Patents Examined by Leslie Wong
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Patent number: 11741195Abstract: Techniques for easy and secure deployment of a software package from a server to a customer-controlled computing device are described. In an embodiment, a deployment engine running on a server can be used to generate a unique URL for deployment of the software package. The unique URL may include a restricted use token. The restricted use token may be generated based on a combination of a random selection of one or more dictionary words, numbers, and/or symbols. The restricted token is easily readable given the combination of dictionary words, numbers, and/or symbols that make up the restricted use token. The unique URL may then be entered into a customer-controlled computing device via a curl command. The curl command will use the unique URL to generate a secure channel to the deployment engine and automatically download the software package onto the customer-controlled computing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Daniel Fox, Felix Mance, Jelena Cvitanovic
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Patent number: 11730181Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology provide a sweetener composition comprising stevia glycosides that may be stably soluble in an aqueous solution, and methods for their manufacture. In various embodiments, the sweetener composition may comprise at least one stevia glycoside and a natural emulsifier. The natural emulsifier of the sweetener composition may enhance the aqueous solubility of the stevia glycoside to increase the concentration of dissolved stevia glycoside relative to its inherent aqueous solubility. The sweetener composition may be stably soluble upon formulation into any edible sweetened substances.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: James and Carol May Family, LLLPInventors: Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula, Michael Perry May, James A. May, Julian E. Zamora
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Patent number: 11727077Abstract: Described herein are technologies related to inferring information about a webpage based upon semantics of a uniform resource location (URL) of the webpage. The URL is tokenized to create a sequence of tokens. An embedding for the URL is generated based upon the sequence of tokens, wherein the embedding is representative of semantics of the URL. Based upon the embedding for the URL, information about the webpage pointed to by the URL is inferred, the webpage is retrieved, and information is extracted from the webpage based upon the information inferred about the webpage.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Siarhei Alonichau, Aliaksei Bondarionok, Junaid Ahmed
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Patent number: 11726959Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for processing queries wherein the query includes a request to access or delete data and accessing metadata associated with the set of data, the metadata defining data characteristics of the set of data and identifying at least sets of data that need or not need to be accessed or deleted based on the metadata without accessing the actual data in the set of data; also methods to optimize processing of some operations based on the collected metadata on data.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Marcin Zukowski, Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Ashish Motivala
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Patent number: 11710297Abstract: A system and method for detecting a potential match between a candidate facial image and a dataset of facial images is described. Some implementations of the invention determine whether a candidate facial image (or multiple facial images) of a person taken, for example, at point of entry corresponds to one or more facial images stored in a dataset of persons of interest (e.g., suspects, criminals, terrorists, employees, VIPs, “whales,” etc.). Some implementations of the invention detect potential fraud in a dataset of facial images. In a first form of potential fraud, a same facial image is associated with multiple identities. In a second form of potential fraud, different facial images are associated with a single identity, as in the case, for example, of identity theft. According to various implementations of the invention, spectral clustering techniques are used to determine a likelihood that pairs of facial images (or pairs of facial image sets) correspond to the person or different persons.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Aeva, Inc.Inventor: Christopher D. Roller
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Patent number: 11707072Abstract: Food products and systems and methods for their production involve microfiltration (“MF”) of fluid skim to form a MF retentate, combining the MF retentate with cream and subjecting the combination to ultrafiltration (“UF”) to form a UF retentate. Prior to UF, the composition is formed of non-acidified components. Following UF, the UF retentate is acidified and forms a food product including a high solids content. The solids content may be further increased using evaporation. The resulting cheese or cheese base contains a lower whey protein ratio in a fat:casein:whey protein ratio compared to systems and methods that do not employ MF.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Land O'Lakes, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Alexander Glenn, III, Clint Garoutte, Kang Hu, Jason Thompson, Orlando Maldonado
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Patent number: 11700867Abstract: Legume plant-based proteins, especially pea protein, are used as a primary source for twin-screw extrusion to manufacture an intermediate moisture, texturized protein piece that can be further processed by controlled hydration and coated with a batter, breading, or coating to produce a comestible product. Protein is the predominate ingredient (70-95%) in the extruded piece. In the preferred embodiment, the protein is pea powder and flavor is provided by addition of yeast extract to impart beef, chicken, or pork flavor. Additional components in the form of hydrophilic polymers and alkalai are also added prior to extrusion to insure desired texture and handling properties. The hydrophilic polymers impart functional properties such as water-binding, thereby aiding in foaming, emulsifying, texturizing, and gelation, important to manufacturing an intermediate moisture texturized plant-protein product by extrusion.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: NOWADAYS, INC., PBCInventors: Dominik Grabinski, William R. Aimutis
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Patent number: 11696590Abstract: A high protein food may be produced via an extrusion process whereby acid casein is mixed with whey protein, alkali and water. Upon exiting the extruder, the mixture may be cut, dried, and/or tempered, milled and screened before being further processed or packaged. The final product may be configured as a crisp high protein food or a powdered high protein food. The protein content of the end product may be approximately 90-95% on a dry weight basis.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Erie Group International, Inc.Inventors: James M. Klein, Craig Air
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Patent number: 11693893Abstract: A method executed by a computing device includes determining a set of identigens for each query word of a query to produce sets of identigens. The method further includes interpreting the sets of identigens to produce different first and second query entigen groups. The method further includes generating an interim response based on the first and second query entigen groups. The method further includes determining a set of identigens for each updated query word of an updated query to produce updated sets of identigens. The method further includes selecting one of the first or second query entigen group based on the updated sets of identigens to produce a selected query entigen group. The method further includes generating a response entigen group utilizing the selected query entigen group and generating a response to the query utilizing the response entigen group.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: entigenlogic LLCInventors: Frank John Williams, David Ralph Lazzara, Donald Joseph Wurzel, Stephen Emerson Sundberg, Ameeta Vasant Reed, Dennis Arlen Roberson, Thomas James MacTavish, Karl Olaf Knutson, Jessy Thomas, Niklas Josiah MacTavish, David Michael Corns, II, Andrew Chu, Theodore Mazurkiewicz, Gary W. Grube
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Patent number: 11693836Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for monitoring and improving data quality of transaction data that may include receiving transaction data associated with a plurality of payment transactions from an acquirer system. The transaction data may include a transaction record associated with each payment transaction of the plurality of payment transactions. Each transaction record may include a plurality of data fields. Each respective data field of the plurality of data fields may be categorized into a respective type of a plurality of types. A data quality score for each respective data field of the plurality of data fields may be determined based on the respective type of the respective data field. A system and computer program product are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Chiranjeet Chetia, Punit Kumar Rajgarhia, Hangqi Zhao, Claudia Carolina Barcenas Cardenas, Jianhua Huang
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Patent number: 11681769Abstract: A system for preparing and delivering digital information, particularly digital newspaper editions, to mobile application users. The system includes mobile applications (apps) for both mobile phone and tablet devices, with content display and interactivity of each app optimized for device type. The system also includes a suite of back-office software modules which allow writers and editors to prepare stories, images and other content for delivery to the apps. One such module is a story creator, which includes an interface to a content management system allowing plain text stories and images to be imported, formatted and made interactive for delivery to the apps. The story creator module also includes interfaces to providers of data such as obituaries, classified ads and weather, and functionality for publishing daily editions of the digital newspaper using the imported content. Other features of the system include breaking news alerts, paywall integration, and interfaces to social media.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: BLOCK COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: John David Crisp, Joseph Michael Holub, Stephen Raymond Bumbaugh, Charles Aaron Ryder, Joshua Sherman Jacob
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Patent number: 11678689Abstract: A peeling method includes a first decompression step, a pressure-heating step, and a second decompression step. In the first decompression step, an object with a skin to be peeled is placed in a pressure chamber being sealed, and an inside of the pressure chamber is decompressed to a predetermined first negative pressure state. In the pressure-heating step, the inside of the pressure chamber is pressure-heated to a predetermined pressure-heating state after the first decompression step. In the second decompression step, the inside of the pressure chamber is decompressed to a predetermined second negative pressure state after the pressure-heating step.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.Inventors: Maya Ueno, Yasuhisa Ogata, Akinori Noguchi
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Patent number: 11681734Abstract: Organizing and/or aligning fragments of text that are included in a set of physical and/or digital documents so that the arrangement of the text fragments is in a readily understandable and meaningful format for a given reader. This organization and/or alignment uses a relation model of the various text fragments to correlate a meaning between and amongst the various text fragments to ultimately determine the final alignment and/or arrangement of those text fragments.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert G. Farrell, Mustafa Canim, Douglas Ronald Burdick
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Patent number: 11672257Abstract: Disclosed are processes for producing high protein, Greek yogurt products. Such processes can include a step of concentrating a skim milk product to produce a protein-enriched milk fraction, which then can be combined with one or more additional milk fractions to form a yogurt base. The yogurt base is inoculated with a yogurt culture and fermented, and at least a portion of the acid whey is removed from the fermented product using a ceramic ultrafiltration membrane system to form the Greek yogurt product.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: fairlife, LLCInventors: Shakeel Ur-Rehman, Timothy Peter Doelman
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Patent number: 11647772Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology provide compositions and methods for a sweetener composition comprising stevia leaf extract, stevia glycosides, and/or Luo Han Guo fruit extract. The sweetener composition provides enhanced taste and/or flavor properties as compared to other non-caloric or low-caloric sweeteners. The sweetener composition has a reduced aftertaste relative to stevia leaf extract and/or purified steviol glycoside. The sweetener composition may be formulated into any edible sweetened substances.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: James and Carol May Family, LLLPInventors: Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula, Michael Perry May, James A. May
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Patent number: 11641865Abstract: Compositions for forming protective coatings on, e.g., agricultural products, can form a lamellar structure on the surface of the agricultural product that forms a barrier to, e.g., water and gas.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Apeel Technology, Inc.Inventors: Carlos Hernandez, Chance Holland, Stephen Kaun, Louis Perez, Charles Frazier, Changrui Gao, Justin Ryan
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Patent number: 11636119Abstract: A system and method for efficient management of a search database for retrieving context-based information, system including a database and processor, wherein the database includes columnar database for storing a plurality of documents, an ontological database configured to represent a plurality of concepts as nodes in a network and relationships between the concepts as edges between nodes and the search database configured to store an inverted index of the plurality of documents in the columnar database. Herein, the processor is configured to identify, using the ontological database, a set of concepts in each of the plurality of documents and store, in the search database, corresponding to a given document the set of concepts identified in the given document, and secondary concepts relating to the given document, wherein a secondary concept has a direct relationship in the network with at least one of the concepts in the set.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: INNOPLEXUS AGInventors: Prashant Bhatwadekar, Rohit Anurag
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Patent number: 11627753Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology provide a sweetener composition comprising stevia glycosides that may be stably soluble in an aqueous solution, and methods for their manufacture. In various embodiments, the sweetener composition may comprise at least one stevia glycoside and a natural emulsifier. The natural emulsifier of the sweetener composition may enhance the aqueous solubility of the stevia glycoside to increase the concentration of dissolved stevia glycoside relative to its inherent aqueous solubility. The sweetener composition may be stably soluble upon formulation into any edible sweetened substances.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: James and Carol May Family, LLLPInventors: Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula, Michael Perry May, James A. May, Julian E. Zamora
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Patent number: 11617375Abstract: Disclosed are processes for producing cultured dairy products, such as yogurt, that are shelf-stable without refrigeration. Such processes can include contacting a milk base having from 0.5 to 1.9 wt. % milk sugar with a lactic acid bacteria culture and aseptically packaging in a container, followed by storage under conditions suitable to result in a pH of less than 4.7.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: fairlife, LLCInventors: Shakeel Ur-Rehman, Brandon Kopesky, Tim Doelman
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Patent number: 11615086Abstract: Joining data using a disjunctive operator is described. An example computer-implemented method can include generating a query plan for a query, wherein there is a join operator expression for each of a plurality of disjunctive predicates and each join operator expression includes at least a conjunctive predicate and a disjunctive operator. The method may also include generating a bloom filter for each of the plurality of disjunctive operators. The method may further include evaluating each of the plurality of join operator expressions using a corresponding one of the plurality of disjunctive operators and bloom filter for each of the plurality of disjunctive predicates to generate a result set.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Florian Andreas Funke, Guangyan Hu, Jiaqi Yan