Defensive Line Shoot Drill Apparatuses And Methods
Patent No. 12064676
An apparatus has a front, lower section and a back, higher section coupled to the front, lower section and coupled to a dummy, such that a football player can strike a three-point stance under the front lower section, move outward and upward, and tackle the dummy.
Inventor: Roderick Foster (Abernant, Ala.)
Assignee: Gridzozo (Richmond)
Aug. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Elastic Delivery, Processing, And Storage For Wearable Devices Based On System Resources
Patent No. 12066880
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for elastic delivery, processing, and storage for wearable devices based on system resources. For example, a wearable apparatus may have at least one battery; at least one sensor configured to measure at least one property associated with a user of the wearable apparatus; at least one memory storing measurements from the at least one sensor and instructions; at least one transmitter configured to send data to a device remote from the wearable apparatus; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive, from the at least one battery, an indicator of a charge; and based on the received indicator, sending a command to the at least one sensor to operate in a low-power mode or a high-power mode, the low-power mode having. a lower sampling rate than the high-power mode.
Inventors: John Douglas (Richmond); Frank Fornari (Naples, Fla.); Jeff Rowberg (Salem, Va.)
Assignee: Biomech Sensor (Midlothian, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Apparatuses And Methods For Treating, Purifying And/or Extracting From Wastewater
Patent No. 12065364
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. Rare earth magnets electrically connect electrolysis electrode structures and serve as electrolysis electrode segments.
Inventor: David Keith Fisher (Heathsville, Va.)
Assignee: FisherH20 (Richmond)
Aug. 20, 2024
Carton With Integral Handle And Package
Patent No. 12065293
A package includes a carton (10) and a plurality of articles (B). The carton includes carton walls (14, 16, 26b/30b) and at least one handle structure (HA2) formed from at least one (26b/30b) of the carton walls. The at least one handle structure includes a tab (44b) formed from the at least one of the carton walls. The tab is hingedly connected, by a hinged connection (42b), to the at least one of the carton walls and arranged to fold at least in part about an article disposed within the carton to form at least a portion of a handle opening (40b) so as to allow a user (U) to grasp a portion of the article and the carton disposed adjacent to the article.
Inventors: Bradford Walling (Chesterfield, Va.); Brandon L. Ramsuer (Henrico, Va.); Caleb S. Loftin (Richmond)
Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems (Atlanta, Ga.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Method And Device For Flavoring Smokeless Tobacco
Patent No. 12063952
An encapsulated flavorant or artificial sweetener for use with smokeless tobacco and related products. The encapsulated flavorant or artificial sweetener comprises a core encapsulated with a lipid-based coating that provides stability when in contact with tobacco, yet releases flavor over time when the product is used. The core comprises a carrier, such as silica, tobacco, beet fiber, citrus fiber, artificial sweetener, or the like, coated or loaded with a flavorant. Flavor loading may be in the range of approximately 10% to 60%, by weight. Flavorants include, but are not limited to, methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen), cinnamon (e.g., cinnamon oil), peppermint (e.g., peppermint oil), and spearmint (oil of spearmint).
Inventor: Frank Atchley (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. (Richmond)
Aug. 20, 2024
Utilizing Machine Learning Models To Recommend Travel Offer Packages Relating To A Travel Experience
Patent No. 12067589
A device may receive, from account entity devices, sets of transaction data for transactions between merchants and customers, and may use a first machine learning model to assign the customers to clusters based on measures of similarity among the sets of transaction data. The device may determine travel-related data items in a set of transaction data, of the sets of transaction data, associated with a set of customers assigned to a particular cluster, and may use a second machine learning model to identify a travel experience that has a threshold likelihood of being of interest to the set of customers. The device may receive offers relating to the travel experience, and may provide, to customer devices associated with customers of the set of customers, travel offer packages that include at least one of the offers relating to the travel experience.
Inventors: Matthew Reedy (Richmond); Andrew Marr (Midlothian, Va.); Lin Ward (Henrico, Va.); Noble Ozoka (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Benzaldehyde Compounds With Direct Polymer Destabilizing Effects To Treat Sickle Cell Disease
Patent No. 12065408
Compounds and methods for preventing and/or treating one or more symptoms of sickle cell diseases (SCD) by administering at least one of the compounds are provided. The compounds are chemically modified to increase bioavailability and activity, e.g., so that the compounds prevent adhesion and sickling of red blood cells (RBCs).
Inventors: Martin Safo (Richmond); Yan Zhang (Glen Allen, Va.); Andrew Fleischman (Henrico, Va.); David Light (Henrico, Va.); Moustafa El-Araby (Jedda, Saudi Arabia); Abdelsattar Omar (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); Osheiza Abdulmalik (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond); King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Linking A Screen Capture To A User Support Session
Patent No. 12067138
Systems and methods for linking a screen capture to a user support session are disclosed. The system may receive a screen capture initiation request from a user device. The system may capture a first data object indicative of a first graphical user interface associated with the user device. The system may provide, to the user device, the first graphical user interface for a predetermined period of time. The system may track, by the one or more processors, one or more inputs from the user device that indicate the presence of one or more articles of sensitive information within the graphical user interface. The system may mask the one or more articles of sensitive information within the graphical user interface, generate a second data object indicative of the graphical user interface having the masked articles of sensitive information, and store the second data object in a data repository.
Inventors: Thomas H. Scott (Richmond); Jude Pierre Anasta (Hudson, N.Y.); Fayaz Khan (Souderton, Penn.); Patrick Blinkhorn (Silver Spring, Md.); Mary Sweeney (Wilmington Del.); Tejen Shrestha (Arlington, Va.); Joseph Amburgey (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Methods, Systems, Apparatuses, And Non-transitory Computer Readable Media For Validating Encoded Information
Patent No. 12067551
A method, system and/or device for validating encoded information, the validation device including a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon and a database including a plurality of validation rules, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to receive formatted data from at least one formatting device, extract attributes associated with encoded information from the formatted data, the extracted attributes including at least one of a formatting device identifier, a store identifier, value information from the encoded information, and time information, validate the formatted data based on the extracted attributes and the plurality of validation rules, store the results of the validation and at least a subset of the extracted attributes in the database, generate modified formatted data compatible with a POS terminal based on the results of the validation, and transmit the modified formatted data to the at least one of formatting device.
Inventors: Michael Fitzsimmons (Richmond); William M. Houston (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Performing A Purchase Transaction Using Rewards Points
Patent No. 12067614
A system and method for performing a purchase transaction using rewards points by receiving a purchase request using a financial account with associated account information, determining based on the account information that the financial account is associated with a rewards program with rewards points, and providing the option to pay for the purchase using the financial account or at least a portion of the rewards points. The purchase may be paid for using rewards points from multiple rewards programs and/or multiple financial accounts.
Inventors: Richard Elliott (Glen Allen, Va.); Matthew Sextone (Richmond); Patricia Hansen (Glen Allen, Va.); Rhett Edwards (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
System And Method For Malware Detection Using Hashing Techniques
Patent No. 12069086
A system and method in accordance with example embodiments may include systems and methods for generating and transforming data presentation. The method may include receiving, using a processor, a request for a web page, and submitting, by the processor, the request to a computer server system. The request can include a user identification and a user password. The method may further include receiving, from the computer server system, data corresponding to the requested web page. Further, the method includes storing, in a memory, the received data, and causing the received data to be shown on a display associated with the user device.
Inventor: Christopher Marshall (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Browser Extension For Limited-use Secure Token Payment
Patent No. 12069037
Methods and systems for a browser extension system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a browser extension server includes a communication device configured to communicate with a first computing device executing a browser extension application and a web browser application and a second computing device executing an authentication application. The browser extension server further includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving from the first computing device an indication of a financial service account associated with the first computing device, detecting a payment field in a web page provided by the computing device through the web browser application and, in response, generating a secure token mapped to the financial service account. The operations may further include sending the second computing device an authentication request, receiving an authentication response, and populating the payment field with the secure token.
Inventors: Matthew de Ganon (Hartsdale, N.Y.); Kunal Arora (Great Falls, Va.); Thomas Poole (Chantilly, Va.); Daniel Kahn (San Francisco, Calif.); Dwij Trivedi (Oakton, Va.); Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Determining A Fulfillment Location For An Expedited Package Request
Patent No. 12067509
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to facilitating delivery of a package or sensitive item to a user, where the package or sensitive item can be a credit card or debit card. Various techniques, methods, systems, and apparatuses include utilizing one or more factors for determining an optimal delivery location or path in relation to the user obtaining the sensitive package or item. Various embodiments can provide the user or the delivery courier with an interface that maps or otherwise indicates, by a color-scheme or other suitable scheme, one or more of demand and availability of the sensitive item or package in relation to a receiving or delivery location, where in various embodiments, the mapping or scheme associated with demand and availability can be based in whole or in part on the one or more factors associated with optimal delivery.
Inventors: Jeremy Phillips (Brooklyn, N.Y.); James Newton (Glen Allen, Va.); Justin Crist Lee (Dove Canyon, Calif.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Data Certification Process For Updates To Data In Cloud Database Platform
Patent No. 12067018
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 (North Potomac, Md.); Praveen Kandukuri (Ashburn, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Machine Learning Using Knowledge Graphs
Patent No. 12072918
A method may include retrieving, over a network device, data from a data source, the data formatted according to a relational database schema; converting, using at least one processor, the data from the data source into a knowledge graph; training, using the at least one processor, a neural network using triples from the knowledge graph, wherein a loss function of the neural network is based on a distance between a true triple from the knowledge graph and a corrupt triple; and after the training, storing weights of a hidden layer of the neural network as a vector space representation of entities in the knowledge graph.
Inventors: David Newman (Walnut Creek, Calif.); Omar B. Khan (Richmond); Alexander Joseph Kalinowski (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Assignee: Wells Fargon Bank (San Francisco, Calif.)
Aug. 27, 2024
High-yielding Continuous Flow Synthesis Of Antimalarial Drug Hydroxychloroquine
Patent No. 12071410
Cost effective, semi-continuous flow methods and systems for synthesizing the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in high yield are provided. The synthesis method that uses simple, inexpensive reagents to obtain the crucial intermediate 5-(ethyl(2-hydroxyethyl)-amino)pentan-2-one, vertical-integration of the starting material 5-iodopentan-2-one and the integration of continuous stirred tank reactors.
Inventors: Frank B. Gupton (Richmond); Saeed Ahmad (Chesterfield, Va.); Hari P.R. Gunuru (Henrico, Va.); Nakul S. Telang (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Package With Locking Mechanism
Patent No. 12071284
A package includes a base, a lid, and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes an arm and a flexible member. The arm extends from the lid and has a first engaging structure. The member includes a flexible rib connected to a base floor, and a second engaging structure and a contact structure on a rib outer surface. The member flexes in response to a first force applied in a first direction to the contact structure and relaxes in response to absence of the first force. The member engages the first and second engaging structures based on the member being relaxed while the lid is closed. The member disengages the first and second engaging structures based on the member being flexed while the lid is closed. The lid may be opened based on applying a second force to the lid in a second direction while the member is flexed.
Inventors: Christopher J. Hession (Mechanicsville, Va.); William J. Bogdziewicz (Richmond); Bipin Patil (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Collapsible Fiber Matrix Reservoir For An E-vaping Device
Patent No. 12070547
Example embodiments relate to a cartridge configured to house a pre-vapor formulation for an e-vaping device, the cartridge including an inner portion and an outer portion configured to store the pre-vapor formulation. The outer portion includes a plurality of fibers configured to be mobile and/or configured to be substantially free of entanglement with one another. The fibers are configured to be substantially free of entanglement with one another based on the lengths of the plurality of fibers. For example, the lengths of the plurality of fibers may be in a range of about 3 mm to about 7 mm. The lengths may also be about 5 mm.
Inventors: Jason Andrew Macko (Richmond); Peter Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Document Package Merge In Document Management System
Patent No. 12072942
A centralized document system receives a request to merge a first document package associated with a first party and a second document package associated with a second party. The first document package includes a first set of documents and the second document package includes a second set of documents. In response to the request, the centralized document system identifies a first subset of documents included in both the first and second sets of documents and identifies a second subset of documents with conflicts between the first and second sets of documents. The centralized document system rectifies the second subset of documents to cure the conflicts between the first and second sets of documents. The centralized document system generates a merged document package including the first subset of documents and the rectified second subset of documents for execution by the first and second parties.
Inventors: Andrew James Ashlock (San Francisco, Calif.); Marguerite Bouscaren (San Francisco, Calif.); Duane Robert Wald (Richmond); Christopher Shane Durham (Seattle, Wash.); Saul Adams Aguilar (Redwood City, Calif.)
Assignee: DocuSign (San Francisco, Calif.)
Aug. 27, 2024
Smoking Article
Patent No. 12070058
A smoking article has a burn portion and a mouth portion. The burn portion includes a smoking rod filled with a smokeable filler material formed almost exclusively of cellulose material. The mouth portion includes either a filter portion with or without an interface or a tip with an interface. The mouth end may include an orthonasal property and the interface may store an additive.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Va.); Shaoyong Yu (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Pod Assembly And E-vapor Apparatus Including The Same
Patent No. 12072968
An e-vapor apparatus may include a pod assembly including a pre-vapor formulation compartment, a first electrical connector, a vapor channel traversing the pre-vapor formulation compartment, and a vaporizer, the pre-vapor formulation compartment configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation therein and in fluidic communication with the vaporizer during an operation of the e-vapor apparatus, the first electrical connector including first and second power electrodes, the first power electrode including a first contact portion on an exterior of the first electrical connector and a first extended portion configured to contact an anode portion of the vaporizer, the second power electrode including a second contact portion on the exterior of the first electrical connector and a second extended portion configured to contact a cathode portion of the vaporizer. The e-vapor apparatus may further include a dispensing body including a second electrical connector configured to connect to the first electrical connector.
Inventors: Ryan Newcomb (Richmond); Terry Bache (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Raymond Lau (Richmond); Cristian Popa (Hertfordshire, Great Britain); James Yorkshades (Gamlingay, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Techniques To Provide Streaming Data Resiliency Utilizing A Distributed Message Queue System
Patent No. 12074840
Embodiments include techniques to receive and process data from a data service provider, communicate a plurality of messages comprising the data to a streaming data platform and detect a failure of delivery of the plurality of messages to the streaming data platform. Embodiments further include techniques communicate the plurality of messages to a distributed message queue service of a distributed message queue system, publish each of the plurality of messages to the streaming data platform, determine each of the plurality of messages published to the streaming data platform was successful or unsuccessful, and retry publication of each unsuccessfully published message of plurality of messages to the streaming data platform.
Inventors: Lavangana Govil (Glen Allen, Va.); Vijayasuriya Ravi (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 27, 2024
Utilizing Machine Learning And Digital Embedding Processes To Generate Digital Maps Of Biology And User Interfaces For Evaluating Map Efficacy
Patent No. 12073638
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for utilizing machine learning and digital embedding processes to generate digital maps of biology and user interfaces for evaluating map efficacy. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive perturbation data for a plurality of perturbation experiment units corresponding to a plurality of perturbation classes. Further, the systems generate, utilizing a machine learning model, a plurality of perturbation experiment unit embeddings from the perturbation data. Additionally, the systems align, utilizing an alignment model, the plurality of perturbation experiment unit embeddings to generate aligned perturbation unit embeddings. Moreover, the systems aggregate the aligned perturbation unit embeddings to generate aggregated embeddings. Furthermore, the systems generate perturbation comparisons utilizing the perturbation-level embeddings.
Inventors: Nathan Henry Lazar (Salt Lake City, Utah); Conor Austin Forsman Tillinghast (Salt Lake City, Utah); James Douglas Jensen (Farmington, Utah); James Benjamin Taylor (Midlothian, Va.); Berton Allen Earnshaw (Cedar Hills, Utah); Marta Marie Fay (Salt Lake City, Utah); Renat Nailevich Khaliullin (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jacob Carter Cooper (Sandy, Utah); Imran Saeedul Haque (Salt Lake City, Utah); Seyhmus Guler (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kyle Rollins Hansen (Kaysville, Utah); Safiye Celik (Sudbury, Mass.)
Assignee: Recursion Pharmaceuticals (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Aug. 27, 2024
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 12070384
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: Conmed Corp. (Largo, Fla.)
Aug. 27, 2024
System And Method For Fraud Control
Patent No. 12073406
A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include systems and methods for providing fraud management, which may include, receiving account holder data, determining vertical spend patterns associated with merchants to define a merchant risk for each merchant, generating a transactional behavior patter for the account holder, and generating a fraud score and/or action set (e.g., refer/decline/queue for review) based on the transactional behavior pattern and merchant risk. Account holder data may include, for example, an account type, an account balance, account credits and debits, and transaction data including merchant name, location, and transaction details.
Inventors: Thomas S. Poole (Chantilly, Va.); Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Matthew R. Brolund (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 27, 2024
Gown-glove Interface Reinforcement Accessory
Patent No. 12070089
An accessory cuff is configured to reinforce a gown-glove interface to protect a wearer from exposure to potential pathogens or contaminants through vulnerabilities in the gown-glove interface. The accessory cuff includes a body extending from a proximal end to a distal end along a longitudinal axis. The body has a lumen extending therethrough from the proximal end to the distal end, and a wall surrounding the lumen. The accessory cuff is configured to create a fluid impervious barrier to prevent fluid from entering the lumen when the accessory cuff is sealed at the proximal end and the distal end.
Inventors: Margaret A. Howell (Atlanta, Ga.); Marshall R. Dean (Cumming, Ga.); Namita A. Mithani (Alpharetta, Ga.)
Assignee: O&M Halyard (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Aug. 27, 2024
Bladed Firearm Bolt Stop
Patent No. 12072170
A device for converting a semiautomatic firearm to a non-semiautomatic firearm. The device includes a bolt stop lever pivotally attachable to a receiver of a firearm, a spring configured to be installed in contact with the bolt stop lever and a firearm receiver such that the spring exerts a force on the bolt stop lever to retain the bolt stop lever in a first position, and, a bolt release mechanism operatively coupleable to the bolt stop lever and configured to pivot the bolt stop lever against the force of the spring into a second position. The bolt release mechanism is operatively decoupled from the bolt stop lever when the bolt stop lever reaches the second position. When in the first position the bolt stop lever restricts motion of a bolt of the firearm, and when in the second position, the bolt stop lever permits motion of the firearm bolt.
Inventor: Aaron J. Carroll (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: N/A
Aug. 27, 2024
Defensive Line Shoot Drill Apparatuses And Methods
Patent No. 12064676
An apparatus has a front, lower section and a back, higher section coupled to the front, lower section and coupled to a dummy, such that a football player can strike a three-point stance under the front lower section, move outward and upward, and tackle the dummy.
Inventor: Roderick Foster (Abernant, Ala.)
Assignee: Gridzozo (Richmond)
Aug. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Elastic Delivery, Processing, And Storage For Wearable Devices Based On System Resources
Patent No. 12066880
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for elastic delivery, processing, and storage for wearable devices based on system resources. For example, a wearable apparatus may have at least one battery; at least one sensor configured to measure at least one property associated with a user of the wearable apparatus; at least one memory storing measurements from the at least one sensor and instructions; at least one transmitter configured to send data to a device remote from the wearable apparatus; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive, from the at least one battery, an indicator of a charge; and based on the received indicator, sending a command to the at least one sensor to operate in a low-power mode or a high-power mode, the low-power mode having. a lower sampling rate than the high-power mode.
Inventors: John Douglas (Richmond); Frank Fornari (Naples, Fla.); Jeff Rowberg (Salem, Va.)
Assignee: Biomech Sensor (Midlothian, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Apparatuses And Methods For Treating, Purifying And/or Extracting From Wastewater
Patent No. 12065364
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. Rare earth magnets electrically connect electrolysis electrode structures and serve as electrolysis electrode segments.
Inventor: David Keith Fisher (Heathsville, Va.)
Assignee: FisherH20 (Richmond)
Aug. 20, 2024
Carton With Integral Handle And Package
Patent No. 12065293
A package includes a carton (10) and a plurality of articles (B). The carton includes carton walls (14, 16, 26b/30b) and at least one handle structure (HA2) formed from at least one (26b/30b) of the carton walls. The at least one handle structure includes a tab (44b) formed from the at least one of the carton walls. The tab is hingedly connected, by a hinged connection (42b), to the at least one of the carton walls and arranged to fold at least in part about an article disposed within the carton to form at least a portion of a handle opening (40b) so as to allow a user (U) to grasp a portion of the article and the carton disposed adjacent to the article.
Inventors: Bradford Walling (Chesterfield, Va.); Brandon L. Ramsuer (Henrico, Va.); Caleb S. Loftin (Richmond)
Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems (Atlanta, Ga.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Method And Device For Flavoring Smokeless Tobacco
Patent No. 12063952
An encapsulated flavorant or artificial sweetener for use with smokeless tobacco and related products. The encapsulated flavorant or artificial sweetener comprises a core encapsulated with a lipid-based coating that provides stability when in contact with tobacco, yet releases flavor over time when the product is used. The core comprises a carrier, such as silica, tobacco, beet fiber, citrus fiber, artificial sweetener, or the like, coated or loaded with a flavorant. Flavor loading may be in the range of approximately 10% to 60%, by weight. Flavorants include, but are not limited to, methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen), cinnamon (e.g., cinnamon oil), peppermint (e.g., peppermint oil), and spearmint (oil of spearmint).
Inventor: Frank Atchley (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. (Richmond)
Aug. 20, 2024
Utilizing Machine Learning Models To Recommend Travel Offer Packages Relating To A Travel Experience
Patent No. 12067589
A device may receive, from account entity devices, sets of transaction data for transactions between merchants and customers, and may use a first machine learning model to assign the customers to clusters based on measures of similarity among the sets of transaction data. The device may determine travel-related data items in a set of transaction data, of the sets of transaction data, associated with a set of customers assigned to a particular cluster, and may use a second machine learning model to identify a travel experience that has a threshold likelihood of being of interest to the set of customers. The device may receive offers relating to the travel experience, and may provide, to customer devices associated with customers of the set of customers, travel offer packages that include at least one of the offers relating to the travel experience.
Inventors: Matthew Reedy (Richmond); Andrew Marr (Midlothian, Va.); Lin Ward (Henrico, Va.); Noble Ozoka (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Benzaldehyde Compounds With Direct Polymer Destabilizing Effects To Treat Sickle Cell Disease
Patent No. 12065408
Compounds and methods for preventing and/or treating one or more symptoms of sickle cell diseases (SCD) by administering at least one of the compounds are provided. The compounds are chemically modified to increase bioavailability and activity, e.g., so that the compounds prevent adhesion and sickling of red blood cells (RBCs).
Inventors: Martin Safo (Richmond); Yan Zhang (Glen Allen, Va.); Andrew Fleischman (Henrico, Va.); David Light (Henrico, Va.); Moustafa El-Araby (Jedda, Saudi Arabia); Abdelsattar Omar (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); Osheiza Abdulmalik (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond); King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Linking A Screen Capture To A User Support Session
Patent No. 12067138
Systems and methods for linking a screen capture to a user support session are disclosed. The system may receive a screen capture initiation request from a user device. The system may capture a first data object indicative of a first graphical user interface associated with the user device. The system may provide, to the user device, the first graphical user interface for a predetermined period of time. The system may track, by the one or more processors, one or more inputs from the user device that indicate the presence of one or more articles of sensitive information within the graphical user interface. The system may mask the one or more articles of sensitive information within the graphical user interface, generate a second data object indicative of the graphical user interface having the masked articles of sensitive information, and store the second data object in a data repository.
Inventors: Thomas H. Scott (Richmond); Jude Pierre Anasta (Hudson, N.Y.); Fayaz Khan (Souderton, Penn.); Patrick Blinkhorn (Silver Spring, Md.); Mary Sweeney (Wilmington Del.); Tejen Shrestha (Arlington, Va.); Joseph Amburgey (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Methods, Systems, Apparatuses, And Non-transitory Computer Readable Media For Validating Encoded Information
Patent No. 12067551
A method, system and/or device for validating encoded information, the validation device including a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon and a database including a plurality of validation rules, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to receive formatted data from at least one formatting device, extract attributes associated with encoded information from the formatted data, the extracted attributes including at least one of a formatting device identifier, a store identifier, value information from the encoded information, and time information, validate the formatted data based on the extracted attributes and the plurality of validation rules, store the results of the validation and at least a subset of the extracted attributes in the database, generate modified formatted data compatible with a POS terminal based on the results of the validation, and transmit the modified formatted data to the at least one of formatting device.
Inventors: Michael Fitzsimmons (Richmond); William M. Houston (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 20, 2024
Systems And Methods For Performing A Purchase Transaction Using Rewards Points
Patent No. 12067614
A system and method for performing a purchase transaction using rewards points by receiving a purchase request using a financial account with associated account information, determining based on the account information that the financial account is associated with a rewards program with rewards points, and providing the option to pay for the purchase using the financial account or at least a portion of the rewards points. The purchase may be paid for using rewards points from multiple rewards programs and/or multiple financial accounts.
Inventors: Richard Elliott (Glen Allen, Va.); Matthew Sextone (Richmond); Patricia Hansen (Glen Allen, Va.); Rhett Edwards (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
System And Method For Malware Detection Using Hashing Techniques
Patent No. 12069086
A system and method in accordance with example embodiments may include systems and methods for generating and transforming data presentation. The method may include receiving, using a processor, a request for a web page, and submitting, by the processor, the request to a computer server system. The request can include a user identification and a user password. The method may further include receiving, from the computer server system, data corresponding to the requested web page. Further, the method includes storing, in a memory, the received data, and causing the received data to be shown on a display associated with the user device.
Inventor: Christopher Marshall (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Browser Extension For Limited-use Secure Token Payment
Patent No. 12069037
Methods and systems for a browser extension system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a browser extension server includes a communication device configured to communicate with a first computing device executing a browser extension application and a web browser application and a second computing device executing an authentication application. The browser extension server further includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving from the first computing device an indication of a financial service account associated with the first computing device, detecting a payment field in a web page provided by the computing device through the web browser application and, in response, generating a secure token mapped to the financial service account. The operations may further include sending the second computing device an authentication request, receiving an authentication response, and populating the payment field with the secure token.
Inventors: Matthew de Ganon (Hartsdale, N.Y.); Kunal Arora (Great Falls, Va.); Thomas Poole (Chantilly, Va.); Daniel Kahn (San Francisco, Calif.); Dwij Trivedi (Oakton, Va.); Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Determining A Fulfillment Location For An Expedited Package Request
Patent No. 12067509
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to facilitating delivery of a package or sensitive item to a user, where the package or sensitive item can be a credit card or debit card. Various techniques, methods, systems, and apparatuses include utilizing one or more factors for determining an optimal delivery location or path in relation to the user obtaining the sensitive package or item. Various embodiments can provide the user or the delivery courier with an interface that maps or otherwise indicates, by a color-scheme or other suitable scheme, one or more of demand and availability of the sensitive item or package in relation to a receiving or delivery location, where in various embodiments, the mapping or scheme associated with demand and availability can be based in whole or in part on the one or more factors associated with optimal delivery.
Inventors: Jeremy Phillips (Brooklyn, N.Y.); James Newton (Glen Allen, Va.); Justin Crist Lee (Dove Canyon, Calif.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Data Certification Process For Updates To Data In Cloud Database Platform
Patent No. 12067018
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 (North Potomac, Md.); Praveen Kandukuri (Ashburn, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 20, 2024
Machine Learning Using Knowledge Graphs
Patent No. 12072918
A method may include retrieving, over a network device, data from a data source, the data formatted according to a relational database schema; converting, using at least one processor, the data from the data source into a knowledge graph; training, using the at least one processor, a neural network using triples from the knowledge graph, wherein a loss function of the neural network is based on a distance between a true triple from the knowledge graph and a corrupt triple; and after the training, storing weights of a hidden layer of the neural network as a vector space representation of entities in the knowledge graph.
Inventors: David Newman (Walnut Creek, Calif.); Omar B. Khan (Richmond); Alexander Joseph Kalinowski (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Assignee: Wells Fargon Bank (San Francisco, Calif.)
Aug. 27, 2024
High-yielding Continuous Flow Synthesis Of Antimalarial Drug Hydroxychloroquine
Patent No. 12071410
Cost effective, semi-continuous flow methods and systems for synthesizing the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in high yield are provided. The synthesis method that uses simple, inexpensive reagents to obtain the crucial intermediate 5-(ethyl(2-hydroxyethyl)-amino)pentan-2-one, vertical-integration of the starting material 5-iodopentan-2-one and the integration of continuous stirred tank reactors.
Inventors: Frank B. Gupton (Richmond); Saeed Ahmad (Chesterfield, Va.); Hari P.R. Gunuru (Henrico, Va.); Nakul S. Telang (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Package With Locking Mechanism
Patent No. 12071284
A package includes a base, a lid, and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes an arm and a flexible member. The arm extends from the lid and has a first engaging structure. The member includes a flexible rib connected to a base floor, and a second engaging structure and a contact structure on a rib outer surface. The member flexes in response to a first force applied in a first direction to the contact structure and relaxes in response to absence of the first force. The member engages the first and second engaging structures based on the member being relaxed while the lid is closed. The member disengages the first and second engaging structures based on the member being flexed while the lid is closed. The lid may be opened based on applying a second force to the lid in a second direction while the member is flexed.
Inventors: Christopher J. Hession (Mechanicsville, Va.); William J. Bogdziewicz (Richmond); Bipin Patil (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Collapsible Fiber Matrix Reservoir For An E-vaping Device
Patent No. 12070547
Example embodiments relate to a cartridge configured to house a pre-vapor formulation for an e-vaping device, the cartridge including an inner portion and an outer portion configured to store the pre-vapor formulation. The outer portion includes a plurality of fibers configured to be mobile and/or configured to be substantially free of entanglement with one another. The fibers are configured to be substantially free of entanglement with one another based on the lengths of the plurality of fibers. For example, the lengths of the plurality of fibers may be in a range of about 3 mm to about 7 mm. The lengths may also be about 5 mm.
Inventors: Jason Andrew Macko (Richmond); Peter Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Document Package Merge In Document Management System
Patent No. 12072942
A centralized document system receives a request to merge a first document package associated with a first party and a second document package associated with a second party. The first document package includes a first set of documents and the second document package includes a second set of documents. In response to the request, the centralized document system identifies a first subset of documents included in both the first and second sets of documents and identifies a second subset of documents with conflicts between the first and second sets of documents. The centralized document system rectifies the second subset of documents to cure the conflicts between the first and second sets of documents. The centralized document system generates a merged document package including the first subset of documents and the rectified second subset of documents for execution by the first and second parties.
Inventors: Andrew James Ashlock (San Francisco, Calif.); Marguerite Bouscaren (San Francisco, Calif.); Duane Robert Wald (Richmond); Christopher Shane Durham (Seattle, Wash.); Saul Adams Aguilar (Redwood City, Calif.)
Assignee: DocuSign (San Francisco, Calif.)
Aug. 27, 2024
Smoking Article
Patent No. 12070058
A smoking article has a burn portion and a mouth portion. The burn portion includes a smoking rod filled with a smokeable filler material formed almost exclusively of cellulose material. The mouth portion includes either a filter portion with or without an interface or a tip with an interface. The mouth end may include an orthonasal property and the interface may store an additive.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Va.); Shaoyong Yu (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Pod Assembly And E-vapor Apparatus Including The Same
Patent No. 12072968
An e-vapor apparatus may include a pod assembly including a pre-vapor formulation compartment, a first electrical connector, a vapor channel traversing the pre-vapor formulation compartment, and a vaporizer, the pre-vapor formulation compartment configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation therein and in fluidic communication with the vaporizer during an operation of the e-vapor apparatus, the first electrical connector including first and second power electrodes, the first power electrode including a first contact portion on an exterior of the first electrical connector and a first extended portion configured to contact an anode portion of the vaporizer, the second power electrode including a second contact portion on the exterior of the first electrical connector and a second extended portion configured to contact a cathode portion of the vaporizer. The e-vapor apparatus may further include a dispensing body including a second electrical connector configured to connect to the first electrical connector.
Inventors: Ryan Newcomb (Richmond); Terry Bache (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Raymond Lau (Richmond); Cristian Popa (Hertfordshire, Great Britain); James Yorkshades (Gamlingay, Great Britain)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Aug. 27, 2024
Techniques To Provide Streaming Data Resiliency Utilizing A Distributed Message Queue System
Patent No. 12074840
Embodiments include techniques to receive and process data from a data service provider, communicate a plurality of messages comprising the data to a streaming data platform and detect a failure of delivery of the plurality of messages to the streaming data platform. Embodiments further include techniques communicate the plurality of messages to a distributed message queue service of a distributed message queue system, publish each of the plurality of messages to the streaming data platform, determine each of the plurality of messages published to the streaming data platform was successful or unsuccessful, and retry publication of each unsuccessfully published message of plurality of messages to the streaming data platform.
Inventors: Lavangana Govil (Glen Allen, Va.); Vijayasuriya Ravi (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 27, 2024
Utilizing Machine Learning And Digital Embedding Processes To Generate Digital Maps Of Biology And User Interfaces For Evaluating Map Efficacy
Patent No. 12073638
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for utilizing machine learning and digital embedding processes to generate digital maps of biology and user interfaces for evaluating map efficacy. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive perturbation data for a plurality of perturbation experiment units corresponding to a plurality of perturbation classes. Further, the systems generate, utilizing a machine learning model, a plurality of perturbation experiment unit embeddings from the perturbation data. Additionally, the systems align, utilizing an alignment model, the plurality of perturbation experiment unit embeddings to generate aligned perturbation unit embeddings. Moreover, the systems aggregate the aligned perturbation unit embeddings to generate aggregated embeddings. Furthermore, the systems generate perturbation comparisons utilizing the perturbation-level embeddings.
Inventors: Nathan Henry Lazar (Salt Lake City, Utah); Conor Austin Forsman Tillinghast (Salt Lake City, Utah); James Douglas Jensen (Farmington, Utah); James Benjamin Taylor (Midlothian, Va.); Berton Allen Earnshaw (Cedar Hills, Utah); Marta Marie Fay (Salt Lake City, Utah); Renat Nailevich Khaliullin (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jacob Carter Cooper (Sandy, Utah); Imran Saeedul Haque (Salt Lake City, Utah); Seyhmus Guler (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kyle Rollins Hansen (Kaysville, Utah); Safiye Celik (Sudbury, Mass.)
Assignee: Recursion Pharmaceuticals (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Aug. 27, 2024
Composite Scaffold For The Repair, Reconstruction, And Regeneration Of Soft Tissues
Patent No. 12070384
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: Conmed Corp. (Largo, Fla.)
Aug. 27, 2024
System And Method For Fraud Control
Patent No. 12073406
A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include systems and methods for providing fraud management, which may include, receiving account holder data, determining vertical spend patterns associated with merchants to define a merchant risk for each merchant, generating a transactional behavior patter for the account holder, and generating a fraud score and/or action set (e.g., refer/decline/queue for review) based on the transactional behavior pattern and merchant risk. Account holder data may include, for example, an account type, an account balance, account credits and debits, and transaction data including merchant name, location, and transaction details.
Inventors: Thomas S. Poole (Chantilly, Va.); Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Matthew R. Brolund (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Aug. 27, 2024
Gown-glove Interface Reinforcement Accessory
Patent No. 12070089
An accessory cuff is configured to reinforce a gown-glove interface to protect a wearer from exposure to potential pathogens or contaminants through vulnerabilities in the gown-glove interface. The accessory cuff includes a body extending from a proximal end to a distal end along a longitudinal axis. The body has a lumen extending therethrough from the proximal end to the distal end, and a wall surrounding the lumen. The accessory cuff is configured to create a fluid impervious barrier to prevent fluid from entering the lumen when the accessory cuff is sealed at the proximal end and the distal end.
Inventors: Margaret A. Howell (Atlanta, Ga.); Marshall R. Dean (Cumming, Ga.); Namita A. Mithani (Alpharetta, Ga.)
Assignee: O&M Halyard (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Aug. 27, 2024
Bladed Firearm Bolt Stop
Patent No. 12072170
A device for converting a semiautomatic firearm to a non-semiautomatic firearm. The device includes a bolt stop lever pivotally attachable to a receiver of a firearm, a spring configured to be installed in contact with the bolt stop lever and a firearm receiver such that the spring exerts a force on the bolt stop lever to retain the bolt stop lever in a first position, and, a bolt release mechanism operatively coupleable to the bolt stop lever and configured to pivot the bolt stop lever against the force of the spring into a second position. The bolt release mechanism is operatively decoupled from the bolt stop lever when the bolt stop lever reaches the second position. When in the first position the bolt stop lever restricts motion of a bolt of the firearm, and when in the second position, the bolt stop lever permits motion of the firearm bolt.
Inventor: Aaron J. Carroll (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: N/A
Aug. 27, 2024