Generating Augmented Reality Tours
Patent No 11983396
The disclosed methods and systems generate augmented reality tours. Initially, information associated with a tour place of the augmented reality tour is received. Subsequently, a set of points of interest associated with the tour place is selected based on the information associated with the tour place. Further, a plurality of nodes associated with each point of interest of the set of points of interests are generated. The plurality of nodes includes at least one of a menu node, a marker node, a location node, a scene node, a timer node, a full screen video node, an instant tracking node, and a pause node. Finally, a combination of one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes is modified to create tour paths in the augmented reality tour, thus generating the augmented reality tour in real-time.
Inventors: Luigi Percuoco (Monza, Italy); Alexcia Bernice Cleveland (Henrico, Va.); Giovanni Stefanelli (Brugherio, Italy)
Assignee: Artglass USA LLC (Richmond)
May 14, 2024
Tobacco Having Altered Leaf Properties And Methods Of Making And Using
Patent No. 11981903
This disclosure provides tobacco plants having a mutation in PR50 and transgenic tobacco plants containing a PR50 RNAi, and methods of making and using such plants.
Inventors: Chengairayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.); Alec J. Hayes (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
May 14, 2024
Display Case With Insulated Foam Paneling
Patent No. 11980300
A refrigerated display case chassis includes a first insulated panel and a second insulated panel. The first insulated panel has a first foam layer bounded by a first pair of thermally conductive sheets. The first insulated panel forms a first wall of the refrigerated display case chassis. The second insulated panel has a second foam layer bounded by a second pair of thermally conductive sheets. The second insulated panel forms a second wall of the refrigerated display case chassis. The second insulated panel mates with the first insulated panel to form a thermally insulated joint where, in cross-section, one sheet of the first pair of thermally conductive sheets terminates at a surface of the second foam layer. The thermally conductive sheets have a greater thermal conductivity than the first or second foam layers.
Inventors: Lawrence William Eget (Mechanicsville, Va.); Steven O. Stubblefield (Mechanicsville, Va.); Nicholas Jeffers (Midlothian, Va.); Daniela Guadalupe Medina (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Hill Phoenix (Conyers, Ga.)
May 14, 2024
Crafting Effective Policies For Identity And Access Management Roles
Patent No. 11983283
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for preemptively evaluating whether roles are over-privileged within an (IAM) identity and access management system. Roles may be over-privileged when they are granted permissions to perform certain actions outside the scope granted to those roles. The evaluation occurs without submitting the certain actions to the IAM system and allows roles to be evaluated on a preemptive basis so that corrective actions may be taken to prevent unauthorized access to resources. Roles may be associated with policies which may each define different permissions for accessing resources. The evaluation may involve generating an effective policy from the policies associated with a role to provide a comprehensive view of all permissions associated with the role. The specified solution operates to generate an effective permission for accessing a resource and evaluating whether that effective permission is outside of a permissible scope of access for the role.
Inventors: Matthew A. Ghiold (Glen Allen, Va.); Gavin McGrew (Henrico, Va.); Devon Powley (Reston, Va.); Dale Greene Jr. (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 14, 2024
Modular Static Transfer Switches
Patent No. 11984760
In one aspect, a modular static transfer switch is provided. The module static transfer switch includes an output configured to couple to a load, a first input configured to couple to a first power source, and a second input configured to couple to a second power source. The modular static transfer switch further includes a plurality of sold-state switch modules each comprising at least one solid-state switch. A first plurality of the solid-state switch modules are coupled in parallel between the first input and the output, each configured to selectively couple the first power source to the output using the at least one solid-state switch. A second plurality of the solid-state switch modules are coupled in parallel between the second input and the output, each configured to selectively couple the second power source to the output using the at least one solid-state switch.
Inventors: Yu Du (Pleasanton, Calif.); Christopher Alan Belcastro (Mechanicsville, Va.); Waqas Mahmood Arshad (Cary, N.C.)
Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Germany)
May 14, 2024
Metadata-aware Templating Engine For Assigning Internet Protocol Address Space In An Organization
Patent No. 11985032
A templating engine in a network management platform creates and stores named templates that describe a network state associating one or more IP address blocks and sub-blocks with one or more corresponding attributes of potential and actual network resources. Named templates comprise, for each IP address sub-block, a data object including a set of actions to be taken in response to provisioning requests based on metadata associated with a network resource identified by the request. Responsive to a provisioning request for access by a resource to the enterprise network, an executed template automatically assigns an IP address to that resource in one of the sub-blocks according to identified attributes of the resource. The executing template automatically notifies external systems of the IP address assignment of the enterprise network.
Inventor: William R. Renner (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: 6Connect (N/A, Del.)
May 14, 2024
Apparatuses For Extracting Rare Earth Metals And Other Materials From Wastewater
Patent No. 11987509
An efficient, cost-effective, and efficacious technique for removing coal ash and other pollutants from waterways, ponds, marshes, holding tanks and other water sources and supplies. An apparatus comprising an open cage including electromagnets and/or permanent magnets and/or electrodes is supplied with electrical power to extract materials such as rare earth elements and/or heavy metals. The materials levitate to the surface, forming a slurry while leaving water substantially free of such materials.
Inventor: David Keith Fisher (Heathsville, Va.)
Assignee: FisherH2O (Richmond)
May 21, 2024
Protein Biomarker Indicators Of Neurological Injury And/or Disease And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 11988676
Methods, compositions and kits useful in the detection, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis and/or treatment of neurological injury or disease or brain injury, such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), are provided in which certain newly discovered protein biomarkers are detected in a biological sample of a subject undergoing testing or evaluation. The methods allow for detection of changes in levels, amounts, or concentrations of the protein biomarkers in a subject compared with those of controls. Detection of the protein biomarkers, and/or levels thereof, provides an indication of biological and biochemical events, e.g., at a cellular level, that are occurring in the subject who is undergoing testing or analysis for the neurological injury or brain injury.
Inventor: Timothy E. Van Meter (Richmond)
Assignee: Brainbox Solutions (Richmond)
May 21, 2024
Microdevice For Differential Separation, Purification And amplification Of Forensic Samples
Patent No. 11986822
Microfluidic devices for analyzing cellular components from biological samples which contain more than one cell type are provided. The microdevice separates cells by type, releases cellular components such as DNA (e.g. by cell lysis) and processes the cellular components (for example, by amplification) to generate products of interest for further analysis. Samples that can be analyzed using the microfluidic devices include forensic samples such as samples from sexual assault victims, and the products of interest include short tandem repeat (STR) amplicons for DNA profiling.
Inventors: Tracey Dawson Green (Glen Allen, Va.); James Landers (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Unitary Heating Element And Heater Assemblies, Cartridges, And E-vapor Devices Including A Unitary Heating Element
Patent No. 11991793
A heating element for an e-vapor device includes a planar portion including at least one filament. The filament may define an air channel through the planar portion. The heating element may include first and second lead portions extending away from the planar portion. The planar portion, the first lead portion, and the second lead portion may be a unitary body.
Inventors: Arie Holtz (Jerusalem, Israel); Isaac Weigensberg (Tekoa, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
May 21, 2024
Footwear Donning Apparatus
Patent No. 11986112
An apparatus can be used for assisting a user in donning a shoe, the shoe having a heel collar and a tongue, wherein the tongue has an underside. The apparatus can comprise a body that is partially receivable into the shoe. The body can have a top portion that is configured to extend above the heel collar when the body is partially received into the shoe. An inner portion can extend downwardly from the top portion. First and second projections that extend forwardly from the body and can be configured to bias against the underside of the tongue on opposing sides of the tongue.
Inventors: Seth R. Hills (Richmond) Garrett S. Bullock (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Assignee: United States Government As Represented By The Department Of Veterans Affairs (Washington, D.C.)
May 21, 2024
Stent Retriever Cleaning Devices And Methods
Patent No. 11986361
An exemplary device is indicated for use in physically debriding thrombus fragments from a stent retriever, using hospital-grade saline, or heparinized saline, for example. This device may be used in the sterile field, during a mechanical thrombectomy procedure. An exemplary cleaning device for cleaning a stent retriever within a sterile surgical field may include a chamber configured to receive and enclose a stent retriever to be cleaned, at least one port configured for connection with a fluid source to enable inflow and/or outflow of a fluid to or from the chamber, and one or more support structures configured to support the stent retriever in a fixed position inside the chamber.
Inventors: Dennis J. Rivet II (Richmond); Shane Diller (Richmond); John F. Reavey-Cantwell (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
May 21, 2024
Article Carrier And Blank Therefor
Patent No. 11987434
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an article carrier for packaging one or more articles and a blank for forming the carrier. The article carrier (90; 290) comprises a plurality of top-engaging openings or engaging structures RT1, RT2, RTS each having an annular series of engaging teeth or tabs (16; 216) along the perimeter of that opening. The annular series of engaging tabs (16; 216) of each opening is interrupted by at most two gaps (26, 26A, 26B). A notional diametrical line z-z′ passes through the center of each of the at most two gaps (26, 26A, 26B) and extends substantially perpendicular to the grain direction GR of paper material from which the article carrier (90; 290) is formed.
Inventors: Jean-Michel Garnier (Issoudon, France); Matthew E. Zacherle (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems (Atlanta, Ga.)
May 21, 2024
Article Carrier And Blank Therefor
Patent No. 11987433
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an article carrier for packaging a plurality of articles, a blank for forming the article carrier. The article carrier comprises a plurality of primary panels for forming a tubular structure and defining an interior thereof. The plurality of primary panels includes a first panel and a second panel opposing the first panel. The article carrier further comprises a partition structure for dividing the interior into two or more article-receiving cells. The partition structure is formed from the first panel and comprises a lateral partition panel. The lateral partition panel is hingedly connected at a proximal end to the first panel by a proximal end fold line and is hingedly connected at a distal end to a glue panel by a distal end joint.
Inventors: Matthew E. Zacherle (Chesterfield, Va.); Julien D. Merzeau (Chateauroux, France)
Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems (Atlanta, Ga.)
May 21, 2024
Isolated T Cell Receptors And Methods Of Use Therefor
Patent No. 11987613
Provided are isolated TCRs, TCR-like molecules, and portions thereof that bind to phosphopeptide-HLA-A2 complexes. The isolated TCRs, TCR-like molecules, or portions are optionally soluble TCRs, TCR-like molecules, or portions. Also provided are isolated nucleic acids encoding the disclosed TCRs, TCR-like molecules, or portions; host cells that contain the disclosed TCRs, TCR-like molecules, or portions; pharmaceutical compositions that include the disclosed TCRs, TCR-like molecules, portions, nucleic acids, and/or T cells; kits; and methods of using the same.
Inventors: Angela L. Ambakhutwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Victor H. Engelhard (Crozet, Va.); Kara L. Cummings (Charlottesville, Va.); Rebecca C. Obeng (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Microdevice For Differential Separation, Purification And amplification Of Forensic Samples
Patent No. 11986822
Microfluidic devices for analyzing cellular components from biological samples which contain more than one cell type are provided. The microdevice separates cells by type, releases cellular components such as DNA (e.g. by cell lysis) and processes the cellular components (for example, by amplification) to generate products of interest for further analysis. Samples that can be analyzed using the microfluidic devices include forensic samples such as samples from sexual assault victims, and the products of interest include short tandem repeat (STR) amplicons for DNA profiling.
Inventors: Tracey Dawson Green (Glen Allen, Va.); James Landers (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Systems And Methods For Use Of Capacitive Member To Prevent Chip Fraud
Patent No. 11989607
Example embodiments of systems and methods for preventing chip fraud are provided. A chip fraud prevention system may comprise a device including a chip, wherein the chip is at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket. One or more connections may be communicatively coupled to one or more surfaces of the chip, and a capacitance member may be coupled to a surface of the chip. The capacitance member may comprise a known capacitance value and the chip may comprise a memory containing an applet, wherein the applet is configured to measure the capacitance value of the capacitance member.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Systems And Methods For Cryptographic Authentication Of Contactless Cards Using Risk Factors
Patent No. 11989724
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 Highlands, Mass.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); James Ashfield (Midlothian, Va.); Srinvasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Identifying High Effort Statements For Call Center Summaries
Patent No. 11989514
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for machine learning systems to process incoming call-center calls to provide communication summaries that capture effort levels of statements made during interactive communications. For a given call, the system receives a transcript as the input and generates a textual summary as the output. In order to improve a call summary and customize a summarization task to a call center domain, the technology disclosed herein may employ a classifier that predicts an effort level and attention score for individual utterances within a call transcript, ranks the attention scores and uses selected ones of the ranked utterances in the summary.
Inventors: Aysu Ezen Can (Cary, N.C.); Zachary S. Brown (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Symons (Hilton, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Systems For Database Searching And Database Schemas Management And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 11989506
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable database search. The systems and/or methods may include receiving a search query that includes an input document having text. Word embeddings are generated within the input document, where the word embeddings include vector representations of words in the text of the input document. An average input document word embedding vector is determined for the word embeddings of the input document. A set of stored documents is accessed, where each stored document includes a stored text has a particular average stored document word embedding vector. A similarity model is used to determine a similarity metric measuring the similarity between the input document and each stored document based on the average input document word embedding vector and the particular average stored document word embedding vector of each stored document.
Inventors: Cruz Vargas (Ocean Springs, Miss.); Phoebe Atkins (Midlothian, Va.); Alexander Lin (Arlington, Va.); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (New York, N.Y.); Rajko Ilincic (Annandale, Va.); Max Miracolo (Brooklyn, N.Y.): Brian McClanahan (Hyattsville, Md.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 11986384
A composite scaffold having a highly porous interior with increased surface area and void volume is surrounded by a flexible support structure that substantially maintains its three-dimensional shape under tension and provides mechanical reinforcement during repair or reconstruction of soft tissue while simultaneously facilitating regeneration of functional tissue.
Inventors: Kevin A. Rocco (New Haven, Conn.); Bhavana Mohanraj (Philadelphia, Penn.); Jeffrey Ott (New Haven, Conn.); Justin Bendigo (Reading, Penn.); Jacob Edward Komenda (New Haven, Conn.); Mark Theodore Aronson (Midlothian, Va.); Andrew James Carter (Stow, Mass.)
Assignee: Biorez (New Haven, Conn.)
May 21, 2024
Generating Augmented Reality Tours
Patent No 11983396
The disclosed methods and systems generate augmented reality tours. Initially, information associated with a tour place of the augmented reality tour is received. Subsequently, a set of points of interest associated with the tour place is selected based on the information associated with the tour place. Further, a plurality of nodes associated with each point of interest of the set of points of interests are generated. The plurality of nodes includes at least one of a menu node, a marker node, a location node, a scene node, a timer node, a full screen video node, an instant tracking node, and a pause node. Finally, a combination of one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes is modified to create tour paths in the augmented reality tour, thus generating the augmented reality tour in real-time.
Inventors: Luigi Percuoco (Monza, Italy); Alexcia Bernice Cleveland (Henrico, Va.); Giovanni Stefanelli (Brugherio, Italy)
Assignee: Artglass USA LLC (Richmond)
May 14, 2024
Tobacco Having Altered Leaf Properties And Methods Of Making And Using
Patent No. 11981903
This disclosure provides tobacco plants having a mutation in PR50 and transgenic tobacco plants containing a PR50 RNAi, and methods of making and using such plants.
Inventors: Chengairayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.); Alec J. Hayes (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
May 14, 2024
Display Case With Insulated Foam Paneling
Patent No. 11980300
A refrigerated display case chassis includes a first insulated panel and a second insulated panel. The first insulated panel has a first foam layer bounded by a first pair of thermally conductive sheets. The first insulated panel forms a first wall of the refrigerated display case chassis. The second insulated panel has a second foam layer bounded by a second pair of thermally conductive sheets. The second insulated panel forms a second wall of the refrigerated display case chassis. The second insulated panel mates with the first insulated panel to form a thermally insulated joint where, in cross-section, one sheet of the first pair of thermally conductive sheets terminates at a surface of the second foam layer. The thermally conductive sheets have a greater thermal conductivity than the first or second foam layers.
Inventors: Lawrence William Eget (Mechanicsville, Va.); Steven O. Stubblefield (Mechanicsville, Va.); Nicholas Jeffers (Midlothian, Va.); Daniela Guadalupe Medina (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Hill Phoenix (Conyers, Ga.)
May 14, 2024
Crafting Effective Policies For Identity And Access Management Roles
Patent No. 11983283
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for preemptively evaluating whether roles are over-privileged within an (IAM) identity and access management system. Roles may be over-privileged when they are granted permissions to perform certain actions outside the scope granted to those roles. The evaluation occurs without submitting the certain actions to the IAM system and allows roles to be evaluated on a preemptive basis so that corrective actions may be taken to prevent unauthorized access to resources. Roles may be associated with policies which may each define different permissions for accessing resources. The evaluation may involve generating an effective policy from the policies associated with a role to provide a comprehensive view of all permissions associated with the role. The specified solution operates to generate an effective permission for accessing a resource and evaluating whether that effective permission is outside of a permissible scope of access for the role.
Inventors: Matthew A. Ghiold (Glen Allen, Va.); Gavin McGrew (Henrico, Va.); Devon Powley (Reston, Va.); Dale Greene Jr. (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 14, 2024
Modular Static Transfer Switches
Patent No. 11984760
In one aspect, a modular static transfer switch is provided. The module static transfer switch includes an output configured to couple to a load, a first input configured to couple to a first power source, and a second input configured to couple to a second power source. The modular static transfer switch further includes a plurality of sold-state switch modules each comprising at least one solid-state switch. A first plurality of the solid-state switch modules are coupled in parallel between the first input and the output, each configured to selectively couple the first power source to the output using the at least one solid-state switch. A second plurality of the solid-state switch modules are coupled in parallel between the second input and the output, each configured to selectively couple the second power source to the output using the at least one solid-state switch.
Inventors: Yu Du (Pleasanton, Calif.); Christopher Alan Belcastro (Mechanicsville, Va.); Waqas Mahmood Arshad (Cary, N.C.)
Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Germany)
May 14, 2024
Metadata-aware Templating Engine For Assigning Internet Protocol Address Space In An Organization
Patent No. 11985032
A templating engine in a network management platform creates and stores named templates that describe a network state associating one or more IP address blocks and sub-blocks with one or more corresponding attributes of potential and actual network resources. Named templates comprise, for each IP address sub-block, a data object including a set of actions to be taken in response to provisioning requests based on metadata associated with a network resource identified by the request. Responsive to a provisioning request for access by a resource to the enterprise network, an executed template automatically assigns an IP address to that resource in one of the sub-blocks according to identified attributes of the resource. The executing template automatically notifies external systems of the IP address assignment of the enterprise network.
Inventor: William R. Renner (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: 6Connect (N/A, Del.)
May 14, 2024
Apparatuses For Extracting Rare Earth Metals And Other Materials From Wastewater
Patent No. 11987509
An efficient, cost-effective, and efficacious technique for removing coal ash and other pollutants from waterways, ponds, marshes, holding tanks and other water sources and supplies. An apparatus comprising an open cage including electromagnets and/or permanent magnets and/or electrodes is supplied with electrical power to extract materials such as rare earth elements and/or heavy metals. The materials levitate to the surface, forming a slurry while leaving water substantially free of such materials.
Inventor: David Keith Fisher (Heathsville, Va.)
Assignee: FisherH2O (Richmond)
May 21, 2024
Protein Biomarker Indicators Of Neurological Injury And/or Disease And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 11988676
Methods, compositions and kits useful in the detection, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis and/or treatment of neurological injury or disease or brain injury, such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), are provided in which certain newly discovered protein biomarkers are detected in a biological sample of a subject undergoing testing or evaluation. The methods allow for detection of changes in levels, amounts, or concentrations of the protein biomarkers in a subject compared with those of controls. Detection of the protein biomarkers, and/or levels thereof, provides an indication of biological and biochemical events, e.g., at a cellular level, that are occurring in the subject who is undergoing testing or analysis for the neurological injury or brain injury.
Inventor: Timothy E. Van Meter (Richmond)
Assignee: Brainbox Solutions (Richmond)
May 21, 2024
Microdevice For Differential Separation, Purification And amplification Of Forensic Samples
Patent No. 11986822
Microfluidic devices for analyzing cellular components from biological samples which contain more than one cell type are provided. The microdevice separates cells by type, releases cellular components such as DNA (e.g. by cell lysis) and processes the cellular components (for example, by amplification) to generate products of interest for further analysis. Samples that can be analyzed using the microfluidic devices include forensic samples such as samples from sexual assault victims, and the products of interest include short tandem repeat (STR) amplicons for DNA profiling.
Inventors: Tracey Dawson Green (Glen Allen, Va.); James Landers (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Unitary Heating Element And Heater Assemblies, Cartridges, And E-vapor Devices Including A Unitary Heating Element
Patent No. 11991793
A heating element for an e-vapor device includes a planar portion including at least one filament. The filament may define an air channel through the planar portion. The heating element may include first and second lead portions extending away from the planar portion. The planar portion, the first lead portion, and the second lead portion may be a unitary body.
Inventors: Arie Holtz (Jerusalem, Israel); Isaac Weigensberg (Tekoa, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
May 21, 2024
Footwear Donning Apparatus
Patent No. 11986112
An apparatus can be used for assisting a user in donning a shoe, the shoe having a heel collar and a tongue, wherein the tongue has an underside. The apparatus can comprise a body that is partially receivable into the shoe. The body can have a top portion that is configured to extend above the heel collar when the body is partially received into the shoe. An inner portion can extend downwardly from the top portion. First and second projections that extend forwardly from the body and can be configured to bias against the underside of the tongue on opposing sides of the tongue.
Inventors: Seth R. Hills (Richmond) Garrett S. Bullock (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Assignee: United States Government As Represented By The Department Of Veterans Affairs (Washington, D.C.)
May 21, 2024
Stent Retriever Cleaning Devices And Methods
Patent No. 11986361
An exemplary device is indicated for use in physically debriding thrombus fragments from a stent retriever, using hospital-grade saline, or heparinized saline, for example. This device may be used in the sterile field, during a mechanical thrombectomy procedure. An exemplary cleaning device for cleaning a stent retriever within a sterile surgical field may include a chamber configured to receive and enclose a stent retriever to be cleaned, at least one port configured for connection with a fluid source to enable inflow and/or outflow of a fluid to or from the chamber, and one or more support structures configured to support the stent retriever in a fixed position inside the chamber.
Inventors: Dennis J. Rivet II (Richmond); Shane Diller (Richmond); John F. Reavey-Cantwell (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
May 21, 2024
Article Carrier And Blank Therefor
Patent No. 11987434
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an article carrier for packaging one or more articles and a blank for forming the carrier. The article carrier (90; 290) comprises a plurality of top-engaging openings or engaging structures RT1, RT2, RTS each having an annular series of engaging teeth or tabs (16; 216) along the perimeter of that opening. The annular series of engaging tabs (16; 216) of each opening is interrupted by at most two gaps (26, 26A, 26B). A notional diametrical line z-z′ passes through the center of each of the at most two gaps (26, 26A, 26B) and extends substantially perpendicular to the grain direction GR of paper material from which the article carrier (90; 290) is formed.
Inventors: Jean-Michel Garnier (Issoudon, France); Matthew E. Zacherle (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems (Atlanta, Ga.)
May 21, 2024
Article Carrier And Blank Therefor
Patent No. 11987433
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an article carrier for packaging a plurality of articles, a blank for forming the article carrier. The article carrier comprises a plurality of primary panels for forming a tubular structure and defining an interior thereof. The plurality of primary panels includes a first panel and a second panel opposing the first panel. The article carrier further comprises a partition structure for dividing the interior into two or more article-receiving cells. The partition structure is formed from the first panel and comprises a lateral partition panel. The lateral partition panel is hingedly connected at a proximal end to the first panel by a proximal end fold line and is hingedly connected at a distal end to a glue panel by a distal end joint.
Inventors: Matthew E. Zacherle (Chesterfield, Va.); Julien D. Merzeau (Chateauroux, France)
Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems (Atlanta, Ga.)
May 21, 2024
Isolated T Cell Receptors And Methods Of Use Therefor
Patent No. 11987613
Provided are isolated TCRs, TCR-like molecules, and portions thereof that bind to phosphopeptide-HLA-A2 complexes. The isolated TCRs, TCR-like molecules, or portions are optionally soluble TCRs, TCR-like molecules, or portions. Also provided are isolated nucleic acids encoding the disclosed TCRs, TCR-like molecules, or portions; host cells that contain the disclosed TCRs, TCR-like molecules, or portions; pharmaceutical compositions that include the disclosed TCRs, TCR-like molecules, portions, nucleic acids, and/or T cells; kits; and methods of using the same.
Inventors: Angela L. Ambakhutwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Victor H. Engelhard (Crozet, Va.); Kara L. Cummings (Charlottesville, Va.); Rebecca C. Obeng (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Microdevice For Differential Separation, Purification And amplification Of Forensic Samples
Patent No. 11986822
Microfluidic devices for analyzing cellular components from biological samples which contain more than one cell type are provided. The microdevice separates cells by type, releases cellular components such as DNA (e.g. by cell lysis) and processes the cellular components (for example, by amplification) to generate products of interest for further analysis. Samples that can be analyzed using the microfluidic devices include forensic samples such as samples from sexual assault victims, and the products of interest include short tandem repeat (STR) amplicons for DNA profiling.
Inventors: Tracey Dawson Green (Glen Allen, Va.); James Landers (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Systems And Methods For Use Of Capacitive Member To Prevent Chip Fraud
Patent No. 11989607
Example embodiments of systems and methods for preventing chip fraud are provided. A chip fraud prevention system may comprise a device including a chip, wherein the chip is at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket. One or more connections may be communicatively coupled to one or more surfaces of the chip, and a capacitance member may be coupled to a surface of the chip. The capacitance member may comprise a known capacitance value and the chip may comprise a memory containing an applet, wherein the applet is configured to measure the capacitance value of the capacitance member.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Systems And Methods For Cryptographic Authentication Of Contactless Cards Using Risk Factors
Patent No. 11989724
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 Highlands, Mass.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); James Ashfield (Midlothian, Va.); Srinvasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Identifying High Effort Statements For Call Center Summaries
Patent No. 11989514
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for machine learning systems to process incoming call-center calls to provide communication summaries that capture effort levels of statements made during interactive communications. For a given call, the system receives a transcript as the input and generates a textual summary as the output. In order to improve a call summary and customize a summarization task to a call center domain, the technology disclosed herein may employ a classifier that predicts an effort level and attention score for individual utterances within a call transcript, ranks the attention scores and uses selected ones of the ranked utterances in the summary.
Inventors: Aysu Ezen Can (Cary, N.C.); Zachary S. Brown (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Symons (Hilton, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Systems For Database Searching And Database Schemas Management And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 11989506
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable database search. The systems and/or methods may include receiving a search query that includes an input document having text. Word embeddings are generated within the input document, where the word embeddings include vector representations of words in the text of the input document. An average input document word embedding vector is determined for the word embeddings of the input document. A set of stored documents is accessed, where each stored document includes a stored text has a particular average stored document word embedding vector. A similarity model is used to determine a similarity metric measuring the similarity between the input document and each stored document based on the average input document word embedding vector and the particular average stored document word embedding vector of each stored document.
Inventors: Cruz Vargas (Ocean Springs, Miss.); Phoebe Atkins (Midlothian, Va.); Alexander Lin (Arlington, Va.); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (New York, N.Y.); Rajko Ilincic (Annandale, Va.); Max Miracolo (Brooklyn, N.Y.): Brian McClanahan (Hyattsville, Md.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
May 21, 2024
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 11986384
A composite scaffold having a highly porous interior with increased surface area and void volume is surrounded by a flexible support structure that substantially maintains its three-dimensional shape under tension and provides mechanical reinforcement during repair or reconstruction of soft tissue while simultaneously facilitating regeneration of functional tissue.
Inventors: Kevin A. Rocco (New Haven, Conn.); Bhavana Mohanraj (Philadelphia, Penn.); Jeffrey Ott (New Haven, Conn.); Justin Bendigo (Reading, Penn.); Jacob Edward Komenda (New Haven, Conn.); Mark Theodore Aronson (Midlothian, Va.); Andrew James Carter (Stow, Mass.)
Assignee: Biorez (New Haven, Conn.)
May 21, 2024