Master Performance Indicator
Patent No. 12106249
A performance indicator score can be determined for a software development process. A set of elements representing performance attributes of a software development process, such as quality and availability, can be determined. Scores for each element of the set of elements can be computed and aggregated into a single overall score. Further, an adjustment can be determined and applied to scores based on time or an expected event. The overall score can then be conveyed for display on a display device. Some thresholds can also be employed to evaluate the scores, including the overall score, and alerts can be triggered based on the thresholds.
Inventors: Ralph H. Groce III (Stroudsburg, Penn.); Ryan Swanstrom (Sioux Falls, S.D.); Sean McDermott (Richmond); Linda C. Butt (Mooresville, N.C.); Jessica Derby (St. Louis, Mo.); Christopher Galbraith (Rapid City, S.D.); Clayton Campbell (Sammamish, Wash.)
Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank (San Francisco, Calif.)
Oct. 1, 2024
Systems And Methods For Dynamically Ingesting And Monitoring Online Products
Patent No. 12106347
A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform the steps of a method to dynamically ingest and monitor online products. The method may include receiving access to a webpage, determining whether the webpage includes a predetermined template, and in response to receiving the predetermined template, ingesting one or more product images and product metadata from the webpage. If no template is found, the system may request search engine optimization metadata to determine if at least one image is of a product before initializing a machine learning algorithm to determine whether the images correspond to product images. If no associated metadata is found, the system may request manual input of associated metadata before displaying, in real-time and in a standardized format, the ingested photos and metadata, allowing a user to select photos representing products of interest.
Inventors: David Meriwether Lee (Richmond); Brantley Evans Gilbert (Mechanicsville, Va.); Matthew David Reamer (Moseley, Va.); Matthew James Morrison (Richmond); Michael Jeffrey Pringle (Richmond)
Assignee: CarMax Enterprise Services (Richmond)
Oct. 1, 2024
Equipment And Methods For Remote Neuropsychological Assessment
Patent No. 12102456
Technologies are provided for remote neuropsychological assessments and other types of remote assessments (medical or otherwise).
Inventor: Jessica Alva (Richmond)
Assignee:United States Government by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, D.C.)
Oct. 1, 2024
Gas Monitoring Device And Method
Patent No. 12102079
The present invention relates to a gas monitoring device having a gas tight base unit containing a sensor. The base unit is detachably connected to an elongated hollow rod having a perforated tip end and a base unit connection end. The base unit comprises a sensor, a data processor, a telemetry unit, a battery with wireless charging and an internal on/off switch. The invention also relates to a method of monitoring the gas concentration within a fumigated commodity sample comprising inserting the tapered perforated end of a gas monitoring device into a commodity sample.
Inventor: Bartek P. Drewnowski (Richmond)
Assignee: Degesch America (Richmond)
Oct. 1, 2024
Nicotine Electronic Vaping Devices Having Nicotine Pre-vapor Formulation Level Detection And Auto Shutdown
Patent No. 12102132
A device assembly includes a controller, which is configured to control the nicotine electronic vaping device to output an indication of a current level of the nicotine pre-vapor formulation in the nicotine reservoir of a nicotine pod assembly in response to determining that an aggregate amount of nicotine pre-vapor formulation drawn from the nicotine reservoir or an aggregate amount of vaporized nicotine pre-vapor formulation is greater than or equal to the at least one nicotine pre-vapor formulation level threshold.
Inventors: Niall Gallagher (Richmond); Terrance Theodore Bache (Richmond); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond); Jarrett Keen (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 1, 2024
Enhanced Inorganic Coagulants For Wastewater Treatment
Patent No. 12103871
A method for treating water to remove a target analyte that includes adding to the water a rare earth metal salt and a coagulant, and then removing the target analyte from the water. The treatment composition can be added as a blend that includes die coagulant and the rare earth metal salt.
Inventors: William Henderson (Midlothian, Va.); Vladimir Djukanovic (Glen Allen, Va.); Nicholas Seymor (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Chemtreat (Glen Allen, Va.)
Oct. 1, 2024
Computer-based Systems Configured For Utilization Of A Trained Detection Machine Learning Model For Activity Determination And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 12105795
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include steps of obtaining a permission to monitor a plurality of activities executed within the second computing device; continuously monitoring the plurality of activities executed within the second computing device for a predetermined period of time; receiving an indication of an incoming interaction session within the predetermined period of time; automatically verifying at least one session interaction parameter associated with the incoming interaction session to identify the incoming interaction session as a suspect interaction session; determining when a duration of time associated with the suspect interaction session meets or exceeds a predetermined duration threshold; utilizing a trained detection machine learning model to model a confidence value associated with the suspect interaction session; identifying at least one future activity subsequent to the suspect interaction session; and automatically instructing the first computing device to halt the future activity.
Inventors: Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Shabnam Kousha (Washington, D.C.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 1, 2024
Psilocin Mucate
Patent No. 12102616
Psilocin formulations of psilocin mucate with improved stability, physical properties and/or handling characteristics, as well as enhanced pharmacologic activity, pharmacokinetic parameters and safety characteristics as compared to psilocin or psilocybin and methods for their use are provided.
Inventors: Yousry Sayed (Wilmington, N.C.); Frederick Sancilio (Stuart, Fla.); Philip J. Young (Montpelier, Va.); Shaileshkumar Ramanlal Desai (Wilmington, Del.); Autumn Beauchamp (Wilmington, N.C.)
Assignee: Lobe Sciences (Vancouver, Canada)
Oct. 1, 2024
Authenticating A Physical Card Using Sensor Data
Patent No. 12112220
In some implementations, a device may obtain video and/or lidar data relating to a physical card captured while the physical card is flipped from a first side of the physical card to a second side of the physical card. The device may determine an authenticity of the physical card, where the authenticity of the physical card is based at least in part on one or more physical characteristics of the physical card identifiable from the video and/or the lidar data. The one or more physical characteristics may relate to a thickness of the physical card, a length and width of the physical card, a shape of the physical card, and/or a design feature of the physical card. The device may cause, based on a determination that the physical card is authentic, information associated with the physical card to be transmitted or stored to be used in connection with a transaction.
Inventors: Leeyat Bracha Tessier (Arlington, Va.); Alexander Mireles (Clifton, Va.); Hazar Alsahnawi (Fairfax, Va.); Dennis Liu (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Wearable Air Circulation Devices And Methods Of Use
Patent No. 12110908
A personal cooling device includes a first arm. The first arm comprises a fan. The fan comprises a centrifugal impeller. The device further includes a second arm pivotably coupled to the first arm by a hinge. The second arm is biased relative to the first arm about the hinge and configured to secure the device to a garment (or article or object) by pinching the garment against the first arm.
Inventors: Jack Lehmejian Karavich (Glen Allen, Va.); Marco Antonio Falconi (Washington, D.C.)
Tigeraire Inc. (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Banded Papers, Smoking Articles And Methods
Patent No. 12108784
Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate.
Inventors: Ping Li (Glen Allen, Va.); Firooz Rasouli (Midlothian, Va.); Rajesh Garg (Richmond); Randall E. Baren (Glen Allen, Va.); Marc W. Rose (Mechanicsville, Va.); Peter J. Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.); Tony A. Phan (Richmond); Timothy S. Sherwood (Midlothian, Va.); Szu-Sung Yang (Midlothian, Va.); Donald E. Miser (Chesterfield, Va.); Milton E. Parrish (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Transmitting Proactive Notifications Based On Machine Learning Model Predictions
Patent No. 12112369
A system may identify, using a machine learning model, a series of recurring events associated with an account and may generate, using the machine learning model, a prediction of a future date on which a predicted event, associated with the series of recurring events, is to occur. The system may determine that a condition associated with the account is satisfied and may determine that a current date is within a threshold number of days of the future date based on the prediction of the future date. The system may transmit, to a user device, a notification based on determining that the current date is within the threshold number of days of the future date and that the condition associated with the account is satisfied, wherein the notification includes information for presentation of an input element that enables an action to be performed in connection with the account.
Inventors: Stephen Jordan (Burke, Va.); Brad Giska (Richmond); Marisa Lee (Washington, D.C.); Erik Virbitsky (Washington, D.C.); Sean Easter (White Bear Lake, Minn.); James Ricks (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Method And System For The Automated Production Of E-vapor Devices
Patent No. 12108807
A method for automated manufacturing of e-vapor devices may include establishing a procession of partially assembled, oriented cartridge units of the e-vapor devices in an assembly path. The method may additionally include preparing the cartridge units for filling while the cartridge units are moving on a first drum-to-drum transport path of the assembly path. The method may also include adding liquid to the cartridge units while the cartridge units are moving in a filling workstation of the assembly path. The method may also include preparing the cartridge units for sealing while the cartridge units are moving on a second drum-to-drum transport path of the assembly path. The method further includes sealing the cartridge units while the cartridge units are moving in a sealing workstation of the assembly path.
Inventors: Edmond J. Cadieux (Richmond); Martin Garthaffner (Chesterfield, Va.); Travis Garthaffner (Midlothian, Va.); Christopher R. Newcomb (Powhatan, Va.); Barry S. Smith (Richmond); Jeffrey A. Swepston (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Method Of Making Cartridge Including Absorbent Material With First Reservoir And Second Reservoir
Patent No. 12108794
The method includes first defining a first reservoir and a second reservoir within a housing of a cartridge, the second reservoir being in fluid communication with the first reservoir, inserting at least one first layer of absorbent material within the first reservoir, and arranging a heater and a wick to be in communication with a central channel, the wick being in contact with the absorbent material.
Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); Edmond Cadieux (Mechanicsville, Va.); Barry S. Smith (Richmond); William J. Crowe (Richmond); Nam Tran (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Antiwear Systems For Improved Wear In Medium And/or Heavy Duty Diesel Engines
Patent No. 12110468
The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions and, in particular, lubricating compositions suitable for medium and/or heavy duty diesel engines having low levels of phosphorus and/or zinc but still achieving good valve train wear by including an antiwear system provided from overbased zinc dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphates having a selected average degree of branching and a certain percent of hydrocarbyl groups derived from secondary alcohols.
Inventors: Leah Donham (Henrico, Va.); Abaigeal Ritzenthaler (Richmond)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Image-based Authorization Systems
Patent No. 12112329
Aspects described herein may allow transactions to be authenticated based on images taken at the transaction site. For example, a computing device may decline a transaction request based on a first category of the transaction indicated in the category information violates a transaction category restriction of the user account. The computing device may send, to a user device associated with the user account, an instruction to upload one or more photos that depict a physical environment where the transaction is requested. If the photos indicate the requested transaction belongs to another category that does not violate the transaction category restriction, the system may approve the transaction based on the photos.
Inventors: Elizabeth M. Shoup (Mechanicsville, Va.); Caroline Harriott (Richmond); Imani Holmes (Richmond); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Yingli Sieh (Cambridge, Mass.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Method Of Making Carton With Top Hinge Panel And Bottom Hinge Panel
Patent No. 12110158
The method includes first folding a top panel and a top hinge panel about a back panel and adhesively connecting the top hinge panel the back panel to form a first hinge, second folding a bottom panel and a bottom hinge panel about the back panel and adhesively connecting the bottom hinge panel to the back panel to form a second hinge, the first hinge and the second hinge being on first opposing edges of the back panel, and third folding a first side panel and a second side panel about the back panel to form a first wall and a second wall of a carton, the first wall.
Inventor: Scott Fath (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Atria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Soluble Fiber Lozenge
Patent No. 12109313
A soluble fiber lozenge in includes a body that is partially or wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a soluble-fiber matrix and one or more additives in the soluble-fiber matrix. A soluble fiber lozenge provided herein includes at least 40 weight percent of soluble fiber. Soluble fiber in soluble fiber lozenge can include maltodextrin. The soluble fiber lozenge is adapted to release one or more additives from the body when the body is received within the oral cavity of a consumer and exposed to saliva. A method of making soluble fiber lozenges includes forming a molten mixture of at least 40 weight percent soluble fiber, one or more additives, and less than 15 weight percent water while maintaining a mixture temperature of less than 200? C. and portioning the molten mixture into a plurality of soluble fiber lozenges.
Inventors: Feng Gao (Midlothian, Va.); Diane L. Gee (Chesterfield Va.); Shuzhong Zhuang (Glen Allen, Va.); Phillip M. Hulan (Midlothian, Va.); William J. Burke (Nashville, Tenn.); Gerd Kobal (Sandy Hook, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Authentication For Third Party Digital Wallet Provisioning
Patent No. 12112310
Various embodiments are directed to securely verifying an identity of a user who is requesting to add or link a financial instrument to a third-party digital wallet using one-tap contactless card authentication. The financial instrument may be added or linked to the third-party wallet in at least two scenarios: pull provisioning and push provisioning. In either provisioning scenarios, the user may be required to authenticate the financial instrument being added or linked by successfully verifying the identity of the user via the one-tap contactless card authentication at a banking application associated with the financial instrument.
Inventors: Katherine McHugh (Richmond); Lesley Newton (Richmond); Casey Barrett (San Francisco, Calif.); Patrick Zearfoss (Leesburg, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Restraint System
Patent No. 12109970
A deployable restraint system including a panel, a tether coupled to the panel, and an actuator that moves the tether to deploy the panel. The panel and the tether are placed in tension between one of two sides of a compartment and a top of the compartment when the tether is moved by the actuator.
Inventors: Philipp J. Wolf (Capistrano, Calif.); Jesse T. Buehler (Portola Valley, Calif.); Adam J. Golman (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Wearable Air Circulation Devices And Methods Of Use
Patent No. 12110908
A personal cooling device includes a first arm. The first arm comprises a fan. The fan comprises a centrifugal impeller. The device further includes a second arm pivotably coupled to the first arm by a hinge. The second arm is biased relative to the first arm about the hinge and configured to secure the device to a garment.
Inventors: Jack Lehmejian Karavich (Glen Allen, Va.); Marco Antonio Falconi (Washington, D.C.)
Assignee: Tigeraire (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Systems And Methods For User Authorization And Access To Services Using Contactless Cards
Patent No. 12112322
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key.
Inventors: Kaitlin Newman (Washington, D.C.); Colin Hart (Arlington, Va.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Lara Mossier (Farmville, Va.); Sophie Bermudez (Washington, D.C.); Michael Mossoba (Arlington, Va.); Wayne Lutz (Fort Washington, Md.); Charles Nathan Crank (Henrico, Va.); Melissa Heng (Glen Allen, Va.); Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.); Kimberly Haynes (Reston, Va.); Andrew Cogswell (Midlothian, Va.); Latika Gulati (Annandale, Va.); Sarah Jane Cunningham (Arlington, Va.); James Ashfield (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Computer-based Systems Configured For Machine Learning Assisted Data Replication And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 12111846
Systems and methods of data replication via machine learning techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise: utilizing a trained replication machine learning model to identify an existing object in the bucket for replication, and a commencing time to replicate the existing object, the commencing time determined based on replication failure predicted by the replication machine learning model; capturing, in response to identifying the existing object for replication, a snapshot of the bucket, the snapshot comprising information related to at least one of: the existing object, metadata of the existing object, and/or an access control list (ACL) of the existing object; and replicating the existing object to a destination cloud according to the determined commencing time, the destination cloud being hosted at a cross-region storage.
Inventors: Ebrima N. Ceesay (McLean, Va.); Hrishikesh Mukudan Menon (Glen Allen, Va.); Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
System And Method For Meeting Volume Optimizer
Patent No. 1211209
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for machine learning systems to predict real-time productivity changes based on prospective scheduling. A productivity predictive model is trained by a machine learning engine with meeting and productivity training data, wherein the productivity predictive model includes one or more algorithms to select a future productivity change based on a future schedule. The system receives a current schedule and current productivity measurements of a user, receives a scheduling request for the user, predicts a future productivity change and displays a graphic to a user revealing the future productivity change of the user based on accepting the scheduling request.
Inventors: Michael Anthony Young Jr. (Henrico, Va.); Christopher Mcdaniel (Glen Allen, Va.); Matthew Louis Nowak (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Methods And Systems To Optimize Vehicle Event Processes
Patent No. 12110033
In various embodiments, methods and systems are provided for processing data pertaining to a vehicle event for a vehicle. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, vehicle sensor data is obtained from one or more vehicle sensors pertaining to the vehicle event. Also in an exemplary embodiment, an assessment of the vehicle event is determined via a processor, including as to a fault or a severity, or both associated with the vehicle event, based on the vehicle sensor data.
Inventors: Andrew P. Rose (Glen Allen, Va.); Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.); Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations (Detroit, Mich.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Intelligent Services For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent 12111752
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
Inventors: Muralidharan Balasubramanian (Gaithersburg, Md.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.); Julie Dallen (Vienna, Va.); David Watson (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Automated Teller Machine Card Ejection Mechanism
Patent No. 12112604
In some implementations, an automated teller machine (ATM) may accept a card. The ATM may eject the card at a first time. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that a threshold amount of time has elapsed from the first time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may eject the card at a second time after retracting the card. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that the threshold amount of time has elapsed from the second time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may provide the card to a card storage compartment of the ATM after retracting the card and based on a determination that the card has been ejected or retracted a threshold number of times.
Inventors: Stephen Young (Keswick, Va.); Matthew Kolesaric (Mechanicsville, Va.); Michael Kidd (Litchfield, N.H.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Machine Learning For Computer Security
Patent No. 12113818
A computing system may obtain text corresponding to a conversation between an outside caller and an agent. The computing system may obtain data associated with the conversation that may be used to determine whether the outside caller is attempting malicious activity or not. The obtained text and data may be provided to a machine learning model to generate a probability score indicative of whether the outside caller is attempting to obtain unauthorized access or attempting other malicious activity. Based on determining that the probability score satisfies a threshold, the computing system may modify a permission (e.g., an API permission) of the agent. The computing system may deny the request to perform the action and may cause display of an indication that the request was successful.
Inventors: Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Jackson Macomber (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Master Performance Indicator
Patent No. 12106249
A performance indicator score can be determined for a software development process. A set of elements representing performance attributes of a software development process, such as quality and availability, can be determined. Scores for each element of the set of elements can be computed and aggregated into a single overall score. Further, an adjustment can be determined and applied to scores based on time or an expected event. The overall score can then be conveyed for display on a display device. Some thresholds can also be employed to evaluate the scores, including the overall score, and alerts can be triggered based on the thresholds.
Inventors: Ralph H. Groce III (Stroudsburg, Penn.); Ryan Swanstrom (Sioux Falls, S.D.); Sean McDermott (Richmond); Linda C. Butt (Mooresville, N.C.); Jessica Derby (St. Louis, Mo.); Christopher Galbraith (Rapid City, S.D.); Clayton Campbell (Sammamish, Wash.)
Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank (San Francisco, Calif.)
Oct. 1, 2024
Systems And Methods For Dynamically Ingesting And Monitoring Online Products
Patent No. 12106347
A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform the steps of a method to dynamically ingest and monitor online products. The method may include receiving access to a webpage, determining whether the webpage includes a predetermined template, and in response to receiving the predetermined template, ingesting one or more product images and product metadata from the webpage. If no template is found, the system may request search engine optimization metadata to determine if at least one image is of a product before initializing a machine learning algorithm to determine whether the images correspond to product images. If no associated metadata is found, the system may request manual input of associated metadata before displaying, in real-time and in a standardized format, the ingested photos and metadata, allowing a user to select photos representing products of interest.
Inventors: David Meriwether Lee (Richmond); Brantley Evans Gilbert (Mechanicsville, Va.); Matthew David Reamer (Moseley, Va.); Matthew James Morrison (Richmond); Michael Jeffrey Pringle (Richmond)
Assignee: CarMax Enterprise Services (Richmond)
Oct. 1, 2024
Equipment And Methods For Remote Neuropsychological Assessment
Patent No. 12102456
Technologies are provided for remote neuropsychological assessments and other types of remote assessments (medical or otherwise).
Inventor: Jessica Alva (Richmond)
Assignee:United States Government by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, D.C.)
Oct. 1, 2024
Gas Monitoring Device And Method
Patent No. 12102079
The present invention relates to a gas monitoring device having a gas tight base unit containing a sensor. The base unit is detachably connected to an elongated hollow rod having a perforated tip end and a base unit connection end. The base unit comprises a sensor, a data processor, a telemetry unit, a battery with wireless charging and an internal on/off switch. The invention also relates to a method of monitoring the gas concentration within a fumigated commodity sample comprising inserting the tapered perforated end of a gas monitoring device into a commodity sample.
Inventor: Bartek P. Drewnowski (Richmond)
Assignee: Degesch America (Richmond)
Oct. 1, 2024
Nicotine Electronic Vaping Devices Having Nicotine Pre-vapor Formulation Level Detection And Auto Shutdown
Patent No. 12102132
A device assembly includes a controller, which is configured to control the nicotine electronic vaping device to output an indication of a current level of the nicotine pre-vapor formulation in the nicotine reservoir of a nicotine pod assembly in response to determining that an aggregate amount of nicotine pre-vapor formulation drawn from the nicotine reservoir or an aggregate amount of vaporized nicotine pre-vapor formulation is greater than or equal to the at least one nicotine pre-vapor formulation level threshold.
Inventors: Niall Gallagher (Richmond); Terrance Theodore Bache (Richmond); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond); Jarrett Keen (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 1, 2024
Enhanced Inorganic Coagulants For Wastewater Treatment
Patent No. 12103871
A method for treating water to remove a target analyte that includes adding to the water a rare earth metal salt and a coagulant, and then removing the target analyte from the water. The treatment composition can be added as a blend that includes die coagulant and the rare earth metal salt.
Inventors: William Henderson (Midlothian, Va.); Vladimir Djukanovic (Glen Allen, Va.); Nicholas Seymor (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Chemtreat (Glen Allen, Va.)
Oct. 1, 2024
Computer-based Systems Configured For Utilization Of A Trained Detection Machine Learning Model For Activity Determination And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 12105795
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include steps of obtaining a permission to monitor a plurality of activities executed within the second computing device; continuously monitoring the plurality of activities executed within the second computing device for a predetermined period of time; receiving an indication of an incoming interaction session within the predetermined period of time; automatically verifying at least one session interaction parameter associated with the incoming interaction session to identify the incoming interaction session as a suspect interaction session; determining when a duration of time associated with the suspect interaction session meets or exceeds a predetermined duration threshold; utilizing a trained detection machine learning model to model a confidence value associated with the suspect interaction session; identifying at least one future activity subsequent to the suspect interaction session; and automatically instructing the first computing device to halt the future activity.
Inventors: Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Shabnam Kousha (Washington, D.C.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 1, 2024
Psilocin Mucate
Patent No. 12102616
Psilocin formulations of psilocin mucate with improved stability, physical properties and/or handling characteristics, as well as enhanced pharmacologic activity, pharmacokinetic parameters and safety characteristics as compared to psilocin or psilocybin and methods for their use are provided.
Inventors: Yousry Sayed (Wilmington, N.C.); Frederick Sancilio (Stuart, Fla.); Philip J. Young (Montpelier, Va.); Shaileshkumar Ramanlal Desai (Wilmington, Del.); Autumn Beauchamp (Wilmington, N.C.)
Assignee: Lobe Sciences (Vancouver, Canada)
Oct. 1, 2024
Authenticating A Physical Card Using Sensor Data
Patent No. 12112220
In some implementations, a device may obtain video and/or lidar data relating to a physical card captured while the physical card is flipped from a first side of the physical card to a second side of the physical card. The device may determine an authenticity of the physical card, where the authenticity of the physical card is based at least in part on one or more physical characteristics of the physical card identifiable from the video and/or the lidar data. The one or more physical characteristics may relate to a thickness of the physical card, a length and width of the physical card, a shape of the physical card, and/or a design feature of the physical card. The device may cause, based on a determination that the physical card is authentic, information associated with the physical card to be transmitted or stored to be used in connection with a transaction.
Inventors: Leeyat Bracha Tessier (Arlington, Va.); Alexander Mireles (Clifton, Va.); Hazar Alsahnawi (Fairfax, Va.); Dennis Liu (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Wearable Air Circulation Devices And Methods Of Use
Patent No. 12110908
A personal cooling device includes a first arm. The first arm comprises a fan. The fan comprises a centrifugal impeller. The device further includes a second arm pivotably coupled to the first arm by a hinge. The second arm is biased relative to the first arm about the hinge and configured to secure the device to a garment (or article or object) by pinching the garment against the first arm.
Inventors: Jack Lehmejian Karavich (Glen Allen, Va.); Marco Antonio Falconi (Washington, D.C.)
Tigeraire Inc. (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Banded Papers, Smoking Articles And Methods
Patent No. 12108784
Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate.
Inventors: Ping Li (Glen Allen, Va.); Firooz Rasouli (Midlothian, Va.); Rajesh Garg (Richmond); Randall E. Baren (Glen Allen, Va.); Marc W. Rose (Mechanicsville, Va.); Peter J. Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.); Tony A. Phan (Richmond); Timothy S. Sherwood (Midlothian, Va.); Szu-Sung Yang (Midlothian, Va.); Donald E. Miser (Chesterfield, Va.); Milton E. Parrish (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Transmitting Proactive Notifications Based On Machine Learning Model Predictions
Patent No. 12112369
A system may identify, using a machine learning model, a series of recurring events associated with an account and may generate, using the machine learning model, a prediction of a future date on which a predicted event, associated with the series of recurring events, is to occur. The system may determine that a condition associated with the account is satisfied and may determine that a current date is within a threshold number of days of the future date based on the prediction of the future date. The system may transmit, to a user device, a notification based on determining that the current date is within the threshold number of days of the future date and that the condition associated with the account is satisfied, wherein the notification includes information for presentation of an input element that enables an action to be performed in connection with the account.
Inventors: Stephen Jordan (Burke, Va.); Brad Giska (Richmond); Marisa Lee (Washington, D.C.); Erik Virbitsky (Washington, D.C.); Sean Easter (White Bear Lake, Minn.); James Ricks (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Method And System For The Automated Production Of E-vapor Devices
Patent No. 12108807
A method for automated manufacturing of e-vapor devices may include establishing a procession of partially assembled, oriented cartridge units of the e-vapor devices in an assembly path. The method may additionally include preparing the cartridge units for filling while the cartridge units are moving on a first drum-to-drum transport path of the assembly path. The method may also include adding liquid to the cartridge units while the cartridge units are moving in a filling workstation of the assembly path. The method may also include preparing the cartridge units for sealing while the cartridge units are moving on a second drum-to-drum transport path of the assembly path. The method further includes sealing the cartridge units while the cartridge units are moving in a sealing workstation of the assembly path.
Inventors: Edmond J. Cadieux (Richmond); Martin Garthaffner (Chesterfield, Va.); Travis Garthaffner (Midlothian, Va.); Christopher R. Newcomb (Powhatan, Va.); Barry S. Smith (Richmond); Jeffrey A. Swepston (Powhatan, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Method Of Making Cartridge Including Absorbent Material With First Reservoir And Second Reservoir
Patent No. 12108794
The method includes first defining a first reservoir and a second reservoir within a housing of a cartridge, the second reservoir being in fluid communication with the first reservoir, inserting at least one first layer of absorbent material within the first reservoir, and arranging a heater and a wick to be in communication with a central channel, the wick being in contact with the absorbent material.
Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); Edmond Cadieux (Mechanicsville, Va.); Barry S. Smith (Richmond); William J. Crowe (Richmond); Nam Tran (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Antiwear Systems For Improved Wear In Medium And/or Heavy Duty Diesel Engines
Patent No. 12110468
The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions and, in particular, lubricating compositions suitable for medium and/or heavy duty diesel engines having low levels of phosphorus and/or zinc but still achieving good valve train wear by including an antiwear system provided from overbased zinc dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphates having a selected average degree of branching and a certain percent of hydrocarbyl groups derived from secondary alcohols.
Inventors: Leah Donham (Henrico, Va.); Abaigeal Ritzenthaler (Richmond)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Image-based Authorization Systems
Patent No. 12112329
Aspects described herein may allow transactions to be authenticated based on images taken at the transaction site. For example, a computing device may decline a transaction request based on a first category of the transaction indicated in the category information violates a transaction category restriction of the user account. The computing device may send, to a user device associated with the user account, an instruction to upload one or more photos that depict a physical environment where the transaction is requested. If the photos indicate the requested transaction belongs to another category that does not violate the transaction category restriction, the system may approve the transaction based on the photos.
Inventors: Elizabeth M. Shoup (Mechanicsville, Va.); Caroline Harriott (Richmond); Imani Holmes (Richmond); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Yingli Sieh (Cambridge, Mass.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Method Of Making Carton With Top Hinge Panel And Bottom Hinge Panel
Patent No. 12110158
The method includes first folding a top panel and a top hinge panel about a back panel and adhesively connecting the top hinge panel the back panel to form a first hinge, second folding a bottom panel and a bottom hinge panel about the back panel and adhesively connecting the bottom hinge panel to the back panel to form a second hinge, the first hinge and the second hinge being on first opposing edges of the back panel, and third folding a first side panel and a second side panel about the back panel to form a first wall and a second wall of a carton, the first wall.
Inventor: Scott Fath (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Atria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Soluble Fiber Lozenge
Patent No. 12109313
A soluble fiber lozenge in includes a body that is partially or wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a soluble-fiber matrix and one or more additives in the soluble-fiber matrix. A soluble fiber lozenge provided herein includes at least 40 weight percent of soluble fiber. Soluble fiber in soluble fiber lozenge can include maltodextrin. The soluble fiber lozenge is adapted to release one or more additives from the body when the body is received within the oral cavity of a consumer and exposed to saliva. A method of making soluble fiber lozenges includes forming a molten mixture of at least 40 weight percent soluble fiber, one or more additives, and less than 15 weight percent water while maintaining a mixture temperature of less than 200? C. and portioning the molten mixture into a plurality of soluble fiber lozenges.
Inventors: Feng Gao (Midlothian, Va.); Diane L. Gee (Chesterfield Va.); Shuzhong Zhuang (Glen Allen, Va.); Phillip M. Hulan (Midlothian, Va.); William J. Burke (Nashville, Tenn.); Gerd Kobal (Sandy Hook, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Authentication For Third Party Digital Wallet Provisioning
Patent No. 12112310
Various embodiments are directed to securely verifying an identity of a user who is requesting to add or link a financial instrument to a third-party digital wallet using one-tap contactless card authentication. The financial instrument may be added or linked to the third-party wallet in at least two scenarios: pull provisioning and push provisioning. In either provisioning scenarios, the user may be required to authenticate the financial instrument being added or linked by successfully verifying the identity of the user via the one-tap contactless card authentication at a banking application associated with the financial instrument.
Inventors: Katherine McHugh (Richmond); Lesley Newton (Richmond); Casey Barrett (San Francisco, Calif.); Patrick Zearfoss (Leesburg, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Restraint System
Patent No. 12109970
A deployable restraint system including a panel, a tether coupled to the panel, and an actuator that moves the tether to deploy the panel. The panel and the tether are placed in tension between one of two sides of a compartment and a top of the compartment when the tether is moved by the actuator.
Inventors: Philipp J. Wolf (Capistrano, Calif.); Jesse T. Buehler (Portola Valley, Calif.); Adam J. Golman (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Wearable Air Circulation Devices And Methods Of Use
Patent No. 12110908
A personal cooling device includes a first arm. The first arm comprises a fan. The fan comprises a centrifugal impeller. The device further includes a second arm pivotably coupled to the first arm by a hinge. The second arm is biased relative to the first arm about the hinge and configured to secure the device to a garment.
Inventors: Jack Lehmejian Karavich (Glen Allen, Va.); Marco Antonio Falconi (Washington, D.C.)
Assignee: Tigeraire (Richmond)
Oct. 8, 2024
Systems And Methods For User Authorization And Access To Services Using Contactless Cards
Patent No. 12112322
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key.
Inventors: Kaitlin Newman (Washington, D.C.); Colin Hart (Arlington, Va.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Lara Mossier (Farmville, Va.); Sophie Bermudez (Washington, D.C.); Michael Mossoba (Arlington, Va.); Wayne Lutz (Fort Washington, Md.); Charles Nathan Crank (Henrico, Va.); Melissa Heng (Glen Allen, Va.); Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.); Kimberly Haynes (Reston, Va.); Andrew Cogswell (Midlothian, Va.); Latika Gulati (Annandale, Va.); Sarah Jane Cunningham (Arlington, Va.); James Ashfield (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Computer-based Systems Configured For Machine Learning Assisted Data Replication And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 12111846
Systems and methods of data replication via machine learning techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise: utilizing a trained replication machine learning model to identify an existing object in the bucket for replication, and a commencing time to replicate the existing object, the commencing time determined based on replication failure predicted by the replication machine learning model; capturing, in response to identifying the existing object for replication, a snapshot of the bucket, the snapshot comprising information related to at least one of: the existing object, metadata of the existing object, and/or an access control list (ACL) of the existing object; and replicating the existing object to a destination cloud according to the determined commencing time, the destination cloud being hosted at a cross-region storage.
Inventors: Ebrima N. Ceesay (McLean, Va.); Hrishikesh Mukudan Menon (Glen Allen, Va.); Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
System And Method For Meeting Volume Optimizer
Patent No. 1211209
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for machine learning systems to predict real-time productivity changes based on prospective scheduling. A productivity predictive model is trained by a machine learning engine with meeting and productivity training data, wherein the productivity predictive model includes one or more algorithms to select a future productivity change based on a future schedule. The system receives a current schedule and current productivity measurements of a user, receives a scheduling request for the user, predicts a future productivity change and displays a graphic to a user revealing the future productivity change of the user based on accepting the scheduling request.
Inventors: Michael Anthony Young Jr. (Henrico, Va.); Christopher Mcdaniel (Glen Allen, Va.); Matthew Louis Nowak (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Methods And Systems To Optimize Vehicle Event Processes
Patent No. 12110033
In various embodiments, methods and systems are provided for processing data pertaining to a vehicle event for a vehicle. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, vehicle sensor data is obtained from one or more vehicle sensors pertaining to the vehicle event. Also in an exemplary embodiment, an assessment of the vehicle event is determined via a processor, including as to a fault or a severity, or both associated with the vehicle event, based on the vehicle sensor data.
Inventors: Andrew P. Rose (Glen Allen, Va.); Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.); Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations (Detroit, Mich.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Intelligent Services For Application Dependency Discovery, Reporting, And Management Tool
Patent 12111752
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
Inventors: Muralidharan Balasubramanian (Gaithersburg, Md.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.); Julie Dallen (Vienna, Va.); David Watson (Alexandria, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Automated Teller Machine Card Ejection Mechanism
Patent No. 12112604
In some implementations, an automated teller machine (ATM) may accept a card. The ATM may eject the card at a first time. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that a threshold amount of time has elapsed from the first time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may eject the card at a second time after retracting the card. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that the threshold amount of time has elapsed from the second time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may provide the card to a card storage compartment of the ATM after retracting the card and based on a determination that the card has been ejected or retracted a threshold number of times.
Inventors: Stephen Young (Keswick, Va.); Matthew Kolesaric (Mechanicsville, Va.); Michael Kidd (Litchfield, N.H.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024
Machine Learning For Computer Security
Patent No. 12113818
A computing system may obtain text corresponding to a conversation between an outside caller and an agent. The computing system may obtain data associated with the conversation that may be used to determine whether the outside caller is attempting malicious activity or not. The obtained text and data may be provided to a machine learning model to generate a probability score indicative of whether the outside caller is attempting to obtain unauthorized access or attempting other malicious activity. Based on determining that the probability score satisfies a threshold, the computing system may modify a permission (e.g., an API permission) of the agent. The computing system may deny the request to perform the action and may cause display of an indication that the request was successful.
Inventors: Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Jackson Macomber (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 8, 2024