nodes of the modified decision tree is identified that violates a user-specified threshold value, associated with a user, for at least one of the metrics. The method also includes causing transmission of a signal to a compute device of the user, the signal including a representation of the identified node.
Inventors: Kenneth S. Chen (Dover, Mass.); Reese Hyde (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Keegan E. Hines (Richmond)
Assignee: Arthur AI (New York, N.Y.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Heat-not-burn (HNB) Aerosol-generating Devices And Capsules
Patent No. 11910826
A capsule may include a housing, an aerosol-forming substrate, and a heater. The housing defines inlet openings, outlet openings, and a chamber between the inlet openings and the outlet openings. The chamber may have a longest dimension extending from at least one of the inlet openings to a corresponding one of the outlet openings. The aerosol-forming substrate is within the chamber of the housing. The heater is embedded in the housing. The heater includes a first end section, an intermediate section, and a second end section. The intermediate section is disposed within the aerosol-forming substrate in the chamber. An aerosol-generating device may include a device body with a lid configured to open to permit an insertion of the capsule and configured to close to engage the capsule within the device body.
Inventors: Zack W. Blackmon (Williamsburg, Va.); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Dean Twite (London, Great Britain); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.); Nicolas D. Castro (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 27, 2024
Method Of Making Aerosol-generating System With Temperature Sensor
Patent No. 11917731
The method includes first arranging at least one first wick to transfer an aerosol-forming substrate from a first location within a reservoir to a heater, second arranging a first temperature sensor to interface with the reservoir, the first temperature sensor being configured to sense a first measured temperature of the aerosol-forming substrate at a second location within the reservoir, the first location and the second location being spaced apart to mitigate an increase in the first measured temperature during an activation of the heater, and configuring circuitry to operatively control the aerosol-generating system such that the operatively controlling includes determining depletion information for the aerosol-forming substrate in the reservoir based on the first measured temperature.
Inventor: Tony Reevell (London, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 27, 2024
Hot Wire Anemometer Air Flow Measurement, Puff Detection And Ambient Temperature Tracking
Patent No. 11910838
A method of controlling a hot wire anemometer (HWA) of a nicotine e-vaping device includes controlling, by a first PID controller, a level of power applied by the nicotine e-vaping device to the HWA based on a temperature of a heated element of the HWA and a temperature setpoint; generating a puff detection signal indicating whether or not a puff is currently occurring with respect to the nicotine e-vaping device; and while the puff detection signal indicates that a puff is not currently occurring with respect to the nicotine e-vaping device, detecting, by a second PID controller, a change in an ambient temperature of the HWA, and controlling, by the second PID controller, the temperature setpoint such that the temperature setpoint changes in response to the detected change in the ambient temperature of the HWA.
Inventors: Adam Parrott (Richmond); Niall Gallagher (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.); Ryan Newcomb (Richmond); Terry Bache (Richmond); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond); Jarrett Keen (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 27, 2024
Vaporizer Heating Element Assemblies And Methods Of Manufacturing Same
Patent No. 11910831
A vaporizer heating element assembly has a case structure with a plurality of walls collectively defining a case interior. An upper wall has an access opening, a left wall has a reservoir window, and a lower wall has a vaporization window. A thin plate heating element formed from an electrically conductive material is positioned within the case structure parallel to the lower wall and adjacent the vaporization window. A liquid transport structure is configured for transporting liquid by capillary action from a liquid intake surface to a liquid outflow surface and is disposed within the case interior so that the liquid intake surface is adjacent the reservoir window and the liquid outflow surface is adjacent or in contact with the thin plate heating element. The heating element assembly also has an access closure sized and configured to seal the access opening.
Inventors: Donovan Phillips (Chesterfield, Va.); Yongjie Xu (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Blackshop Technologies Development (Chesterfield, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Virtual Warehouse Query Monitoring And Reporting
Patent No. 11914595
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for tracking and generating analysis of queries submitted to virtual warehouses are described herein. A request to execute a query may be received. An organization may be determined, and the query may be modified to add an indication of the organization. A plurality of virtual warehouses may be identified. One of the plurality of virtual warehouses may be caused to execute the query. Query results and costs data may be received based on execution of the query by the first virtual warehouse. The costs data may indicate one or more costs associated with the execution of the query by the first virtual warehouse. The indication of the organization may be extracted from the query results. A user interface comprising query cost information corresponding to the organization may be generated.
Inventors: Praveen Kandukuri (Ashburn, Va.); Syed Salim (Potomac, Md.); Karamchandradatt Hardatt (Glen Allen, Va.); Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Va.); Ganesh Bharathan (Henrico, Va.); Yudhish Batra (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Updating Security Rule Sets Using Repository Switching
Patent No. 11916971
Methods and systems are described herein for updating cybersecurity enforcement rules in real-time over disparate computer networks. A rule enforcement system may receive a real-time data stream. The real-time data stream may include real-time communications requiring cybersecurity verification. Real-time data communications are processed through a first rule repository. In response to determining that rule updates to rules within the first rule repository are available, a second rule repository is retrieved and brought online. Previously received real-time communication data is processed with the first rule repository and new real-time communication data is routed to the second rule repository. When previously received real-time communication data has been processed, the first rule repository is disabled.
Inventors: Srinivas Alladi (Glen Allen, Va.); Muthukumar Kubendran (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Detecting System Events Based On User Sentiment In Social Media Messages
Patent No. 11914462
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for using anomaly detection in timeseries data of user sentiment to detect incidents in computing systems and identify events within an enterprise. An anomaly detection system may receive social media messages that include a timestamp indicating when each message was published. The system may generate sentiment identifiers for the social media messages. The sentiment identifiers and timestamps associated with the social media messages may be used to generate a timeseries dataset for each type of sentiment identifier. The timeseries datasets may be input into an anomaly detection model to determine whether an anomaly has occurred. The system may retrieve textual data from the social media messages associated with the detected anomaly and may use the text to determine a computing system or event associated with the detected anomaly.
Inventors: Vannia Gonzalez Macias (Glen Allen, Va.); Paul Cho (Astoria, N.Y.); Rahul Gupta (Midlothian, Va.); Scott Garcia (Washington, D.C.); Adithya Ramanathan (Old Bridge, N.J.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Systems And Methods For Cryptographic Authentication Of Contactless Cards
Patent No. 11915231
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key. Example embodiments of systems and methods can be used to provide further authentication and added levels of security for transactions.
Inventors: Kevin Osborn (Newton, Mass.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); James Ashfield (Midlothian, Va.); Srinivasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Customized Merchant Price Ratings
Patent No. 11915256
Aspects described herein may allow for generating a customized price rating using a machine learning algorithm. This may have the effect of improving the display of information about merchants by including customized, personalized price ratings that better reflect the tastes and preferences of a user or group of users. According to some aspects, these and other benefits may be achieved by using a machine learning model, trained to receive input corresponding to both user data and merchant data and output an indication of customized price rating(s) for the merchant that is specific to one or more users, and then to generate information about the merchant for display that includes the customized price rating(s).
Inventors: Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Kathryn Tikoian (Arlington, Va.); Phoebe Atkins (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024
Current Transformer With Embedded Voltage Field Detection And Thermal Sensing
Patent No. 11914004
A monitoring system for sensing electrical parameters including current and voltage can comprise a current transformer and an antenna. The current transformer can be configured to sense current passing through a conductor. The antenna can be configured to sense electrical potential of the conductor by sensing an electric field generated by the conductor. The antenna can sense the electrical potential independent of whether current is present in the conductor. The monitoring system can further comprise a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of the conductor. A sensing module can include a housing supporting the current transformer, the antenna, and the temperature sensor for monitoring an electrical power circuit.
Inventor: Alan H. Katz (Fair Oaks, Calif.)
Assignee: Anord Mardix (USA) (Henrico, Va.)
Feb. 27, 2024