Patents Examined by Laura A Gudorf
  • Adjustable pocket device for note dispensing and receiving
    Patent number: 10825306
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein include a pocket to receive tendered notes and to dispense notes from a terminal, such as an automated teller machine. The pocket may include a shutter, a lifter opposite the shutter, a pusher plate between and perpendicular to the shutter and lifter, and a ceiling clamp. The pocket also includes a controller that causes the terminal to perform actions when dispensing notes including moving the ceiling clamp to an open position and providing an output triggering dispensing of notes into the pocket. The actions further include moving the ceiling clamp to a closed position, moving the pusher plate to bias notes present within the pocket against the ceiling clamp and raising the lifter from a lower position to an upper position thereby lifting notes present between the pusher plate and the ceiling clamp. The shutter is then opened to expose and dispense the notes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Burke, Scott Cruickshanks
  • Method for providing a code pattern
    Patent number: 10824821
    Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a method for providing a code pattern which is readable by a sensor is conceived, the method comprising: defining a plurality of coding positions as a subset of positions in a two-dimensional matrix; including in said subset a plurality of positions which are diagonally adjacent to each other; selectively creating coding marks, such as coding dots, at the coding positions. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding code pattern is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Thomas Suwald
  • Image forming apparatus management system, image forming apparatus, managing apparatus, terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus managing method, and image forming program
    Patent number: 10827095
    Abstract: A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakagami, Naoto Sakurai, Koji Sasaki, Daiya Miyasaka, Tomoko Nishizawa, Yasuhiko Tsugawa, Yohei Ono
  • Systems and methods for preventing chip fraud by inserts in chip pocket
    Patent number: 10817768
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing fraud prevention inserts in a chip pocket of a card are provided. A chip fraud prevention system includes a device including a chip and one or more fraud prevention inserts. The chip, and the fraud prevention inserts, may be at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Herrington, Stephen Schneider, Tyler Maiman
  • Chip-on-board design with color mixing
    Patent number: 10811397
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure provide for a lighting system including a substrate. The lighting system includes several blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) supported by the substrate. The lighting system includes at least one red LED supported by the substrate. The lighting system includes a light conversion material covering the blue LEDs and the at least one red LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGELUX INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir Odnoblyudov, Cem Basceri, Peng Chen
  • Transfer of a transaction from a wounded ATM to another ATM
    Patent number: 10810562
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for completing the transaction at another ATM upon determining that an ATM where a transaction being performed is unable to complete the transaction. Upon detection of an error condition at the ATM, a current status of the transaction being performed at the ATM and the error condition may be analyzed to determine an option to complete the transaction. Upon determination that the transaction can be completed at the other ATM, a notification may be sent to the customer. In response to the notification, information identifying the transaction may be received from the other ATM, and a session identifying the transaction may be sent to the other ATM, thereby allowing the transaction to complete at the other ATM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Nathaniel McKinnon, Ehab M. Awadallah, Jeremy J. Phillips
  • Cassette system for secure resource distribution
    Patent number: 10803710
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for a cassette system and device network for secure resource replenishment and distribution among a plurality of computer terminals. A resource replenishment device comprising a tamper-proof, sealable container may securely store and transport one or more resources within the interior of the device. The resource replenishment device may be used for efficiently fulfilling calculated resource deficiency requests at one or more computer terminals, wherein resources may be transferred to the resource replenishment device from a resource reserves station for transport and transfer to a resource-deficient, requesting computer terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jon Robert Wolf, Matthew Edward Williams
  • Election voting system using printed vote records
    Patent number: 10789801
    Abstract: An election voting system is provided. The election voting system includes a printer for accepting printer medium. In one embodiment, the printer medium may be a paper printer medium. The printer medium includes mark(s) positioned on the printer medium that may be utilized to determine whether the printer medium is inserted into the printer in the proper orientation. The election voting system may include a sensor that identifies the presence of the mark. Two marks are positioned so that the orientation of the paper (right side up versus upside down) can be determined. In addition, in one embodiment, the marks are positioned so that even if the printer medium is rotated 180 degrees, orientation as to which side is up may be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: Hart InterCivic, Inc., Brother Mobile Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Raul G. Palacios
  • Systems and methods for third party token based authentication
    Patent number: 10783518
    Abstract: A method for authenticating a user on behalf of a third party provider includes receiving, by an identity provider computing system, a user token and user device information from the third party provider, identifying, by the identity provider computing system, the user based on the user token, identifying, by the identity provider computing system, related user activity based on the user device information, and authenticating, by the identity provider computing system, the user based on the related user activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A
    Inventor: Brian M. Pearce
  • Magnetic jammer and card reader
    Patent number: 10783333
    Abstract: A magnetic jammer for a card reader and structured to generate a magnetic field for jamming illegal reading of magnetic data stored on a card may include a core including magnetic material; a coil wound around the core and structured to generate a jamming magnetic field; a case accommodating the core and the coil; and a resin sealant filling the inside of the case and covering the core and the coil. The core and the coil may be disposed apart from an inner face of the case such that the core and the coil do not come into contact with the inner face of the case. A portion of the resin sealant may be disposed between the core and the inner face of the case and between the coil and the inner face of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirotaka Sakamaki
  • Protection of personal data contained on an RFID-enabled device
    Patent number: 10783335
    Abstract: A system for protecting personal data contained on an RFID-enabled device, suitable for use with an RFID system including an RFID reader configured to extract information from an RFID chip associated with the RFID-enabled device, includes a personal data protection system including a personal data protection device configured to prevent reading of the RFID chip associated with an RFID-enabled personal item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: James Carey
  • Application processing method and apparatus for embedded universal integrated circuit card
    Patent number: 10776683
    Abstract: An application processing method and apparatus for an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) are disclosed. The method includes: activating, by a terminal device, an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC); and selecting, by the terminal device, an Issuer Security Domain Root (ISD-R) application on the eUICC during an initialization process of the eUICC, to maintain a session between the terminal device and the eUICC. The session between the terminal device and the eUICC can be maintained during the initialization process of the eUICC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Yi, Shuiping Long, Linyi Gao
  • System, method and computer readable storage to utilize optical recognition to detect a transaction inconsistency
    Patent number: 10769637
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage utilize optical character recognition to authentic a transaction. Optical character recognition is used on a physical instrument and data obtained from the optical character recognition is used to query a remote database. Identification information from the remote database is compared with data obtained from the optical character recognition to determine whether there is an inconsistency of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Kabbage, Inc.
    Inventors: Rob Frohwein, Kathryn Petralia
  • Barcode-reading system that requires an accessory for enhanced operation of a barcode reading application
    Patent number: 10769395
    Abstract: A barcode-reading system for a mobile device may include a camera assembly. The barcode-reading system may include a barcode-reading enhancement accessory and a barcode-reading application. The barcode-reading enhancement accessory may be securable to the mobile device and may be configured to provide an indication of license entitlement to the mobile device. The barcode-reading application may be stored in memory of the mobile device and executable by a processor of the mobile device. The barcode-reading application may also be configured to enable an enhanced mode of operation of the barcode-reading application conditional upon determining obtaining the license entitlement from the accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Code Corporation
    Inventors: George Powell, Ryan Hoobler
  • Determining an action associated with an apparatus using a combined bar code image
    Patent number: 10769509
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method of determining an action associated with an apparatus. The method comprises obtaining (100) data representing a visual code and a visual symbol; comparing (120) the visual code with a reference code, and comparing (130) the visual symbol with a reference symbol, to obtain comparison results; and determining (140) the action in response to the comparison results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Declan Patrick Kelly
  • Method for determining tactical actions
    Patent number: 10769541
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining tactical actions for protecting a reference entity with respect to a plurality of entities in a battlefield environment, the method including: segmenting the battlefield environment into a plurality of layers; associating actable deterrent systems with each layer; obtaining data representative of the probability, for each deterrent system, that the considered deterrent system deters an entity in the associated layer; providing, for each entity, the level of threat of the entity; and computing a cost function for determining the deterrent systems to be engaged by the reference entity for rendering extremal the cost function, the cost function being a function depending from the provided level of threat and the obtained data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Christophe Camille Labreuche, Helia Pouyllau, Pierre Saveant, Yann Semet, Jan-Egbert Hamming, Maurice Houtsma
  • Image forming apparatus management system, image forming apparatus, managing apparatus, terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus managing method, and image forming program
    Patent number: 10742841
    Abstract: A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakagami, Naoto Sakurai, Koji Sasaki, Daiya Miyasaka, Tomoko Nishizawa, Yasuhiko Tsugawa, Yohei Ono
  • Wearable RFID device
    Patent number: 10733495
    Abstract: A wearable radio frequency identification (RFID) includes a band that forms a loop and a flag that projects outwardly from the loop which includes an RFID transponder. By virtue of being part of the flag, the RFID transponder is spatially separated from a radially-outward facing surface of the loop and thereby also apart from a user wearing the device. This provides improved read ranges of the RFID transponder when used with an energy absorbing or conductive object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Precision Dynamics Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald G. Ennis, James Kopitzke
  • Receipt generation service
    Patent number: 10733590
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a server via a network, transaction information descriptive of a money transfer transaction initiated at a point of entry device. The transaction information includes information that identifies a location of the point of entry device. The method includes determining, by the server, receipt information to be included in a receipt for the money transfer transaction. The receipt information may be determined based, at least in part, on the transaction information, and at least a portion of the receipt information included in the receipt satisfies regulatory requirements associated with the location of the point of entry device. The method includes generating, by the server, the receipt that includes the receipt information, and transmitting the receipt from the server to the point of entry device via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Moneygram International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Patrick Kelly, III, Connie Darlene Jacobson, Dinesh Pattanashettaru, LaVonne Lynne Engman
  • Scalable asset location and tracking and sensor monitoring system
    Patent number: 10719674
    Abstract: A scalable tag detection, location, tracking, recovery, and data collection system uses a social network of mobile devices, such as smartphones, as readers, to find lost or stolen goods that are tagged, or to read data or sensor values from tags at remote locations. A network service apparatus compiles IDs of tags of interest into a data structure representing a subset of all tagged items, and transmits the data structure information to the participating mobile devices. Each mobile device application can receive tag transmissions when in proximity to any tag. The mobile device processes received tags with the filter to determine if they are part of the composition of the data structure and thus a tag of interest. If so, the mobile device location, time, and tag ID, are relayed to the network service for additional analysis. The short range tag emits a low power, low duty factor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Inventor: Jeffrey Fischer