Patents Examined by Jamara A. Franklin
  • Patent number: 12086682
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for automatically verifying the authenticity and integrity of documents such as but not limited to instant lottery tickets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Joseph Brandimore, Brian Ingram
  • Patent number: 12073695
    Abstract: A self-sanitizing payment assembly comprising an enclosure assembly, a mounting assembly, a retractable lever assembly, a payment processor, a sanitizer and a plurality of sensors. The mounting assembly attaches the retractable lever assembly to a wall. The retractable lever assembly is disposable into and out of a plurality of expanded positions and a retracted position. The plurality of sensors may be configured with a processing unit to ascertain the position of the arm and/or hand of a user and automatically adjust the position of the payment processor and/or sanitizer to bring them closer to the user. The payment processor is configured to activate upon the sanitizer unit releasing or otherwise dispensing a sanitizer substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Inventor: Stephen Tulloch
  • Patent number: 12067453
    Abstract: A code associated with a managed device is scanned by a mobile device operated by service personnel. The code at least comprises an identifier for managed device. A current geographical location of the mobile device and the code are provided to a cloud/server. The location is associated with the managed device and updated or added to a shared private blockchain ledger. The shared private blockchain ledger shared between one or more enterprises and one or more service organizations. In an embodiment, the managed device dynamically generates the code and presents the code on a display associated with the managed device for scanning by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventor: Micah Scott
  • Patent number: 12067434
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing de novo a polynucleotide storing data using a programmable template independent polymerase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventor: George M. Church
  • Patent number: 12061390
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a backlight unit comprising a light source emitting blue light, a green color conversion material and a red color conversion material, a first polarizer disposed on the backlight unit, a first base substrate disposed on the first polarizer, a thin film transistor disposed on the first base substrate, a second polarizer disposed on the thin film transistor, a first color conversion pattern and a second color conversion pattern disposed on the second polarizer, a first color filter disposed on the first color conversion pattern, a second color filter disposed on the second color conversion pattern, a second base substrate disposed on the first and second color filters, and a third polarizer disposed on the second base substrate and having a polarizing axis same as a polarizing axis of the second polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seon-Tae Yoon, Junghyun Kwon, Kisoo Park, Haeil Park, Moonjung Baek
  • Patent number: 12056564
    Abstract: A gaming table contains a number of antennas that are de-tuned from the resonant frequency of a single RFID tag. This increases the power required to read the single tag but matches the resonant frequency for reading a stack of RFID tags. The gaming table may further include a network analyzer and a set of capacitors that are dynamically switched among the antennas according to measuring the reflection coefficient of the antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: FORTISS, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler J. Seitz, Forrest S. Seitz, Joshua K. Hoyt
  • Patent number: 12047841
    Abstract: A wireless sensing system uses heartbeat signals to monitor locations and usage information for assets. Heartbeat signals are signals transmitted periodically. However, in fast-paced environments, assets may move too quickly for heartbeat signals to provide useful information. In these and other scenarios, the wireless sensing system receives a first set of data describing signal strength between a tape node associated with an asset and a first node associated with a first portion of an area and a second set of data describing signal strength between the tape node associated with the asset and a second node associated with a second portion of the area. Based on relative signal strengths described by the received data, the wireless sensing system determines a path of the tape node associated with the asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Inventors: Hendrik J Volkerink, Ajay Khoche
  • Patent number: 12045684
    Abstract: A system and method for inferring the presence of objects including the identification of an object at least one time and use other presence sensor(s) to confirm the tag or sensor is still in the area of interest even if the identification cannot be confirmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: OHEL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC.
    Inventors: José-Adalberto Teran-Matus, Hector Gomez-MacFarland
  • Patent number: 12046342
    Abstract: An automated tracking system for a pharmacy that tracks unique identifiers (“UI”) with a stock supply of an item or items within a supply container and that provides a security system for determining a discrepancy associated with the stock supply. The UI information automatically travels with the stock supply until it is dispensed to a customer or patient, thereby allowing the system to monitor and track supply for replenishment of the supply or improper or potentially fraudulent transactions. If desired, the improved security allows supply containers and individual supplies within those containers to be stored in the same storage area thereby maximizing available storage space while still improving dispensing and filling accuracy and minimizing loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: GSL SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Shelton Louie
  • Patent number: 12039384
    Abstract: A connector electrically connecting a module substrate and a main substrate includes: a housing mounted on the main substrate; contacts held on the housing and including contact parts and connection parts connected to the main substrate; a frame including side board parts sandwiching a flat board part and the main substrate, the side board parts forming one of a cam groove and a projection; and a slider having opposite side portions forming the other of the cam groove and the projection, forming an insertion space between the slider and the housing upon the projection's insertion into the cam groove and the slider's attachment to the frame, pressing the module substrate against the contact parts upon the slider sliding in the module substrate's insertion direction, sandwiching main substrate, the housing and the module substrate between the slider and the flat board part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Osamu Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 12039398
    Abstract: A method includes: capturing, by a scanner device comprising an image sensor, first image data representing at least a portion of a first item; detecting, by the scanner device, a first barcode represented in the first image data; decoding the first barcode to determine first identifier data for the first item; performing a lookup using the first identifier data to determine a first entry for the first item stored in a data store; generating a sub-image representing a region-of-interest of the first item; generating, using an image encoder, a first vector representation of the sub-image; comparing the first vector representation of the sub-image to at least one second vector representation stored in the data store in association with the first entry; and generating first data indicating that the first barcode is matched with the first item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Anatoly Kotlarsky, Christopher W. Brock, Andrea Mirabile, Francesco Lupo, Miroslav Trajkovic
  • Patent number: 12039396
    Abstract: Various switchable devices, e.g., cellular telephones, including inductive antennas are disclosed. These switchable devices may include one or more switches and a biometric sensor. Some of these one or more switches are optionally wireless and/or manual. In various embodiments, the switchable devices include are included within cellular phones, security devices, identity devices, financial devices, remote controls, and the like. The switchable devices are optionally configured to perform financial transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Inventor: Steven Michael Colby
  • Patent number: 12020109
    Abstract: A writing device is provided to prevent or substantially reduce an occurrence of inconsistency in a destination even when a specification of an apparatus is changed after packaging. According to one embodiment, the writing device includes a first command processor and a second command processor. The first command processor commands a first wireless tag attached to an apparatus to rewrite specification information that is stored in the first wireless tag and that shows a specification of the apparatus. The second command processor commands a second wireless tag attached to a package of the apparatus to rewrite destination information that is stored in the second wireless tag and that relates to a destination of the apparatus, in response to a command given by the first command processor being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahide Kenmotsu
  • Patent number: 12020254
    Abstract: A system and method for preventing fraudulent credit card or debit card transactions by coupling a smart phone to the credit card or the debit card, and transmitting identification information from the smart phone to the card. The card is normally disabled such that no transaction may take place unless the card is enabled. The card receives the transmitted identification information and compares that information to corresponding information stored on the card. If the received information matches the stored information, the card is enabled thus allowing the transaction to take place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Robert Lee Black, Matthew Ryan Santacroce, Andre Rene Buentello, Jose L. Romero, Jr., Timothy Blair Chalmers, Samip Dilip Mehra
  • Patent number: 12008428
    Abstract: A reader device for attachment to a smart device comprising a display, the reader comprising an antenna, processing and reading circuitry, and a communications module, wherein the antenna, the processing and reading circuitry, the processor and the communications module are coupled to each other, and whereby the antenna encloses said display. When a card is tapped on the display, the antenna receives a signal and transmits the signal to the processing and reading circuitry. The processing and reading circuitry processes the signal to produce data, and the produced data is transmitted to a device external to the reader device by the communications module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: STRIPE, INC.
    Inventors: Hwai Sian Tsai, Chi Wah Lo
  • Patent number: 12001903
    Abstract: A mounted token system is configured to be worn by a wearer as a part of the grieving process. The mounted token system may include a token with an tracking indicator, a token mount, and a server. The token mount includes an anterior segment which includes an anterior opening, and a posterior segment moveable relative to the anterior segment. The token mount is configured to secure the token therein. At least a portion of the token is visible from an anterior side through the anterior opening. The server performs the following steps: present, to a first user via a graphical user interface, an invitation to provide information indicative of the tracking indicator of the token; receive, from the first user, information indicative of the tracking indicator; and store information indicative of the tracking indicator. The token may then be passed to a subsequent wearer, utilizing a new token mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Sharing Solace LLC
    Inventors: Crystal Webster, Kyle Webster
  • Patent number: 11989612
    Abstract: Various switchable devices, e.g., cellular telephones, including inductive antennas are disclosed. These switchable devices may include one or more switches and a biometric sensor. Some of these one or more switches are optionally wireless and/or manual. In various embodiments, the switchable devices include are included within cellular phones, security devices, identity devices, financial devices, remote controls, and the like. The switchable devices are optionally configured to perform financial transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Mynette Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Michael Colby
  • Patent number: 11983593
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method, a multi-function card, and an electronic device. The multi-function card may work as a SIM card or a memory card by using electrical contacts through time division multiplexing. Data is transmitted between the multi-function card and a processor in the electronic device, so that a function of subscriber identity identification can be implemented, and a storage capacity of the electronic device can be expanded. Storage space expanded in the electronic device may be used to store a picture, audio, a video, and an application program. The data transmission method and the multi-function card provided in embodiments of this application may be used to save physical space in the electronic device. This is conducive to lightening and thinning of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunan Fan, Lei Wang, Yuchuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11983595
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a transaction card for communicating data relating to a transaction may include forming a pattern in a plastic film using a laser plating process or a print-and-plate process; providing a conductive material in the pattern formed in the plastic film, using a plating process, to form a RF antenna layer in the plastic film, wherein the RF antenna layer includes a RF antenna; and affixing the plastic film to a surface of the transaction card to permit the RF antenna to inductively connect to a printed circuit board (PCB) of the transaction card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Koeppel, Tyler Locke
  • Patent number: 11983590
    Abstract: A laminated transaction card may comprise post-consumer polyethylene with a thickness of at least 30% of a thickness of the laminated transaction card. A first polymer-based layer comprising polyvinyl chloride is coupled to a first surface of the core layer by a first adhesive layer. A second polymer-based layer comprising polyvinyl chloride is coupled to a second surface of the core layer by a second adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer comprise an adhesive formulated to bond the post-consumer polyethylene and the polymer-based layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CPI CARD GROUP—COLORADO, INC.
    Inventors: Maxmillian D. Michieli, James P. Colleran, Barry Mosteller