Patents Examined by Florian M Zeender
  • Patent number: 12254461
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for generating and managing virtual transaction cards based on mobile device location so as to provide transaction security during in-person transactions. A geographic location of a mobile device may be determined, a proximate merchant may be selected, and a virtual transaction card may be generated for that particular merchant. Data corresponding to that virtual transaction card may be deployed into a digital wallet device for use during transactions with point-of-sale devices. Use of the digital wallet device may be conditioned on geographic location, time, an unlock command from a mobile device, or the like. By providing such dynamically-generated and limited virtual transaction cards for in-person transactions, the threat of security vulnerabilities relating to point-of-sale systems may be mitigated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Mohak Chadha, Allison Fenichel
  • Patent number: 12254459
    Abstract: Methods and systems directed to scanning, by an imaging device associated with a customer computing device, a Quick Response (QR) code displayed on a merchant computing device; decoding, by an application on the customer computing device, data embedded in the QR code; identifying, by the customer computing device and based on the decoded data, a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a web page of the merchant, wherein the URL includes a payment proxy associated with the merchant; presenting the web page on the customer computing device; transmitting, by the customer computing device, an indication of interaction with the web page comprising an intent to purchase item(s) offered for sale via the web page; and receiving, by the customer computing device, an indication of completion of a payment for the item(s) facilitated by parsing the payment proxy server(s) of a payment processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Hernandez, Brian Grassadonia
  • Patent number: 12254439
    Abstract: A control system is for a container terminal with containers. The control system includes a server, and a terminal tractor operable within the container terminal. The terminal tractor comprises onboard tractor sensors configured to generate sensor data of at least some of the containers, a geolocation device configured to generate a geolocation value for the terminal tractor, a wireless transceiver, and a controller coupled to the onboard tractor sensors, the geolocation device, and the wireless transceiver. The controller is configured to transmit the sensor data and the geolocation value for the terminal tractor to the server. The server is in communication with the terminal tractor and is configured to generate a database associated with the sensor data, the database comprising, for each container, a container type value, a container logo image, and a vehicle classification value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: All Terminal Services, LLC
    Inventors: Mark D. Mills, Artem Igorevich Davtyan, Matthew Michael McDermott, Jorge A. Perez Rincon, Christopher Alexander
  • Patent number: 12254445
    Abstract: A tool application system for a vehicle may include a database configured to maintain an inventory of items on a vehicle, and a server configured to receive a request for at least one item relating to a worksite from a technician, compare the request for the at least one item to the inventory, determine that the item is not part of the inventory, transmit a part request to at least one location based on at least one factor, and transmit instructions to the vehicle in response to receiving a response to the request from the location confirming availability of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Brendan F. Diamond, Meghan Preiss, Annette Lynn Huebner, Lia Pillen
  • Patent number: 12246882
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining shrinkage of a commodity sold by a store are provided which may include: identifying data indicative of a volume of the commodity, associating a label with a container that holds the commodity, collecting the label information with a reader and transmitting collected label information to at least one server, automatically determining data characterizing the material in the container, associating the label information and the data characterizing the material in the container, and determining performance data related to the commodity by comparing the data indicative of the volume of the commodity supplied to the store, the data indicative of the volume of the commodity sold by the store, and the data characterizing the material in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Divert, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas L. Whitman, Ryan R. Begin
  • Patent number: 12248908
    Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image recorded by a mobile robotic system within a store; detecting a shelf in a region of the image; based on an address of the shelf, retrieving a list of products assigned to the shelf by a planogram of the store; retrieving a set of template images—from a database of template images—defining visual features of products specified in the list of products; extracting a set of features from the region of the image; determining that a unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf in response to deviation between the set of features and features in a template image, in the set of template images, representing the product; and in response to determining that the unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf, generating a restocking prompt for the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee
  • Patent number: 12248921
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing multiple point-of-sale (POS) transactions include receiving, at a first window of a user interface, a first input of payment information associated with a first item of a first POS transaction and presenting, at a second window of the user interface, a status of the first POS transaction. The POS system then may receive, at the first window and concurrently with presentation of the status at the second window, a second input associated with a second POS transaction, where the first window is associated with the second transaction and the second window is associated with the first transaction. The POS system may receive a notification of a confirmed payment of the second POS transaction prior to a resolution of the first POS transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Gerard Thomas Knight, Jared Travis Marr
  • Patent number: 12243110
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving an application, sending a prompt to an applicant to authorize access to financial information by an open banking system, and receiving the financial information associated with the applicant, the financial information including at least income information associated with the applicant. The method also includes determining an income score associated with the applicant based at least in part on the financial information, determining a threshold income score, and determining that the income score is equal to or greater than the threshold income score. The method further includes sending, to a reviewer, a recommendation to approve the application based at least in part on determining that the income score is equal to or greater than the threshold income score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: VeriFast Inc.
    Inventor: Craig Schoen
  • Patent number: 12243047
    Abstract: Provided are a re-using e-commerce payment instruments for in-store purchasing systems and methods. A customer enters a check out and a transaction at the point of sale is started. The system receives a pairing request at a wallet processor from a customer mobile device operating a mobile application. This pairing request is created and sent in response to scanning of a code having a transaction identification. The system associates a customer payment profile with the transaction identification and sends associated information to the point of sale. The point of sale sends an amount of sale to authorize to the wallet processor after completing scanning of items. The system creates an authorization for payment and sending the authorization for payment to an authorizer. The transaction may then be completed by processing payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Joseph Kieffer, Mark Matthews, Eytan Daniyalzade, David Martin Nelms, Prasanna Rajendran, Charles David Berry, Daniel Eckert
  • Patent number: 12243115
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses methods, systems, an electronic device, and a storage medium for confirming a property right and for transferring a property right. The present disclosure realizes the confirmation and transfer of the ownership of a property and traceback of the ownership of the property, making the process of right confirmation and implementation is more efficient and secure, and improving the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Shanghai NanoJClean Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiangle Geng, Jianliang Gu
  • Patent number: 12243082
    Abstract: An invoice processing system is proved. The system includes a database and a server in electronic communication with the database. The server is operative to: interpret an invoice; interpret historical data from the database, the historical data corresponding to at least one of one or more vendors of past invoices or one or more payors of past invoices; and in response to the interpretation of the invoice, determine a vendor of the invoice based at least in part on the historical data. The server is further operative to in response to the determination of the vendor, determine a value for each of one or more judgment fields via machine learning based at least in part on the historical data and the vendor; and transmit the invoice with the vendor and the value for each of the one or more judgment fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: PredictAP, Inc.
    Inventors: David Stifter, Christopher Antenesse, Nicholas Gerakines, Eric A. Hsiao
  • Patent number: 12229717
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using machine learning to dynamically manage product catalogs are disclosed. According to certain aspects, a set of machine learning models may analyze a set of data identifying a product to create or update a data record associated with the product, where the set of machine learning models may include a brand assignment model, a category assignment model, and a tag assignment model. Further, an entity resolution model may refine the data record, which may be organized according to a set of hierarchical data for the product. Additionally, a product catalog may be updated to identify the product according to the set of hierarchical data for the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Fetch Rewards, LLC
    Inventors: James Harris Hurst, David Berk
  • Patent number: 12229719
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables configuration and sharing of a coverage map which displays asset data. In various implementations, an asset owner provides access to select portions of asset data, such as vehicle performance data, to an end-user. The asset owner configures a coverage map to display the selected data according to the type of asset data to be displayed, the scope of the data to be displayed, and other map attributes. Once configured, a URL is generated which the fleet operator provides to the end-user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Zhang, Joanne Wang, Wei Wu, Henry Qin, Jordan Gilbertson, Hao Miao Yu, Grant Kalasky
  • Patent number: 12223491
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are provided for coordinating an interactive workflow between a first end user device having a first display and a first client application, and a second end user device having a second display and a second client application. In one example, a method comprises connecting the first end user device to a real-time database and setting a first listener on a field or table of the real-time database, connecting the second end user device to the real-time database and setting a second listener on the same or a different field or table of the real-time database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MindBody, Inc.
    Inventors: Bartley B. Powers, Ramses Eneko Alonso Cueva
  • Patent number: 12223511
    Abstract: Techniques are described for generating a set of emotion factor values using one or more machine learning models for customer communications. For example, a computing system includes one or more processors in communication with a memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive communication data of a current communication associated with a customer, apply the communication data to an emotion-based indexer as input wherein the emotion-based indexer includes a set of machine-learning models for a set of emotion factors, generate as output from the emotion-based indexer a set of emotion factor values for the current communication wherein each emotion factor value indicates the measure of a particular emotion factor in the current communication, apply the set of emotion factor values to an emotion classification model, and classify the current communication into an emotion state based on the set of emotion factor values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar, Amit Agarwal, Dipanjan Deb, Naveen Gururaja Yeri
  • Patent number: 12223552
    Abstract: Implementations ingest records across multiple accounts hosted by different service providers and augment the records with metadata. For example, ingesting can include processing the records to identify transactions in the records and to discover additional aspects of the transactions. In some implementations, metadata can be used to augment the identified transactions in the records, where metadata can include a category, a digital receipt, a user tag such as a geotag, and other suitable metadata. The ingesting and augmenting the records can populate a coordination data structure with identified transactions and their associated data elements. These identified transactions can then be queried and a result set of transactions that span the different user accounts can be returned. In some implementations, the transactions can be queried using the augmented metadata, or other suitable pieces of information for the transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: UIPCO, LLC, United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Mathew Cyriac Kottoor, Gideon Bowie Luck, Pradeep R. Mangalagiri, Andrew Flores, Iris Jordan, Joseph H. Louwagie, III
  • Patent number: 12223466
    Abstract: Cameras capture images of shelves/displays having items. The images are processed to identify real-time item counts on the shelves and/or empty or partially empty shelves with less than a configured number of items. Notifications or messages regarding item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are sent through an Application Programming Interface (API) to consuming services in accordance with custom defined rules. In an embodiment, real-time item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are dynamically reported through the API based on on-demand requests from the consuming services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventors: Qian Yang, Frank Douglas Hinek, Brent Vance Zucker
  • Patent number: 12223488
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing register content is described. A register content management module receives an identity of the retail location register, identifies a geographic location associated with the retail location register, identifies a time for which the updated register content is requested, generates a new register content, and sends the new register content to the retail location register independently from sending an application update to the retail location register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Clayton Beyers, Dan Chamberlain, Erin Hanson, Matthew Howard, Rilee Krier, Ryan Lambrecht, John Russ, Julie L Wegmiller
  • Patent number: 12223465
    Abstract: An automated plant (10) for cutting and operating flat slabs made from ceramic or the like for typically but not exclusively manufacturing slabs intended for use as coating elements at both civil and industrial levels and for both indoor and outdoor environments, comprising a first macro-area (12) defining an area suitable for storing products consisting of semi-finished slabs or mother-slabs, a second macro-area (14) defining an area for storing auxiliary packing materials or consumable materials for operations or processes on said slabs, a third macro-area (16) defining a production area for processing, packaging, and packing daughter-slabs or sub-formats of slabs obtained from mother-slabs, a fourth macro-area (18) defining a finished product area or store for letting the products coming from the third macro-area (16) pass through/temporarily accumulate, said plant also comprising automatic handling means for slaving and handling materials and semi-finished and finished products between said macro-areas an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GRANITIFIANDRE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Domenico Marchi
  • Patent number: 12217207
    Abstract: The present application discloses a scheduling method, apparatus, and system, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method applies to a warehouse management server, and comprises: sending a scheduling instruction to an actual stereoscopic warehouse management server and a stereoscopic warehouse simulation model management server, wherein the scheduling instruction corresponds to a target scheduling policy; and responding to first optimization information and determining a first scheduling update instruction, wherein the first optimization information comprises a scheduling optimization operation for the case of a target scheduling policy scheduling fault, which enables the scheduling update of an actual scheduling task in the case of faults, thereby solving the problem that the existing scheduling simulation method cannot handle and alleviate the fault problem in the logistics task, and improving the work efficiency, work quality and reliability of the actual stereoscopic warehouse scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventor: Deqiang Shi