Low Viscosity Lubricating Fluid For An Electric Motor System
Patent No. 12043817
An electric motor lubricating fluid for an electric motor system including a lubricating base oil, at least one sulfurized component, at least two phosphorus-providing additives, and at least one high molecular weight dispersant. The electric motor lubricating fluid provides acceptable wear performance as well as good electrical conductivity and oxidative stability for use in electric motor system fluids having a low viscosity.
Inventor: Susie Hurley (London, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Dry-fire Bypass For A Fastening Tool
Patent No. 12042914
A fastening tool includes a contact trip operatively associated with a contact trip switch to enable a fastener drive system to be fired when the contact trip reaches a firing position, after having engaged a work surface. If a dry-fire condition exists in a magazine connected to the fastening tool, the movement of the contact trip is completely taken up or absorbed by a biasing agent so that the contact trip switch is not closed. The biasing agent also limits the amount of force that can be applied to the contact trip switch in the event an operator slams the contact trip against a work surface or drops the fastening tool nose-first onto an unyielding surface.
Inventors: Erin Elizabeth Jaskot (Richmond); Michael P. Baron (Phoenix, Md.); Stuart E. Garber (Towson, Md.)
Assignee: Black & Decker (New Britain, Conn.)
July 23, 2024
Method Of Forming Pouch With Oxygen Scavenging Elements
Patent No. 12043468
The method includes infusing oxygen scavenging elements within at least a portion of an interior surface layer of at least one first polymer layer of a pouch material, the pouch material including a gas impermeable layer connected to the at least one first polymer layer, enclosing a consumable item within the pouch material, and joining ends of the pouch material to form a sealed inner cavity, the sealed inner cavity containing the consumable item.
Inventors: Scott A. Fath (Henrico, Va.); Robert T. Mitten (Glen Allen, Va.); Jason A. Macko (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Systems And Methods For Monitoring Data Quality Issues In Non-native Data Over Disparate Computer Networks
Patent No. 12045213
A method or system for monitoring data quality issues in non-native data over disparate computer networks is described. The system may monitor incoming data entries of non-native data over a disparate computer network. The system may generate for display, on a user interface, a recommendation based on a difference between a number of the first plurality of data entries and a dynamic threshold.
Inventors: Lokesh S. Tulshan (Bangalore, India); Kukumina Pradhan (Bangalore, India); Akhil Jain (Richmond); Mohammad Nayaz Arshad (Richmond); Yatindra Nath (Bangalore, India)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Quaternary Ammonium Salt Combinations For Injector Cleanliness
Patent No. 12043808
The present disclosure provides fuel additives including quaternary ammonium salt mixtures, fuel compositions including such additives, and methods of improving performance of fuel injector using such additives.
Inventor: Scott D. Schwab (Richmond)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Tobacco-free Pouched Product Containing Flavor Beads Providing Immediate And Long Lasting Flavor Release
Patent No. 12041958
A tobacco-free oral pouch product providing immediate and long lasting flavor release comprises a pouch wrapper and tobacco-free flavor beads contained within the pouch wrapper. The flavor beads comprise at least one of microcrystalline cellulose, pectin and sodium alginate, at least one polymer having a higher solubility in saliva than microcrystalline cellulose, pectin and/or sodium alginate, and at least one flavorant. The pectin and sodium alginate are cross-linked. The tobacco-free flavor beads provide immediate release of the flavorant upon placement of a pouch product in a user’s mouth and long lasting release of the flavorant for about 15 minutes to about 80 minutes. The oral pouch product contains only tobacco-free flavor beads.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Va.); Biao Duan (Richmond); Daqing Wu (Suwanee, Ga.); William R. Sweeney (Richmond)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Hyaluronidase For The Prevention, Treatment, Reduction And/or Abolishment Of Cerebral Edema And Intracranial Pressure
Patent No. 12042528
The current invention is a method of treating, preventing, reducing and/or abolishing edema and/or intracranial pressure in a subject by the administration of hyaluronidase. The edema in the brain and intracranial pressure can be the result of a traumatic event, disease or condition including but not limited to a traumatic brain injury, a stroke, a brain tumor, and post-operative swelling.
Inventors: Barclay Morrison III (New York, N.Y.); Steve Kernie (Larchmont, N.Y.); Patricia Walker (Richmond)
Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, N.Y.)
July 23, 2024
Method And System For Authorizing Card Account Transactions By Geographic Region
Patent No. 12045829
A method and system for authorizing card account transactions by geographic region by providing data for a user interface displaying geographic regions and merchant locations each corresponding to the location of a merchant where a transaction using a card account may be initiated, receiving a user interface selection representing a request to authorize or restrict card account transactions, receiving authorization requests for desired transactions, and authorizing or restricting the transactions in accordance with the request.
Inventor: Michele D. Matthews (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Heater For Aerosol-generating Device With Connectors
Patent No. 12041969
The aerosol-generating device includes a housing, and a power supply configured to supply electrical power to a heating element by way of a transformer assembly within the housing. The transformer assembly includes a magnetic flux guide, a primary circuit including a primary winding extending around a first portion of the magnetic flux guide and electrically connected to the power supply, and a secondary circuit including a secondary winding inductively coupled to the primary winding and extending around a second portion of the magnetic flux guide. The number of turns in the primary winding is greater than the number of turns in the secondary winding. The secondary circuit includes at least two electrical contacts configured to form an electrical connection with the heating element.
Inventors: Jerome Christian Courbat (Colombier, Switzerland); Oleg Mironov (Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Hose Support Assembly
Patent No. 12044341
A hose support assembly for supporting a hose. The hose support assembly includes a series of panels that are connected together by links. The assembly is adjustable between an extended orientation to support the hose, and a folded orientation for storage when not in use. The panels are configured such that the assembly supports the hose at a decreasing height above the ground to facilitate drainage of fluids in the hose.
Inventors: Bruce Seymour Ferris (Richmond); Kristin Schmidt (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: ETN Capital (Sandord, N.C.)
July 23, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform With A Messenger Microservice To Update Transactions
Patent No. 12045833
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for pausing the processing of transactions during a workflow. Other aspects may provide for a messaging microservice that permits communications between the transaction exchange platform and external third-parties.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); Brian T. Burnett (Mechanicsville, Va.); David Smit (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Aerosol-generating System Comprising A Vibratable Element
Patent No. 12042809
An aerosol-generating system includes a liquid-storage portion including a housing configured to store a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The aerosol-generating system also includes a heater configured to heat liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a vibratable element including a plurality of passages through which the heated liquid aerosol-forming substrate passes to form an aerosol, and an actuator arranged to vibrate the vibratable element to generate the aerosol.
Inventors: Gerard Zuber (Froideville, Switzerland); Samuel Bonnely (Cormondre, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Generating An Application Programming Interface Request Using Sets Of Interaction Data
Patent No. 12045632
A computing system can receive, from a mobile application executing on a mobile device, at least one image that has been captured on the mobile device and corresponds to an interaction. The computing system can extract interaction data from each image. The computing system can transmit a notification to the mobile device indicating that the interaction data has been extracted from the images. The computing system can receive a request to transmit the plurality of interactions to an entity server for processing. The computing system can generate, based on the interaction data, an application programming interface request that is configured to cause the entity server to process the plurality of interactions. The computing system can transmit the application programming interface request to the entity server and receive a confirmation from the entity server that the plurality of interactions have been processed.
Inventors: Louis Allin (Richmond); Jonathan Topp (Montpelier, Va.); Omganesh Teerkaramsingh (Johns Creek, Ga.); Lenin Kumar Pagidipala (Altanta, Ga.)
Assignee: Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
July 23, 2024
Deployable Panel Or Rail With Reaction Surface
Patent No. 12043201
A support surface includes a support back, a housing defined within the support back, a restraint having a stowed position disposed within the housing, and a panel or a rail having a stowed position disposed within the housing. The support surface includes an anchor that couples an outer edge of the restraint to an outer edge of the panel or the rail. The panel or the rail is configured to guide the anchor and the restraint in traveling from the stowed positions to a deployed position spaced apart from the housing and the support back.
Inventors: Adam J. Golman (Glen Allen, Va.); Nathaniel J. Dennis (Saratoga, Calif.); Jesse T. Buehler (Portola Valley, Calif.); Jonathan O. Sive (San Carlos, Calif.); Donald R. Monroe (Los Gatos, Calif.); Mikael P. Sedlacek (Carmel Valley, Calif.); Arturo Llamazares Domper (San Jose, Calif.)
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif)
July 23, 2024
Target Peptides For Immunotherapy And Diagnostics
Patent No. 12042530
A set of target peptides are presented by HLA A*0101, A*0201, A*0301, B*4402, B*2705, B*1402, and B*0702 on the surface of disease cells. They are envisioned to among other things (a) stimulate an immune response to the proliferative disease, e.g., cancer, (b) to function as immunotherapeutics in adoptive T cell therapy or as a vaccine, (c) facilitate antibody recognition of tumor boundaries in surgical pathology samples, (d) act as biomarkers for early detection and/or diagnosis of the disease, and (e) act as targets in the generation antibody-like molecules which recognize the target-peptide/MHC complex.
Inventors: Donald F. Hunt (Charlottesville, Va.); Jeffrey Shabanowitz (Charlottesville, Va.); Stacy Alyse Malaker (Menlo Park, Calif.); Victor H. Engelhard (Crozet, Va.); Angela I. Ambakhutwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Kara L. Cummings (Charlottesville, Va.); Rebecca C. Obeng (Charlottesville, Va.); Mark Cobbold (Winchester, Mass.)
Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.); The University of Birmingham (Birmingham, Great Britain)
July 23, 2024
Content Sharing With Spatial-region Specific Controls To Facilitate Individualized Presentations In A Multi-viewer Session
Patent No. 12045533
In some embodiments, a shared presentation, which includes a set of spatial regions, is transmitted to user devices associated with users. Then, based on a user input indicating a first spatial region of the shared presentation for a first user, first auxiliary data (e.g., auxiliary video stream of the shared presentation) that corresponds to the first spatial region is generated. Moreover, based on the user input indicating the first user, a first user device associated with the first user is caused to display the first spatial region at a first time without displaying one or more other spatial regions of the set of spatial regions at the first time. As an example, the first auxiliary data is transmitted to the first user device, which causes the first user device to display the first spatial region without displaying the other spatial regions.
Inventors: Jignesh Rangwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Mehulkumar Jayantilal Garmara (Glen Allen, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Browser Extension For Field Detection And Automatic Population And Submission
Patent No. 12045808
Methods and systems for providing browser extension are disclosed. In some embodiments, the browser extension system includes a communication device in communication with a computing device and a networked system. The browser extension system also includes a processor configured to perform operations comprising: maintaining data associated with the computing device; detecting, through a browser extension application running on the computing device, a field in a web page associated with the networked system and provided by a web browser application running on the computing device; and in response to detecting the field: (i) automatically populating the field, through the browser extension application, with a secure token mapped to the data, (ii) detecting, through the browser extension application, a submission script associated with the web page, and (iii) automatically executing the submission script to submit the secure token through the browser extension application to the networked system.
Inventors: Matthew de Ganon (Hartsdale, N.Y.); Thomas S. Poole (Chantilly, Va.); Paul Y. Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.); Dwij Trivedi (Oakton, Va.); Kunal Arora (Great Falls, Va.); Katherine H. McHugh (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Delegated Administration Of Permissions Using A Contactless Card
Patent No. 12045804
Delegated administration of permissions using a contactless card. In one example, a permissions module may receive a request from a first account to grant a second account access to a computing resource. The permissions module may receive permissions data of the first account from a contactless card and encrypted data generated by the contactless card. The permissions module may transmit the permissions data and the encrypted data to an authentication server, which may verify the encrypted data based at least in part on the private key, and determine, based on the permissions data, that the first account has permissions to grant access to the computing resource. The permissions module may receive, from the authentication server, an indication of the verification of the encrypted data and a permissions vector associated with the second account, the permissions vector reflecting the grant of access to the computing resource to the second account.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Walter A. Miller (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Food Processor With Cleaning Accessory Amd Methods Of Using Same
Patent No. 12042773
An apparatus and method of cleaning a food processor including providing a food processor base that includes a rotary power driver having a rotatable shaft. A bowl is mounted on the base. A food processing blade attached to the shaft within the bowl. A cleaning accessory is placed in the bowl above the food processing blade. A cleaning fluid is introduced into the bowl, and the food processing blade with the rotatable shaft agitate the cleaning fluid in conjunction with the cleaning accessory.
Inventor: Koen Aidan Ambrose (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Meat Grinder With Funneled Feed Chute
Patent No. 12042798
The present disclosure describes a meat grinder. The meat grinder includes a housing; a drive unit mounted in the housing, the drive unit including a motor; a screw conveyor including a barrel fixed relative to the housing, and an auger located within the barrel and operatively connected with the motor; a hollow feed chute having upper and lower ends, the lower end mounted on and configured to feed into the barrel; and a feed tray mounted on the upper end of the feed chute, the feed tray including an opening in communication with the upper end of the feed chute. The feed chute includes an inlet section of a first inner diameter that includes the upper end, a feed section of a second inner diameter that includes the lower end, the second diameter being less than the first diameter, and a funneled section between the inlet section and the feed section.
Inventors: Kevin L. Leppert (Lanexa, Va.); Ernest B. Pryor Jr. (Maidens, Va.); Michael G. Sandford (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform With Classification Microservice To Generate Alternative Workflows
Patent No. 12045242
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions in accordance with corresponding 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. Further, the microservices may leverage machine-learning models to determine whether transaction objects may be more effectively processed using alternative or secondary workflows. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows.
Inventors: Nishant Srivastava (Glen Allen, Va.); Joshua Condon (Maidens, Va.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Gaming Machines With Free Play Bonus Mode Presenting Only Winning Outcomes
Patent No. 12046107
A gaming machine includes a processor and a presentation device coupled to the processor. The processor is programmed to determine that a free play trigger condition is satisfied, and to execute one or more free plays based on the free play trigger condition to create one or more free play outcomes. Each free play outcome is a winning free play outcome or a non-winning free play outcome. The presentation device is configured to present winning free play outcomes when at least one free play outcome is a winning free play outcome. Non-winning free play outcomes are not presented.
Inventors: Mark Daniel Eubanks (Mechanicsville, Va.); Sarah Jean Gozdecki (Des Plaines, Ill.); Steve Nicodemus (Charlottesville, Va.): Richard Kerr Sisson (Charlottesville, Va.); Jeremy Michael Webb (Stanardsville, Va.)
Assignee: Video Gaming Technologies (Brentwood, Tenn.)
July 23, 2024
Compliance For Cloud-based Applications And Computer Systems Using Machine Learning
Patent No. 12052140
In some implementations, a compliance server may receive a set of data structures associated with one or more compliance activities. The compliance server may apply a machine learning model to the set of data structures in order to generate one or more automation estimates corresponding to the one or more compliance activities. The compliance server may output the one or more automation estimates to a user device. The compliance server may receive, from the user device, an indication of a selected compliance activity from the one or more compliance activities. The compliance server may generate an automation script for the selected compliance activity in response to the indication.
Inventors: Grant Michael Iwan (Montpelier, Va.); Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas); Shannon Reid (Richmond); Krystan R. Franzen (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 30, 2024
Systems And Methods For Providing Notifications To Devices
Patent No. 12051075
A system for providing notifications to client devices that includes one or more processors and one or more storage devices. The storage devices may store instructions that, when executed, configure the processors to perform operations. The operations include receiving a transaction notification from a third party; identifying a user account associated with the transaction notification; generating a push notification with a payload describing instructions to display a message and an interactive icon, and a resource identifier associated with the interactive icon, where the resource identifier includes a message ID encoding an interactive session and an action ID encoding a requested action. The operations also include transmitting the push notification to a client device associated with the user account; receiving a first indication indicating a user interaction with the interactive icon, the first indication having the resource identifier and updating the user account based on the action request.
Inventors: Maria-Andrea Gerling-Ospina (Charlottesville, Va.); Cara Jo Rawls (Midlothian, Va.); Troy Friedlander (Washington, D.C.); Naveed Khan (Bowie, Md.); Victor Raul Lopez Vargas (Washington, D.C.); Beth Shoup (Mechanicsville, Va.); Michael Keating (Washington, D.C.); Angelina Huynh (Reston, Va.); Erin Ruppert (Arlington, Va.); Lingyu Chu (Ashburn, Va.); DiAndrea Kessee (Hickory Creek, Texas); Nicole M. Weaver (Chesterfield, Va.); Jacob Vernon Theodore Yingling (Richmond); Joshua Meyer Wilbur (Potomac, Md.); Narayana Rao Pagolu (Plano, Texas); Merin J. Samuel (Frisco, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 30, 2024
System And Method For Implementing A Data Quality Framework And Engine
Patent No. 12050568
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a Metadata-Driven Data Quality Framework and Engine that enables dynamic generation of code for assessing data quality based on qualified metadata content. The Data Quality Framework may be directed to an enterprise scaled application that embodies Data Quality disciplines for good/optimal Data Governance. An embodiment of the present invention may be integrated into a Metadata Management process of an overall Data Governance Program so the data user’s meaning and understanding may become part of the automated data quality process.
Inventors: Christopher Corrigan (Chesterfield, Va.); Atul Saurav (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Genworth Holdings (Richmond)
July 30, 2024
Discriminative Model For Identifying And Demarcating Textual Features In Risk Control Documents
Patent No. 12051022
Embodiments disclosed are directed to a computing system that performs steps to automatically identify risk control features and entities in a risk control document. The computing system uses a generative machine learning (ML) model to transform a risk control document into sequences of words, classify risk control features associated with the sequences of words, and pair the sequences of words with the classified risk control features. The computing system then uses a natural language processing (NLP) model to identify syntactic characteristics of the sequences of words. Subsequently, the computing system uses a discriminative predictor system to correct the classified risk control features based on the identified syntactic characteristics, identify boundaries of the corrected classified risk control features, and pair the identified boundaries with the corrected classified risk control features.
Inventors: Peter Tanski (Marlborough, Mass.); Deny Daniel (Bedford, Mass.); Ranjith Zachariah (Waltham, Mass.); Vigi Soundar (Richmond); Paul Vest (Bumpass, Va.); Kevin Zhang (Braintree, Mass.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 30, 2024
Piercing Cap And Piercer
Patent No. 12049347
The present application relates to a system for dispensing fluid. The system includes a flexible container including a spout that is in fluid communication with an interior region of the container. The system includes a cap configured to be mounted to the spout. The cap includes an opening that leads to a membrane and a first retention mechanism located in the opening. The system includes a piercing tube having a first end configured to puncture the membrane and a second end configured to be connected to a dispensing tube. The piercing tube includes a seal bead and a second retention mechanism. The piercing tube is inserted into the opening of the cap such that the first end punctures the membrane, the first and second retention mechanisms engage each other to retain the piercing tube in the cap, and the seal bead sealingly engages the cap.
Inventors: Matthew Ruschmeier (Glencoe, Minn.); Loren L. Brelje (Glencoe, Minn.); Ronald E. Kieras (McHenry, Ill.)
Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)
July 30, 2024
Power Supply Section Configuration For An Electronic Vaping Device And Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12048807
A power supply section for an e-vaping device includes a sensor housed in a housing, a sensor holder holding the sensor, the sensor holder disposed in the housing to divide the housing into a first portion and a second portion, and the sensor and the sensor holder configured to substantially prevent air flow from the first portion into the second portion, and a power source disposed in the second portion. The construction of this unit insures that gases that may be produced by outgassing of the battery cell will be vented to the environment and that those gases will be isolated from the air that is mixed with the vaporized e-liquid and inhaled by the user.
Inventors: Shmuel Gavrielov (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Moshe Eliyahu (Beit Shemesh, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 30, 2024
Medium For Temporary Account Access
Patent No. 12050677
In some implementations, a physical medium may include a radio frequency (RF) component and an integrated circuit (IC) chip component. The physical medium may be configured to detect, via the RF component, that the physical medium is within a communicative proximity of a first user device or a first medium associated with a first account. The physical medium may communicate, via the RF component, with the first user device or the first medium based on detecting that the physical medium is within the communicative proximity of the first user device or the first medium. The physical medium may configure the IC chip component to indicate that the physical medium is paired with the first account. The physical medium may transmit, via the RF component or the IC chip component and to a terminal, an indication that the physical medium is paired with the first account.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.); Vindent Pham (Champaign, Ill.); Christopher Camenares (Falls Church, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 30, 2024
Low Viscosity Lubricating Fluid For An Electric Motor System
Patent No. 12043817
An electric motor lubricating fluid for an electric motor system including a lubricating base oil, at least one sulfurized component, at least two phosphorus-providing additives, and at least one high molecular weight dispersant. The electric motor lubricating fluid provides acceptable wear performance as well as good electrical conductivity and oxidative stability for use in electric motor system fluids having a low viscosity.
Inventor: Susie Hurley (London, Great Britain)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Dry-fire Bypass For A Fastening Tool
Patent No. 12042914
A fastening tool includes a contact trip operatively associated with a contact trip switch to enable a fastener drive system to be fired when the contact trip reaches a firing position, after having engaged a work surface. If a dry-fire condition exists in a magazine connected to the fastening tool, the movement of the contact trip is completely taken up or absorbed by a biasing agent so that the contact trip switch is not closed. The biasing agent also limits the amount of force that can be applied to the contact trip switch in the event an operator slams the contact trip against a work surface or drops the fastening tool nose-first onto an unyielding surface.
Inventors: Erin Elizabeth Jaskot (Richmond); Michael P. Baron (Phoenix, Md.); Stuart E. Garber (Towson, Md.)
Assignee: Black & Decker (New Britain, Conn.)
July 23, 2024
Method Of Forming Pouch With Oxygen Scavenging Elements
Patent No. 12043468
The method includes infusing oxygen scavenging elements within at least a portion of an interior surface layer of at least one first polymer layer of a pouch material, the pouch material including a gas impermeable layer connected to the at least one first polymer layer, enclosing a consumable item within the pouch material, and joining ends of the pouch material to form a sealed inner cavity, the sealed inner cavity containing the consumable item.
Inventors: Scott A. Fath (Henrico, Va.); Robert T. Mitten (Glen Allen, Va.); Jason A. Macko (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Systems And Methods For Monitoring Data Quality Issues In Non-native Data Over Disparate Computer Networks
Patent No. 12045213
A method or system for monitoring data quality issues in non-native data over disparate computer networks is described. The system may monitor incoming data entries of non-native data over a disparate computer network. The system may generate for display, on a user interface, a recommendation based on a difference between a number of the first plurality of data entries and a dynamic threshold.
Inventors: Lokesh S. Tulshan (Bangalore, India); Kukumina Pradhan (Bangalore, India); Akhil Jain (Richmond); Mohammad Nayaz Arshad (Richmond); Yatindra Nath (Bangalore, India)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Quaternary Ammonium Salt Combinations For Injector Cleanliness
Patent No. 12043808
The present disclosure provides fuel additives including quaternary ammonium salt mixtures, fuel compositions including such additives, and methods of improving performance of fuel injector using such additives.
Inventor: Scott D. Schwab (Richmond)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Tobacco-free Pouched Product Containing Flavor Beads Providing Immediate And Long Lasting Flavor Release
Patent No. 12041958
A tobacco-free oral pouch product providing immediate and long lasting flavor release comprises a pouch wrapper and tobacco-free flavor beads contained within the pouch wrapper. The flavor beads comprise at least one of microcrystalline cellulose, pectin and sodium alginate, at least one polymer having a higher solubility in saliva than microcrystalline cellulose, pectin and/or sodium alginate, and at least one flavorant. The pectin and sodium alginate are cross-linked. The tobacco-free flavor beads provide immediate release of the flavorant upon placement of a pouch product in a user’s mouth and long lasting release of the flavorant for about 15 minutes to about 80 minutes. The oral pouch product contains only tobacco-free flavor beads.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Va.); Biao Duan (Richmond); Daqing Wu (Suwanee, Ga.); William R. Sweeney (Richmond)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Hyaluronidase For The Prevention, Treatment, Reduction And/or Abolishment Of Cerebral Edema And Intracranial Pressure
Patent No. 12042528
The current invention is a method of treating, preventing, reducing and/or abolishing edema and/or intracranial pressure in a subject by the administration of hyaluronidase. The edema in the brain and intracranial pressure can be the result of a traumatic event, disease or condition including but not limited to a traumatic brain injury, a stroke, a brain tumor, and post-operative swelling.
Inventors: Barclay Morrison III (New York, N.Y.); Steve Kernie (Larchmont, N.Y.); Patricia Walker (Richmond)
Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, N.Y.)
July 23, 2024
Method And System For Authorizing Card Account Transactions By Geographic Region
Patent No. 12045829
A method and system for authorizing card account transactions by geographic region by providing data for a user interface displaying geographic regions and merchant locations each corresponding to the location of a merchant where a transaction using a card account may be initiated, receiving a user interface selection representing a request to authorize or restrict card account transactions, receiving authorization requests for desired transactions, and authorizing or restricting the transactions in accordance with the request.
Inventor: Michele D. Matthews (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Heater For Aerosol-generating Device With Connectors
Patent No. 12041969
The aerosol-generating device includes a housing, and a power supply configured to supply electrical power to a heating element by way of a transformer assembly within the housing. The transformer assembly includes a magnetic flux guide, a primary circuit including a primary winding extending around a first portion of the magnetic flux guide and electrically connected to the power supply, and a secondary circuit including a secondary winding inductively coupled to the primary winding and extending around a second portion of the magnetic flux guide. The number of turns in the primary winding is greater than the number of turns in the secondary winding. The secondary circuit includes at least two electrical contacts configured to form an electrical connection with the heating element.
Inventors: Jerome Christian Courbat (Colombier, Switzerland); Oleg Mironov (Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Hose Support Assembly
Patent No. 12044341
A hose support assembly for supporting a hose. The hose support assembly includes a series of panels that are connected together by links. The assembly is adjustable between an extended orientation to support the hose, and a folded orientation for storage when not in use. The panels are configured such that the assembly supports the hose at a decreasing height above the ground to facilitate drainage of fluids in the hose.
Inventors: Bruce Seymour Ferris (Richmond); Kristin Schmidt (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: ETN Capital (Sandord, N.C.)
July 23, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform With A Messenger Microservice To Update Transactions
Patent No. 12045833
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for pausing the processing of transactions during a workflow. Other aspects may provide for a messaging microservice that permits communications between the transaction exchange platform and external third-parties.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Midlothian, Va.); Brian T. Burnett (Mechanicsville, Va.); David Smit (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Aerosol-generating System Comprising A Vibratable Element
Patent No. 12042809
An aerosol-generating system includes a liquid-storage portion including a housing configured to store a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The aerosol-generating system also includes a heater configured to heat liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a vibratable element including a plurality of passages through which the heated liquid aerosol-forming substrate passes to form an aerosol, and an actuator arranged to vibrate the vibratable element to generate the aerosol.
Inventors: Gerard Zuber (Froideville, Switzerland); Samuel Bonnely (Cormondre, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 23, 2024
Generating An Application Programming Interface Request Using Sets Of Interaction Data
Patent No. 12045632
A computing system can receive, from a mobile application executing on a mobile device, at least one image that has been captured on the mobile device and corresponds to an interaction. The computing system can extract interaction data from each image. The computing system can transmit a notification to the mobile device indicating that the interaction data has been extracted from the images. The computing system can receive a request to transmit the plurality of interactions to an entity server for processing. The computing system can generate, based on the interaction data, an application programming interface request that is configured to cause the entity server to process the plurality of interactions. The computing system can transmit the application programming interface request to the entity server and receive a confirmation from the entity server that the plurality of interactions have been processed.
Inventors: Louis Allin (Richmond); Jonathan Topp (Montpelier, Va.); Omganesh Teerkaramsingh (Johns Creek, Ga.); Lenin Kumar Pagidipala (Altanta, Ga.)
Assignee: Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
July 23, 2024
Deployable Panel Or Rail With Reaction Surface
Patent No. 12043201
A support surface includes a support back, a housing defined within the support back, a restraint having a stowed position disposed within the housing, and a panel or a rail having a stowed position disposed within the housing. The support surface includes an anchor that couples an outer edge of the restraint to an outer edge of the panel or the rail. The panel or the rail is configured to guide the anchor and the restraint in traveling from the stowed positions to a deployed position spaced apart from the housing and the support back.
Inventors: Adam J. Golman (Glen Allen, Va.); Nathaniel J. Dennis (Saratoga, Calif.); Jesse T. Buehler (Portola Valley, Calif.); Jonathan O. Sive (San Carlos, Calif.); Donald R. Monroe (Los Gatos, Calif.); Mikael P. Sedlacek (Carmel Valley, Calif.); Arturo Llamazares Domper (San Jose, Calif.)
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif)
July 23, 2024
Target Peptides For Immunotherapy And Diagnostics
Patent No. 12042530
A set of target peptides are presented by HLA A*0101, A*0201, A*0301, B*4402, B*2705, B*1402, and B*0702 on the surface of disease cells. They are envisioned to among other things (a) stimulate an immune response to the proliferative disease, e.g., cancer, (b) to function as immunotherapeutics in adoptive T cell therapy or as a vaccine, (c) facilitate antibody recognition of tumor boundaries in surgical pathology samples, (d) act as biomarkers for early detection and/or diagnosis of the disease, and (e) act as targets in the generation antibody-like molecules which recognize the target-peptide/MHC complex.
Inventors: Donald F. Hunt (Charlottesville, Va.); Jeffrey Shabanowitz (Charlottesville, Va.); Stacy Alyse Malaker (Menlo Park, Calif.); Victor H. Engelhard (Crozet, Va.); Angela I. Ambakhutwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Kara L. Cummings (Charlottesville, Va.); Rebecca C. Obeng (Charlottesville, Va.); Mark Cobbold (Winchester, Mass.)
Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.); The University of Birmingham (Birmingham, Great Britain)
July 23, 2024
Content Sharing With Spatial-region Specific Controls To Facilitate Individualized Presentations In A Multi-viewer Session
Patent No. 12045533
In some embodiments, a shared presentation, which includes a set of spatial regions, is transmitted to user devices associated with users. Then, based on a user input indicating a first spatial region of the shared presentation for a first user, first auxiliary data (e.g., auxiliary video stream of the shared presentation) that corresponds to the first spatial region is generated. Moreover, based on the user input indicating the first user, a first user device associated with the first user is caused to display the first spatial region at a first time without displaying one or more other spatial regions of the set of spatial regions at the first time. As an example, the first auxiliary data is transmitted to the first user device, which causes the first user device to display the first spatial region without displaying the other spatial regions.
Inventors: Jignesh Rangwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Mehulkumar Jayantilal Garmara (Glen Allen, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Browser Extension For Field Detection And Automatic Population And Submission
Patent No. 12045808
Methods and systems for providing browser extension are disclosed. In some embodiments, the browser extension system includes a communication device in communication with a computing device and a networked system. The browser extension system also includes a processor configured to perform operations comprising: maintaining data associated with the computing device; detecting, through a browser extension application running on the computing device, a field in a web page associated with the networked system and provided by a web browser application running on the computing device; and in response to detecting the field: (i) automatically populating the field, through the browser extension application, with a secure token mapped to the data, (ii) detecting, through the browser extension application, a submission script associated with the web page, and (iii) automatically executing the submission script to submit the secure token through the browser extension application to the networked system.
Inventors: Matthew de Ganon (Hartsdale, N.Y.); Thomas S. Poole (Chantilly, Va.); Paul Y. Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.); Dwij Trivedi (Oakton, Va.); Kunal Arora (Great Falls, Va.); Katherine H. McHugh (McLean, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Delegated Administration Of Permissions Using A Contactless Card
Patent No. 12045804
Delegated administration of permissions using a contactless card. In one example, a permissions module may receive a request from a first account to grant a second account access to a computing resource. The permissions module may receive permissions data of the first account from a contactless card and encrypted data generated by the contactless card. The permissions module may transmit the permissions data and the encrypted data to an authentication server, which may verify the encrypted data based at least in part on the private key, and determine, based on the permissions data, that the first account has permissions to grant access to the computing resource. The permissions module may receive, from the authentication server, an indication of the verification of the encrypted data and a permissions vector associated with the second account, the permissions vector reflecting the grant of access to the computing resource to the second account.
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Walter A. Miller (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Food Processor With Cleaning Accessory Amd Methods Of Using Same
Patent No. 12042773
An apparatus and method of cleaning a food processor including providing a food processor base that includes a rotary power driver having a rotatable shaft. A bowl is mounted on the base. A food processing blade attached to the shaft within the bowl. A cleaning accessory is placed in the bowl above the food processing blade. A cleaning fluid is introduced into the bowl, and the food processing blade with the rotatable shaft agitate the cleaning fluid in conjunction with the cleaning accessory.
Inventor: Koen Aidan Ambrose (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Meat Grinder With Funneled Feed Chute
Patent No. 12042798
The present disclosure describes a meat grinder. The meat grinder includes a housing; a drive unit mounted in the housing, the drive unit including a motor; a screw conveyor including a barrel fixed relative to the housing, and an auger located within the barrel and operatively connected with the motor; a hollow feed chute having upper and lower ends, the lower end mounted on and configured to feed into the barrel; and a feed tray mounted on the upper end of the feed chute, the feed tray including an opening in communication with the upper end of the feed chute. The feed chute includes an inlet section of a first inner diameter that includes the upper end, a feed section of a second inner diameter that includes the lower end, the second diameter being less than the first diameter, and a funneled section between the inlet section and the feed section.
Inventors: Kevin L. Leppert (Lanexa, Va.); Ernest B. Pryor Jr. (Maidens, Va.); Michael G. Sandford (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands (Glen Allen, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Transaction Exchange Platform With Classification Microservice To Generate Alternative Workflows
Patent No. 12045242
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions in accordance with corresponding 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. Further, the microservices may leverage machine-learning models to determine whether transaction objects may be more effectively processed using alternative or secondary workflows. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows.
Inventors: Nishant Srivastava (Glen Allen, Va.); Joshua Condon (Maidens, Va.); Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 23, 2024
Gaming Machines With Free Play Bonus Mode Presenting Only Winning Outcomes
Patent No. 12046107
A gaming machine includes a processor and a presentation device coupled to the processor. The processor is programmed to determine that a free play trigger condition is satisfied, and to execute one or more free plays based on the free play trigger condition to create one or more free play outcomes. Each free play outcome is a winning free play outcome or a non-winning free play outcome. The presentation device is configured to present winning free play outcomes when at least one free play outcome is a winning free play outcome. Non-winning free play outcomes are not presented.
Inventors: Mark Daniel Eubanks (Mechanicsville, Va.); Sarah Jean Gozdecki (Des Plaines, Ill.); Steve Nicodemus (Charlottesville, Va.): Richard Kerr Sisson (Charlottesville, Va.); Jeremy Michael Webb (Stanardsville, Va.)
Assignee: Video Gaming Technologies (Brentwood, Tenn.)
July 23, 2024
Compliance For Cloud-based Applications And Computer Systems Using Machine Learning
Patent No. 12052140
In some implementations, a compliance server may receive a set of data structures associated with one or more compliance activities. The compliance server may apply a machine learning model to the set of data structures in order to generate one or more automation estimates corresponding to the one or more compliance activities. The compliance server may output the one or more automation estimates to a user device. The compliance server may receive, from the user device, an indication of a selected compliance activity from the one or more compliance activities. The compliance server may generate an automation script for the selected compliance activity in response to the indication.
Inventors: Grant Michael Iwan (Montpelier, Va.); Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas); Shannon Reid (Richmond); Krystan R. Franzen (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 30, 2024
Systems And Methods For Providing Notifications To Devices
Patent No. 12051075
A system for providing notifications to client devices that includes one or more processors and one or more storage devices. The storage devices may store instructions that, when executed, configure the processors to perform operations. The operations include receiving a transaction notification from a third party; identifying a user account associated with the transaction notification; generating a push notification with a payload describing instructions to display a message and an interactive icon, and a resource identifier associated with the interactive icon, where the resource identifier includes a message ID encoding an interactive session and an action ID encoding a requested action. The operations also include transmitting the push notification to a client device associated with the user account; receiving a first indication indicating a user interaction with the interactive icon, the first indication having the resource identifier and updating the user account based on the action request.
Inventors: Maria-Andrea Gerling-Ospina (Charlottesville, Va.); Cara Jo Rawls (Midlothian, Va.); Troy Friedlander (Washington, D.C.); Naveed Khan (Bowie, Md.); Victor Raul Lopez Vargas (Washington, D.C.); Beth Shoup (Mechanicsville, Va.); Michael Keating (Washington, D.C.); Angelina Huynh (Reston, Va.); Erin Ruppert (Arlington, Va.); Lingyu Chu (Ashburn, Va.); DiAndrea Kessee (Hickory Creek, Texas); Nicole M. Weaver (Chesterfield, Va.); Jacob Vernon Theodore Yingling (Richmond); Joshua Meyer Wilbur (Potomac, Md.); Narayana Rao Pagolu (Plano, Texas); Merin J. Samuel (Frisco, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 30, 2024
System And Method For Implementing A Data Quality Framework And Engine
Patent No. 12050568
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a Metadata-Driven Data Quality Framework and Engine that enables dynamic generation of code for assessing data quality based on qualified metadata content. The Data Quality Framework may be directed to an enterprise scaled application that embodies Data Quality disciplines for good/optimal Data Governance. An embodiment of the present invention may be integrated into a Metadata Management process of an overall Data Governance Program so the data user’s meaning and understanding may become part of the automated data quality process.
Inventors: Christopher Corrigan (Chesterfield, Va.); Atul Saurav (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Genworth Holdings (Richmond)
July 30, 2024
Discriminative Model For Identifying And Demarcating Textual Features In Risk Control Documents
Patent No. 12051022
Embodiments disclosed are directed to a computing system that performs steps to automatically identify risk control features and entities in a risk control document. The computing system uses a generative machine learning (ML) model to transform a risk control document into sequences of words, classify risk control features associated with the sequences of words, and pair the sequences of words with the classified risk control features. The computing system then uses a natural language processing (NLP) model to identify syntactic characteristics of the sequences of words. Subsequently, the computing system uses a discriminative predictor system to correct the classified risk control features based on the identified syntactic characteristics, identify boundaries of the corrected classified risk control features, and pair the identified boundaries with the corrected classified risk control features.
Inventors: Peter Tanski (Marlborough, Mass.); Deny Daniel (Bedford, Mass.); Ranjith Zachariah (Waltham, Mass.); Vigi Soundar (Richmond); Paul Vest (Bumpass, Va.); Kevin Zhang (Braintree, Mass.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 30, 2024
Piercing Cap And Piercer
Patent No. 12049347
The present application relates to a system for dispensing fluid. The system includes a flexible container including a spout that is in fluid communication with an interior region of the container. The system includes a cap configured to be mounted to the spout. The cap includes an opening that leads to a membrane and a first retention mechanism located in the opening. The system includes a piercing tube having a first end configured to puncture the membrane and a second end configured to be connected to a dispensing tube. The piercing tube includes a seal bead and a second retention mechanism. The piercing tube is inserted into the opening of the cap such that the first end punctures the membrane, the first and second retention mechanisms engage each other to retain the piercing tube in the cap, and the seal bead sealingly engages the cap.
Inventors: Matthew Ruschmeier (Glencoe, Minn.); Loren L. Brelje (Glencoe, Minn.); Ronald E. Kieras (McHenry, Ill.)
Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)
July 30, 2024
Power Supply Section Configuration For An Electronic Vaping Device And Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12048807
A power supply section for an e-vaping device includes a sensor housed in a housing, a sensor holder holding the sensor, the sensor holder disposed in the housing to divide the housing into a first portion and a second portion, and the sensor and the sensor holder configured to substantially prevent air flow from the first portion into the second portion, and a power source disposed in the second portion. The construction of this unit insures that gases that may be produced by outgassing of the battery cell will be vented to the environment and that those gases will be isolated from the air that is mixed with the vaporized e-liquid and inhaled by the user.
Inventors: Shmuel Gavrielov (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Moshe Eliyahu (Beit Shemesh, Israel)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 30, 2024
Medium For Temporary Account Access
Patent No. 12050677
In some implementations, a physical medium may include a radio frequency (RF) component and an integrated circuit (IC) chip component. The physical medium may be configured to detect, via the RF component, that the physical medium is within a communicative proximity of a first user device or a first medium associated with a first account. The physical medium may communicate, via the RF component, with the first user device or the first medium based on detecting that the physical medium is within the communicative proximity of the first user device or the first medium. The physical medium may configure the IC chip component to indicate that the physical medium is paired with the first account. The physical medium may transmit, via the RF component or the IC chip component and to a terminal, an indication that the physical medium is paired with the first account.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.); Vindent Pham (Champaign, Ill.); Christopher Camenares (Falls Church, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 30, 2024