The R&D Dept.: Local patent roundup for 2.26.25

Insulation Panel
Patent No. 12226982
An insulation panel has an insulation core layer disposed that includes at least a first particulate and a second particulate of a plurality of discrete puffed polysaccharide particulates that defines a plurality of voids within the core layer. The first particulate is at least partially adhered to at least the second particulate at one or more bonded areas without the use of external non-water-soluble adhesives.
Inventors: Charles-Alexandre Vincent (St. Bruno de Montarville, Canada); James McGoff (Silver Spring, Md.)
Assignee: TemperPack Technologies (Richmond)
Feb. 18, 2025

Folded Heater For Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12232224
A folded heater of an electronic vaping device includes a first plurality of U-shaped segments arranged in a first direction and defining a first side of the heater and a second plurality of U-shaped segments arranged in the first direction and defining a second side of the heater. The second side is substantially parallel to the first side. The heater also includes a first lead portion and a second lead portion. The first plurality of U-shaped segments, the second plurality of U-shaped segments, the first lead portion, and the second lead portion are a single integral member.
Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); Charles L. Dendy (Ruther Glen, Va.); William J. Crowe (Richmond); Christopher Ryan Newcomb (Powhatan, Va.); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond); Isaac Weigensberg (Richmond); Davd Rubli (Revava, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 18, 2025

Compositions Comprising 5-cholesten-3, 25-diol, 3-sulfate (25HC3S) Or Pharmaceutically Acceptable Salt Thereof And At Least One Cyclic Oligosaccharide
Patent No. 12226423
Compositions comprising 5-cholesten-3, 25-diol, 3-sulfate (25HC3S) or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and at least one cyclic oligosaccharide, e.g., a cyclodextrin (CD), are provided. The compositions may be used to prevent and/or treat a variety of diseases and conditions, including organ failure (e.g. acute liver failure), high cholesterol/high lipids, and various inflammatory diseases and conditions.
Inventors: Shunlin Ren (Richmond); Leyuan Xu (Richmond); Yanxia Ning (Richmond); Jin Koung Kim (Richmond); WeiQi Lin (Emerald Hills, Calif.); Andrew R. Miksztal (Palo Alto, Calif.); Hongwei Wu (Cupertino, Calif.); Min L. Lee (Saratoga, Calif.)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond); Durect Corp. (Cupertino, Calif.); the United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, D.C.)
Feb. 18, 2025

Durable Magnet Wires And Lubricating Fluids For Electric And Hybrid Vehicle Applications
Patent No. 12227716
The present disclosure relates to a driveline for an electric or hybrid-electric vehicle including an electric motor with an insulated magnet wire and a lubricating and cooling fluid configured to maintain the durability of the magnet wire.
Inventors: Piotr Grzyska (Mechanicsville, Va.); Yungwan Kwak (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
Feb. 18, 2025

Private Cloud Infrastructure Stitching Process And Orchestration
Patent No. 12231466
Provided is a system for orchestration of a mainframe computing environment. The system may include a mainframe. The system may include components such as a computer processor, a controller, a computing layer, a storage layer, and a network layer. The computer processor may run on the mainframe. The computer processor may utilize an application programming interface (API) to stitch the mainframe with the computing layer, the storage layer, and the network layer. An infrastructure as code (IaC) format may stitch together the components of the system. The computer processor may use the controller to utilize the IaC format to orchestrate the mainframe computing environment. The computer processor may optimize the utilization of the mainframe computing environment.
Inventors: Gilbert Gatchalian (Union, N.J.); Brian Christman (Richardson, Texas); Kamal D. Sharma (Mason, Ohio); Karthik A. Rajagopalan (Richmond); Kevin A. Delson (Woodland Hills, Calif.); Yassine Touahri (Charlotte, N.C.); Amer Ali (Jersey City, N.J.); Robert R. Rosseland (Charlotte, N.C.)
Assignee: Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.)
Feb. 18, 2025

Internet Protocol (IP) Whitelisting For Signed Uniform Resource Locators (URLS)
Patent No. 12231431
Systems as described herein may implement IP address whitelisting for signed Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). A computing device may receive, from a first user device, a first request to access a resource. The computing device may determine a first identifier of the first user device. After an authentication of the first user device, the computing device may generate a pre-signed URL indicating a location of the resource. The computing device may generate a signed URL by prefixing the pre-signed URL with the first identifier of the first user device. The computing device may receive a second request to access the resource. Based on comparing a second identifier corresponding to the second request with the first identifier in the signed URL, the computing device may grant or deny the second request access to the resource.
Inventors: Hari Hara Sudhan Gnanaprakasam (Glen Allen, Va.); Kimberly Russo (Riverton, Utah); Sharath Kumar Sheshadri (Livermore, Calif.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 18, 2025

Systems And Methods For Location-based Applications For Vehicles
Patent No. 12229745
Methods and systems for location-based triggering of an electrically switchable glass of a vehicle for use in interactive applications. In some aspects, a system may be used to initiate an interactive application at the vehicle via electrically switchable glass of the vehicle. The system determines that the vehicle is at a location configured for an interactive application, and based on the location of the vehicle, triggers opacity of a portion of the electrically switchable glass. The system determines, based on a position and orientation of the electrically switchable glass, an image projector device having an angle of projection closest to perpendicular to a plane of the electrically switchable glass. The system may calibrate parameters of the image projector device and generate an image for projection using data corresponding to the interactive application. The system projects the first image onto the electrically switchable glass using the image projector device.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Mehulkumar Jayantilal Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 18, 2025

Platform And Source Agnostic Data Processing For Structured And Unstructured Data Sources
Patent No. 12229584
Data queries that are agnostic to any particular data source may include a data source alias. The data source alias may be replaced with a data source identifier to obtain a data query configured for a target data source. Data processing jobs may be agnostic to any particular data processing platform. A data processing job may include a data processing task that is agnostic to any particular data processing platform. A code library may provide platform-specific code configured to implement a data processing task on a data processing platform. A data query configured for a particular data source and a data processing task configured for a particular data processing platform may be used to create a data processing job. Configurations that restrict execution of a data processing job to execution via an interactive development environment may be removed to allow its execution directly at the data processing platform itself.
Inventors: Timothy Haggerty (Henrico, Va.); Yuting Zhou (Reston, Va.); Venu Kumar Nannapaneni (Glen Allen, Va.); Pravin Nair (Addison, Texas); Hussein Ali Khalif Samao (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 18, 2025

Computer-based Systems Configured For Automatically Generating Fictitious Call Session Interaction Parameter(s) And Methods Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 12231597
A computer-implemented method comprising: instructing a computing device to obtain a permission from the user to monitor a plurality of activities executed within the computing device; receiving a call session request from a computing device associated with a second user; utilizing a trained machine learning algorithm to confirm an identity of the user based on the call session interaction parameter to confirm the call interaction session as a verified call interaction session; generating a fictitious call session interaction parameter that differs from the at least one call session interaction parameter; modifying the call session request into a verified call session request by replacing the call session interaction parameter with the fictitious call session interaction parameter; utilizing a telecommunication network to transmit the verified call session request with the at least one fictitious session interaction parameter to the first calling-enabled computing device; automatically instructing the first calling-enabled computing device to modify a call session notification GUI to display notification data.
Inventors: Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.); Shabnam Kousha (Melville, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 18, 2025

Key Broker For A Network Monitoring Device, And Applications Thereof
Patent No. 12231545
A key broker monitors network traffic metadata and determines which decryption keys are required at one or more packet brokers in order to decrypt relevant traffic required by various network monitoring devices. The key broker retrieves the required keys from a secure keystore distributes them, as needed, to the network packet brokers, and dynamically updates the decryption keys stored in the network packet brokers in response to changes in network traffic.
Inventors: John Watson (Falls Church, Va.); Christopher Roosenraad (Vienna, Va.); Peter P. Kofira (Powhatan, Va.); Travis Scheponik (Midlothian, Va.); Aaron Eppert (Lawrenceburg, Ind.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 18, 2025

Computing Devices Configured For Location-aware Caller Identification And Methods/systems Of Use Thereof
Patent No. 12231599
Systems and methods of location-aware caller identification via machine learning techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may include: utilizing a trained call annotation machine learning model to determine one or both of an annotating condition and annotating location granularity, and associate one location of a user with one phone number of the user based at least on one or both of the annotating condition and the annotating location granularity; receiving second transactional information of one transaction associated with a first user; extracting second location information from the second transactional information of the one transaction; utilizing the trained call annotation machine learning model to automatically annotate one phone number record of one phone number of the first user, with the second location information at the annotating location granularity to form at least one user-specific location-specific annotated phone number record.
Inventors: Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.); Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia, Penn.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Shabnam Kousha (Washington, D.C.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 18, 2025

Thermoformable Copolyester Laminate
Patent No. 12234078
A laminate includes the following substantially coextensive layers in the following order: (a) a non-sealable, self-supporting, thermoformable copolyester film layer having a first surface and a second surface, the second surface constituting an outermost, exposed surface of the laminate; (b) a laminating adhesive layer on the first surface of the thermoformable copolyester film layer; and (c) a self-supporting, thermoformable structural film layer having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface contacting the laminating adhesive layer.
Inventors: Fenghua Deng (Richmond); Peter N. Nugara (Richmond); Stephen K. Franzyshen (Richmond); Reps M. Haskins (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Mylar Specialty Films U.S. LP (Chester, Va.)
Feb. 25, 2025

Systems And Method For Stabilizer Control
Patent No. 12235668
A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for controlling an electric power system, including implementation of a voltage control and conservation (VCC) system used to optimally control the independent voltage and capacitor banks using a linear optimization methodology to minimize the losses in the EEDCS and the EUS. An energy validation process system (EVP) is provided which is used to document the savings of the VCC and an EPP is used to optimize improvements to the EEDCS for continuously improving the energy losses in the EEDS. The EVP system measures the improvement in the EEDS a result of operating the VCC system in the “ON” state determining the level of energy conservation achieved by the VCC system. In addition the VCC system monitors pattern recognition events and compares them to the report-by-exception data to detect HVL events. If one is detected the VCC optimizes the capacity of the EEDS to respond to the HVL events by centering the piecewise linear solution maximizing the ability of the EDDS to absorb the HVL event. The VCC stabilizer function integrates voltage data from AMI meters and assess the state of the grid and initiates appropriate voltage control actions to hedge against predictable voltage risks.
Inventors: Stephen J. Tyler (Henrico, Va.); Phillip W. Powell (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Dominion Energy (Richmond)
Feb. 25, 2025

Optimization Of Virtual Warehouse Computing Resource Allocation
Patent No. 12236278
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for optimizing the configuration of virtual warehouses for execution of queries on one or more data warehouses are described herein. A plurality of different events associated with a data sharing platform may be logged. The data sharing platform may enable users to access one or more databases managed by the data sharing platform. The data sharing platform may be configured to provide access to the data stored by the data sharing platform via one or more of a plurality of virtual warehouses. A testing database may be generated. An optimized virtual warehouse configuration may be predicted for a first virtual warehouse by selecting a plurality of different warehouse configurations for the first virtual warehouse, measuring performance parameters of each of the plurality of different warehouse configurations by emulating, and selecting the optimized virtual warehouse configuration based on the performance parameters.
Inventors: Syed Shamaz Salim (Potomac, Md.); Ganesh Bharathan (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 25, 2025

Preventing Double Actions In A Single-click Environment
Patent No. 12235920
In some implementations, a web instance may receive an indication of an event associated with a uniform resource locator (URL) that includes a slug. The web instance may determine, using an indicator encoded in the slug, that the URL is associated with an action that is included in a concurrency control group. The web instance may communicate with a remote database to determine whether the concurrency control group is locked. The web instance may selectively trigger execution of the action based on whether the concurrency control group is locked.
Inventors: Parag Jain (Falls Church, Va.); Michael Pruitt (Henrico, Va.); Benjamin Lee Wolferman (Oakton, Va.); Mohideen Peer (Union City, Calif.); Paul Bradley Robb (Cartersville, Va.); Kevin Yafuso (Sterling, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 25, 2025

Embolic Protection System
Patent No. 12232948
Configurations are described for assisting execution of a percutaneous procedure while protecting the vascular pathway to the target treatment area. One example is directed to an embolic protection system for deploying a device to a distal location across a diseased vessel, the embolic protection system which may include an expandable introducer, an embolic protection device, and a loading sleeve.
Inventors: Christopher K. Huynh (San Jose, Calif.); Michael T. Carley (San Jose, Calif.); Richard S. Ginn (Powhatan, Va.); Adam Robert Tanner (Sun Lakes, Ariz.)
Assignee: Transaorti Medical (Morgan Hill, Calif.)
Feb. 25, 2025

Cloud Service-based Secured Data Workflow Integration And Methods Thereof
Patent No. 12238109
The present disclosure includes systems and methods enabling secure workflows by receiving an electronic event authentication message from an initiator device, where the electronic event authentication message comprises a user profile identifier, and an entity identifier. A first device-specific actions-sequence token is generated for an actions-sequence session to execute a device-specific instance of at least one automated processing actions-sequence. A workflow request message is received from the initiator device that includes the user profile identifier and the entity identifier, and a second device-specific actions-sequence token is generated. Where the first and second device-specific actions-sequence tokens match, the actions-sequence session is executed and a criterion update in response to the actions-sequence session is produced. The criterion update may then be transmitted to the initiator device.
Inventors: Niharendu Chandra (Glen Allen, Va.); Luke Adams (Doswell, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 25, 2025

System For Automatically Processing Documents
Patent No. 12236700
A computer implemented method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable device that may be used in a remote deposit environment. A plurality of differing neural networks, such as customizable neural networks, are selected, based on an architecture and features of the data field, to extract data from specific data fields on a document. The selected customizable neural networks are trained by historical or synthetic data corresponding to the data fields. Upon receiving, from a neural network Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system, a selected first trained customizable neural network model and at least a second selected trained customizable neural network model, the data fields are extracted, based on a series or parallel configuration of the customizable neural networks, and the extracted data communicated to a remote deposit process.
Inventors: Thomas Oliver Cantrell (Maidens, Va.); Joseph James Ford III (Manakin Sabot, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 25, 2025

Device And Method For Electroporation Based Treatment
Patent No. 12232792
The present invention relates to medical devices and methods for treating a lesion such as a vascular stenosis using non-thermal irreversible electroporation (NTIRE). Embodiments of the present invention provide a balloon catheter type NTIRE device for treating a target lesion comprising a plurality of electrodes positioned along the balloon that are electrically independent from each other so as to be individually selectable in order to more precisely treat an asymmetrical lesion in which the lesion extends only partially around the vessel.
Inventors: Robert E. Neal (Richmond); Paulo A. Garcia (Somerville, Mass.); Rafael V. Davalos (Aptos, Calif.); Peter Callas (Castro Valley, Calif.)
Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties (Blacksburg, Va.)
Feb. 25, 2025

Systems And Methods For Choosing An Appropriate Scaling Technique For Allocating Computational Resources To Distributed Applications
Patent No. 12236282
A system including: one or more processors; a memory storing computer program code that controls the one or more processors to: receive usage metrics associated with a first application; determine whether the first application comprises a cyclic usage pattern, a batch usage pattern, or a non-cyclic usage pattern; select a scaling technique based on the determination; and automatically scale the first application with the selected scaling technique. The system may determine that at least one virtual machine should be added to a first plurality of virtual machines in response to a resource usage of an application exceeding a maximum usage allocation and determine that at least one virtual machine should be removed to the first plurality of virtual machines in response to a minimum usage allocation exceeding the resource usage of the first plurality of virtual machine instances.
Inventors: Manideep Kantamneni (Glen Allen, Va.); Tariq Bhatti (Richmond); Jayasri Chadalavada (Vienna, Va.); Shantanu Mantri (Marietta, Ga.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Feb. 25, 2025

Compositions And Methods For Producing Tobacco Plants And Products Having Altered Alkaloid Levels
Patent No. 12234469
The present disclosure provides tobacco having genetic modification(s) in a group of ERF genes. Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants. Further provided are compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants having novel mutations or alleles to reduce nicotine levels. Further provided are sequence polymorphisms and molecular markers for breeding tobacco with reduced nicotine or alkaloids while maintaining tobacco leaf grade and tobacco product quality.
Inventors: Sreepriya Pramod (Fredericksburg, Va.); Marcos Fernando Lusso de Godoy (Chesterfield, Va.); Jesse Frederick (Richmond); Andrew Adams (Midlothian, Va.); Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Feb. 25, 2025

System And Method For Remote Asset Tagging And Management
Patent No. 12236698
A system and method for asset registration and tagging includes determining candidate devices on a network or subnet. Device information is pulled from discovered devices. Device records are stored with device information including device serial number, model number, asset ID and service record information. A QR code is generated and displayed or printed at each discovered device. A device user scans the QR code to supply location information, as well as other user input, which is added to the device information. A device is then registered and an asset tag is printed at the device with instructions to affix it on an exterior for future reference.
Inventors: Matthew Bull (Canandaigua, N.Y.); Kevin Peters (Eagan, Minn.); Catherine Barczak (Rochester, N.Y.); Scott Robinson (Richmond)
Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, Japan)
Feb. 25, 2025

Adaptive Utensil Holder
Patent No. 12233527
An adaptive holder is used to provide those lacking fine hand motor control skills and limited arm and shoulder range of motion with the ability to conveniently extend and orient utensils such as forks and spoons. Used with a universal adapter cuff, the holder includes a slotted head which receives the utensil handle. A gripping portion, attached to the head, is received by the cuff. The utensil may be angularly oriented relative to the head and is secured thereto by a frictional interference fit.
Inventors: Brian Burkhardt (Richmond); Seth Hills (Richmond); John Miller (Richmond); Melissa Oliver (Richmond)
Assignee: The United States Government as Represented By The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washingon, D.C.)
Feb. 25, 2025