Patents Examined by Peter Ludwig
  • Patent number: 11669804
    Abstract: In one embodiment a method includes storing in non-volatile memory a library of equipment configuration code files, each equipment configuration code file including configuration code for configuration and control of a work vehicle, for configuration and control of an attachment to be carried or towed by the work vehicle, or for combined configuration and control of both the work vehicle and the attachment in combination, receiving an altered version of at least one equipment configuration code file, the altered version including OEM data provided by or altered by an original equipment manufacturer of the work vehicle or the attachment, dealer or distributor data provided by or altered by a dealer or distributor of the work vehicle or the attachment, and user data provided by or altered by a user of the work vehicle or attachment, and storing the altered version in the non-volatile memory of the library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: CNH Industrial America LLC, Autonomous Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Alan Foster, John Henry Posselius, Bret Todd Turpin, Daniel John Morwood
  • Patent number: 11657369
    Abstract: A generating unit 30 which is included in a cooperative planning system 10: generates a plurality of partial procedures by dividing the generated change procedure for each procedure which relates to an element of each of the system configurations; with respect to a first partial procedure which includes a first step after which, when execution is completed, execution is commenced of a second step which is included in a second partial procedure, adds, after the first step, a step in which information is inputted to the planning system which executes the second partial procedure, said information indicating the completion of the procedure; and with respect to the second partial procedure, adds, prior to the second step, a step in which information is inputted from the planning system which executes the first partial procedure, said information indicating the completion of the procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11651332
    Abstract: One example of a computer-implemented method comprises receiving content data for a first physical note removably attached to a first display area of a first collaborative board located in a first location. The content data includes information displayed on the first physical note. The method further comprises determining a position of the first physical note on the first collaborative board; and outputting instructions to a second collaborative board located in a second location to generate a first virtual note in a second display area of the second collaborative board such that information displayed on the first virtual note corresponds to the information displayed on the first physical note and a position of the first virtual note on the second display area corresponds to the position of the first physical note on the first collaborative board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jill Dhillon, Michael Bender, Steven Edward Atkin, John F. Kelley
  • Patent number: 11645617
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed to train machine learning models, generate software agents, and evaluate, via reinforcement learning, the actions of the software agents in a simulated ecosystem. Embodiments include a computer comprising a processor and memory and configured to train one or more machine learning models to generate one or more software agents, wherein each software agent comprises an autonomous software program designed to execute a task in a supply chain network. Embodiments generate a first software agent and a second software agent, and a simulated supply chain ecosystem representing a hierarchical structure of supply chain network tasks. Embodiments simulate one or more tasks executed by the software agents in the simulated supply chain ecosystem, review the tasks according to one or more defined objectives, and apply reinforcement incentives to the software agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Lachlan McDonald, Felix Christopher Wick
  • Patent number: 11645613
    Abstract: Techniques for identifying images that are representative of items of inventory are described herein. A service provider may receive a description of an item of inventory from a merchant. The service provider may search one or more databases for images representative of the item. The images may include a merchant-facing image used to represent the item on a user interface of a merchant computing device and a customer-facing image used to represent the item to a customer on a user interface of a merchant computing device and/or a customer computing device. The customer-facing image may include an image that is more detailed, accurate, and/or aesthetically pleasing than the merchant-facing image. The service provider may associate the merchant-facing and customer-facing images with the item and may cause the merchant-facing and the customer-facing images to render on displays of the merchant and customer computing devices to represent the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Capers, Marsal Gavalda, Roshan Jhunja
  • Patent number: 11645611
    Abstract: A system and method for automated machine learning supply chain planning having a computer with a processor and memory and configured to receive a first supply chain network model having one or more material constraints for operations of a first supply chain network. Embodiments include transforming the first supply chain network model into a digital image, training an auto-encoder model to reduce the dimensionality of an input vector, and locating one or more items in the first supply chain network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Rashid Puthiyapurayil, Narayan Nandeda
  • Patent number: 11636431
    Abstract: Systems for assigning, monitoring, managing and completing tasks and other activities through a customer-relationship management or other data repository are disclosed in the present application. A variety of novel user interfaces and graphical overlays are also disclosed and within the scope of the present disclosure. Methods for assigning, monitoring, managing and completing tasks are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: AppExtremes, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Van Heukelom, Sayer P. Martin, Blake Evan Rozendaal
  • Patent number: 11629910
    Abstract: A refrigerator and/or freezer unit and system for storing, monitoring, and maintaining a supply of temperature sensitive pharmaceutical products in compliance with regulatory requirements. The unit contains compartments for each product type in multiple controlled temperature zones with sensors to track product status and content. In a system, each unit communicates with an application service provider to provide remote inventory management capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TruMed Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert James Manning, Eugene Abraham Baker
  • Patent number: 11620691
    Abstract: A method for allowing the custom mixing of liquid and dry enhancers with pet food kibbles comprising a tumbler into which the kibbles are placed; a means for adding a pre-determined amount of liquid/dry enhancers to the kibbles; a means for mixing the enhancers with the kibbles; and a means for feeding the enhanced kibbles into packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventor: Dean Travis
  • Patent number: 11620623
    Abstract: It is desirable for a merchant to not store customer PCI (Payment Card Industry) data in the merchant's system, because this would reduce cost and risk to the merchant. But the merchant still wants access to the customer primary account number (PAN) and other PCI data elements for customer authentication, customer relationship management, etc. Therefore, this specification discloses systems and methods that allow a pPOS (personal Point of Sale) device to create a mirror of the original transaction and provide that to the merchant. Then the merchant would still have access to the customer PAN and other PCI data elements, but there are no PCI or payment data in the mirror transaction, so cost and risk are reduced for the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Todd Raymond Nuzum, Michael Dow
  • Patent number: 11615481
    Abstract: A method for encouraging saving towards a financial goal for an individual includes receiving on an electronic computing device one or more personal media elements from the individual. A receipt from a purchase by the individual is received. The receipt includes information relating to the purchase made by the individual. Information from the receipt relative to the financial goal is analyzed. At least one of the one or more personal media elements is selected for presentation with the receipt. The at least one of the one or more personal media elements selected is related to an effect of the purchase on achieving the financial goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Marria Wairnola Rhodriquez
  • Patent number: 11615460
    Abstract: Described is a system and method for developing and dynamically updating user paths through a materials handling facility. A user path through a materials handling facility may be developed that will route a user past one or more items (e.g., pick list items, recommended items, wish list items, promotional items) planned for the user. If the user does not follow the user path, the user path may be dynamically updated to account for the current location of the user and/or to consider other actions performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Michael McNamara, Kirk Arlo Petersen, Nathan Lee Wesling, Jack Bradley Jones, Sridhar Boyapati
  • Patent number: 11610210
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting potential shrink events via RFID technology are provided. The systems include a point of sale (POS) system that includes an optical scanner, an RFID transceiver arrangement, a user interface and a controller. The controller is configured to perform example methods disclosed herein. For example, the controller may detect that the optical scanner has decoded a barcode, trigger the RFID transceiver arrangement to write a data string to an RFID tag located within the object scanning area, conduct a detection operation to detect the RFID tag with the data string in the bagging area. Responsive to detecting the RFID tag with the data string, the method involves the user interface performing a first operation. Responsive to not detecting the RFID tag with the data string, the method involves the user interface performing a second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yuri Astvatsaturov, Patrick Mauro
  • Patent number: 11605067
    Abstract: A transaction terminal dynamically and regularly changes a unique transaction terminal identifier (ID). The transaction terminal ID is reported to a remote manager. During a transaction, a mobile device automatically reads a current transaction terminal ID from the transaction terminal, appends a mobile device ID for the mobile device, and sends the transaction terminal ID with the mobile device ID to the remote manager. The remote manager links the mobile ID to details associated with a user of the mobile device and sends the details to the transaction terminal. The transaction terminal uses the details to customize a transaction being conducted by the user at the transaction terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew David Monaghan
  • Patent number: 11599853
    Abstract: In a stock rebalancing method, separate inventory holding clients are registered, each as individual publishers of inventory level data, and further, separate transporter clients also are registered each as individual publishers of transport capacity. Then, an indication is received from one of the inventory holding clients, of an overstock condition of a specified item. Contemporaneously, an indication is received from another of the inventory holding clients of an understock condition of the specified item. In response, one of the transporter clients is identified as indicating excess capacity sufficient to bear transport of the specified item in a quantity indicated by the understock condition, the clients are messaged indicating the conditions, and the identified transport client is directed to transport the specified item in the indicated quantity from the one of the inventory clients indicating the overstock condition to the one of the inventory holding clients indicating an understock condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: INLECOM SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Panayotis Katsoulakos, Nikolaos Tsampieris, Zisis Palaskas, Yash Chadha
  • Patent number: 11599847
    Abstract: A computing system for generating a list of possessions associated with a user may be provided. The computing system may include a processor in communication with a memory device, and the processor may be configured to receive image data, analyze the image data to identify at least one possession, update a user profile to include the identified at least one possession, determine additional information is needed to accurately estimate a value associated with the at least one possession, generate and transmit an additional information prompt to a user computing device, receive, from the user computing device, the additional information, estimate, using the additional information, the value associated with the at least one possession, and update the user profile to include the estimated value associated with the at least one possession stored in association with the at least one possession.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: BlueOwl, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Jason Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11593723
    Abstract: A monitoring system is disclosed for acquiring output activity, utilization capacity and/or effluent data from an facility on a facility-by-facility and/or an industry-by-industry basis. The system is designed to generate a plant and/or industry output activity database that is updated on a continuous, near continuous, periodic and/or intermittent basis so that subscribers are apprised of changes in plant or overall industry output. A clearing house is also disclosed for distributing the acquired data to subscribers to aid in analyzing, predicting trends, pricing, maintaining, adjusting, minimizing, and/or maximizing individual plant or overall industry output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventors: Jack Nuszen, Thomas Vo
  • Patent number: 11587056
    Abstract: Implementations of the present application provide data interaction and offline credit payment methods and devices. In one implementation, a credit payment code generated by a server is obtained by scanning and parsing a two-dimensional code presented on a mobile computing device for making a payment. The credit payment code is then decrypted based on asymmetric key decryption to obtain a credit payment token. The credit payment token is parsed to obtain security content included in the credit payment token. The payment associated with the credit payment code is then determined to satisfy the security content and the payment is verified with the server that generates the credit payment code at a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Xiu, Lei Wang, Yingde Liu
  • Patent number: 11574293
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and method and an information processing system that make it possible to perform more appropriate information provision. Processing relating to settlement of a commercial transaction is performed and log information relating to the settlement is generated, and the generated log information relating to the settlement is supplied to a server, which performs processing relating to provision of the log information relating to the settlement, without the intervention of a commercial transaction processing unit that performs processing relating to the commercial transaction. Further, processing relating to settlement of a commercial transaction is performed by a given method corresponding to a settlement service selected from a plurality of settlement services that can be utilized for the settlement of the commercial transaction and log information relating to the settlement corresponding to the settlement service is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuichi Sekiya
  • Patent number: 11568378
    Abstract: A transaction is identified for a partial rescan security check based at least in part on basket items of the transaction. A total number of rescan items from the basket items is identified for rescan; the total number of rescan items selected for rescan is less than a total number of the basket items in the transaction. Based on the basket items and transaction features for the transaction, item categories or item departments are identified from which the total number of rescan items are to be selected from the basket items for the rescan security check. The total number of rescan items and the item categories for selection are provided to an attendant terminal for the rescan security check. The rescan security check is processed to determine whether the transaction was associated with theft or not associated with theft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Itamar David Laserson, Loran Halfon, Tali Shpigel