Patents Examined by Christle I Marshall
  • Patent number: 11893571
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to the processing of electronic payments that involve an payment instrument. A payment instrument reading device is paired with a payment initiating device to allow transaction information generated by the payment initiating device to be automatically transmitted to its associated payment instrument reading device. This means that rekeying of transaction information is not required. In some embodiments one or more beacons are provided in a premises, to allow the location of a mobile payment initiating device to be determined. This location is used to either direct the payment initiating device to a payment instrument reading device, or vice versa. Transaction data generated by the payment initiating device is automatically transmitted to the payment instrument reading device. A pairing module is also provided, which is configured to pair a payment instrument reading device with a payment initiating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Worldpay Limited
    Inventors: Ben Burdsall, Jonathan Stewart Vokes
  • Patent number: 11887105
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, processes, computer program code and means for conducting transactions are described which allow a first party to a transaction to identify a second party to a transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin Laracey
  • Patent number: 11886954
    Abstract: Image analysis is used to map objects in an arrangement. For example, images of a retail shelf are used to map items for sale on the retail shelf A first vector can used to identify a relative position of a first item on a shelf to a shelving diagram, and a second vector can be used to identify a relative position of a second on the shelf to the shelving diagram, using locations of optical codes (e.g., barcodes). Absolute positions can be calculated. In some configurations, multiple images having different fields of view are matched to an overview image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Scandit AG
    Inventors: Fabian Nater, Bernd Schoner, Matthias Bloch, Christian Floerkemeier
  • Patent number: 11887110
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems, methods, processes, computer program code and means for using mobile devices to conduct transactions with value dispensing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Laracey
  • Patent number: 11861964
    Abstract: Operability of a valuable medium handling system is enhanced. A valuable medium handling system 1 includes a communication device 3001 disposed at a storage cassette 31 that is detachably attached to a medium handling device 2 and that stores banknotes, and a controller 513 and a computer 5 that communicate with the communication device 3001 via a communication line 9. The controller 513 and the computer 5 each perform a predetermined process by communicating with the communication device 3001 via the communication line 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Tachibana, Tsuyoshi Izumida
  • Patent number: 11809943
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a wireless computing network to assess and model a physical characteristic associated with an object or space, the network including a plurality of wireless nodes located in a physical space, each of the plurality of wireless nodes configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other wireless node in the network in a secure manner, attach to a physical object in the physical space via any adhesive means, utilize data from neighboring wireless nodes to generate or update an artificially intelligent machine learning model regarding a physical characteristic associated with the physical space and a gateway device in communication with each of the plurality of wireless nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MonoLets, Inc.
    Inventor: Osama Khan
  • Patent number: 11798136
    Abstract: An Automated Teller Machine (ATM) for detecting security vulnerabilities by removing noise artifacts from documents receives a transaction request when a document is inserted into the ATM, where the document contains a noise artifact at least partially obstructing a portion of the document. The ATM generates an image of the document, where the image displays at least one data item comprising a sender's name, a receiver's name, and a number representing an amount. The ATM determines whether the noise artifact obstructs at least partially one data item. In response to determining that the noise artifact obstructs at least partially one data item, the ATM generates a test clean image of the document by removing the noise artifact from the image. In response to determining that the noise artifact is removed, the ATM approves the transaction request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: MadhuSudhanan Krishnamoorthy, Ramaswamy M
  • Patent number: 11788693
    Abstract: A personal mobility assistance device includes lights that accent the shape of the device. The lights include a battery, a wire, and a plurality of light emitting devices connected to the wire and powered by the battery. The light emitting devices are spaced sufficiently close to each other along the wire such that, when the vehicle is observed in low light conditions, the shape of the personal mobility assistance device is discernable to the observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BeDazzleit LLC
    Inventors: Leo A. Spriggins, Charles D. Gavrilovich, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11741567
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to signal processing such as image processing, signal encoding, digital watermarking and data hiding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Kristyn R. Falkenstern, Alastair M. Reed, Vojtech Holub, Tony F. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11734684
    Abstract: An authorization control network includes at least one computer server. The server(s) receives a cardholder credential and a profile modification request from a communications device, and determines an account attribute by querying a profile database with an account identifier. The server(s) rejects the modification request if the server determines from the account attribute that a limit profile associated with the account identifier is linked to a cardholder credential other than the received cardholder credential. The server(s) then receives from a POS device an authorization request that includes the account identifier and an authorization value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Gandhi, Noemi Colmenar-Miranda, Danielle Pinnock, William Joseph McLellan, Richard Titus Szvath, Liliya Kaminskaya, Jennifer Amaral
  • Patent number: 11727743
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cash depositing and dispensing machine comprising: a machine body having outer circumferential walls, and an arrangement comprising: a cash input/output unit having an interface for allowing depositing and dispensing of cash, a cash handling unit, and a cash storage unit, wherein said cash input/output unit, said cash handling unit, and said cash storage unit being arranged in relation to each other in relation to said machine body between: a closed position for which the outer circumferential walls of the machine body enclose the cash handling unit and the cash storage unit so as to prevent access thereto, and a service position and a cash access position for which at least the cash handling unit protrudes from the machine body so as to allow access thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Scan Coin AB
    Inventors: Anders Sjöström, Andreas Johansson
  • Patent number: 11710317
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-program products used for assessing athletic ability and generating performance data. In one embodiment, athlete performance data is generated through computer-vision analysis of video of an athletic performing, e.g., during practice or gameplay. The generated performance data for the athlete may include, for example, maximum speed, maximum acceleration, time to maximum speed, transition time (e.g., time to change direction), closing speed (e.g., time to close the distance to another athlete), average separation (e.g., between the athlete and another athlete), play-making ability, athleticism (e.g., a weighted computation and/or combination of multiple metrics), and/or other performance data. This performance data may be used to generate and/or update a profile associated with the athlete, which can be utilized for recruiting, scouting, comparing, and/or assessing athletes with greater efficiency and precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Recruiting Analytics LLC
    Inventors: Corey Leon Yates, Alfonzo Thurman, II
  • Patent number: 11704910
    Abstract: A vehicle detecting device includes a region setting unit that sets a plurality of regions of interest having different ranges on image data acquired from an image capturing device that captures an image of a space in front of a host vehicle; and a vehicle determining unit that determines, for each of the regions of interest, presence of a front vehicle based on a luminous point present in the region and that executes a determination at different frequencies in the respective regions of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Endo, Mitsuharu Mano, Takanori Namba, Masayasu Ito
  • Patent number: 11683414
    Abstract: A method is provided for interacting with audience members in an event, each of the potential attendees having available thereto a unique identifier. The method comprises creating, for an attendee, a unique ID (UID) on a mobile wireless device (MWD) by the steps of inputting to the MWD one of the unique identifiers, combining the obtained unique identifier with a UID time stamp at the time of creation of the UID; receiving with a server on a first wireless channel communications from the MWD; registering the UID at the physical location of the event; generating a visual query; displaying on the MWD response indicators; receiving at the server from the registered attendee a response, to the query over the first wireless channel; and storing in a database on the server the received response in association with the displayed query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TESLA LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventor: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer
  • Patent number: 11669818
    Abstract: Casino monetary systems and methods of processing casino monetary transactions are configured to read or scan an ID of a customer associated with a monetary value transaction, to transmit that ID information to a remote authentication vendor for authentication, to then use that authentication information as part of a transaction approval process and to create a transaction record, such as relative to an anti-money laundering (AML) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Everi Payments Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Fong, Suresh Narayanan, Marc Gurney, Vinothkumar Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11669927
    Abstract: Unique codes for marking packages for liquid food are generated with a header portion (40) containing non-encrypted code-definition data ([E], [G]) that represents the code structure and/or the code generation methodology, and a payload portion (41) containing encrypted payload data ([EP]). The encryption ensures that the code is sufficiently scrambled to make guessing and fraudulent code generation difficult. The payload data, before encryption, may be defined to be unique in each code, thereby also rendering the code unique. The payload data, before encryption, may also be structured so as to enable efficient search for the code in a database. When read from a package, the code may be processed by extracting the code-definition data ([E], [G]), identifying the payload portion (41), extracting the encrypted payload data ([EP]), re-creating the payload data by decryption, and searching the database for the code based on the payload data or one or more subsets thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance, S.A.
    Inventors: Paolo De Corte, Gustavo Barros, Matteo Gazzadi Poggioli, Paolo Scarabelli, Claudio Donati, Stefano Vicini, Mimi Axelsson, Gaetano Cutrona
  • Patent number: 11670835
    Abstract: A wireless parking meter with an improved antenna location is described. The antenna may be located within a covering protruding from the top of the parking meter, allowing radio frequency (RF) signals to be transmitted through a portion of the parking meter with high permittivity to the RF signals. Additionally or alternatively, the antenna may be located within the parking meter housing above a lower parking meter mechanism housing so that RF signals can be transmitted through the dome covering of the parking meter, which may have a high permittivity to the RF signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventors: George Allan MacKay, Gregory Emile Chauvin, Neil Stuart Erskine, Darren Scott Cameron, Donald Wesley Church, Ben Garvey, Josh Michael Bablitch, Matt Gonia, Glenn Eric Pederson, Robert Thomas Buczkiewicz
  • Patent number: 11657362
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for supply chain management, tracking, and integration. An example method can include receiving, via one or more processors, a document associated with a booking of a shipment; extracting, via the one or more processors, data in the document associated with the booking of the shipment; based on the extracted data, generating a shipment record in a shipment management system; and based on the shipment record, tracking the shipment associated with the booking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Chris Stauber, Adam G. Pasztory, Sajid Ali Mudassar, Muhammad Waqas Khan, Jeffrey Wehner
  • Patent number: 11657248
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure include a financial services card including a card substrate, and multiple rows of braille-encoded characters formed on the card substrate, at least a portion of the braille-encoded characters encoding an account number that is associated with the financial services card being distributed between a first row and a second row of the multiple rows, and additional information associated with the financial services card being braille-encoded in a third row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: 11562322
    Abstract: RFID systems may be configured to use session-dependent replies. When an RFID tag is involved in a certain inventorying session, the tag may respond to inventorying commands with a reply that is at least partly generated based on the session. For example, the tag may generate a reply with a string that has parity based on the session or includes an identifier for the session. The string may be a random number, a tag identifier or item identifier, or any other suitable data sent from the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Theron Stanford, Alberto Pesavento, Vadim Lobanov, Christopher J. Diorio