Device And Method For Checking Fill Level Of A Cartridge
Patent No. 12089656
A aerosol-generating system includes a liquid storage portion, a liquid pressure sensor within the liquid storage portion, and a control unit that is in communication with the pressure sensor. The aerosol-generating system further includes an atmospheric pressure sensor in communication with the control unit. The atmospheric pressure sensor is configured to sense the atmospheric pressure of the environment. The control unit is configured to receive the pressure signals from the liquid pressure sensor and the atmospheric pressure sensor. The control unit is further configured to determine the fill level of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate based on a comparison of the pressure signals from the liquid pressure sensor and the atmospheric pressure sensor.
Inventors: Guillaume Colotte (Amex sur Orbe, Switzerland); Stephane Bilat (Areuse, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12089636
An electronic cigarette (“e-Cig”) may include an adapter component for connecting a battery portion of the e-Cig with the cartridge. The adapter may be configured to utilize a bonding device, such as a ring, cylinder, or sleeve component, for connecting wires without requiring soldering. The bonding device may press a wire at a contact point against a conductive material for transmission of electrical power.
Inventors: Sammy Capuano (Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel)l Zvika Feldman (Tzoran, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Automated Rules Execution Testing And Release System
Patent No. 12093964
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for rules execution testing using live production data. Live production authorization requests may be received at a production computing device. Production authorization decisions may be determined at the production computing device for the live production authorization requests using a set of production rules. The production authorization requests, data used to arrive at the corresponding production authorization decisions, and/or the corresponding authorization decisions may be streamed in real-time to a test device. Test authorization decisions may be determined at the test device for the received live production authorization requests using the received data used to arrive at the production authorization decisions, and using a set of test rules. Production and test authorization decisions may be compared to determine decision differences. One or more user interfaces or reports may be generated for outputting the decision differences.
Inventors: Sathiyamurthy Thiruvengadathan (Glen Allen, Va.); Lakshmi Kommaraju (Glen Allen, Va.); David Parsons (Richmond); Nirmit Patel (Henrico, Va.); Uday Kumar Dikshit (Ashburn, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 17, 2024
Systems And Methods For Managing Cloud Environments
Patent No. 12093733
A system including: one or more processors; a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors are configured to cause the system to: scan a plurality of distributed cloud servers to identify a plurality of distributed cloud applications comprising a scheduler configuration file; determine whether each identified distributed cloud application includes a standard or nonstandard environment; shutdown each distributed cloud application of having a standard environment based on a shutdown schedule; reinitialize each distributed cloud application having a standard cloud environment based on the shutdown schedule; create a restore point for each distributed application having a nonstandard environment; convert the nonstandard environments into standard environments; shut down each distributed cloud application having a nonstandard environment, reinitialize each distributed cloud application having a nonstandard environment, and restore the nonstandard cloud environment based on the created restore points.
Inventors: Clayton Mottley (Alexandria, Va.); Mark Dysert (McLean, Va.); Elijah Sattler (Richmond); Cynthia Carter (McLean, Va.)l Abhishek Matthews (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 17, 2024
Indirectly Heated Capillary Aerosol Generator
Patent No. 12090266
An indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator comprises a capillary tube adapted to form an aerosol when liquid material in the capillary tube is heated to volatilize at least some of the liquid material therein and a thermally conductive material in thermal contact with the capillary tube. The indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator provides substantially even and uniform heating across the heated length of the capillary tube.
Inventors: Marc D. Belcastro (Glen Allen, Va.); Jeffrey A. Swepston (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device And Components Thereof
Patent No. 12092321
A reservoir component of an electronic vaping device includes an outer housing, an air inlet, a vapor outlet, an air passage communicating with the air inlet and the vapor outlet, and a reservoir. A magnetic, electrically conductive and resistive heater element is located adjacent the air passage. The heater element is configured to be in electrical communication with an alternator of a power supply component. A wick is in communication with the reservoir and is configured to draw pre-vapor formulation from the reservoir toward the heater element. The heater element is configured to heat pre-vapor formulation to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation and form a vapor.
Inventor: Peter Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Presentation And Control Of User Interaction With An Icon-based User Interface Element
Patent No. 12093503
In some implementations, a system may identify one or more account identifiers associated with a user account and corresponding to one or more account types. The system may determine an action to perform if account information associated with the user account or with a particular account identifier satisfies a condition. The system may transmit, to a user device, user interface (UI) data associated with an icon-based UI element. The UI data indicates a rectangular-shaped element, of the icon-based UI element, associated with the particular account identifier, and an interactable icon, of the icon-based UI element, positioned within a bottom portion of the rectangular-shaped element. The interactable icon is representative of the action. The system may include receiving, from the user device, interaction data indicating an interaction, by a user of the user device, with the interactable icon. The system may perform the action based on receiving the interaction data.
Inventors: Erik Jay De Leon (Richmond); Thomas Dohan II (Elmurst, Ill.); Jason Ferrell (Glen Allen, Va.); Albert Berger (Arlington, Va.); Vivian Wang (McLean, Va.); Jennifer L. Ellison (New Kent, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 17, 2024
Enhanced Feedback Exposure For Users Based On Transaction Metadata
Patent No. 12093949
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for the direct sharing and use of transaction data separately from transaction authorization processes. Transaction metadata associated with a transaction may be received and validated. Authorization information corresponding to the transaction may be received. The degree to which the transaction metadata is tested may be based on a predicted time of receipt of the authorization information. The transaction metadata and authorization information may be correlated. A computing device may determine whether to authorize the financial transaction based on the authorization information and the correlated transaction metadata. All or portions of the transaction metadata may be provided to one or more users after the transaction has been authorized or denied.
Inventors: Wesley Perkins (Henrico, Va.) Venkata Satya Sriram Kalyan Namuduri (Glen Allen, Va.); David Ross (Richmond); Andrew Coulson (Washington, D.C.); Hunter Roberts (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 17, 2024
Method Of Forming Assembled Package With First Package Face And Second Package Face
Patent No. 12091210
The method including providing a sheet of material in the form of a strip, first folding the sheet of material onto itself to form a first package face and a second package face that oppose each other, a first end portion and a second end portion of the sheet of material extending from the first package face, sealing the sheet of material along opposed longitudinal edges of the sheet of material, fixing the first end portion and the second end portion to each other to form a sealing flap, first defining an opening cut in the sealing flap, the opening cut being defined by both the first end portion and the second end portion, and connecting the sealing flap to the first package face to form the assembled package, the opening cut not being visible or directly accessible on the assembled package.
Inventors: Luiz Andre Rodrigues (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Onesio Luis Thesing (Ecublens,Switzerland); Timothee Cailleaux (Divonne-les-Bains, France)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Behavior Analysis Using Distributed Representations Of Event Data
Patent No. 12099940
The features relate to artificial intelligence directed detection of user behavior based on complex analysis of user event data including language modeling to generate distributed representations of user behavior. Further features are described for reducing the amount of data needed to represent relationships between events such as transaction events received from card readers or point of sale systems. Machine learning features for dynamically determining an optimal set of attributes to use as the language model as well as for comparing current event data to historical event data are also included.
Inventors: Kevin Chen (San Diego, Calif.); Mason Carpenter (Richmond); Shanji Xiong (San Diego, Calif.); Honghao Shan (San Diego, Calif.); Hua Li (San Diego, Calif.); Olcay Boz (San Diego, Calif.); Zhixuan Wang (Irvine, Calif.)
Assignee: Experian Information Solutions (Costa Mesa, Calif.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Low Latency And Redundant Proof Of Possession For Content Subscription
Patent No. 12101314
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for mitigating computing latency associated with proving of possession of network endpoints. One system includes (i) a user device, e.g., a smartphone or a personal computer, (ii) a proof of possession service running on one or more computers, and (iii) an authorization service running on one or more computers.
Inventors: Jerry Dilan Walters (Richmond); Kameron Ahler (Denver, Colo.); Kristine Tanya Moskalets (Sammanish, Wash.); Miles Drew Everest (Seattle, Wash.); Nicole Marie Perry (Oakland, Calif.); Thomas James Cuevas (Havertown, Penn.); Siddharth Pathela (Brampton, Canada); Vanessa Nerin Katz (Portland, Ore.)
Assignee: Stodge Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Insulation Products And Methods And Machines For Making Insulation Products
Patent No. 12098800
A machine for making insulation may include two or more rotatory members configured to pull a precut insulation product at a first rate, wherein the precut insulation product comprises a first paper layer, a second paper layer, and a continuous paper core sheet, a first restraint and a second restraint spaced apart a predetermined distance to create a first space therebetween, and two or more second rotary members configured to feed a continuous paper sheet at a second rate into the first space such that the continuous paper sheet forms a plurality of flexible loops defining a plurality of air channels that extend in a direction that is substantially perpendicular with a machine direction. The first rate may be slower than the second rate.
Inventors: James McGoff (Richmond); Alex Dimen (Richmond); Daniel Shores (Richmond); Caleb Meindertsma (Richmond); Justin Turner-Gonzalez (Richmond); Charles-Alexandre Archambault Vincent (Richmond)
Assignee: TemperPack Technologies (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Aerosol Generator Including Multi-component Wick
Patent No. 12097309
An aerosol generator includes a composite conduit to transport multiple liquids to a heating element at flow rates such that the liquids arrive at the heating element in desirable concentrations. The heating element volatilizes the liquids to form volatilized fluid, which mixes with ambient air to form an aerosol with desirable concentrations of the multiple liquids.
Inventors: Zuyin Yang (Midlothian, Va.); Susan E. Wrenn (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Combination Therapy For Treating Blood Cancer
Patent No. 12097194
Provided herein are combination therapies for treating blood cancer, in particular, acute myeloid leukemia, by concurrently targeting Axl and BCL-2.
Inventors: Zaihul Zhang (Richmond); Xiaoyan Jiang (Richmond); Katharina Rothe (Richmond); Xiaojia Niu (Richmond)
Assignee: Signalchem Lifesciences Corp. (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Article Carrier, Blank And Method Of Construction
Patent No. 12098008
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an article top engaging device, a carrier (90) for packaging one or more articles (B) and a blank (10) for forming the carrier. The article carrier comprises a sleeve structure (12/18) defining at least in part an interior of the article carrier for receiving at least one article, the sleeve structure including at least one substantially planar portion. An end closure structure (14/16) is hingedly connected to a first end of the sleeve structure to at least partially close the first end. At least one glue flap (20, 22) is hingedly connected to the planar portion of the sleeve structure for pivotal movement with respect to the planar portion. The at least one glue flap is disposed generally in the plane of the planar portion of the sleeve structure when the at least one article is received in the interior of the article carrier.
Inventors: Nathaniel B. Ball (Richmond); Lauren N. Chesnet (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems (Atlanta, Ga.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Lubricating Composition For Fuel Efficient Motorcycle Applications
Patent No. 12098347
The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions configured for motorcycles and also to methods of lubricating a motorcycle engine, transmission, and clutch assembly with a single lubricating composition that is generally provided from a common sump or reservoir to achieve improved fuel economy.
Inventors: Hidetaka Hoshino (Yokohama, Japan); Akiyuki Honda (Richmond); Guillaume Carpenter (Bracknell, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform With A Watchdog Microservice To Handle Stalled Transactions
Patent No. 12100009
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 pausing the processing of transactions during a workflow. Other aspects may provide for a messaging microservice that permits communications between the transaction exchange platform and external third-parties.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); Brian T. Burnett (Mechanicsville, Va.); David Smit (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform Defining Conditions For The Processing Of Transaction Objects
Patent No. 12100010
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 pausing the processing of transactions during a workflow. Other aspects may provide for a messaging microservice that permits communications between the transaction exchange platform and external third-parties.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); David Smit (Richmond); Brian T. Burnett (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Aerosol Generator Including Multi-component Wick
Patent No. 12097309
An aerosol generator includes a composite conduit to transport multiple liquids to a heating element at flow rates such that the liquids arrive at the heating element in desirable concentrations. The heating element volatilizes the liquids to form volatilized fluid, which mixes with ambient air to form an aerosol with desirable concentrations of the multiple liquids.
Inventors: Zuyin Yang (Midlothian, Va.); Susan E. Wrenn (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Two-piece Seal Assembly
Patent No. 12098751
A two-piece seal assembly includes first and second seal subassemblies, each shaped as a semicircular ring. The first seal subassembly has a first stator subassembly and a first rotor subassembly that cooperate to form a first semicircular segment of a labyrinth. The second seal subassembly has a second stator subassembly and a second rotor subassembly that cooperate to form a second semicircular segment of the labyrinth. The first and second stator subassemblies, when affixed to each other, form a ring-shaped stator that encircles a rotation axis. The first and second rotor subassemblies, when affixed to each other, form a ring-shaped rotor that encircles the rotation axis and can rotate about the rotation axis relative to the stator. When the first and second seal subassemblies are affixed to each other, the first and second semicircular segments meet such that the labyrinth encircles the rotation axis.
Inventors: James Hargraves (Chesterfield, Va.); Arman Sarwar (Midlothian, Va.); James Myers (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Amsted Rail Co. (N/A)
Optimization Using Interactive Content Equivalence
Patent No. 12099534
Disclosed are systems and methods that automate the process of analyzing interactive content data using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology. The interactive content data is converted to machine encoded communication elements that can be further grouped into machined encoded n-grams. The co-occurrence of machine encoded communication elements or n-grams in the interactive content data is compared against communication elements or n-grams in a seed set of concentrated content files to determine an equivalence value. In this manner, the system can automate the process of determining the equivalence of interactive content data files.
Inventors: Phu Pham (Lawrenceville, Ga.); Jun Ji (Glen Allen, Va.); Merle Hidinger (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Conference System For Use Of Multiple Devices
Patent No. 12101199
A conference system is described that associates a first device and a second device to the same user, compares a first input from the first device and a second input from the second device, and modifies a setting of a conference session. The first input and the second input may be a video input or an audio input. The modification may include, for example, noise removal, determination of the user’s AV feed device, or removing a background image.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Mehulkumar Jayantilal Gamara (Glen Allen, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Beverage-making Machine
Patent No. 12096881
A beverage-making machine includes: a housing; a fluid reservoir mounted to the housing; a first pump fluidly connected with the water reservoir; a heating unit comprising a conduit having an upper end and a lower end, the lower end of the conduit fluidly connected with the first pump, the conduit configured and arranged to rise monotonically from lower end to upper end; and a brew station having a brew basket with an inlet fluidly connected with the upper end of the conduit and an outlet, and further having a receptacle platform positioned to receive fluid from the outlet.
Inventors: Ji Zhao (Midlothian, Va.); Adam Hanes (Glen Allen, Va.); Koen Aidan Ambrose (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Systems And Methods For Securely Generating And Printing A Document
Patent No. 12099990
Systems and methods for securely generating and printing documents are disclosed. For example, processor(s) of a computer system may receive information for the document from a computing device through a network, verify the information for the document, and upon verification, generate document generation data using at least a portion of the information for the document. The document generation data may include document metadata that enables generation of an image of the document and/or the image of the document. Upon the processor(s) verifying first authentication information of a first code associated with a printing device received from the computing device through the network and second authentication information of a second code associated with the computing device received from the printing device through the network, the processor(s) may transmit the document generation data to the printing device through the network, and cause the printing device to print the image of the document.
Inventors: Jade Garrett (Sterling, Va.); David Kelly Wurmfeld (Palm Bay, Fla.); Michael Littlejohn (Fairfax, Va.); Michael Louie (Spotsylvania, Va.); Michael Canavatchel (Midlothian, Va.); Spencer Cutrell (Arlington, Va.); Steve Faletti (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Rex Lacy (Sterling, Va.); Alexander Medeiros (Arlington, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Testing Agent For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 12099438
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
Inventors: Maralidharan Balasubramanian (Gaithersburg, Md.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.); Julie Dalien (Vienna, Va.); David Watson (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Rotary Plug Connector
Patent No. 12100918
A rotary plug electrical connector includes a plug and a socket, both of which include power contacts and signal contacts. The plug is rotatable within the socket between operable and inoperable positions. The power contacts of the socket include opposed surfaces which are engaged by resilient blade power contacts of the plug. The signal contact of the socket preferably includes a pair of contacts, and the signal contact of the plug preferably is a bridge contact that engages the socket signal contacts in the operable position and disengages the socket signal contacts in the inoperable position. When the signal contacts are disengaged, no power is transferred by the connector.
Inventor: Xuefeng Ge (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG (Detmold, Germany)
Sept. 24, 2024
Device And Method For Checking Fill Level Of A Cartridge
Patent No. 12089656
A aerosol-generating system includes a liquid storage portion, a liquid pressure sensor within the liquid storage portion, and a control unit that is in communication with the pressure sensor. The aerosol-generating system further includes an atmospheric pressure sensor in communication with the control unit. The atmospheric pressure sensor is configured to sense the atmospheric pressure of the environment. The control unit is configured to receive the pressure signals from the liquid pressure sensor and the atmospheric pressure sensor. The control unit is further configured to determine the fill level of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate based on a comparison of the pressure signals from the liquid pressure sensor and the atmospheric pressure sensor.
Inventors: Guillaume Colotte (Amex sur Orbe, Switzerland); Stephane Bilat (Areuse, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12089636
An electronic cigarette (“e-Cig”) may include an adapter component for connecting a battery portion of the e-Cig with the cartridge. The adapter may be configured to utilize a bonding device, such as a ring, cylinder, or sleeve component, for connecting wires without requiring soldering. The bonding device may press a wire at a contact point against a conductive material for transmission of electrical power.
Inventors: Sammy Capuano (Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel)l Zvika Feldman (Tzoran, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Automated Rules Execution Testing And Release System
Patent No. 12093964
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for rules execution testing using live production data. Live production authorization requests may be received at a production computing device. Production authorization decisions may be determined at the production computing device for the live production authorization requests using a set of production rules. The production authorization requests, data used to arrive at the corresponding production authorization decisions, and/or the corresponding authorization decisions may be streamed in real-time to a test device. Test authorization decisions may be determined at the test device for the received live production authorization requests using the received data used to arrive at the production authorization decisions, and using a set of test rules. Production and test authorization decisions may be compared to determine decision differences. One or more user interfaces or reports may be generated for outputting the decision differences.
Inventors: Sathiyamurthy Thiruvengadathan (Glen Allen, Va.); Lakshmi Kommaraju (Glen Allen, Va.); David Parsons (Richmond); Nirmit Patel (Henrico, Va.); Uday Kumar Dikshit (Ashburn, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 17, 2024
Systems And Methods For Managing Cloud Environments
Patent No. 12093733
A system including: one or more processors; a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors are configured to cause the system to: scan a plurality of distributed cloud servers to identify a plurality of distributed cloud applications comprising a scheduler configuration file; determine whether each identified distributed cloud application includes a standard or nonstandard environment; shutdown each distributed cloud application of having a standard environment based on a shutdown schedule; reinitialize each distributed cloud application having a standard cloud environment based on the shutdown schedule; create a restore point for each distributed application having a nonstandard environment; convert the nonstandard environments into standard environments; shut down each distributed cloud application having a nonstandard environment, reinitialize each distributed cloud application having a nonstandard environment, and restore the nonstandard cloud environment based on the created restore points.
Inventors: Clayton Mottley (Alexandria, Va.); Mark Dysert (McLean, Va.); Elijah Sattler (Richmond); Cynthia Carter (McLean, Va.)l Abhishek Matthews (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 17, 2024
Indirectly Heated Capillary Aerosol Generator
Patent No. 12090266
An indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator comprises a capillary tube adapted to form an aerosol when liquid material in the capillary tube is heated to volatilize at least some of the liquid material therein and a thermally conductive material in thermal contact with the capillary tube. The indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator provides substantially even and uniform heating across the heated length of the capillary tube.
Inventors: Marc D. Belcastro (Glen Allen, Va.); Jeffrey A. Swepston (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Electronic Vaping Device And Components Thereof
Patent No. 12092321
A reservoir component of an electronic vaping device includes an outer housing, an air inlet, a vapor outlet, an air passage communicating with the air inlet and the vapor outlet, and a reservoir. A magnetic, electrically conductive and resistive heater element is located adjacent the air passage. The heater element is configured to be in electrical communication with an alternator of a power supply component. A wick is in communication with the reservoir and is configured to draw pre-vapor formulation from the reservoir toward the heater element. The heater element is configured to heat pre-vapor formulation to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation and form a vapor.
Inventor: Peter Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Presentation And Control Of User Interaction With An Icon-based User Interface Element
Patent No. 12093503
In some implementations, a system may identify one or more account identifiers associated with a user account and corresponding to one or more account types. The system may determine an action to perform if account information associated with the user account or with a particular account identifier satisfies a condition. The system may transmit, to a user device, user interface (UI) data associated with an icon-based UI element. The UI data indicates a rectangular-shaped element, of the icon-based UI element, associated with the particular account identifier, and an interactable icon, of the icon-based UI element, positioned within a bottom portion of the rectangular-shaped element. The interactable icon is representative of the action. The system may include receiving, from the user device, interaction data indicating an interaction, by a user of the user device, with the interactable icon. The system may perform the action based on receiving the interaction data.
Inventors: Erik Jay De Leon (Richmond); Thomas Dohan II (Elmurst, Ill.); Jason Ferrell (Glen Allen, Va.); Albert Berger (Arlington, Va.); Vivian Wang (McLean, Va.); Jennifer L. Ellison (New Kent, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 17, 2024
Enhanced Feedback Exposure For Users Based On Transaction Metadata
Patent No. 12093949
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for the direct sharing and use of transaction data separately from transaction authorization processes. Transaction metadata associated with a transaction may be received and validated. Authorization information corresponding to the transaction may be received. The degree to which the transaction metadata is tested may be based on a predicted time of receipt of the authorization information. The transaction metadata and authorization information may be correlated. A computing device may determine whether to authorize the financial transaction based on the authorization information and the correlated transaction metadata. All or portions of the transaction metadata may be provided to one or more users after the transaction has been authorized or denied.
Inventors: Wesley Perkins (Henrico, Va.) Venkata Satya Sriram Kalyan Namuduri (Glen Allen, Va.); David Ross (Richmond); Andrew Coulson (Washington, D.C.); Hunter Roberts (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 17, 2024
Method Of Forming Assembled Package With First Package Face And Second Package Face
Patent No. 12091210
The method including providing a sheet of material in the form of a strip, first folding the sheet of material onto itself to form a first package face and a second package face that oppose each other, a first end portion and a second end portion of the sheet of material extending from the first package face, sealing the sheet of material along opposed longitudinal edges of the sheet of material, fixing the first end portion and the second end portion to each other to form a sealing flap, first defining an opening cut in the sealing flap, the opening cut being defined by both the first end portion and the second end portion, and connecting the sealing flap to the first package face to form the assembled package, the opening cut not being visible or directly accessible on the assembled package.
Inventors: Luiz Andre Rodrigues (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Onesio Luis Thesing (Ecublens,Switzerland); Timothee Cailleaux (Divonne-les-Bains, France)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Sept. 17, 2024
Behavior Analysis Using Distributed Representations Of Event Data
Patent No. 12099940
The features relate to artificial intelligence directed detection of user behavior based on complex analysis of user event data including language modeling to generate distributed representations of user behavior. Further features are described for reducing the amount of data needed to represent relationships between events such as transaction events received from card readers or point of sale systems. Machine learning features for dynamically determining an optimal set of attributes to use as the language model as well as for comparing current event data to historical event data are also included.
Inventors: Kevin Chen (San Diego, Calif.); Mason Carpenter (Richmond); Shanji Xiong (San Diego, Calif.); Honghao Shan (San Diego, Calif.); Hua Li (San Diego, Calif.); Olcay Boz (San Diego, Calif.); Zhixuan Wang (Irvine, Calif.)
Assignee: Experian Information Solutions (Costa Mesa, Calif.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Low Latency And Redundant Proof Of Possession For Content Subscription
Patent No. 12101314
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for mitigating computing latency associated with proving of possession of network endpoints. One system includes (i) a user device, e.g., a smartphone or a personal computer, (ii) a proof of possession service running on one or more computers, and (iii) an authorization service running on one or more computers.
Inventors: Jerry Dilan Walters (Richmond); Kameron Ahler (Denver, Colo.); Kristine Tanya Moskalets (Sammanish, Wash.); Miles Drew Everest (Seattle, Wash.); Nicole Marie Perry (Oakland, Calif.); Thomas James Cuevas (Havertown, Penn.); Siddharth Pathela (Brampton, Canada); Vanessa Nerin Katz (Portland, Ore.)
Assignee: Stodge Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Insulation Products And Methods And Machines For Making Insulation Products
Patent No. 12098800
A machine for making insulation may include two or more rotatory members configured to pull a precut insulation product at a first rate, wherein the precut insulation product comprises a first paper layer, a second paper layer, and a continuous paper core sheet, a first restraint and a second restraint spaced apart a predetermined distance to create a first space therebetween, and two or more second rotary members configured to feed a continuous paper sheet at a second rate into the first space such that the continuous paper sheet forms a plurality of flexible loops defining a plurality of air channels that extend in a direction that is substantially perpendicular with a machine direction. The first rate may be slower than the second rate.
Inventors: James McGoff (Richmond); Alex Dimen (Richmond); Daniel Shores (Richmond); Caleb Meindertsma (Richmond); Justin Turner-Gonzalez (Richmond); Charles-Alexandre Archambault Vincent (Richmond)
Assignee: TemperPack Technologies (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Aerosol Generator Including Multi-component Wick
Patent No. 12097309
An aerosol generator includes a composite conduit to transport multiple liquids to a heating element at flow rates such that the liquids arrive at the heating element in desirable concentrations. The heating element volatilizes the liquids to form volatilized fluid, which mixes with ambient air to form an aerosol with desirable concentrations of the multiple liquids.
Inventors: Zuyin Yang (Midlothian, Va.); Susan E. Wrenn (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Combination Therapy For Treating Blood Cancer
Patent No. 12097194
Provided herein are combination therapies for treating blood cancer, in particular, acute myeloid leukemia, by concurrently targeting Axl and BCL-2.
Inventors: Zaihul Zhang (Richmond); Xiaoyan Jiang (Richmond); Katharina Rothe (Richmond); Xiaojia Niu (Richmond)
Assignee: Signalchem Lifesciences Corp. (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Article Carrier, Blank And Method Of Construction
Patent No. 12098008
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an article top engaging device, a carrier (90) for packaging one or more articles (B) and a blank (10) for forming the carrier. The article carrier comprises a sleeve structure (12/18) defining at least in part an interior of the article carrier for receiving at least one article, the sleeve structure including at least one substantially planar portion. An end closure structure (14/16) is hingedly connected to a first end of the sleeve structure to at least partially close the first end. At least one glue flap (20, 22) is hingedly connected to the planar portion of the sleeve structure for pivotal movement with respect to the planar portion. The at least one glue flap is disposed generally in the plane of the planar portion of the sleeve structure when the at least one article is received in the interior of the article carrier.
Inventors: Nathaniel B. Ball (Richmond); Lauren N. Chesnet (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems (Atlanta, Ga.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Lubricating Composition For Fuel Efficient Motorcycle Applications
Patent No. 12098347
The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions configured for motorcycles and also to methods of lubricating a motorcycle engine, transmission, and clutch assembly with a single lubricating composition that is generally provided from a common sump or reservoir to achieve improved fuel economy.
Inventors: Hidetaka Hoshino (Yokohama, Japan); Akiyuki Honda (Richmond); Guillaume Carpenter (Bracknell, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform With A Watchdog Microservice To Handle Stalled Transactions
Patent No. 12100009
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 pausing the processing of transactions during a workflow. Other aspects may provide for a messaging microservice that permits communications between the transaction exchange platform and external third-parties.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); Brian T. Burnett (Mechanicsville, Va.); David Smit (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform Defining Conditions For The Processing Of Transaction Objects
Patent No. 12100010
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 pausing the processing of transactions during a workflow. Other aspects may provide for a messaging microservice that permits communications between the transaction exchange platform and external third-parties.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); David Smit (Richmond); Brian T. Burnett (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Aerosol Generator Including Multi-component Wick
Patent No. 12097309
An aerosol generator includes a composite conduit to transport multiple liquids to a heating element at flow rates such that the liquids arrive at the heating element in desirable concentrations. The heating element volatilizes the liquids to form volatilized fluid, which mixes with ambient air to form an aerosol with desirable concentrations of the multiple liquids.
Inventors: Zuyin Yang (Midlothian, Va.); Susan E. Wrenn (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Sept. 24, 2024
Two-piece Seal Assembly
Patent No. 12098751
A two-piece seal assembly includes first and second seal subassemblies, each shaped as a semicircular ring. The first seal subassembly has a first stator subassembly and a first rotor subassembly that cooperate to form a first semicircular segment of a labyrinth. The second seal subassembly has a second stator subassembly and a second rotor subassembly that cooperate to form a second semicircular segment of the labyrinth. The first and second stator subassemblies, when affixed to each other, form a ring-shaped stator that encircles a rotation axis. The first and second rotor subassemblies, when affixed to each other, form a ring-shaped rotor that encircles the rotation axis and can rotate about the rotation axis relative to the stator. When the first and second seal subassemblies are affixed to each other, the first and second semicircular segments meet such that the labyrinth encircles the rotation axis.
Inventors: James Hargraves (Chesterfield, Va.); Arman Sarwar (Midlothian, Va.); James Myers (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Amsted Rail Co. (N/A)
Optimization Using Interactive Content Equivalence
Patent No. 12099534
Disclosed are systems and methods that automate the process of analyzing interactive content data using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology. The interactive content data is converted to machine encoded communication elements that can be further grouped into machined encoded n-grams. The co-occurrence of machine encoded communication elements or n-grams in the interactive content data is compared against communication elements or n-grams in a seed set of concentrated content files to determine an equivalence value. In this manner, the system can automate the process of determining the equivalence of interactive content data files.
Inventors: Phu Pham (Lawrenceville, Ga.); Jun Ji (Glen Allen, Va.); Merle Hidinger (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Conference System For Use Of Multiple Devices
Patent No. 12101199
A conference system is described that associates a first device and a second device to the same user, compares a first input from the first device and a second input from the second device, and modifies a setting of a conference session. The first input and the second input may be a video input or an audio input. The modification may include, for example, noise removal, determination of the user’s AV feed device, or removing a background image.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Mehulkumar Jayantilal Gamara (Glen Allen, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Beverage-making Machine
Patent No. 12096881
A beverage-making machine includes: a housing; a fluid reservoir mounted to the housing; a first pump fluidly connected with the water reservoir; a heating unit comprising a conduit having an upper end and a lower end, the lower end of the conduit fluidly connected with the first pump, the conduit configured and arranged to rise monotonically from lower end to upper end; and a brew station having a brew basket with an inlet fluidly connected with the upper end of the conduit and an outlet, and further having a receptacle platform positioned to receive fluid from the outlet.
Inventors: Ji Zhao (Midlothian, Va.); Adam Hanes (Glen Allen, Va.); Koen Aidan Ambrose (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Systems And Methods For Securely Generating And Printing A Document
Patent No. 12099990
Systems and methods for securely generating and printing documents are disclosed. For example, processor(s) of a computer system may receive information for the document from a computing device through a network, verify the information for the document, and upon verification, generate document generation data using at least a portion of the information for the document. The document generation data may include document metadata that enables generation of an image of the document and/or the image of the document. Upon the processor(s) verifying first authentication information of a first code associated with a printing device received from the computing device through the network and second authentication information of a second code associated with the computing device received from the printing device through the network, the processor(s) may transmit the document generation data to the printing device through the network, and cause the printing device to print the image of the document.
Inventors: Jade Garrett (Sterling, Va.); David Kelly Wurmfeld (Palm Bay, Fla.); Michael Littlejohn (Fairfax, Va.); Michael Louie (Spotsylvania, Va.); Michael Canavatchel (Midlothian, Va.); Spencer Cutrell (Arlington, Va.); Steve Faletti (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Rex Lacy (Sterling, Va.); Alexander Medeiros (Arlington, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Testing Agent For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent No. 12099438
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
Inventors: Maralidharan Balasubramanian (Gaithersburg, Md.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.); Julie Dalien (Vienna, Va.); David Watson (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 24, 2024
Rotary Plug Connector
Patent No. 12100918
A rotary plug electrical connector includes a plug and a socket, both of which include power contacts and signal contacts. The plug is rotatable within the socket between operable and inoperable positions. The power contacts of the socket include opposed surfaces which are engaged by resilient blade power contacts of the plug. The signal contact of the socket preferably includes a pair of contacts, and the signal contact of the plug preferably is a bridge contact that engages the socket signal contacts in the operable position and disengages the socket signal contacts in the inoperable position. When the signal contacts are disengaged, no power is transferred by the connector.
Inventor: Xuefeng Ge (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG (Detmold, Germany)
Sept. 24, 2024