Patents Examined by Shannon S. Campbell
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Patent number: 11966955Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for generating a manufacturing quote are provided. Part data for a part to be manufactured is received by a processor, where the part information includes information defining the part or specifying one or more aspects of the part. A model of the part is generated and at least a toolpath to create the part is generated. A manufacturing quote is generated using the model of the part. Feedback regarding part design may be provided and manufacturing of the part may be initiated.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Proto Labs, Inc.Inventors: Austin Perry, Joshua Knutson, Robert Ford, Samuel Bosak, Shuji Usui
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Patent number: 11961017Abstract: A method may include receiving, from a client device, a reservation time and image data relating to a desired room; receiving, from a network storage device, facility data for a plurality of rooms; identifying, using an image recognition model, the desired room based on the image data and the facility data; determining an availability of the desired room based on the reservation time and the facility data; generating a first reservation option to reserve the desired room and/or a second reservation option to reserve an alternate room; transmitting, to the client device, the first reservation option and/or the second reservation option; receiving, from the client device, a user selection of the first reservation option and/or the second reservation option; and transmitting, to the network storage device, an instruction to reserve the desired room and/or the alternate room.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Sneha Anand Yeluguri, Christopher Lanoue
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Patent number: 11915191Abstract: Intelligent tools are provided to enable a mailcenter in a campus to provide mail service to mail service customers and perform processing of mail, in an automated manner as much as possible. Such processing may be performed include scanning and obtaining mail information from a mailpiece, and then sending such mail information to the mail service customer (as specified addressee of the mailpiece) by electronic notification via a corresponding electronic address.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Dale Walsh
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Patent number: 11900496Abstract: Disclosed is a method for identifying, in real time, a transportation arrangement between a requestor and a provider that could benefit from a re-matching of the requestor with another provider. A system may match a provider with a requestor to complete a request for transportation from the requestor. The system may monitor a progress of the provider to a pickup location as specified in the request. Based on the monitored progress, the system may determine if the provider is making sufficient progress towards the pickup location. In some examples, the system may determine that the matching of the provider with the requestor is eligible for cancellation because the provider is not making sufficient progress towards the pickup location. The system may cancel the matching and then match another provider with the requestor to continue to make progress towards completing the transportation request.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Snir Kodesh, Andrew Li, Desmond Mawuko Torkornoo, Naomi Yarin
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Patent number: 11900426Abstract: An apparatus and method for profile assessment, the apparatus including at least a processor, and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive user data, receive system data, classify the user data to a service type, generate a pecuniary adjustment assessment as a function of the classified user data and system data and output the pecuniary adjustment assessment.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventors: Joseph Allen Steele, III, Josh David Schumacher
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Patent number: 11900425Abstract: In an information providing device for providing information about a moving object which is used by a user by making an application for use thereof, the device includes a controller comprising at least one processor configured to execute: receiving a start and an end of the use of the moving object by the user through communication with a user device which is correlated with the user; and displaying information indicating that the moving object is available on a display unit which is provided by the moving object and which can be visually recognized from the outside of the moving object, in cases where the moving object is not being used.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyasu Hadano, Yusuke Kaneko, Jun Goto, Hiroko Tsujimura, Miho Otsuka, Hideo Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11900309Abstract: A system for delivering items or packages to an unattended vehicle after receiving an order for delivery of an item or package to a vehicle is disclosed. The system determines identifying information for the vehicle, where the identifying information includes a wireless identifier of the vehicle. The system determines a delivery location of the vehicle. The system transmits a request to dispatch a delivery vehicle to deliver a package to the vehicle, wherein the request comprises the identifying information and the delivery location.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Aysha Habbaba, John Weizhong Luo, Lynn Valerie Keiser, Hyung Min Baek, Sudipto Aich, Simon Murtha Smith, Alexander Silvio Muller, Jennifer L. Brace
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Patent number: 11887043Abstract: One example of the present disclosure can include a system that can receive a first data set over a network from a first computing device, the first data set indicating user preference data and a first request for a shipping cost. The system can also receive a second data set over the network from the second computing device, the second data set indicating a first shipping cost generated by a shipping entity associated with the second computing device in response to the second request. Based on receiving the second data set, the system can determine a second shipping cost based on the user preference data and the first shipping cost. The system can then transmit the second shipping cost over the network to the first computing device, for example as part of a graphical user interface for display on the first computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Acuitive Solutions, LLCInventor: Phillip Marlowe
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Patent number: 11862020Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for parking management are described herein. One device includes instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive a first indication via a mobile device that a user intends to park a vehicle in a parking spot of a parking area, display directions to an available parking spot in the parking area via the mobile device, receive a second indication via the mobile device that the user has parked the vehicle in the available parking spot, and provide a third indication via a different mobile device that the available parking spot is no longer available.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Himanshu Khurana
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Patent number: 11836667Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided. In one embodiment, computing entities can establish direct communications with one another using a variety of protocols and standards. Such direction communications can be monitored or attempted to be established to determine whether an item is allowed or disallowed for delivery.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Juan Perez
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Patent number: 11823115Abstract: A computer system that queries a carrier computer system of a carrier associated with a shipment to determine whether delivery appointment scheduling is available for the shipment, based on a determination that the delivery appointment scheduling is available, generates and transmits a link for a dynamically generated web page to the recipient; receives a signal indicating activation of the link; obtains scheduling information for the shipment from the carrier computer system; dynamically generates page code for the web page and transmits the web page to a client, the web page displaying information associated with the shipment and digital assets that visually correspond to the shipper of the shipment and including a scheduling tool; receives a selection of a time slot from the scheduling tool; and communicates with the carrier computer system to update the carrier computer system with the time slot to schedule delivery of the shipment to the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: CONVEY, LLCInventors: Anna Leigh Bourland, Matthew Howitt, Sebastian Kuruvilla Karivelithara, Olivier Jean Marie Modica, James Robertson Carlin, Jr.
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Patent number: 11816601Abstract: A computerized operation of a vehicle rental system is provided, wherein a number of vehicles is made available to a defined user group for a temporary use period. The vehicles are placed at one or more locations accessible only to the user group, with one or multiple parking spaces reserved for the vehicles in each case. Based on a user input which includes at least one item of data regarding a rental period start and a rental period end of a vehicle, as well as a user ID, a reservation of the vehicle is carried out in a computerized reservation system. A sensor device, which monitors the parking spaces, verifies the presence of the vehicle. The reservation system shows a vehicle, the same being detected by the sensor device as parked in one of the reserved parking spaces prior to the expiration of the rental period end and saved in the reservation system, as available for rental in the reservation system.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Astrid Schroeder
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Patent number: 11816602Abstract: A method and system for the online vehicle rentals, such as a car share rental, allows for a customer to self-dispatch and self-return a rental vehicle without requiring special equipment in the rental vehicle or the presence of rental personnel at the dispatch or return location. At the beginning of the rental period, the customer is prompted to input to a rental management computer system, via a mobile computer device, information about the mileage and fuel level of the rental vehicle and to report existing damage to the rental vehicle. If the customer wishes to extend the rental time period, the customer is prompted to select a requested extended end time for the rental time period and to send the requested extended end time to the rental management computer system.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: U-HAUL INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Edward J Shoen, Michael George Colman, Mariah Anne Reid, Arthur Scott Tonan, John Samuel Wathen
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Patent number: 11810161Abstract: A system comprising an electronic pricing system configured to receive information corresponding to a designed product and determine an initial price(s) as well as initial values of other business variables associated with the price. The system allows a user to enter a change to a price or the other business variable to instantly discover how the change affects other variables and optionally how the change affects one or more allowable ranges of acceptable values of other variables. The user can then lock the value of one or more of the variables and prices and change others to instantly discover how a change to one affects the others. The user can then order manufacture of the designed product as a function of values of price and other business variables.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Desprez, LLCInventors: James L. Jacobs, II, John E. Cronin, Kyle W. Kulp, Steven M. Lynch
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Patent number: 11810049Abstract: This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for generating a last mile travel route for a delivery robot. In an example embodiment, an individual captures an image of a frontage of a property. The image may include a package drop-off spot where a package can be dropped off by the delivery robot. The individual may also insert labels and/or illustrations into the image for conveying information such as object descriptors (front door, drop-off spot, etc.), traversable areas (driveway, walkway, etc.), and non-traversable areas (lawn, flower bed, etc.). The image is converted by a computer into a travel map that the delivery robot can use to identify a travel route through the frontage area of the property. The travel map may be provided in various forms such as a semantic map of the frontage area or a bird's eye view rendering of the frontage area.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventors: Justin Miller, Pavithra Madhavan, Sanghyun Hong, Jianbo Lu
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Patent number: 11798045Abstract: A smart container is disclosed. The smart container includes a container body having at least one storage division, a timekeeping unit configured to keep time of a deposit-removal cycle for a storage division to obtain a timekeeping result, a billing unit configured to receive the timekeeping result from the timekeeping unit of the deposit-removal cycle for the specific storage division and calculate a storage fee based on the timekeeping result, and a displaying unit being for displaying the storage fee calculated by the billing unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventors: Haitao Cao, Wanxi Ren
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Patent number: 11797917Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing digitally informed delivery of delivery items, such as mail or packages. A delivery item has an associated digital resource(s), such as electronic text, a digital file, an image, a web page(s), or the like. The delivery item includes an indicia, such as a bar code, that provides access to, or references, the digital resource. When the delivery item is processed during transit from the sender to the recipient of the delivery item, the indicia is read, and the associated digital resource is identified therefrom. The delivery service transmits, to the recipient, an electronic notification indicating that the delivery item is enroute to the recipient and also indicating the associated digital resource. The recipient can then access the digital resource, e.g., the custom text, files, images or web pages associated with the delivery item.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICEInventor: Michael J. Amato
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Patent number: 11798044Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a pluggable architecture for performance of pricing operations. An embodiment of a storage medium includes instructions for installing multiple pricing methods at a pricing service including a pluggable architecture for pricing methods, each pricing method including a set of pricing functions; receiving a pricing request for a sales transaction including one or more sales items, the pricing request including a pricing context for each sales item; and performing a price calculation for the sales transaction, including resolving a pricing method for each sales item, applying the set of pricing functions for the resolved pricing method for each sales item, the application of the set of pricing functions being based at least in part on the pricing context for the sales item, calculating a price for each sales item based upon an outcome of the pricing functions, and aggregating the calculated prices for the sales items.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Mitchell Christensen, Parth Vijay Vaishnav, Wei Gao, Binyuan Chen
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Patent number: 11776021Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are provided for synchronizing presentation across multiple devices. A method may include receiving, by a first device, a first price associated with a product and a first time, wherein the first price is presented in a virtual location. The method may include determining a second price and a second time, the second price associated with the product, wherein the second price is presented at a physical location. The method may include determining that the first time is after the second time. The method may include determining a difference between the first price and the second price. The method may include generating, based on the difference, one or more application programming interface (API) calls associated with replacing, at the physical location, presentation of the second price with presentation of the first price.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Narendra Gyanchandani, Andrew Sutherland, Rajesh Babel, Bilyana Slavova, Rajan Navnitbhai Parmar
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Patent number: 11775879Abstract: An apparatus includes an estimator. The estimator estimates, based on a reservation status, an air quality within a space at a start time of a reservation to be made for the space.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Shu Watanabe