Interactive Conversation Assistance Using Semantic Search And Generative AI
Patent No. 11960514
A method of generating content in association with an information search and retrieval system. It begins by receiving a query from a user. The query is semantically-searched to identify a context. A conversation history between the user and the system is identified. An enriched query is then generated by associating to the query both the context and at least a portion of the conversation history. The enriched query is then evaluated/processed by a generative-AI. In response, information associated with the enriched query is received from the generative-AI. A response to the query is then generated using the information, e.g., by passing the information back to the user, by modifying (e.g., editing or supplementing) the information to generate modified information and passing the modified information back to the user, or by dismissing the information. If sensitive information is identified in the utterance, it is masked prior to generating the enriched query.
Inventors: Matt Taylert (Richmond); Bernard Ngombi Kiyanda (Mansfield, Mass.); Maria C. Moya (Everett, Mass.); Joseph S. Demple (Boston, Mass.); Matthew Pierce (Somerville, Mass.)
Assignee: Drift.com Inc (Boston, Mass.)
April 16, 2024
Thiophosphoric Acid Products For Antiwear Additives
Patent No. 11958875
A mixture including a thiophosphoric acid product suitable for preparing organometallic and/or ashless antiwear additives having improved copper corrosion performance. The thiophosphoric acid product is distilled and recovered as a condensate of the distillation and having a low level of active sulfur.
Inventors: Brandon Knouse (Moseley, Va.); David Edwards (Richmond); Magdalena Makowska (Mechanicsville, Va.); Gregory James (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
April 16, 2024
Monitoring Fluid Consumption Of Gas Turbine Engine During An Engine Cycle
Patent NO. 11969386
A method is provided for a gas turbine engine. During this method, a first lubricant parameter is determined during a first period of an engine operating cycle. The first lubricant parameter is indicative of a first quantity of lubricant within a reservoir of the gas turbine engine. A second lubricant parameter is determined during a second period of the engine operating cycle. The second lubricant parameter is indicative of a second quantity of the lubricant within the reservoir. The first lubricant parameter and the second lubricant parameter are compared to determine a lubricant consumption parameter. The lubricant consumption parameter is indicative of a quantity of the lubricant consumed by the gas turbine engine during the engine operating cycle.
Inventors: Edward T. Rocco (Rocky Hill, Conn.); Grant A. Carey (Richmond); Bradley C. Schafer (Ellington, Conn.)
RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.)
April 16, 2024
Quantum Communications System Having At Least One Waveplate To Alter Pulse Polarization And Associated Methods
Patent No. 11962689
A quantum communications system may include a transmitter node, a receiver node, and a quantum communications channel coupling the transmitter node and receiver node. The transmitter node may include a pulse transmitter, a pulse divider downstream from the pulse transmitter, and at least one first waveplate upstream from the pulse divider and configured to alter a polarization state of pulses travelling therethrough. The receiver node may include at least one second waveplate being a conjugate of the at least one first waveplate, a pulse recombiner upstream from the at least one second waveplate, and a pulse receiver downstream from the at least one second waveplate.
Inventors: Samuel H. Knarr (Melbourne, Fla.); Victor G. Bucklew (Richmond); Samuel Nunez (Palm Bay, Fla.); Cypryan T. Klish (Melbourne, Fla.); James Drakes (Occoquan, Va.)
Assignee: Eagle Technology (Melbourne, Fla.)
April 16, 2024
Moist Botanical Pouch Processing And Moist Oral Botanical Pouch Products
Patent No. 11963545
An oral pouched product comprising a pouch containing moist botanical beads comprising compacted loose, fibrous moist botanical material and method of manufacture thereof. The loose, fibrous moist botanical material can comprise moist smokeless tobacco. The pouch comprises a porous outer web, and the beads comprise a majority amount of loose, fibrous moist botanical material having a moisture content of at least about 50% OV.
Inventors: Diane L. Gee (Chesterfield, Va.); David R. Golob (Richmond); Stephen G. Zimmermann (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
April 23, 2024
Linear Fan Forced Air Cooling
Patent No. 11965529
A linear fan including a fan blade attached a fan frame by a wire spring having a first end attached to the fan blade and a second end attached to the fan frame. The fan blade includes a free end such that the blade oscillates by pivoting on the wire spring. The the wire spring flexes to enable the fan blade to oscillate. The fan includes a motor for driving the oscillation of the fan blade. The motor includes an armature or permanent magnet connected to the fan blade and a stator assembly connected to the fan frame. The stator assembly includes a current carrying coil wrapped around a leg of a stator core. The motor is controlled to vary the direction of the current being carried in the coil to thereby change the direction of the magnetic field created by the stator assembly and cause the fan blade to oscillate.
Inventor: Timothy S. Lucas (Liberty Lake, Wash.)
Assignee: Neofan Inc (Richmond)
April 23, 2023
Automated Processing And Dynamic Filtering Of Content For Display
Patent No. 11966570
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.)
April 23, 2024
Text Messaging Service Based Commerce System
Patent No. 11966909
A computing device provides enhancement of the capabilities of text messaging applications that execute on user devices. The computing device includes a processor that receives a text message via a network from a user device, the text message including a character representation of a product bundle of a merchant. The processor determines bundle data for the product bundle by referencing a database using the character representation. The processor provides one or more text messages via the network to the user device with transaction data including the bundle data, payment data, and shipping data. The processor receives a text message via the network from the user device confirming the transaction data. The user may use text commands presented by the computing device or natural language conversation in the text messages to the computing device to modify the transaction data and perform other ecommerce actions.
Inventors: Gavin Neil Foster Jr. (Richmond); David Dennison Lacho (Squamish, Canada); Brian James Swank (Lancaster, Penn.); Vishak Swaminathan Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.); Adam Sandstrom Turner (Carbondale, Colo.); Colin Douglas Turner (Scottsdale, Ariz.); Alex Elias Beller (Denver, Colo.)
Assignee: Stodge Inc (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
April 23, 2024
Method And System For High-throughput Screening
Patent No. 11959858
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is characterized by the progressive loss of renal function which eventually leads to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). CKD affects roughly 30 million Americans, costs billions of dollars in healthcare spending annually, and leaves thousands of patients reliant on burdensome dialysis treatments while waiting for a transplant. Fortunately, CKD may be controllable if diagnosed early in the disease progression. RAMETRIX? is a novel public health screening technology for early diagnosis and detection of CKD. This technology uses Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics to analyze the molecular composition of urine and other biological fluids. RAMETRIX? is a fast, non-invasive, accurate, and inexpensive diagnostic tool that can revolutionize the way healthcare providers detect and treat CKD. The RAMETRIX? AutoScanner is a system enabling more efficient sample processing in large-scale settings such as hospitals and medical laboratories.
Inventors: John L. Robertson (Floyd, Va.); Ryan Senger (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties (Blacksburg, Va.)
April 16, 2024
Breathable Elastic Laminates For Wearable Articles And Methods For Making Same
Patent No. 11964455
A method for manufacturing a breathable elastic laminate includes aperturing an elastic film to create an apertured elastic film with a pattern. The pattern includes a plurality of first lanes extending in a machine direction, each of the plurality of first lanes having a plurality of apertures, and a plurality of second lanes extending in the machine direction. Each of the plurality of second lanes is devoid of apertures and has a width of at least twice the width of one of the apertures in the first lanes. The plurality of second lanes alternate with the plurality of first lanes in a cross direction substantially orthogonal to the machine direction. The method includes stretching the apertured elastic film in the machine direction to activate the apertured elastic film and bonding a first side of the activated apertured elastic film to a nonwoven web to create a breathable elastic laminate.
Inventors: Amir Moshe (Chesterfield, Va.); David L. Godshall (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Fitesa Film Products (Simpsonville, S.C.)
April 23, 2024
Handheld Appliance For Pressing And Steaming Garments And Other Items
Patent No. 11959223
A handheld pressing and steaming appliance includes: an upper arm; a lower arm attached at one end to an end of the upper arm; a steam generation unit mounted on the upper arm; a water reservoir located in the upper arm and/or the lower arm; a water pump fluidly connected to the water reservoir and to the steam generation unit; a heating plate mounted near a free end of the upper arm and including a plurality of first exhaust holes that are in fluid communication with the steam generation unit; and a bearing plate mounted on the lower arm at a free end thereof, the bearing plate including a plurality of second exhaust holes. The appliance is movable between open and closed positions. In the closed the second exhaust holes are substantially aligned with the first exhaust holes, such that steam exhausted from the first exhaust holes also passes through the second exhaust holes.
Inventors: Brandon Sung-Hwan Song (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
April 16, 2024
Implantable Medical Systems, Devices And Methods For Delivering Asymptomatic Diaphragmatic Stimulation
Patent No. 11957914
Transcardiac diaphragmatic stimulation includes detecting a cardiac event based on signals sensed through a cardiac event sensor located in or on a region of a heart in proximity to a diaphragm, and delivering an ADS therapy through an ADS therapy mechanism that is located in proximity with the region of the heart, to induce a contraction of the diaphragm without inducing a contraction of the heart. The cardiac event sensor may be located a) on an interior surface of a cardiac wall that abuts the diaphragm, or 2) on an exterior surface of the heart, between a cardiac wall and the diaphragm. The ADS therapy mechanism may be located: a) on an interior surface of a cardiac wall that abuts the diaphragm, 2) on a superior surface of the diaphragm that abuts a cardiac wall, or 3) on an inferior surface of the diaphragm at a region of the diaphragm that abuts the heart.
Inventors: Peter T. Bauer (Portland, Ore.); Gregg Harris (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: VisCardia Inc (Beaverton, Ore.)
Methods And Systems For Supply Chain Analytics
Patent No. 11960511
Provided are methods, systems, and apparatuses for improving supply chain management interfaces and functionality. The supply chain management interfaces may provide visualizations of one or more standardization constructs associated with an organization and locations thereof. A standardization construct may be generated using supply chain records associated with the organization and locations thereof. The visualizations of the one or more standardization constructs may be adjusted at a user interface. The adjusted one or more standardization constructs may be indicative of ways in which the one or more standardization constructs may be improved.
Inventors: Anshul Kumar (Glen Allen, Va.); Bethann Maynard (Mechanicsville, Va.); Jacob Hookom (Chaska, Minn.)
Assignee: McKesson Corp. (Irvining, Texas)
April 16, 2024
Data Certification Process For Cloud Database Platform
Patent No. 11966489
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify criteria that limit access to the records stored by the database. The one or more first rules may be received via a user interface. The data sharing platform may perform, based on the rules, a data access certification process on the records stored by the database to generate a table of certification results. The data sharing platform may generate, based on the table of certification results, and without modifying the records stored by the database, a limited consumer view definition. Based on updates to the records, a new limited consumer view definition may be generated.
Inventors: Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Va.); Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Va.); Syed Shamaz Salim (Potomac, Md.); Praveen Kandukuri (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 23, 2024
Multiplexed On-chip Impedance Cytometry System And Method
Patent No. 11965810
An exemplary method and system is disclosed that facilitate the integration of multiplexed single-cell impedance cytometry in a high throughput format, which can be deployed upstream from microfluidic sample preparation and/or downstream to microfluidic cell separation. In exemplary method and system may employ impedance-based quantification of cell electrophysiology on the same microfluidic chip (i.e., “on-chip”) to provide distinguishing phenotypic information on the sample, without the need for additional sample handling, preparation or dilution steps as would be needed for other flow cytometry techniques.
Inventors: Nathan Swami (Charlottesville, Va.); John McGrath (Charlottesville, Va.); Walter Varhue (Glen Allen, Va.); Carlos Honrado (Charlottesville, Va.); Vahid Farmehini (Charlottesville, Va.); Yi Liu (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.)
April 23, 2024
System And Method For Efficient Engine Operation
Patent No. 11957298
A material collection system is provided. The system can include a vehicle, a conduit, a vacuum generator mounted to the vehicle to develop an airflow and to draw material into the conduit, and a moveable boom mounted to the vehicle to support the conduit. The system can include a control system to control a speed of the vacuum generator.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Andrew Nitchie (Henrico, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co. (Henrico, Va.)
April 16, 2024
Material Collection System
Patent No. 11959236
A material collection system is provided. The system can include a vacuum generator having a fan to develop an airflow and draw material into a conduit. The system can also include a transmission, a power source to selectively power at least one of the vacuum generator and the transmission, a variable power divider to divide a power output from the power source to the transmission and the vacuum generator, and a control system to control the variable power divider in a first mode and a second mode.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Andrew Nitchie (Henrico, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co. (Henrico, Va.)
April 16, 2024
Fire-retardant Insulation Suitable For Battery Cells
Patent No. 11962025
A laminate useful as cell-to-cell battery insulation, the laminate having an insulating area and a periphery seal area, the insulating area comprising, in order: a first outer layer of paper comprising aramid material and mica; an inner layer comprising a felt or paper of inorganic short fibers; and a second outer layer of paper comprising aramid material and mica; the periphery seal area being void of the inner layer and being formed by adhering the first and second outer layers of paper to one another; wherein the periphery seal area extends around the periphery of the insulating area.
Inventor: Byoung Sam Kang (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Dupont Safety & Construction (Wilmington, Del.)
April 16, 2024
Automated Predictive Caching Of Cloud-sourced Data And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent 11966333
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable intelligent dynamic caching of data by accessing an activity history of historical electronic activity data entries associated with a user account, and utilizing a trained entity relevancy machine learning model to predict a degree of relevance of each entity associated with the historical electronic activity data entries in the activity history based at least in part on model parameters and activity attributes of each electronic activity data entry. A set of relevant entities are determined based at least in part on the degree of relevance of each entity. Pre-cached entities are identified based on pre-cached entity data records cached on the user device, and un-cached relevant entities from the set of relevant entities are identified based on the pre-cached entities. The cache on the user device is updated to cache the un-cached entity data records associated with the un-cached relevant entities.
Inventors: Shabnam Kousha (Washington, D.C.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.); Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 23, 2024
Discovery Crawler For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 11966324
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.)
April 23, 2024
System For Advising Consumers On Optimal Pedestrian Routes Based On Transaction History
Patent No. 11966864
Aspects described herein may provide determination of a pedestrian route for a user to reach a seating area inside of a venue. Financial transaction data of the user may be reviewed to determine the user purchased one or more tickets to an event at the venue. Information regarding the event or the venue may be determined including seating charts for the venue and whether the tickets are for assigned or unassigned seats. Crowd densities inside and outside of the venue may be determined. The pedestrian route may be determined based on the crowd densities, number of tickets, and type of seating. The route may be updated as conditions change including any change to the crowd densities or change to seating availability. The route may increase a likelihood that the user reaches the seating area prior to a start of the event, and in a less stressful manner.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Ana Cruz (Arlington, Va.); Christopher Camenares (Falls Church, Va.); Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 23, 2024
On-demand Applications To Extend Web Services
Patent No. 11961089
Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media. A web browser of a device may receive selection of a uniform resource locator (URL). An operating system may download an application from an application server based on the URL. The application may identify a plurality of applications installed on the device and select a first institution corresponding to a first application. The application may receive a cryptogram from a contactless card associated with the first institution and transmit the cryptogram to an authentication server. The application may receive an authentication result specifying the authentication server decrypted the cryptogram. The web browser may receive, based on the decryption of the cryptogram, an account number, an expiration date associated with the account number, and a card verification value (CVV) associated with the account number. The web browser may provide the account number, expiration date, and CVV to a server associated with the application.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Bob Uni Koshy (Henrico, Va.); Kevin Osborn (Newton, Mass.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 16, 2024
Interactive Conversation Assistance Using Semantic Search And Generative AI
Patent No. 11960514
A method of generating content in association with an information search and retrieval system. It begins by receiving a query from a user. The query is semantically-searched to identify a context. A conversation history between the user and the system is identified. An enriched query is then generated by associating to the query both the context and at least a portion of the conversation history. The enriched query is then evaluated/processed by a generative-AI. In response, information associated with the enriched query is received from the generative-AI. A response to the query is then generated using the information, e.g., by passing the information back to the user, by modifying (e.g., editing or supplementing) the information to generate modified information and passing the modified information back to the user, or by dismissing the information. If sensitive information is identified in the utterance, it is masked prior to generating the enriched query.
Inventors: Matt Taylert (Richmond); Bernard Ngombi Kiyanda (Mansfield, Mass.); Maria C. Moya (Everett, Mass.); Joseph S. Demple (Boston, Mass.); Matthew Pierce (Somerville, Mass.)
Assignee: Drift.com Inc (Boston, Mass.)
April 16, 2024
Thiophosphoric Acid Products For Antiwear Additives
Patent No. 11958875
A mixture including a thiophosphoric acid product suitable for preparing organometallic and/or ashless antiwear additives having improved copper corrosion performance. The thiophosphoric acid product is distilled and recovered as a condensate of the distillation and having a low level of active sulfur.
Inventors: Brandon Knouse (Moseley, Va.); David Edwards (Richmond); Magdalena Makowska (Mechanicsville, Va.); Gregory James (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
April 16, 2024
Monitoring Fluid Consumption Of Gas Turbine Engine During An Engine Cycle
Patent NO. 11969386
A method is provided for a gas turbine engine. During this method, a first lubricant parameter is determined during a first period of an engine operating cycle. The first lubricant parameter is indicative of a first quantity of lubricant within a reservoir of the gas turbine engine. A second lubricant parameter is determined during a second period of the engine operating cycle. The second lubricant parameter is indicative of a second quantity of the lubricant within the reservoir. The first lubricant parameter and the second lubricant parameter are compared to determine a lubricant consumption parameter. The lubricant consumption parameter is indicative of a quantity of the lubricant consumed by the gas turbine engine during the engine operating cycle.
Inventors: Edward T. Rocco (Rocky Hill, Conn.); Grant A. Carey (Richmond); Bradley C. Schafer (Ellington, Conn.)
RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.)
April 16, 2024
Quantum Communications System Having At Least One Waveplate To Alter Pulse Polarization And Associated Methods
Patent No. 11962689
A quantum communications system may include a transmitter node, a receiver node, and a quantum communications channel coupling the transmitter node and receiver node. The transmitter node may include a pulse transmitter, a pulse divider downstream from the pulse transmitter, and at least one first waveplate upstream from the pulse divider and configured to alter a polarization state of pulses travelling therethrough. The receiver node may include at least one second waveplate being a conjugate of the at least one first waveplate, a pulse recombiner upstream from the at least one second waveplate, and a pulse receiver downstream from the at least one second waveplate.
Inventors: Samuel H. Knarr (Melbourne, Fla.); Victor G. Bucklew (Richmond); Samuel Nunez (Palm Bay, Fla.); Cypryan T. Klish (Melbourne, Fla.); James Drakes (Occoquan, Va.)
Assignee: Eagle Technology (Melbourne, Fla.)
April 16, 2024
Moist Botanical Pouch Processing And Moist Oral Botanical Pouch Products
Patent No. 11963545
An oral pouched product comprising a pouch containing moist botanical beads comprising compacted loose, fibrous moist botanical material and method of manufacture thereof. The loose, fibrous moist botanical material can comprise moist smokeless tobacco. The pouch comprises a porous outer web, and the beads comprise a majority amount of loose, fibrous moist botanical material having a moisture content of at least about 50% OV.
Inventors: Diane L. Gee (Chesterfield, Va.); David R. Golob (Richmond); Stephen G. Zimmermann (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
April 23, 2024
Linear Fan Forced Air Cooling
Patent No. 11965529
A linear fan including a fan blade attached a fan frame by a wire spring having a first end attached to the fan blade and a second end attached to the fan frame. The fan blade includes a free end such that the blade oscillates by pivoting on the wire spring. The the wire spring flexes to enable the fan blade to oscillate. The fan includes a motor for driving the oscillation of the fan blade. The motor includes an armature or permanent magnet connected to the fan blade and a stator assembly connected to the fan frame. The stator assembly includes a current carrying coil wrapped around a leg of a stator core. The motor is controlled to vary the direction of the current being carried in the coil to thereby change the direction of the magnetic field created by the stator assembly and cause the fan blade to oscillate.
Inventor: Timothy S. Lucas (Liberty Lake, Wash.)
Assignee: Neofan Inc (Richmond)
April 23, 2023
Automated Processing And Dynamic Filtering Of Content For Display
Patent No. 11966570
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.)
April 23, 2024
Text Messaging Service Based Commerce System
Patent No. 11966909
A computing device provides enhancement of the capabilities of text messaging applications that execute on user devices. The computing device includes a processor that receives a text message via a network from a user device, the text message including a character representation of a product bundle of a merchant. The processor determines bundle data for the product bundle by referencing a database using the character representation. The processor provides one or more text messages via the network to the user device with transaction data including the bundle data, payment data, and shipping data. The processor receives a text message via the network from the user device confirming the transaction data. The user may use text commands presented by the computing device or natural language conversation in the text messages to the computing device to modify the transaction data and perform other ecommerce actions.
Inventors: Gavin Neil Foster Jr. (Richmond); David Dennison Lacho (Squamish, Canada); Brian James Swank (Lancaster, Penn.); Vishak Swaminathan Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.); Adam Sandstrom Turner (Carbondale, Colo.); Colin Douglas Turner (Scottsdale, Ariz.); Alex Elias Beller (Denver, Colo.)
Assignee: Stodge Inc (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
April 23, 2024
Method And System For High-throughput Screening
Patent No. 11959858
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is characterized by the progressive loss of renal function which eventually leads to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). CKD affects roughly 30 million Americans, costs billions of dollars in healthcare spending annually, and leaves thousands of patients reliant on burdensome dialysis treatments while waiting for a transplant. Fortunately, CKD may be controllable if diagnosed early in the disease progression. RAMETRIX? is a novel public health screening technology for early diagnosis and detection of CKD. This technology uses Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics to analyze the molecular composition of urine and other biological fluids. RAMETRIX? is a fast, non-invasive, accurate, and inexpensive diagnostic tool that can revolutionize the way healthcare providers detect and treat CKD. The RAMETRIX? AutoScanner is a system enabling more efficient sample processing in large-scale settings such as hospitals and medical laboratories.
Inventors: John L. Robertson (Floyd, Va.); Ryan Senger (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties (Blacksburg, Va.)
April 16, 2024
Breathable Elastic Laminates For Wearable Articles And Methods For Making Same
Patent No. 11964455
A method for manufacturing a breathable elastic laminate includes aperturing an elastic film to create an apertured elastic film with a pattern. The pattern includes a plurality of first lanes extending in a machine direction, each of the plurality of first lanes having a plurality of apertures, and a plurality of second lanes extending in the machine direction. Each of the plurality of second lanes is devoid of apertures and has a width of at least twice the width of one of the apertures in the first lanes. The plurality of second lanes alternate with the plurality of first lanes in a cross direction substantially orthogonal to the machine direction. The method includes stretching the apertured elastic film in the machine direction to activate the apertured elastic film and bonding a first side of the activated apertured elastic film to a nonwoven web to create a breathable elastic laminate.
Inventors: Amir Moshe (Chesterfield, Va.); David L. Godshall (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Fitesa Film Products (Simpsonville, S.C.)
April 23, 2024
Handheld Appliance For Pressing And Steaming Garments And Other Items
Patent No. 11959223
A handheld pressing and steaming appliance includes: an upper arm; a lower arm attached at one end to an end of the upper arm; a steam generation unit mounted on the upper arm; a water reservoir located in the upper arm and/or the lower arm; a water pump fluidly connected to the water reservoir and to the steam generation unit; a heating plate mounted near a free end of the upper arm and including a plurality of first exhaust holes that are in fluid communication with the steam generation unit; and a bearing plate mounted on the lower arm at a free end thereof, the bearing plate including a plurality of second exhaust holes. The appliance is movable between open and closed positions. In the closed the second exhaust holes are substantially aligned with the first exhaust holes, such that steam exhausted from the first exhaust holes also passes through the second exhaust holes.
Inventors: Brandon Sung-Hwan Song (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
April 16, 2024
Implantable Medical Systems, Devices And Methods For Delivering Asymptomatic Diaphragmatic Stimulation
Patent No. 11957914
Transcardiac diaphragmatic stimulation includes detecting a cardiac event based on signals sensed through a cardiac event sensor located in or on a region of a heart in proximity to a diaphragm, and delivering an ADS therapy through an ADS therapy mechanism that is located in proximity with the region of the heart, to induce a contraction of the diaphragm without inducing a contraction of the heart. The cardiac event sensor may be located a) on an interior surface of a cardiac wall that abuts the diaphragm, or 2) on an exterior surface of the heart, between a cardiac wall and the diaphragm. The ADS therapy mechanism may be located: a) on an interior surface of a cardiac wall that abuts the diaphragm, 2) on a superior surface of the diaphragm that abuts a cardiac wall, or 3) on an inferior surface of the diaphragm at a region of the diaphragm that abuts the heart.
Inventors: Peter T. Bauer (Portland, Ore.); Gregg Harris (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: VisCardia Inc (Beaverton, Ore.)
Methods And Systems For Supply Chain Analytics
Patent No. 11960511
Provided are methods, systems, and apparatuses for improving supply chain management interfaces and functionality. The supply chain management interfaces may provide visualizations of one or more standardization constructs associated with an organization and locations thereof. A standardization construct may be generated using supply chain records associated with the organization and locations thereof. The visualizations of the one or more standardization constructs may be adjusted at a user interface. The adjusted one or more standardization constructs may be indicative of ways in which the one or more standardization constructs may be improved.
Inventors: Anshul Kumar (Glen Allen, Va.); Bethann Maynard (Mechanicsville, Va.); Jacob Hookom (Chaska, Minn.)
Assignee: McKesson Corp. (Irvining, Texas)
April 16, 2024
Data Certification Process For Cloud Database Platform
Patent No. 11966489
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify criteria that limit access to the records stored by the database. The one or more first rules may be received via a user interface. The data sharing platform may perform, based on the rules, a data access certification process on the records stored by the database to generate a table of certification results. The data sharing platform may generate, based on the table of certification results, and without modifying the records stored by the database, a limited consumer view definition. Based on updates to the records, a new limited consumer view definition may be generated.
Inventors: Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Va.); Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Va.); Syed Shamaz Salim (Potomac, Md.); Praveen Kandukuri (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 23, 2024
Multiplexed On-chip Impedance Cytometry System And Method
Patent No. 11965810
An exemplary method and system is disclosed that facilitate the integration of multiplexed single-cell impedance cytometry in a high throughput format, which can be deployed upstream from microfluidic sample preparation and/or downstream to microfluidic cell separation. In exemplary method and system may employ impedance-based quantification of cell electrophysiology on the same microfluidic chip (i.e., “on-chip”) to provide distinguishing phenotypic information on the sample, without the need for additional sample handling, preparation or dilution steps as would be needed for other flow cytometry techniques.
Inventors: Nathan Swami (Charlottesville, Va.); John McGrath (Charlottesville, Va.); Walter Varhue (Glen Allen, Va.); Carlos Honrado (Charlottesville, Va.); Vahid Farmehini (Charlottesville, Va.); Yi Liu (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.)
April 23, 2024
System And Method For Efficient Engine Operation
Patent No. 11957298
A material collection system is provided. The system can include a vehicle, a conduit, a vacuum generator mounted to the vehicle to develop an airflow and to draw material into the conduit, and a moveable boom mounted to the vehicle to support the conduit. The system can include a control system to control a speed of the vacuum generator.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Andrew Nitchie (Henrico, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co. (Henrico, Va.)
April 16, 2024
Material Collection System
Patent No. 11959236
A material collection system is provided. The system can include a vacuum generator having a fan to develop an airflow and draw material into a conduit. The system can also include a transmission, a power source to selectively power at least one of the vacuum generator and the transmission, a variable power divider to divide a power output from the power source to the transmission and the vacuum generator, and a control system to control the variable power divider in a first mode and a second mode.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Andrew Nitchie (Henrico, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co. (Henrico, Va.)
April 16, 2024
Fire-retardant Insulation Suitable For Battery Cells
Patent No. 11962025
A laminate useful as cell-to-cell battery insulation, the laminate having an insulating area and a periphery seal area, the insulating area comprising, in order: a first outer layer of paper comprising aramid material and mica; an inner layer comprising a felt or paper of inorganic short fibers; and a second outer layer of paper comprising aramid material and mica; the periphery seal area being void of the inner layer and being formed by adhering the first and second outer layers of paper to one another; wherein the periphery seal area extends around the periphery of the insulating area.
Inventor: Byoung Sam Kang (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Dupont Safety & Construction (Wilmington, Del.)
April 16, 2024
Automated Predictive Caching Of Cloud-sourced Data And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent 11966333
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable intelligent dynamic caching of data by accessing an activity history of historical electronic activity data entries associated with a user account, and utilizing a trained entity relevancy machine learning model to predict a degree of relevance of each entity associated with the historical electronic activity data entries in the activity history based at least in part on model parameters and activity attributes of each electronic activity data entry. A set of relevant entities are determined based at least in part on the degree of relevance of each entity. Pre-cached entities are identified based on pre-cached entity data records cached on the user device, and un-cached relevant entities from the set of relevant entities are identified based on the pre-cached entities. The cache on the user device is updated to cache the un-cached entity data records associated with the un-cached relevant entities.
Inventors: Shabnam Kousha (Washington, D.C.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.); Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 23, 2024
Discovery Crawler For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 11966324
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.)
April 23, 2024
System For Advising Consumers On Optimal Pedestrian Routes Based On Transaction History
Patent No. 11966864
Aspects described herein may provide determination of a pedestrian route for a user to reach a seating area inside of a venue. Financial transaction data of the user may be reviewed to determine the user purchased one or more tickets to an event at the venue. Information regarding the event or the venue may be determined including seating charts for the venue and whether the tickets are for assigned or unassigned seats. Crowd densities inside and outside of the venue may be determined. The pedestrian route may be determined based on the crowd densities, number of tickets, and type of seating. The route may be updated as conditions change including any change to the crowd densities or change to seating availability. The route may increase a likelihood that the user reaches the seating area prior to a start of the event, and in a less stressful manner.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Ana Cruz (Arlington, Va.); Christopher Camenares (Falls Church, Va.); Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 23, 2024
On-demand Applications To Extend Web Services
Patent No. 11961089
Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media. A web browser of a device may receive selection of a uniform resource locator (URL). An operating system may download an application from an application server based on the URL. The application may identify a plurality of applications installed on the device and select a first institution corresponding to a first application. The application may receive a cryptogram from a contactless card associated with the first institution and transmit the cryptogram to an authentication server. The application may receive an authentication result specifying the authentication server decrypted the cryptogram. The web browser may receive, based on the decryption of the cryptogram, an account number, an expiration date associated with the account number, and a card verification value (CVV) associated with the account number. The web browser may provide the account number, expiration date, and CVV to a server associated with the application.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Bob Uni Koshy (Henrico, Va.); Kevin Osborn (Newton, Mass.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
April 16, 2024