Aerosol-generating Device With Integral Heater Assembly
Patent No. 12214123
An electrically heated aerosol-generating device is configured for use with a consumable cartridge including a storage portion containing an aerosol-forming substrate and having a fluid permeable internal surface surrounding an open-ended passage extending through the cartridge. The device includes a housing having a cavity for receiving the cartridge and a heater assembly positioned in the cavity. The heater assembly includes an electrically conductive hollow shaft portion connected to the housing and an electric heater positioned along the hollow shaft portion and having at least one heating element for heating the aerosol-forming substrate. The hollow shaft portion defines an airflow passage forming part of an airflow pathway through the device and is arranged to extend into the open-ended passage of the cartridge. The hollow shaft portion comprises a plurality of apertures, and the heating element is one or more narrow regions of the hollow shaft portion between adjacent apertures.
Inventors: Rui Nuna Batista (Morges, Switzerland); Laurent Manca (Sullens, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Synced Audio Signals Between A Device And ATM
Patent No. 12219426
A user can submit a request to a server associated with an ATM. The request can be submitted from a device (or portable device) of the user. The server can evaluate the request and designate which ATM or ATMs are best suited to process the request. This determination can be based on availability of resources on the ATM. Subsequently, the server can transmit a communication to the device of the user and the designated ATM. The communication can cause both the device and the ATM to emit a sound or display a visual cue to guide the user to approach the designated ATM. The device and the ATM can emit various patterns of sound to better guide the user to approach the designated ATM.
Inventors: Janak Dadhaniya (San Francisco, Calif.); Steve Faletti (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Dave Wurmfeld (Falls Church, Va.); Robert Smith (Richmond); Lisa Whitsitt (Millbrae, Calif.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 4, 2025
Subwavelength Antennas, Drivers, And Systems
Patent No. 12217890
Embodiments generally relate to subwavelength antennas and, more particularly, extreme subwavelength antennas with high radiation efficiency. One embodiment and its derivatives achieve the objective of an extreme subwavelength dual acoustic and electromagnetic antenna by using spin-orbit torque in an array of nanomagnets.
Inventors: Supriyo Bandyopadhyay (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Valve Assembly
Patent No. 12215792
valve assembly (300) comprising a valve body (302) and a mono-material plunger (304). The valve body (302 has a primary opening (314) and a secondary opening (315) that are axially spaced apart. The plunger (304) comprises a primary seal 5 portion (316) and a secondary seal portion (317). The plunger (304) comprises the following operational positions with respect to the valve body: a transit seal position in which the primary seal portion (316) of the plunger (304) is in contact with the valve body (302) in order to occlude the primary opening (314); and a fluid flow position in which the plunger (304) is maintained in the fluid flow position by an external force 10 and a force caused by a pressure differential across the valve assembly (300).
Inventor: Ian Darby (Leicestershire, Great Britain)
Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Removable Double Child Seat
Patent No. 12214820
Strollers, wagons and other child carrying devices will typically comprise one or more child seats for transporting a child or children. Each child seat may comprise a child restraint harness system to retain the child safely in the child seat for transporting. Most child seat may accommodate only one child but may have sufficient space to accommodate two children but are not equipped with enough seat belts or other proper restraints. A removable double child seat may be removably attached to the single child seat to convert the single child seat into a double child seat with an appropriate harness system to retain both children safely.
Inventor: Mark Zehfuss (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Dynamic Motion (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Melamine-based Compounds For Lubricating Compositions
Patent No. 12215293
Melamine-based compounds suitable, in one embodiment, as a corrosion inhibitor for lubricating compositions and, in particular, a corrosion inhibitor for transmission fluids (manual, automatic, dual-clutch, or electric), axle fluids, differential fluids, tractor fluids, industrial gear fluids, and/or lubricating fluids for other gear-type applications. The melamine-based compounds are in the form of oil-soluble hydrocarbyl-substituted melamine derivatives comprising the reaction product of a hydrocarbyl-substituted succinic anhydride reacted with melamine at conditions effective to form a hydrocarbyl-substituted melamine polycarboxylic acid or anhydride compound.
Inventors: Sheng Jiang (Glen Allen, Va.); Kearsley Dillon (Richmond)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Authentication Based On Detection Of User-specific Authentication Input Errors
Patent No. 12218984
In some embodiments, a computing system may monitor authentication input and modify authentication requirements based on detection of user-specific input errors. The computing system may use machine learning or other techniques to detect whether an incorrect authentication input corresponds to a common input mistake of a user. If the incorrect authentication input does correspond to a common input mistake of the user, a computing system may modify one or more authentication requirements to make the authentication process easier for the user.
Inventors: Matthew Louis Nowak (Midlothian, Va.); Michael Anthony Young Jr. (Henrico,Va.); Christopher McDaniel (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 4, 2025
Method Of Making E-vaping Device With Insert
Patent No. 12213518
The method including providing a filler material that is water insoluble, the providing provides the filler material with more than 98% alpha-cellulose, 0.01% to less than 2% ash and a remainder hemicellulose, infusing at least one first consumable within the filler material and inserting a matrix within at least one first containing structure to form an insert, the matrix including the filler material.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Richmond); Danielle Crasford (Richmond); Dwight David Williams (Powhatan, Va.); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Terry Bache (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Shaoyong Yu (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Systems And Methods For Successively Executing An Operation Over Multiple Communication Networks
Patent No. 12218930
Systems and methods for successively executing an operation over multiple communication networks. In some aspects, the system obtains first access information received from a physical token and generates an operation related to an aggregated virtual container. The system determines a first communication network from the first access information and transmits, via the first communication network, the operation associated with the aggregated virtual container. If the operation was not transmitted successfully via the first communication network, the system obtains second access information received from the physical token, determines a second communication network from the second access information, and transmits, via the second communication network, the operation associated with the aggregated virtual container. If the operation was transmitted successfully via the second communication network, the system generates for display a notification that the operation has been executed.
Inventors: Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Jackson Macomber (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 4, 2025
Compounds As NLRP3 Inflammasome Inhibitors And Compositions And Uses Thereof
Patent No. 12221406
Scaffold compounds are used to design small molecule compounds and structure-activity relationship studies identify inhibitors of inflammation. Methods include pharmaceutical compositions of the small molecule compounds to inhibit, prevent and treat diseases and conditions associated with inflammation, including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, acute myocardial infarction, traumatic brain injury and autoinflammatory diseases.
Inventor: Shijun Zhang (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
Feb. 11, 2025
Transaction Exchange Platform With Watchdog Microservice
Patent No. 12223508
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); Jordan May (Richmond); William Planck (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 11, 2025
Methods Of Treating Water With Powder Activated Carbon To Reduce Organic Matter Content
Patent No. 12221367
Methods are described that reduce the amount of organic matter in water, including reducing an amount of total organic carbon in water. The method includes adding powder activated carbon to the water; mixing the powder activated carbon in the water; and separating the powder activated carbon from the water. Also described are a method for reducing glycol content in water containing glycols, and a method for reducing glycol content in a steel mill wastewater stream containing glycols.
Inventors: Douglas A. Godwin (Fairhope, Ala.); Alan J. Feller (Macy, Ind.)
Assignee: Chemtreat (Glen Allen, Va.)
Feb. 11, 2025
Software Change Analysis And Automated Remediation
Patent No. 12223314
In some implementations, a system may receive dependency indicators associated with a plurality of cloud-based applications and receive change indicators associated with changes to one or more first applications of the plurality of cloud-based applications. The system may receive an indicator associated with an incident ticket based on a problem with a second application of the plurality of cloud-based applications. The device may determine at least one of the change indicators associated with the incident ticket based on dependencies between the one or more first applications and the second application and based on a difference between a time associated with the incident ticket and a time associated with the at least one of the change indicators. The system may, based on determining the at least one of the change indicators, transmit a command to rollback at least one of the changes or to rollforward at least one change.
Inventors: Krystan R. Franzen (Mechanicsville, Va.); Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 11, 2025
Aerosol-generating Device With Integral Heater Assembly
Patent No. 12214123
An electrically heated aerosol-generating device is configured for use with a consumable cartridge including a storage portion containing an aerosol-forming substrate and having a fluid permeable internal surface surrounding an open-ended passage extending through the cartridge. The device includes a housing having a cavity for receiving the cartridge and a heater assembly positioned in the cavity. The heater assembly includes an electrically conductive hollow shaft portion connected to the housing and an electric heater positioned along the hollow shaft portion and having at least one heating element for heating the aerosol-forming substrate. The hollow shaft portion defines an airflow passage forming part of an airflow pathway through the device and is arranged to extend into the open-ended passage of the cartridge. The hollow shaft portion comprises a plurality of apertures, and the heating element is one or more narrow regions of the hollow shaft portion between adjacent apertures.
Inventors: Rui Nuna Batista (Morges, Switzerland); Laurent Manca (Sullens, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Synced Audio Signals Between A Device And ATM
Patent No. 12219426
A user can submit a request to a server associated with an ATM. The request can be submitted from a device (or portable device) of the user. The server can evaluate the request and designate which ATM or ATMs are best suited to process the request. This determination can be based on availability of resources on the ATM. Subsequently, the server can transmit a communication to the device of the user and the designated ATM. The communication can cause both the device and the ATM to emit a sound or display a visual cue to guide the user to approach the designated ATM. The device and the ATM can emit various patterns of sound to better guide the user to approach the designated ATM.
Inventors: Janak Dadhaniya (San Francisco, Calif.); Steve Faletti (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Dave Wurmfeld (Falls Church, Va.); Robert Smith (Richmond); Lisa Whitsitt (Millbrae, Calif.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 4, 2025
Subwavelength Antennas, Drivers, And Systems
Patent No. 12217890
Embodiments generally relate to subwavelength antennas and, more particularly, extreme subwavelength antennas with high radiation efficiency. One embodiment and its derivatives achieve the objective of an extreme subwavelength dual acoustic and electromagnetic antenna by using spin-orbit torque in an array of nanomagnets.
Inventors: Supriyo Bandyopadhyay (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Valve Assembly
Patent No. 12215792
valve assembly (300) comprising a valve body (302) and a mono-material plunger (304). The valve body (302 has a primary opening (314) and a secondary opening (315) that are axially spaced apart. The plunger (304) comprises a primary seal 5 portion (316) and a secondary seal portion (317). The plunger (304) comprises the following operational positions with respect to the valve body: a transit seal position in which the primary seal portion (316) of the plunger (304) is in contact with the valve body (302) in order to occlude the primary opening (314); and a fluid flow position in which the plunger (304) is maintained in the fluid flow position by an external force 10 and a force caused by a pressure differential across the valve assembly (300).
Inventor: Ian Darby (Leicestershire, Great Britain)
Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Removable Double Child Seat
Patent No. 12214820
Strollers, wagons and other child carrying devices will typically comprise one or more child seats for transporting a child or children. Each child seat may comprise a child restraint harness system to retain the child safely in the child seat for transporting. Most child seat may accommodate only one child but may have sufficient space to accommodate two children but are not equipped with enough seat belts or other proper restraints. A removable double child seat may be removably attached to the single child seat to convert the single child seat into a double child seat with an appropriate harness system to retain both children safely.
Inventor: Mark Zehfuss (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Dynamic Motion (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Melamine-based Compounds For Lubricating Compositions
Patent No. 12215293
Melamine-based compounds suitable, in one embodiment, as a corrosion inhibitor for lubricating compositions and, in particular, a corrosion inhibitor for transmission fluids (manual, automatic, dual-clutch, or electric), axle fluids, differential fluids, tractor fluids, industrial gear fluids, and/or lubricating fluids for other gear-type applications. The melamine-based compounds are in the form of oil-soluble hydrocarbyl-substituted melamine derivatives comprising the reaction product of a hydrocarbyl-substituted succinic anhydride reacted with melamine at conditions effective to form a hydrocarbyl-substituted melamine polycarboxylic acid or anhydride compound.
Inventors: Sheng Jiang (Glen Allen, Va.); Kearsley Dillon (Richmond)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Authentication Based On Detection Of User-specific Authentication Input Errors
Patent No. 12218984
In some embodiments, a computing system may monitor authentication input and modify authentication requirements based on detection of user-specific input errors. The computing system may use machine learning or other techniques to detect whether an incorrect authentication input corresponds to a common input mistake of a user. If the incorrect authentication input does correspond to a common input mistake of the user, a computing system may modify one or more authentication requirements to make the authentication process easier for the user.
Inventors: Matthew Louis Nowak (Midlothian, Va.); Michael Anthony Young Jr. (Henrico,Va.); Christopher McDaniel (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 4, 2025
Method Of Making E-vaping Device With Insert
Patent No. 12213518
The method including providing a filler material that is water insoluble, the providing provides the filler material with more than 98% alpha-cellulose, 0.01% to less than 2% ash and a remainder hemicellulose, infusing at least one first consumable within the filler material and inserting a matrix within at least one first containing structure to form an insert, the matrix including the filler material.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Richmond); Danielle Crasford (Richmond); Dwight David Williams (Powhatan, Va.); Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.); Terry Bache (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Shaoyong Yu (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 4, 2025
Systems And Methods For Successively Executing An Operation Over Multiple Communication Networks
Patent No. 12218930
Systems and methods for successively executing an operation over multiple communication networks. In some aspects, the system obtains first access information received from a physical token and generates an operation related to an aggregated virtual container. The system determines a first communication network from the first access information and transmits, via the first communication network, the operation associated with the aggregated virtual container. If the operation was not transmitted successfully via the first communication network, the system obtains second access information received from the physical token, determines a second communication network from the second access information, and transmits, via the second communication network, the operation associated with the aggregated virtual container. If the operation was transmitted successfully via the second communication network, the system generates for display a notification that the operation has been executed.
Inventors: Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Jackson Macomber (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 4, 2025
Compounds As NLRP3 Inflammasome Inhibitors And Compositions And Uses Thereof
Patent No. 12221406
Scaffold compounds are used to design small molecule compounds and structure-activity relationship studies identify inhibitors of inflammation. Methods include pharmaceutical compositions of the small molecule compounds to inhibit, prevent and treat diseases and conditions associated with inflammation, including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, acute myocardial infarction, traumatic brain injury and autoinflammatory diseases.
Inventor: Shijun Zhang (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
Feb. 11, 2025
Transaction Exchange Platform With Watchdog Microservice
Patent No. 12223508
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); Jordan May (Richmond); William Planck (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 11, 2025
Methods Of Treating Water With Powder Activated Carbon To Reduce Organic Matter Content
Patent No. 12221367
Methods are described that reduce the amount of organic matter in water, including reducing an amount of total organic carbon in water. The method includes adding powder activated carbon to the water; mixing the powder activated carbon in the water; and separating the powder activated carbon from the water. Also described are a method for reducing glycol content in water containing glycols, and a method for reducing glycol content in a steel mill wastewater stream containing glycols.
Inventors: Douglas A. Godwin (Fairhope, Ala.); Alan J. Feller (Macy, Ind.)
Assignee: Chemtreat (Glen Allen, Va.)
Feb. 11, 2025
Software Change Analysis And Automated Remediation
Patent No. 12223314
In some implementations, a system may receive dependency indicators associated with a plurality of cloud-based applications and receive change indicators associated with changes to one or more first applications of the plurality of cloud-based applications. The system may receive an indicator associated with an incident ticket based on a problem with a second application of the plurality of cloud-based applications. The device may determine at least one of the change indicators associated with the incident ticket based on dependencies between the one or more first applications and the second application and based on a difference between a time associated with the incident ticket and a time associated with the at least one of the change indicators. The system may, based on determining the at least one of the change indicators, transmit a command to rollback at least one of the changes or to rollforward at least one change.
Inventors: Krystan R. Franzen (Mechanicsville, Va.); Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 11, 2025