Patents Examined by Steven S. Paik
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Patent number: 12100256Abstract: A housing facilitates a service operation for a transaction device. The housing is communicatively coupled to a housing control computing system. The housing includes a user interface comprising a first input/output (I/O) device that is communicatively coupled to the housing control computing system. The housing includes a transfer cassette interface structured to receive a transfer cassette that is structured to retrievably store banknotes. The transfer cassette interface is coupled to a sensor structured to detect when the cassette is docked and detect an identification of the cassette. The housing also includes a transaction device interface that is structured to couple to a first cassette port and, responsive to the transfer cassette interface receiving the cassette, operably couple the cassette to a transaction device transport apparatus. The transaction device transport apparatus is structured to facilitate transporting banknotes to and from the cassette and a first storage cassette.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Frank DiGangi, Christian Mande, Dennis E. Montenegro, Darren M. Goetz
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Patent number: 11995507Abstract: A reading device includes: a handy scanner; an adjuster; and a pedestal. The handy scanner includes a head incorporating a reading sensor and a handle which is a gripping part having one end portion connected to the head, and configured to read a code symbol image by the reading sensor. The adjuster is attached to the head and surrounds a readable angular area of the reading sensor. The pedestal is a portion to which the adjuster is detachably coupled, and holds the adjuster in such a direction that the readable angular area of the reading sensor is substantially equal in an up-down direction with respect to a horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kento Kawata
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Patent number: 11487980Abstract: Devices and methods for recharging an embedded battery in a smart card, including a control method implemented by a smart card (CD1) including a rechargeable battery (8). The control method may include operations for processing a transaction (TR1) with a terminal (T); receiving during this transaction a predetermined transaction command requiring a processing time, by the smart card, long enough to allow a recharging of the battery to at least a first predetermined threshold charge level; and, upon detection (S32) of this transaction command, triggering the recharging of the battery (8) by using a power supply delivered by the terminal (T) to reach at least the first predetermined threshold charge level.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: IDEMIA FRANCEInventors: Ludovic Martin-Martinasso, Aissa Waknioun
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Patent number: 11270184Abstract: A circuit provides a physically unclonable function. The circuit includes a first portion that provides a random value that varies according to an input to the circuit and a second portion that hashes the random value to provide an output value from the circuit. The first portion covers the second portion to prevent access to the random value. A breach of the first portions may alter operation of the first portion in a detectable manner. The first portion may cover a surface of a cube or parallelepiped. The first portion may be wrapped around a parallelepiped a plurality of times to cover each facet thereof from different directions. The output from the second portion may not intersect the first portion. The circuit may also include an external layer disposed on the first portion. The external layer may be glued to the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Inventor: Silvio Micali
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Patent number: 10861020Abstract: An apparatus, including a transaction terminal, further comprising: an input device or a receiver, wherein the input device inputs or the receiver receives information regarding an account and transaction information regarding a transaction on or involving the account; a camera or a video recording device, wherein the camera or the video recording device obtains or records a photograph or a video clip of an individual involved in the transaction; a processor, wherein the processor processes the transaction information; and a computer, further comprising: a database, wherein the database stores information regarding the transaction and the photograph or the video clip of the individual involved in the transaction. The information regarding the transaction and the photograph or the video clip of the individual involved in the transaction is transmitted to a communication device independently of any processing of the transaction by a transaction authorization processing computer.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: GTJ VENTURES, LLCInventor: Raymond Anthony Joao
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Patent number: 10733392Abstract: Some embodiments provide robotic multiple-slot test card support systems comprising: a test robot system comprising a robotic arm and an end-effector; and a first card support apparatus comprising: a plurality of lateral supports; a plurality of angled shelf supports each extending between a pair of the plurality of lateral supports defining an array of angled card slots, wherein the shelf supports along the columns are vertically separated and each comprises: a guide exterior surface and an interior surface configured to support a payment test card with at least a portion of a face of the test card being flush with the interior surface; wherein each card slot repeatedly positions the respective test card at substantially the same position within the card slot each time the test card is released by the end-effector enabling repeated accurate retrieval by the end-effector.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Timothy M. Fenton, Christopher D. Johnson
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Patent number: 10578290Abstract: An LED spot lamp with double sides emitting light including a lamp cap, a lamp cup with one end connected with the lamp cap together and a lens connected to the other end of the lamp cup is provided. A cavity is encircled by the lamp cup and the lens. An LED light source including a circuit board provided with LEDs and an LED driver for driving the LEDs to emit light, and a radiator supporting the circuit board and dissipating heat generated by the LEDs are arranged in the cavity. The circuit board includes a main light emitting plate irradiating the lens, and an auxiliary light emitting plate irradiating the direction away from the lens. The lamp cup is of a light transmitting glass structure. The brightness of light emitted from the main light emitting plate is greater than that of light emitted from the auxiliary light emitting plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: ZHEJIANG NVC LAMPS CO., LTDInventors: Xiaorong Zheng, Renyan Zhan
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Patent number: 10558901Abstract: A device for and a method of outputting a magnetic field which is selected according to the type of card reader into which the device is inserted. Different card readers have different reader head types and different number of reader heads, and different modes of outputting the magnetic field, usually with the same information contents, are selected in order to cater for different reader types. In one example, the sensing coils of different reader heads may have different angles to the swipe plane, so that different field line angles may be selected to adapt to the actual reader head.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: CARDLAB APSInventor: Finn Nielsen
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Patent number: 10553082Abstract: The invention relates to blocking fraudulent gathering of credit card and debit card information during a legitimate payment transaction at a credit/debit card reader. The invention includes the installation, preferably in a non-uniform manner, of blockers onto one or more faces or surfaces of the card reader. Properly installed blockers will tend to prevent the easy installation of a flush mounted skimmer device that is designed to overlay the legitimate card reader at a store or point of sale location such as a gasoline pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: PHILLIPS 66 COMPANYInventor: Gary S. Brush
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Patent number: 10532921Abstract: Fuel dispensers, systems and methods are provided for electronically transmitting data characterizing fueling transactions in a fueling environment, and in particular from a fuel dispenser. In an exemplary embodiment, a fuel dispenser is provided having a printer module that can perform operations that enable any one or more of replacing a printer, providing a user with a printed transaction record at a remote location, and/or provide the user with an electronic transaction record. The application of the printer module can facilitate providing a user with a printed and/or electronic transaction record, while minimizing, or eliminating, changes to standard communication protocol associated with components of a payment terminal that can deliver formatted transaction data to a typical printer.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Wayne Fueling Systems LLCInventors: Henry Fieglein, Scott R. Negley, III, John Joseph Morris, Thomas Cerovski, Steve Belt
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Patent number: 10535059Abstract: A retail store is comprised of a retail space having billboard paper with images of items and item codes for purchasing the items. The retail store further includes a pick area where physical items of the store are located. A device operated by a user scans the item codes and the item codes are communicated to a server for item information and item pricing. As item identifiers are moved to a cart depicted on the device by the user, the server communicates the item details to a display device in the pick area where corresponding items are picked for a transaction of the user in real time. When the user checks out and pays for the items in the cart, the user retrieves the bagged items for the transaction from a pickup drive-thru accessible from an external area of the retail store where the pick area is located.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: NCR CorporationInventor: John Coker Goodwin, III
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Patent number: 10535226Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for conducting a checkless cash access settlement are provided. In one embodiment, a cash advance method includes the following: a customer initiates a cash access transaction via a cash access system; the customer receives authorization or denial; the customer provides identification and the financial card to a cashier or attendant; the cashier or attendant validates the customer's identity, retrieves the transaction information, and completes the cash advance application; the application prints a non-negotiable instrument, such as a transaction receipt; the customer signs the receipt confirming the transaction with a physical receipt or electronic capture.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Everi Payments Inc.Inventors: Craig Potts, Richard Beer
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Patent number: 10524309Abstract: A method is provided for interacting with audience members in an event, each of the potential attendees having available thereto a unique identifier. The method comprises creating, for an attendee, a unique ID (UID) on a mobile wireless device (MWD) by the steps of inputting to the MWD one of the unique identifiers, combining the obtained unique identifier with a UID time stamp at the time of creation of the UID; receiving with a server on a first wireless channel communications from the MWD; registering the UID at the physical location of the event; generating a visual query; displaying on the MWD response indicators; receiving at the server from the registered attendee a response, to the query over the first wireless channel; and storing in a database on the server the received response in association with the displayed query.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: TESLA LABORATORIES, LLCInventor: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer
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Patent number: 10504123Abstract: A computer-implemented method, included inputting, entering, or receiving, with or using an input device or a receiver, information regarding an account and transaction information regarding a transaction on or involving the account; obtaining or recording, with or using a camera or a video recording device, a photograph or a video clip of an individual involved in the transaction; processing, with or using a processor, the transaction information; storing, in a database of a computer, information regarding the transaction and the photograph or the video clip of the individual involved in the transaction, and transmitting the information regarding the transaction and the photograph or the video clip of the individual involved in the transaction to a communication device independently of any processing of the transaction by a transaction authorization processing computer.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: GTJ VENTURES, LLCInventor: Raymond Anthony Joao
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Patent number: 10489696Abstract: An article allows an engraved code to be detected. The engraved code includes a plurality of dot dented portions defined on the article. Each of the dot dented portions has a quadrilateral pyramid shape with a coating layer on a prior stage dented portion having a quadrilateral pyramid shape. Corner dented portions dented at acute angles outward along a diagonal direction are defined at four corner positions of an opening peripheral edge portion of the prior stage dented portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Take, Takashi Murakami, Kokichi Nakayama, Kazushi Imamura
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Patent number: 10489697Abstract: An engraved code includes a plurality of dot dented portions defined on an article. The engraved code includes an opening peripheral edge portion of each of the dot dented portions which has a polygonal or quadrilateral shape. This configuration leads to detection of each dot dented portion as a polygonal or quadrilateral dot.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kazushi Imamura, Yasushi Suzuki, Kokichi Nakayama, Takashi Murakami, Toshiyuki Take
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Patent number: 10482367Abstract: The disclosed technology relates generally to apparatus comprising conductive polymers and more particularly to tag and tag devices comprising a redox-active polymer film, and method of using and manufacturing the same. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a substrate and a conductive structure formed on the substrate which includes a layer of redox-active polymer film having mobile ions and electrons. The conductive structure further includes a first terminal and a second terminal configured to receive an electrical signal therebetween, where the layer of redox-active polymer is configured to conduct an electrical current generated by the mobile ions and the electrons in response to the electrical signal. The apparatus additionally includes a detection circuit operatively coupled to the conductive structure and configured to detect the electrical current flowing through the conductive structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Paul B. Johnson, Jose Antonio Bautista-Martinez, Cody A. Friesen, Elise Switzer
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Patent number: 10395081Abstract: A method of encoding indicia for one or more fields and subfields of a document is described. The one or more fields and subfields are encoded in extraction fields of the document with field descriptors. The field descriptors are unique at a parent level for the one or more fields and subfields, and provide information on relationships between the one or more fields and subfields. The field descriptors can include a current level of the field, a field's count identifier, a total number of fields at the current level, and an indication if the current level has subfields. The field descriptors can be encoded in the extraction field border via an embedded barcode.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Justin Lundberg, Eric Swanson, Robert Nguon
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Patent number: 10318818Abstract: A system detects a transaction outcome by obtaining video data associated with a transaction area and analyzing the video data to obtain at least one video transaction parameter concerning transactions associated with the transaction area. The transaction area can be a video count of items indicated in the video data as detected by an automated item detection algorithm applied to the video data. The system obtains at least one expected transaction parameter concerning an expected transaction that occurs in the transaction area, such as a scan count of items scanned at a point of sale terminal. The system automatically compares the video transaction parameter(s) to the expected transaction parameter(s) to identify a transaction outcome that may indicate fraudulent activity such as sweethearting in a retail environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: StopliftInventors: Malay Kundu, Vikram Srinivasan, Joshua Migdal, Xiaowei Chen
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Patent number: 10217577Abstract: Described herein are several examples of an apparatus that features receptacles configured to accept interchangeable buttons. Each of the interchangeable buttons has a receptacle interface on a first side, which allows them to electrically connect to and communicate with the aforementioned apparatus, and a unique user-perceivable label on a second side. Electronic elements embedded in each interchangeable button, or alternatively located on its first side, correspond to a unique user-perceivable label. Based on these electronic elements, the apparatus recognizes each button individually, and identifies their user-perceivable label. As a result, the interchangeable buttons may be re-positioned on the apparatus and maintain their intended functionality according to their user-perceivable label. In addition, new interchangeable buttons with different user-perceivable labels and new functionality, according to their labels, can be introduced to the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Roku, Inc.Inventors: William Daniel Strauss, Scott Edward De Haas, Gregory Mack Garner, Jeffrey John Peters, Anthony Wood