Aerosol-generating System With Separate Capsule And Vaporizer
Patent No. 12127590
An aerosol-generating system may include a capsule and a releasably connectable vaporizer or vaporizing unit. The capsule comprises a distal end and defines a reservoir configured to contain an aerosol-generating substrate. The vaporizing unit comprises a housing and a heating element and a transfer element disposed in the housing. The heating element is configured to heat the transfer element to vaporize the aerosol-generating substrate. The housing of the vaporizing unit has a proximal end. A portion of the transfer element extends beyond the proximal end of the housing. The vaporizing unit is configured such that the transfer element is the initial part of the vaporizing unit to penetrate into the reservoir of the capsule as the distal end of the capsule is moved towards the proximal end of the vaporizing unit.
Inventor: Eric Force (Bevaix, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 29, 2024
Child Carrying Device
Patent No. 12128944
The invention relates to a child carrying device that includes a stroller configuration and a wagon configuration. The child carrying device comprises a support frame that may be rotated from an angled orientation in the stroller configuration to a substantially horizontal position in the wagon configuration.
Inventor: Yanfu Chen (Dongguan, China)
Assignee: Dynamic Motion (Richmond)
Oct. 29, 2024
Code Generation For Deployment Of A Machine Learning Model
Patent No. 12131234
In some implementations, a system may receive a first set of files output based on a machine learning model that is trained using training data that includes a set of values, for each of multiple observations, that corresponds to a set of features. The system may receive a second set of files that includes information that identifies a set of valid values corresponding to the set of features. The system may generate, based on the first set of files and the second set of files, code for generating the output score from the trained model based on a set of input values that are input to the trained model. The system may deploy the code for execution in a computing environment.
Inventors: Yu Zhang (Midlothian, Va.); Anshuman Guha (Columbia, Md.); Kyle Moore (Midlothian, Va.); Animesh Mod (Glen Allen, Va.); Christopher Bjorgolfsson (Glen Allen, Va.); Wenyan Huang (Fairfax, Va.); Lok Yi Lam (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 29. 2024
Systems And Methods For Adaptive Data Partitioning Within Cluster Systems
Patent No. 12131038
Disclosed are systems and methods for adaptive partitioning of memory and storage resources of a first cluster node of a cluster system, comprising a plurality of nodes; wherein the first node includes one or more shards; and a client device in data communication with the plurality of nodes, wherein the first node is configured to: receive a client request, identify one of the one or more shards based on the client request, retrieve shard rules of the identified shard, determine an allocation of one or more memory slots of the identified shard based on the client request, lock the one or more memory slots, and perform one or more operations on the one or more memory slots associated with the client request based on the allocation.
Inventors: Rohit Joshi (Plano, Texas); Ashish Gupta (Richmond); Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 29, 2024
And Application Of A Multi-chamber Cartridge Including A Hydrogel Formulation
Patent No. 12127589
An e-vaping device having a cartridge including an outer container extending in a longitudinal direction, a conduit within the outer container, a storage portion including pre-vapor formulation ingredients, the storage portion being between the outer container and the conduit and including a plurality of chambers, a plurality of wicks, each of the wicks being in communication with each of the chambers and the conduit and being configured to deliver one or more ingredients in each of the chambers to the conduit, and a coil heater located in the chimney and operatively coupled to each of the wicks. The e-vaping device also includes a power supply source coupled to the cartridge, the power supply source is configured to heat the wicks to vaporize ingredients located in respective chambers and generate a vapor corresponding to each of the vaporized ingredients.
Inventors: Shaoyong Yu (Glen Allen, Va.); Munmaya K. Mishra (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Oct. 29, 2024
System And Method For Injection And Retraction Of Fluid
Patent No. 12128152
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for injection and retraction of a fluid. The system includes a switch configured to be activated, wherein activation of the switch activates an electrical control system. The system further includes a linear actuator that interfaces with the electrical control system. The electrical control system causes the linear actuator to depress a plunger, keep the plunger depressed for a predetermined time, and retract the plunger after the predetermined time. The system further includes a fluid reservoir engageable with the plunger, wherein the depression of the plunger causes fluid to be injected from the fluid reservoir into a connector and the retraction of the plunger causes fluid to be retracted into the fluid reservoir and out of the connector.
Inventors: Tejasvi Desai (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Rahul Swaninathan (Fremont, Calif.); Jerry Zhang (Glen Allen, Va.); Angela Mak (Cerritos, Calif.); Xiaodong Huo (Santa Clara, Calif.); Sarah Lee (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Anna Bailey (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Yupin Shi (Queens, N.Y.)
Assignee: Relavo (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Oct. 29, 2024
Machine Learning For Improving Quality Of Voice Biometrics
Patent No. 12131740\
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for improving the quality of audio for use in a biometric. A biometric system may use machine learning to determine whether audio or a portion of the audio should be used as a biometric for a user. A sample of the user’s voice may be used to generate a voice signature of the user. Portions of the audio that do not meet a similarity threshold when compared with the voice signature may be removed from the audio. Additionally or alternatively, interfering noises may be detected and removed from the audio to improve the quality of a voice biometric generated from the audio.
Inventors: Bozhao Tan (Sunnyvalle, Calif.); Isabelle Alice Yvonne Moulinier (Richfield, Minn.); David Almquist (Mechanicsville, Va.); June Wu (Fairfax, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Oct. 29, 2024
Fuel Composition
Patent No. 12134742
A detergent additive package comprising a quaternary ammonium internal salt detergent and a Mannich base detergent mixture, wherein the quaternary ammonium internal salt is obtained from amines or polyamines that is substantially devoid of any free anion species, wherein the Mannich base detergent mixture comprises a first Mannich base detergent component derived from a di- or polyamine and a second Mannich base detergent component derived from a monoamine, wherein the weight ratio of the first Mannich base detergent to the second Mannich base detergent mixture ranges from about 1:6 to about 3:1, and wherein the weight ratio of the quaternary ammonium internal salt detergent and the Mannich base detergent mixture ranges from about 1:10 to about 1:100.
Inventors: William Jay Colucci (Midlothian, Va.); John Mengwasser (Cypress, Texas)
Assignee: Afton Chemical (Richmond)
Nov. 5, 2024
Air Intake Assembly
Patent No. 12133553
A vapor generator assembly for an e-vaping device may include a reservoir configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation, a vaporizer assembly configured to heat pre-vapor formulation drawn from the reservoir to form a vapor, and an air intake assembly configured to direct ambient air into the vaporizer assembly. The air intake assembly may at least partially define an air inlet that extends at least partially around an outer surface of the vapor generator assembly. The air inlet may be an arcuate air inlet or an annular air inlet. The air intake assembly may at least partially define an inlet channel extending from the air inlet into an interior of the vapor generator assembly to at least partially establish fluid communication between the arcuate air inlet and the vaporizer assembly. The inlet channel may extend coaxially in relation to a longitudinal axis of the vapor generator assembly.
Inventors: Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.); Raymond W. Lau (Glen Allen, Va.); Mik Dahl (Lapu-Lapu, Philippines); Jon Jarantilla (Lapu-Lapu, Philippines); Galen Salvador (Lapu-Lapu, Philippines); Jose Jesus Paolo Montalvan (Mandaue, Philippines); Jeroen Kok (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Nov. 5, 2024
Oral Product
Patent No. 12133848
An oral product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix, cellulosic fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix, and a mouth-soluble binder dispersed in the mouth-stable polymer matrix.
Inventors: Feng Gao (Midlothian, Va.); Frank Scott Atchley (Midlothian, Va.); Gregory James Griscik (Midlothian, Va.); Christopher Joseph Dinovi (Ruther Glen, Va.); Phillip M. Hulan (Midlothian, Va.); Diane L. Gee (Chesterfield, Va.); Jason Flora (Richmond); Shuzhong Zhuang (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Nov. 5, 2024
Dynamic Multi-platform Model Generation And Deployment System
Patent No. 12135696
Aspects of the disclosure relate to dynamic model configuration and execution. A computing platform may receive first model data comprising first model execution configuration data and first model output configuration data. The computing platform may generate a first model based on the first model execution configuration data. The computing platform may distribute, to a plurality of computing platforms, the first model, the first model execution configuration data, and the first model output configuration data. The computing platform may receive a second request to execute one or more models from a third computing platform. The computing platform may receive, from the third computing platform, first model execution data. The computing platform may execute the first model based on the first model execution data and the first model execution configuration data to generate a first model output score.
Inventors: Uma Sheela (Plano, Texas); Partha Sarathi Dhar (Chester Springs, Penn.); Michael Fleischer (Double Oak, Texas); Jeff Hogue (Frisco, Texas); Joyce Ashley (Westlake Village, Calif.); Manivannan Perumalswami (Frisco, Texas); Huy Tran (Hockessin, Germany); Valerie Cozart (Mesa, Ariz.); Adam Jones (Landenberg, Penn.); Marcey Donnelly (Pleasanton, Calif.); Rose Brunner (Richmond); Mark Wheelwright (Herriman, Utah); Benjamine Porter (Charlotte, N.C.); Scott Beavers (Lincoln University, Penn.); Swarn Deep (New Delhi, India); Shashank Kumar Shashank (Uttar Pradesh, India)
Assignee: Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.)
Nov. 5, 2024
Methods And Systems For Collecting Survey Feedback Data
Patent No. 12136100
Methods and Systems for collecting feedback data are disclosed. An Application Programming Interface (API)-based survey feedback dashboard can be prepared for storing survey feedback data for an API-based survey. The API-based survey can be sent to multiple survey taking users using a unique link that can link field information from the survey meta information and the survey structural information of the API-based survey feedback dashboard with the API-based survey.
Inventor: Elijah Stull (Glen Allen, Va.)
AssigneeL Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Nov. 5, 2024
Systems And Methods For Natural Language Processing
Patent No. 12135936
Disclosed embodiments may include a method that may include receiving a corpus of unlabeled text documents, generating, using the first machine learning model, a first classification of each unlabeled text document in the corpus of unlabeled text documents as positive or negative, defining, using the first machine learning model and based on the first classification, a first subset of the unlabeled text documents and a second subset of the unlabeled text documents, generating, using the second machine learning model, a second classification of each unlabeled text document in the first subset of the unlabeled text documents as positive or negative, generating, using the third machine learning model, a third classification of each unlabeled text document in the second subset of the unlabeled text documents as positive or negative, and modifying the first classification, based on the second classification and the third classification, to create a fourth classification.
Inventors: Joseph Ford III (Manakin Sabot, Va.); Cody Stancil (Glen Allen, Va.); Xiaowen Zhang (Fairfax, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Nov. 5, 2024
Compositions Including PVC Or CPVC
Patent No. 12134711
The present disclosure provides a PVC or CPVC solvent cement and a composition for forming a PVC or CPVC coating on an object. The solvent cement and the coating composition each include one or more caprolactam-derived solvents and a polymer selected from the group of polyvinyl chloride and chlorinated polyvinyl chloride. The one or more caprolactam-derived solvents include a linear alkyl group of 1, 2 or 4 unsubstituted carbons or an alkoxymethyl group of 2 or 3 unsubstituted carbons bonded to a nitrogen heteroatom.
Inventors: Jaime A. Flores-Vasquez (Glen Allen, Va.); Edward Asirvatham (Chatham, N.J.); Karttikay Moudgil (Johns Creek, Ga.)
Assignee: AdvanSix Resins & Chemicals (Parsippany, N.J.)
Nov. 5, 2024
Solvent Based De-oiling For Plant Based Protein Extraction
Patent No. 12133540
A method provides for removing oil content from a source material and extracting protein from the source material prior to generating a protein concentrate, including decorticating the source material, the source material having a protein and an oil content therein, the decorticating to remove a cortex from the source material. The method includes creating a flour from the source material having the cortex removed therefrom, removing at least a portion of the oil content from the flour by generating a solvent mixture by mixing the flour with a solvent and extracting a de-oiled flour from the solvent mixture, including oil and sugars extracted from the flour. The solvent may include supercritical CO2, subcritical CO2, ethanol, or a combination thereof. The method includes drying the de-oiled flour using at least one dryer and extracting a protein concentrate from the de-oiled flour.
Inventors: Michael A. Spinelli (Moseley, Va.); Krisan Singh (Midlothian, Va.); Reinhold Brand (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Tate & Lyle Solutions USA (Hoffman Estates, Ill.)
Nov. 5, 2024
Systems And Methods For Executing Sequential Suboperations Over Multiple Communication Networks
Patent No. 12137165
Systems and methods for executing sequential suboperations over multiple communication networks. In some aspects, the system receives, via a first communication network, from an external system, an operation related to an aggregated virtual container. The system generates sequential suboperations including a first suboperation associated with a provider of the aggregated virtual container and the external system and a second suboperation associated with the user and the provider of the aggregated virtual container. If the first suboperation is executed successfully, the system transmits the second suboperation to a user system associated with the aggregated virtual container. If the second suboperation is executed successfully, the system generates a first message indicating that the operation has been executed and transmits the first message via the first communication network to the external system.
Inventors: Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Jackson Macomber (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Nov. 5, 2024
Methods And Systems For Authentication For High-risk Communications
Patent No. 12137102
An authentication method includes assigning a risk status to a request received from a remote interaction system, transmitting a notification communication to a device associated with the request, monitoring interaction data from an interaction network, and identifying, from the monitored interaction data, authentication interaction information, the authentication interaction information including a coded sequence and a predetermined authentication identifier. The authentication method also includes comparing the coded sequence in the authentication interaction information to an expected coded sequence and transmitting a verification communication after determining the coded sequence in the authentication interaction information matches the expected coded sequence.
Inventors: Nathaniel McKinnon (Henrico, Va.); Jeremy Phillips (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Assignee Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Nov. 5, 2024