Patents by Inventor A. L. Phillips

A. L. Phillips has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11769383
    Abstract: A video collection system collects and sends metadata related to video data such that recording may be triggered and tagged. The video collection system utilizes a mobile broadband network (such as a cellular network) to send metadata, receive triggers, and perform other functions while the video collection system is in the field. The video collection system broadly comprises a plurality of video cameras and a video collection manager. The video cameras each include a mobile broadband modem or other wireless communication element for sending metadata messages. In some embodiments the mobile broadband modem may also send still images, audio data, and video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Digital Ally, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven L. Phillips, James W. Farnham, IV
  • Patent number: 11741480
    Abstract: A method of using browsing activity to identify fraudulent online or virtual applications includes receiving a virtual application over one or more radio frequency links, determining an applicant name on the virtual application, determining an IP address of a source computer from which the virtual application originated, determining an online browsing or search history associated with the IP address, determining whether the online browsing or search history indicates recent Internet searches for the applicant name, and, in response to determining that the online browsing or search history does indicate recent Internet searches for the applicant name, flagging the virtual application as fraudulent and generating an electronic alert indicating that the virtual application is fraudulent to facilitate identifying fraudulent virtual applications for goods or services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Timothy Kramme, Elizabeth A. Flowers, Reena Batra, Miriam Valero, Puneit Dua, Shanna L. Phillips, Russell Ruestman, Bradley A. Craig
  • Patent number: 11734690
    Abstract: A heuristic money laundering detection engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set, such as a transaction record, and detect indications of money laundering activity. By detecting money laundering activity and feeding back indications of money laundering transactions, the heuristic algorithm may continue to learn and improve detection accuracy. Such indications may include correlations to sets of transaction activity among a number of financial accounts and past indications of money laundering activity. Indications of money laundering may allow generation of audit reports for reporting to regulatory authorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Flowers, Puneit Dua, Eric Balota, Shanna L. Phillips
  • Patent number: 11711487
    Abstract: A video collection system comprising a body-wearable video camera, a camera dock, and a video collection manager. The camera dock is configured to interface with the body-wearable video camera having a camera-memory element. The camera dock includes a dock-memory element configured to receive and store video data from the camera-memory element. The video collection manager is communicatively coupled with the camera dock. The camera dock sends at least a portion of the video data to the video collection manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Digital Ally, Inc.
    Inventors: Peng Han, James W. Farnham, IV, Steven L. Phillips
  • Patent number: 11699158
    Abstract: In a method of preventing fraudulent online financial transactions, a request to authorize an online, financial transaction may be received, where the transaction is associated with a debit or credit card account. A computing device at which information associated with the debit or credit card account was entered for the transaction may be identified, and a first geographic location at which the computing device resides may be determined. Based upon geolocation data indicating one or more geographic locations of the authorized cardholder, it may be determined that the authorized cardholder was at a second geographic location at a time of the transaction. If the second geographic location does not correspond to the first geographic location, the financial transaction may be prevented from being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Timothy Kramme, Elizabeth Flowers, Reena Batra, Miriam Valero, Puneit Dua, Shanna L. Phillips, Russell Ruestman, Bradley A. Craig
  • Patent number: 11687938
    Abstract: A method of reducing a future amount of electronic fraud alerts includes receiving data detailing a financial transaction, inputting the data into a rules-based engine that generates an electronic fraud alert, transmitting the alert to a mobile device of a customer, and receiving from the mobile device customer feedback indicating that the alert was a false positive or otherwise erroneous. The method also includes inputting the data detailing the financial transaction into a machine learning program trained to (i) determine a reason why the false positive was generated, and (ii) then modify the rules-based engine to account for the reason why the false positive was generated, and to no longer generate electronic fraud alerts based upon (a) fact patterns similar to fact patterns of the financial transaction, or (b) data similar to the data detailing the financial transaction, to facilitate reducing an amount of future false positive fraud alerts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Timothy Kramme, Elizabeth A. Flowers, Reena Batra, Miriam Valero, Puneit Dua, Shanna L. Phillips, Russell Ruestman, Bradley A. Craig
  • Patent number: 11687937
    Abstract: A method of detecting whether electronic fraud alerts are false positives includes receiving data detailing a financial transaction, inputting the data into a rules-based engine that determines whether to generate an electronic fraud alert for the financial transaction based upon the data, and, when an electronic fraud alert is generated, inputting the data into a machine learning program trained to identify one or more facts indicated by the data. The method may also include determining whether the identified facts can be verified by customer data and, in response to determining that the facts can be verified, retrieving or receiving first customer data. The method may further include verifying that the electronic fraud alert is not a false positive based upon analysis of the first customer data, and transmitting the verified electronic fraud alert to a mobile device of the customer to alert the customer to fraudulent activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Timothy Kramme, Elizabeth A. Flowers, Reena Batra, Miriam Valero, Puneit Dua, Shanna L. Phillips, Russell Ruestman, Bradley A. Craig
  • Patent number: 11684496
    Abstract: Apparatus is provided to cushion between a prosthetic socket and an amputee's residual limb. A plurality of putty-filled packets are assembled into a liner that, when assembled, provides a generally smooth contact surface toward the residual limb. At least one of the packets has a fluid bladder positioned between the putty material and the socket, and the fluid volume in the bladder can be adjusted to affect the fit of the assembly on the residual limb. Methods of fabrication, fitting, and use of such prosthetic devices are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventor: Van L. Phillips
  • Patent number: 11670097
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for Distification of 3D imagery. A computing device may obtain a three dimensional (3D) image that defines a 3D point cloud used to generate a two dimensional (2D) image matrix. The 2D image matrix may include 2D matrix point(s), where each 2D matrix point can be associated with a horizontal coordinate and a vertical coordinate. The computing device can generate an output feature vector that includes at least one 2D matrix point of the 2D image matrix, and a 3D point in the 3D point cloud of the 3D image. The 3D point in the 3D point cloud is mapped to a coordinate pair comprised of the horizontal coordinate and the vertical coordinate of the at least one 2D matrix point of the 2D image matrix point. The output feature vector is input into a predictive model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Elizabeth Flowers, Puneit Dua, Eric Balota, Shanna L. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20230159998
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for external control testing of an assay system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Cynthia L. PHILLIPS, Kenneth K.C. BRAMWELL, Kirk M. RIRIE, Mark Aaron PORITZ
  • Patent number: 11636539
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for approving a dynamic mortgage application. In one aspect, the method may include determining a customer is approved for a mortgage and determining a real estate property is mortgage ready, including calculating an appraisal value for the real estate property based upon the information about the real property retrieved from a computer file or memory location/address (such as by using a machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithm). The method may still further include comparing the calculated amount the customer is approved for a mortgage loan with the calculated appraisal value of the real estate property; and approving the mortgage application of the customer for the real estate property when the calculated amount the customer is approved for the mortgage loan meets, or exceeds, the calculated appraisal value of the real estate property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Tarmann, Richard R. Rhodes, Lokesh Awasthy, Denise DeRoeck, Jaime Skaggs, Jacob J. Alt, Shanna L. Phillips, Shyam Tummala, Matthew S. Meierotto, Richard D. Groonwald, Brian J. Hughes
  • Publication number: 20230099100
    Abstract: A heuristic engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set and detect instances of transaction fraud in a financial account. By providing a heuristic algorithm with unstructured transaction sets and indications of particular instances of transactions that correlate with past fraudulent activity allows prevention of future occurrences of fraud. Such heuristic algorithms may learn from past indications of fraudulent activity and improve accuracy of detection of future fraud detections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Flowers, Puneit Dua, Eric Balota, Shanna L. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20230088436
    Abstract: A method of reducing a future amount of electronic fraud alerts includes receiving data detailing a financial transaction, inputting the data into a rules-based engine that generates an electronic fraud alert, transmitting the alert to a mobile device of a customer, and receiving from the mobile device customer feedback indicating that the alert was a false positive or otherwise erroneous. The method also includes inputting the data detailing the financial transaction into a machine learning program trained to (i) determine a reason why the false positive was generated, and (ii) then modify the rules-based engine to account for the reason why the false positive was generated, and to no longer generate electronic fraud alerts based upon (a) fact patterns similar to fact patterns of the financial transaction, or (b) data similar to the data detailing the financial transaction, to facilitate reducing an amount of future false positive fraud alerts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy Kramme, Elizabeth A. Flowers, Reena Batra, Miriam Valero, Puneit Dua, Shanna L. Phillips, Russell Ruestman, Bradley A. Craig
  • Publication number: 20230072086
    Abstract: A heuristic engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set and a current business context to calculate a credit worthiness score. Providing a heuristic algorithm, executing within the engine, with the data set and the context may allow determination of predicted future contexts and recommend subsequent actions, such as assessing a credit risk of a customer transaction and reducing the risk of customer transactions by processing the available data. Such heuristic algorithms may learn from past data transactions and appropriate correlations with events and available data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Flowers, Puneit Dua, Eric Balota, Shanna L. Phillips
  • Patent number: 11556934
    Abstract: A heuristic engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set and detect instances of transaction fraud in a financial account. By providing a heuristic algorithm with unstructured transaction sets and indications of particular instances of transactions that correlate with past fraudulent activity allows prevention of future occurrences of fraud. Such heuristic algorithms may learn from past indications of fraudulent activity and improve accuracy of detection of future fraud detections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Flowers, Puneit Dua, Eric Balota, Shanna L. Phillips
  • Patent number: 11544783
    Abstract: A heuristic engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set and a current business context to calculate a credit worthiness score. Providing a heuristic algorithm, executing within the engine, with the data set and the context may allow determination of predicted future contexts and recommend subsequent actions, such as assessing a credit risk of a customer transaction and reducing the risk of customer transactions by processing the available data. Such heuristic algorithms may learn from past data transactions and appropriate correlations with events and available data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Flowers, Puneit Dua, Eric Balota, Shanna L. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20220414761
    Abstract: A heuristic engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set, including document image data and correlate the image data with known valid data to detect document fraud. Notifications of fraud detection may include particular signature images, or characteristics of a document image. By feeding back indications of document fraud with correlations to past instances of fraud into the heuristic algorithm, the algorithm may learn and improve in fraud detection accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Flowers, Puneit Dua, Eric Balota, Shanna L. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20220388664
    Abstract: An aircraft interior structure for an aircraft cabin may include a main body with a plurality of walls, where at least one wall of the plurality of walls may be shared with an adjacent passenger suite including an aircraft seat. The passenger suite may be installed at an angle relative to an aisle of the aircraft cabin. The aircraft interior structure may include a cavity defined within the main body. The cavity may be a trapezoidal shape defined at least in part by the angle at which the passenger suite is installed in the aircraft cabin. The cavity may be configured to receive a plurality of galley carts. A length of each of the plurality of galley carts may be dependent on a depth of the cavity at respective locations in the trapezoidal shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: David D. Nicolato, Mark B. Dowty, Tracy Pence, Jefferey M. McKee, Thomas L. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20220366433
    Abstract: A method of using browsing activity to identify fraudulent online or virtual applications includes receiving a virtual application over one or more radio frequency links, determining an applicant name on the virtual application, determining an IP address of a source computer from which the virtual application originated, determining an online browsing or search history associated with the IP address, determining whether the online browsing or search history indicates recent Internet searches for the applicant name, and, in response to determining that the online browsing or search history does indicate recent Internet searches for the applicant name, flagging the virtual application as fraudulent and generating an electronic alert indicating that the virtual application is fraudulent to facilitate identifying fraudulent virtual applications for goods or services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy Kramme, Elizabeth A. Flowers, Reena Batra, Miriam Valero, Puneit Dua, Shanna L. Phillips, Russell Ruestman, Bradley A. Craig
  • Publication number: 20220351216
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method of using customer data to determine that geolocation-based fraud alerts are false positives, it may be determined that an electronic fraud alert is a geolocation-based alert generated based upon an unexpected or abnormal transaction location. In response, customer data may be obtained from two or more sources via radio frequency links. It may then be determined that the customer data from the sources indicates that a customer is traveling. In response, it may be determined that a customer location indicated by the customer data corresponds to the transaction location. In response to determining that the customer location corresponds to the transaction location, the electronic fraud alert may be marked as a false positive, and the electronic fraud alert may be prevented from being transmitted to a mobile device of the customer, in order to reduce an amount of false positives that are transmitted to customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy Kramme, Elizabeth A. Flowers, Reena Batra, Miriam Valero, Puneit Dua, Shanna L. Phillips, Russell Ruestman, Bradley A. Craig