Techniques For Performing Compound Operations On Security Modules
Patent No. 12034844
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for performing compound operations on a security module. In some embodiments, a hardware security module (HSM) comprises executable code that, as a result of execution by one or more processors of the HSM, causes the HSM to obtain a request to perform a compound operation, parse the compound operation to determine a sequence of operations, perform the sequence of operations within a protected execution environment, wherein one or more intermediate results of the sequence of operations are programmatically unexportable from the protected execution environment, determine, based on complete execution of the sequence of operations, an output, and export the final output from the protected execution environment, thereby making it available to external devices.
Inventors: Benjamin Grubin (Herndon, Va.); Steve Preston Lightner Norum (Richmond)
Assignee: Amazon Technologies (Seattle, Wash.)
July 9, 2024
Media For Generating Fast Counterfactual Explanations Using Reinforcement Learning
Patent No. 12033088
In an embodiment, the systems and methods discussed herein are related to generating, via a processor, a Markov Distribution Problem (MDP), the MDP including a state space, an action space, a transition function, a reward function, and a discount factor. A reinforcement learning (RL) model is applied, via the processor, to the MDP to generate a RL agent. An input data associated with a first user is received at the RL agent. At least one counterfactual explanation (CFE) is generated via the processor and by the RL agent and based on the input data. A representation of the at least one CFE and at least one recommended remedial action is caused to transmit, via the processor, to at least one of a compute device of the first user or a compute device of a second user different from and associated with the first user.
Inventors: Shahil Verma (Seattle, Wash.); John Dickerson (Washington, D.C.); Keegan Hines (Richmond)
Assignee: Arthur AI Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
July 9, 2024
Atomization Burner With Flexible Fire Rate
Patent No. 12031721
A burner includes an atomizing chamber, a flame tube in front of the atomizing chamber adapted to direct combusting fuel introduced by the atomizing chamber along an interior of the flame tube, and a controller. The controller is programmed to independently control rate of fuel flow to the atomizing chamber, rate of atomizing air flow to the atomizing chamber, and rate of combustion air to the flame tub. The controller is also programmed to perform operations including regulating, based on output of a gas sensor, at least the rate of combustion air to the flame tube to substantially maintain a first predetermined amount of excess air in the flame tube.
Inventors: Andrew D. Babington (Potomac Hills, Md.); Nigel Andrew Jones (Frederick, Md.); Andrew J. Hamer (Richmond); Juan Carlos Lemus (Rocky Mount, N.C.); Per Edman (Norrkoping, South Korea)
Assignee: Babington Technology (Rocky Mount, N.C.)
July 9, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform With Watchdog Microservice
Patent No. 12033158
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); Jordan May (Richmond); William Planck (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Replica Reliability
Patent No. 12033085
A system for processing and verifying real-time calculations in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. In embodiments, the system performs implements methods to receive, at a first data center, a request from a point of sale (POS) system to perform a real-time calculation, where the real-time calculation is used to make automated decisions about a transaction. The system can transmit the request to a decision handler. The decision handler can determine which of a plurality of decision engine queues to further transmit the request to. The decision handler can transmit the request to a decision engine queue from the plurality of decision engine queues. The decision engine queue can scatter the request to at least two decision engines. The decision engine queue can receive a result of the real-time calculation and transmit the results through other components to the POS system.
Inventors: Vijayasuriya Ravi (Glen Allen, Va.); Christina Garcia (Midlothian, Va.); Raja Kavuru (Richmond); Sathiyamurthy Thiruvengadathan (Glen Allen, Va.); Lakshmi Ph Kommaraju (Glen Allen, Va.); Mallikarjuna Rao Smabaraju (Glen Allen, Va.); Nathan Robert Oster (Burke, Va.); Philip Austin Kedy (Oakton, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Circuit Assemblies And Components Thereof For Packaging
Patent No. 12035473
A circuit assembly includes a flexible card having a main panel and an extension panel foldably connected along a fold line and a card circuit disposed on the flexible card and having one or more contact points disposed proximate the fold line, and a circuit board having one or more electrical contacts formed on a surface of the circuit board. The flexible card and the circuit board can be disposed in face-to-face contact with each contact point of the card circuit is in registry with a respective electrical contact of the circuit board, with the extension panel folded at the fold line over the circuit board. The assembly includes a clip disposed over the folded extension panel and main panel to apply a sandwiching force to secure the circuit board and the card circuit in electrical contact.
Inventors: Ronald Binshtok (Quinton, Va.); Carly J. Dehenau (Richmond); James S. Shortt (Holly Springs, N.C.); Trisha Massenzo (Richmond)
Assignee: WestRock MWV (Atlanta, Ga.)
July 9, 2024
Systems And Methods For Providing Real-time Warnings To Merchants For Data Breaches
Patent No. 12033148
The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for providing real-time warnings to merchants for data breaches. For example, the system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to perform operations consistent with this disclosure. The operations may include collecting and storing transaction authorization requests from one or more merchants. The transaction authorization requests may include a virtual account number associated with an account, the virtual account number being previously bound to a merchant and reusable only for the bound merchant. The operations may further include detecting an event at the bound merchant based on, for example, a transaction authorization request having a mismatch between a transacting merchant and the bound merchant. The operations my further include communicating notification of the event through a communication interface with the bound merchant.
Inventors: Philip Spiegel (Midlothian, Va.); Noble Ozoka (Glen Allen, Va.); Varun Gupta (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Michael Snyder (Redwood City, Calif.); Matthew Reedy (Midlothian, Va.); Allison Fenichel (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Obfuscating Cryptographic Material In Memory
Patent No. 12032493
Methods and systems disclosed herein describe obfuscating plaintext cryptographic material stored in memory. A random location in an obfuscation buffer may be selected for each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material. The location of each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may be stored in a position tracking buffer. To recover the scrambled plaintext cryptographic material, the location of each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may be read from the position tracking buffer. Each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may then be read from the obfuscation buffer and written to a temporary buffer. When each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material is recovered, the plaintext cryptographic material may be used to perform one or more cryptographic operations. The scrambling techniques described herein reduce the likelihood of a malicious user recovering plaintext cryptographic material while stored in memory.
Inventors: Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.); Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.); Lan Xie (Chantilly, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Gutter Broom
Patent No. 12029312
A gutter broom is provided. The gutter broom can include a mandrel, one or more carriers, each carrier removably coupled to the mandrel, and one or more bristle strips, each bristle strip removably coupled to one of the carriers. The gutter broom components can be recyclable and modular, requiring no tools for assembly or servicing.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Josh Coker (New Kent, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co. (Henrico, Va.)
July 9, 2024
System And Method For Content Recognition And Data Categorization
Patent No. 12033190
A system and method for decentralizing data and determining performance of different entities in multiple geographical and categorical markets whereby the system may determine complimentary entities to a user’s entities or other existing entities for presentation to the user of overlapping procurements and demographics to gather a deeper understanding into the same results yielded by their competition whereby users will be able to provide more personal experiences for each consumer, as well as achieve pricing discovery, greater brand awareness, and marketing strategy.
Inventor: Cameron A. Holmes (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: Content Aware LLC (Mineral, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Systems And Methods For Synthetic Image Generation
Patent No. 12039647
A system includes memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute instructions performing method steps. The method may include training a generator, encoder, and discriminator of a synthetic image generation system to enable creation of synthetic images that comply with one or more image classification requirements. A generator and discriminator may be trained in an adversarial relationship. Training may be completed when the generator outputs a synthetic image that matches a target image beyond a first predetermined threshold of accuracy and the encoder outputs a latent feature vector that matches an input latent feature vector beyond a second predetermined threshold of accuracy. After training the system may be configured to generate synthetic images that comply with one or more image classification requirements.
Inventor: Samuel Martin Gottlieb (Grand Blac, Mich.)
Assignee: Carmax Enterprise Services (Richmond)
July 16,2024
Combined Cartridge For Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12035748
A cartridge for an e-vaping device enables simultaneous vaporization of different pre-vapor formulations to form a vapor for vaping by an adult vaper. The cartridge includes a dispensing interface coupled to a plurality of reservoirs and a heater coupled to the dispensing interface in a housing. The dispensing interface may include a trunk and separate roots extending into separate reservoirs, such that the dispensing interface draws different pre-vapor formulations from the reservoirs to the trunk via the separate roots. The heater is coupled to the trunk, such that the heater is operable to simultaneously vaporize the different pre-vapor formulations drawn into the trunk.
Inventors: Ali Rostami (Glen Allen, Va.); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); David Kane (Richmond); Peter Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.); Georgios Karles (Richmond); Gerd Kobal (Sandy Hook, Va.); Yezdi Pithawalla (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Adhesive Free Tobacco Product Tip Assembly
Patent No. 12035745
A tobacco product tip assembly. The tobacco product tip assembly includes a tip portion comprising a tip wall defining an inhalation chamber; the tip portion extending into a body portion comprising a body wall defining an insertion chamber, the insertion chamber being in communication with the inhalation chamber; the body wall comprising a mechanical fastener. A tobacco product assembly and a process for producing a tobacco product assembly are also included.
Inventors: Jeffrey A. Swepston (Powhatan, Va.); Marc D. Belcastro (Glen Allen, Va.); Christopher L. Simpson (Richmond); John D. Thomson (Chester, Va.); Patrick S. McElhinney (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Aerosol-generating Device With Reduced Leakage
Patent No. 12035746
An aerosol-generating device includes a housing having a first end defining a mouthpiece, a second end, and a cavity defined between the first end and the second end. The device also includes a reservoir within the cavity. The reservoir is configured to store a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The device also includes an atomizer and a valve within the mouthpiece of the housing. The valve has a first side and an second side. The second side of the valve includes a hydrophilic coating, a hydrophobic coating, or both a hydrophilic coating and a hydrophobic coating.
Inventors: Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland); Guillaume Frederick (Les-Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Switzerland); Irene Taurino (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device With Tubular Heating Element
Patent No. 12036362
A cartridge of an electronic vaping device includes a reservoir configured to store a pre-vapor formulation and a heating element configured to heat the pre-vapor formulation. The heating element includes a metal tube having a first end and a second end. The metal tube defines an opening therethrough. The metal tube includes a sidewall defining at least one spiral channel extending substantially continuously along a portion of the metal tube.
Inventors: Travis Martin Garthhaffner (Midlothian, Va.); Charles L. Dendy (Ruther Glen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Methods And Compositions For Diagnosing Brain Injury Or Neurodegeneration
Patent No. 12038446
Methods and compositions for diagnosing brain injury, neurodegeneration; or a predisposition thereto, in a subject are provided. Particularly, the present invention relates to specific antigen antibody reactivities useful in diagnosing brain injury, neurodegeneration or a predisposition thereto, in a subject.
Inventors: Rachel Sorek (Zafaria, Israel); Keren Jakobi (Tel Aviv, Israel); Donna Edmonds (Richmond)
Assignee: Brainbox Solutions (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Wagon For Carrying Children
Patent No. 12037037
A folding wagon with a footwell for carrying small children or other articles. The folding wagon has a solid frame with scissor connections, that allow it to be compacted for storage and expanded for use. The footwell allows children a place to rest their feet within the wagon. The folding wagon has a fabric paneling system, from which portions can be removed for the cleaning of the wagon and the footwell. The folding wagon also has two canopies, allowing the carrying of two children with the canopies protecting them from the sun or the elements. The folding wagon can use attachments that expand its capabilities.
Inventor: Mark Zehfuss (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Dynamic Motion (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Charger Assembly And Charging System For An Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12040644
A charger assembly is configured to charge the electronic vaping device. The charger assembly includes a base including a housing defining a port. The port is configured to receive a tip end of an electronic vaping device. The port includes a magnetic electrical contact centrally positioned at a bottom of the port and a first pin positioned at the bottom of the port. The charger assembly also includes a microprocessor electrically connected to the magnetic electrical contact and the first pin.
Inventors: Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Barry S. Smith (Hopewell, Va.); Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.); Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.); Sean Sundberg (Richmond); Berina Yerkic-Husejnovic (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Box Blank
Patent No. 12037182
A box blank useful for forming a container includes a first layer including paperboard, a second layer including a paper layer and a foil layer, and an adhesive layer adhering the first layer to the second layer. The foil layer is between the paperboard and the paper layer.
Inventors: Stephen Bellamah (Richmond); James S. Bigelow (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
High Speed Poucher
Patent No. 12037145
An apparatus and methods for producing at extremely high production speeds small pouches filled with tobacco or other granular, powdered or solid content is provided. An endless web substrate, with or without flavor film thereon, is formed into a tubular shape with a longitudinal seam. The tube is cut to individual lengths, and a procession of tubes is crimp-closed at one end, filled and crimp-closed at the other end to complete pouch production. During production, the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch are parallel to one another and the longitudinal seam of the pouch is midway between the sides of the pouch and orthogonal to the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch.
Inventors: Martin T. Garthaffner (Richmond); Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.); Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Va.); David J. Webb (Richmond); Carl G. Miller (Richmond)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Harvesting Cell-based Meat
Patent No. 12037569
This disclosure describes methods for growing cells in a controlled environment in a growing room, transporting the cells to a harvest room, and removing the cells from the controlled environment in the harvest room. The disclosed method can limit exposure of cells to contaminants by maintaining a controlled environment through cell growth and additional processing. For instance, the cells may be washed and cooled within the controlled environment. The cells are transferred to a harvest room where they are harvested and removed from the controlled environment.
Inventors: Matthew Leung (Richmond); Konrad Miller-Auffermann (Emeryville, Calif.)
Assignee: Upside Foods (Berkeley, Calif.)
July 16, 2024
Treatment Of Seizure Disorders
Patent No. 12036228
Methods of treating GTC seizures by administering a THC compound are provided.
Inventors: Alan Shackelford (Castle Rock, Colo.); Michael Shannon (Picton, Canada); Susan Learned (Chesterfield, Va.); O’Neill D’Cruz (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Fiona Randall (London, Great Britain)
Assignee: Shackelford Pharma (Vancouver, Canada)
July 16, 2024
Systems And Methods For Preventing Chip Fraud By Inserts In Chip Pocket
Patent No. 12039391
Systems and methods for providing fraud prevention inserts in a chip pocket of a card are provided. A chip fraud prevention system includes a device including a chip and one or more fraud prevention inserts. The chip, and the fraud prevention inserts, may be at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 16, 2024
Computer-based Systems Having Components Configured/programmed For Video Password Based Authentication And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No 12039018
Systems and methods of video password based user authentication via machine learning techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise: receiving a request to register a video password from a first user; establishing at least one user-specific authentication criterion for the first user based on first video password data; receiving a login attempt from a second computing device associated with a second user who submits to be the first user, the login attempt comprising second video password data; utilizing a trained video password authentication machine learning model to determine a first comparison result and a second comparison result based on the first and second video password data, and accepting or rejecting the login attempt based on at least one of the first comparison result and the second comparison result.
Inventors: Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (New York, N.Y.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Shabnam Kousha (Washington, D.C.); Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 16, 2024
Systems And Methods For Automated Cloud Provisioning
Patent No. 12041058
A method is disclosed for automating creation of an account to access to a plurality of cloud based platforms, comprising receiving an intake request; determining whether the account is requested on a first cloud platform or a second cloud platform; determining whether an environment is requested; in response to a determination that an environment is requested, creating a created environment; in response to a determination that an environment is not requested, associating an existing environment with the account; in response to a determination that an environment is requested and a determination that the account is requested on the first cloud platform, creating network handlers; creating a workspace and a repository; creating vault secrets; in response to a determination that the account is requested on the first cloud platform, and tagging at least one resource associated with the account with a resource tag.
Inventors: Karthik Ramachandran (Prosper, Texas); Jason Pichardo (Stafford, Va.); Lee Graves (Goochland, Va.); Val Ezike (Collegeville, Penn.); Barry Martin (Bradenton, Fla.); Mamadou Bah (Indianapolis, Ind.); Wesley Carlton (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Assignee: Elevance Health (Indianapolis, Ind.)
July 16, 2024
Techniques For Performing Compound Operations On Security Modules
Patent No. 12034844
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for performing compound operations on a security module. In some embodiments, a hardware security module (HSM) comprises executable code that, as a result of execution by one or more processors of the HSM, causes the HSM to obtain a request to perform a compound operation, parse the compound operation to determine a sequence of operations, perform the sequence of operations within a protected execution environment, wherein one or more intermediate results of the sequence of operations are programmatically unexportable from the protected execution environment, determine, based on complete execution of the sequence of operations, an output, and export the final output from the protected execution environment, thereby making it available to external devices.
Inventors: Benjamin Grubin (Herndon, Va.); Steve Preston Lightner Norum (Richmond)
Assignee: Amazon Technologies (Seattle, Wash.)
July 9, 2024
Media For Generating Fast Counterfactual Explanations Using Reinforcement Learning
Patent No. 12033088
In an embodiment, the systems and methods discussed herein are related to generating, via a processor, a Markov Distribution Problem (MDP), the MDP including a state space, an action space, a transition function, a reward function, and a discount factor. A reinforcement learning (RL) model is applied, via the processor, to the MDP to generate a RL agent. An input data associated with a first user is received at the RL agent. At least one counterfactual explanation (CFE) is generated via the processor and by the RL agent and based on the input data. A representation of the at least one CFE and at least one recommended remedial action is caused to transmit, via the processor, to at least one of a compute device of the first user or a compute device of a second user different from and associated with the first user.
Inventors: Shahil Verma (Seattle, Wash.); John Dickerson (Washington, D.C.); Keegan Hines (Richmond)
Assignee: Arthur AI Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
July 9, 2024
Atomization Burner With Flexible Fire Rate
Patent No. 12031721
A burner includes an atomizing chamber, a flame tube in front of the atomizing chamber adapted to direct combusting fuel introduced by the atomizing chamber along an interior of the flame tube, and a controller. The controller is programmed to independently control rate of fuel flow to the atomizing chamber, rate of atomizing air flow to the atomizing chamber, and rate of combustion air to the flame tub. The controller is also programmed to perform operations including regulating, based on output of a gas sensor, at least the rate of combustion air to the flame tube to substantially maintain a first predetermined amount of excess air in the flame tube.
Inventors: Andrew D. Babington (Potomac Hills, Md.); Nigel Andrew Jones (Frederick, Md.); Andrew J. Hamer (Richmond); Juan Carlos Lemus (Rocky Mount, N.C.); Per Edman (Norrkoping, South Korea)
Assignee: Babington Technology (Rocky Mount, N.C.)
July 9, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform With Watchdog Microservice
Patent No. 12033158
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); Jordan May (Richmond); William Planck (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Replica Reliability
Patent No. 12033085
A system for processing and verifying real-time calculations in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. In embodiments, the system performs implements methods to receive, at a first data center, a request from a point of sale (POS) system to perform a real-time calculation, where the real-time calculation is used to make automated decisions about a transaction. The system can transmit the request to a decision handler. The decision handler can determine which of a plurality of decision engine queues to further transmit the request to. The decision handler can transmit the request to a decision engine queue from the plurality of decision engine queues. The decision engine queue can scatter the request to at least two decision engines. The decision engine queue can receive a result of the real-time calculation and transmit the results through other components to the POS system.
Inventors: Vijayasuriya Ravi (Glen Allen, Va.); Christina Garcia (Midlothian, Va.); Raja Kavuru (Richmond); Sathiyamurthy Thiruvengadathan (Glen Allen, Va.); Lakshmi Ph Kommaraju (Glen Allen, Va.); Mallikarjuna Rao Smabaraju (Glen Allen, Va.); Nathan Robert Oster (Burke, Va.); Philip Austin Kedy (Oakton, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Circuit Assemblies And Components Thereof For Packaging
Patent No. 12035473
A circuit assembly includes a flexible card having a main panel and an extension panel foldably connected along a fold line and a card circuit disposed on the flexible card and having one or more contact points disposed proximate the fold line, and a circuit board having one or more electrical contacts formed on a surface of the circuit board. The flexible card and the circuit board can be disposed in face-to-face contact with each contact point of the card circuit is in registry with a respective electrical contact of the circuit board, with the extension panel folded at the fold line over the circuit board. The assembly includes a clip disposed over the folded extension panel and main panel to apply a sandwiching force to secure the circuit board and the card circuit in electrical contact.
Inventors: Ronald Binshtok (Quinton, Va.); Carly J. Dehenau (Richmond); James S. Shortt (Holly Springs, N.C.); Trisha Massenzo (Richmond)
Assignee: WestRock MWV (Atlanta, Ga.)
July 9, 2024
Systems And Methods For Providing Real-time Warnings To Merchants For Data Breaches
Patent No. 12033148
The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for providing real-time warnings to merchants for data breaches. For example, the system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to perform operations consistent with this disclosure. The operations may include collecting and storing transaction authorization requests from one or more merchants. The transaction authorization requests may include a virtual account number associated with an account, the virtual account number being previously bound to a merchant and reusable only for the bound merchant. The operations may further include detecting an event at the bound merchant based on, for example, a transaction authorization request having a mismatch between a transacting merchant and the bound merchant. The operations my further include communicating notification of the event through a communication interface with the bound merchant.
Inventors: Philip Spiegel (Midlothian, Va.); Noble Ozoka (Glen Allen, Va.); Varun Gupta (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Michael Snyder (Redwood City, Calif.); Matthew Reedy (Midlothian, Va.); Allison Fenichel (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Obfuscating Cryptographic Material In Memory
Patent No. 12032493
Methods and systems disclosed herein describe obfuscating plaintext cryptographic material stored in memory. A random location in an obfuscation buffer may be selected for each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material. The location of each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may be stored in a position tracking buffer. To recover the scrambled plaintext cryptographic material, the location of each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may be read from the position tracking buffer. Each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may then be read from the obfuscation buffer and written to a temporary buffer. When each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material is recovered, the plaintext cryptographic material may be used to perform one or more cryptographic operations. The scrambling techniques described herein reduce the likelihood of a malicious user recovering plaintext cryptographic material while stored in memory.
Inventors: Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.); Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.); Lan Xie (Chantilly, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Gutter Broom
Patent No. 12029312
A gutter broom is provided. The gutter broom can include a mandrel, one or more carriers, each carrier removably coupled to the mandrel, and one or more bristle strips, each bristle strip removably coupled to one of the carriers. The gutter broom components can be recyclable and modular, requiring no tools for assembly or servicing.
Inventors: Britt R. Calloway (Midlothian, Va.); Josh Coker (New Kent, Va.); Robert Mayes (Hanover, Va.); Tim Stumph (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Turner (Aylett, Va.)
Assignee: Old Dominion Brush Co. (Henrico, Va.)
July 9, 2024
System And Method For Content Recognition And Data Categorization
Patent No. 12033190
A system and method for decentralizing data and determining performance of different entities in multiple geographical and categorical markets whereby the system may determine complimentary entities to a user’s entities or other existing entities for presentation to the user of overlapping procurements and demographics to gather a deeper understanding into the same results yielded by their competition whereby users will be able to provide more personal experiences for each consumer, as well as achieve pricing discovery, greater brand awareness, and marketing strategy.
Inventor: Cameron A. Holmes (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: Content Aware LLC (Mineral, Va.)
July 9, 2024
Systems And Methods For Synthetic Image Generation
Patent No. 12039647
A system includes memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute instructions performing method steps. The method may include training a generator, encoder, and discriminator of a synthetic image generation system to enable creation of synthetic images that comply with one or more image classification requirements. A generator and discriminator may be trained in an adversarial relationship. Training may be completed when the generator outputs a synthetic image that matches a target image beyond a first predetermined threshold of accuracy and the encoder outputs a latent feature vector that matches an input latent feature vector beyond a second predetermined threshold of accuracy. After training the system may be configured to generate synthetic images that comply with one or more image classification requirements.
Inventor: Samuel Martin Gottlieb (Grand Blac, Mich.)
Assignee: Carmax Enterprise Services (Richmond)
July 16,2024
Combined Cartridge For Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12035748
A cartridge for an e-vaping device enables simultaneous vaporization of different pre-vapor formulations to form a vapor for vaping by an adult vaper. The cartridge includes a dispensing interface coupled to a plurality of reservoirs and a heater coupled to the dispensing interface in a housing. The dispensing interface may include a trunk and separate roots extending into separate reservoirs, such that the dispensing interface draws different pre-vapor formulations from the reservoirs to the trunk via the separate roots. The heater is coupled to the trunk, such that the heater is operable to simultaneously vaporize the different pre-vapor formulations drawn into the trunk.
Inventors: Ali Rostami (Glen Allen, Va.); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); David Kane (Richmond); Peter Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.); Georgios Karles (Richmond); Gerd Kobal (Sandy Hook, Va.); Yezdi Pithawalla (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Adhesive Free Tobacco Product Tip Assembly
Patent No. 12035745
A tobacco product tip assembly. The tobacco product tip assembly includes a tip portion comprising a tip wall defining an inhalation chamber; the tip portion extending into a body portion comprising a body wall defining an insertion chamber, the insertion chamber being in communication with the inhalation chamber; the body wall comprising a mechanical fastener. A tobacco product assembly and a process for producing a tobacco product assembly are also included.
Inventors: Jeffrey A. Swepston (Powhatan, Va.); Marc D. Belcastro (Glen Allen, Va.); Christopher L. Simpson (Richmond); John D. Thomson (Chester, Va.); Patrick S. McElhinney (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Aerosol-generating Device With Reduced Leakage
Patent No. 12035746
An aerosol-generating device includes a housing having a first end defining a mouthpiece, a second end, and a cavity defined between the first end and the second end. The device also includes a reservoir within the cavity. The reservoir is configured to store a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The device also includes an atomizer and a valve within the mouthpiece of the housing. The valve has a first side and an second side. The second side of the valve includes a hydrophilic coating, a hydrophobic coating, or both a hydrophilic coating and a hydrophobic coating.
Inventors: Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland); Guillaume Frederick (Les-Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Switzerland); Irene Taurino (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device With Tubular Heating Element
Patent No. 12036362
A cartridge of an electronic vaping device includes a reservoir configured to store a pre-vapor formulation and a heating element configured to heat the pre-vapor formulation. The heating element includes a metal tube having a first end and a second end. The metal tube defines an opening therethrough. The metal tube includes a sidewall defining at least one spiral channel extending substantially continuously along a portion of the metal tube.
Inventors: Travis Martin Garthhaffner (Midlothian, Va.); Charles L. Dendy (Ruther Glen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Methods And Compositions For Diagnosing Brain Injury Or Neurodegeneration
Patent No. 12038446
Methods and compositions for diagnosing brain injury, neurodegeneration; or a predisposition thereto, in a subject are provided. Particularly, the present invention relates to specific antigen antibody reactivities useful in diagnosing brain injury, neurodegeneration or a predisposition thereto, in a subject.
Inventors: Rachel Sorek (Zafaria, Israel); Keren Jakobi (Tel Aviv, Israel); Donna Edmonds (Richmond)
Assignee: Brainbox Solutions (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Wagon For Carrying Children
Patent No. 12037037
A folding wagon with a footwell for carrying small children or other articles. The folding wagon has a solid frame with scissor connections, that allow it to be compacted for storage and expanded for use. The footwell allows children a place to rest their feet within the wagon. The folding wagon has a fabric paneling system, from which portions can be removed for the cleaning of the wagon and the footwell. The folding wagon also has two canopies, allowing the carrying of two children with the canopies protecting them from the sun or the elements. The folding wagon can use attachments that expand its capabilities.
Inventor: Mark Zehfuss (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Dynamic Motion (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Charger Assembly And Charging System For An Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12040644
A charger assembly is configured to charge the electronic vaping device. The charger assembly includes a base including a housing defining a port. The port is configured to receive a tip end of an electronic vaping device. The port includes a magnetic electrical contact centrally positioned at a bottom of the port and a first pin positioned at the bottom of the port. The charger assembly also includes a microprocessor electrically connected to the magnetic electrical contact and the first pin.
Inventors: Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Barry S. Smith (Hopewell, Va.); Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.); Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.); Sean Sundberg (Richmond); Berina Yerkic-Husejnovic (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Box Blank
Patent No. 12037182
A box blank useful for forming a container includes a first layer including paperboard, a second layer including a paper layer and a foil layer, and an adhesive layer adhering the first layer to the second layer. The foil layer is between the paperboard and the paper layer.
Inventors: Stephen Bellamah (Richmond); James S. Bigelow (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
High Speed Poucher
Patent No. 12037145
An apparatus and methods for producing at extremely high production speeds small pouches filled with tobacco or other granular, powdered or solid content is provided. An endless web substrate, with or without flavor film thereon, is formed into a tubular shape with a longitudinal seam. The tube is cut to individual lengths, and a procession of tubes is crimp-closed at one end, filled and crimp-closed at the other end to complete pouch production. During production, the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch are parallel to one another and the longitudinal seam of the pouch is midway between the sides of the pouch and orthogonal to the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch.
Inventors: Martin T. Garthaffner (Richmond); Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.); Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Va.); David J. Webb (Richmond); Carl G. Miller (Richmond)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 16, 2024
Harvesting Cell-based Meat
Patent No. 12037569
This disclosure describes methods for growing cells in a controlled environment in a growing room, transporting the cells to a harvest room, and removing the cells from the controlled environment in the harvest room. The disclosed method can limit exposure of cells to contaminants by maintaining a controlled environment through cell growth and additional processing. For instance, the cells may be washed and cooled within the controlled environment. The cells are transferred to a harvest room where they are harvested and removed from the controlled environment.
Inventors: Matthew Leung (Richmond); Konrad Miller-Auffermann (Emeryville, Calif.)
Assignee: Upside Foods (Berkeley, Calif.)
July 16, 2024
Treatment Of Seizure Disorders
Patent No. 12036228
Methods of treating GTC seizures by administering a THC compound are provided.
Inventors: Alan Shackelford (Castle Rock, Colo.); Michael Shannon (Picton, Canada); Susan Learned (Chesterfield, Va.); O’Neill D’Cruz (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Fiona Randall (London, Great Britain)
Assignee: Shackelford Pharma (Vancouver, Canada)
July 16, 2024
Systems And Methods For Preventing Chip Fraud By Inserts In Chip Pocket
Patent No. 12039391
Systems and methods for providing fraud prevention inserts in a chip pocket of a card are provided. A chip fraud prevention system includes a device including a chip and one or more fraud prevention inserts. The chip, and the fraud prevention inserts, may be at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 16, 2024
Computer-based Systems Having Components Configured/programmed For Video Password Based Authentication And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No 12039018
Systems and methods of video password based user authentication via machine learning techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise: receiving a request to register a video password from a first user; establishing at least one user-specific authentication criterion for the first user based on first video password data; receiving a login attempt from a second computing device associated with a second user who submits to be the first user, the login attempt comprising second video password data; utilizing a trained video password authentication machine learning model to determine a first comparison result and a second comparison result based on the first and second video password data, and accepting or rejecting the login attempt based on at least one of the first comparison result and the second comparison result.
Inventors: Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (New York, N.Y.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Shabnam Kousha (Washington, D.C.); Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 16, 2024
Systems And Methods For Automated Cloud Provisioning
Patent No. 12041058
A method is disclosed for automating creation of an account to access to a plurality of cloud based platforms, comprising receiving an intake request; determining whether the account is requested on a first cloud platform or a second cloud platform; determining whether an environment is requested; in response to a determination that an environment is requested, creating a created environment; in response to a determination that an environment is not requested, associating an existing environment with the account; in response to a determination that an environment is requested and a determination that the account is requested on the first cloud platform, creating network handlers; creating a workspace and a repository; creating vault secrets; in response to a determination that the account is requested on the first cloud platform, and tagging at least one resource associated with the account with a resource tag.
Inventors: Karthik Ramachandran (Prosper, Texas); Jason Pichardo (Stafford, Va.); Lee Graves (Goochland, Va.); Val Ezike (Collegeville, Penn.); Barry Martin (Bradenton, Fla.); Mamadou Bah (Indianapolis, Ind.); Wesley Carlton (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Assignee: Elevance Health (Indianapolis, Ind.)
July 16, 2024