Patents by Inventor Andrew Melnick

Andrew Melnick 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: 11981696
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new fluoro-pyridinone hydroxamic acid phosphates and boronates of Formulae I, II and III wherein Q is selected from the group consisting of —P(O)(OH)2, —P(O)(OH)(O?M+), —P(O)(O?M+)2 and —P(O)(O?)2M2+; M+ at each occurrence is a pharmaceutically acceptable monovalent cation; and M2+ is a pharmaceutically acceptable divalent cation and their use as LpxC inhibitors and, more specifically, their use to treat bacterial infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Tamim Fehme Braish, Matthew Frank Brown, Ye Che, Richard Andrew Ewin, Timothy Allan Johnson, Michael Joseph Melnick, Justin Ian Montgomery, Mark Stephen Plummer, Loren Michael Price, Usa Reilly, Daniel Uccello
  • Publication number: 20220032197
    Abstract: Generating and validating a subscription key based on subscription parameters associated with a jurisdiction file stored in a NVRAM, the subscription key having characters based on a subscription start date, a subscription term, a key generation date, and a cyclical redundancy check value. Parameters are extracted from the subscription key including the subscription start date, the subscription term, the key generation date, and the cyclical redundancy check value and are stored in a memory of the gaming machine. The key is checked by generating a local cyclical redundancy check value based on a MAC address of the gaming machine and one or more of the extracted parameters, and is validated when the local cyclical redundancy check value matches the cyclical redundancy check value extracted from the subscription key. The jurisdiction file may be updated during a RAM clear function during installation of the gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Shrikant Vasant Potulwar, Scott Andrew Melnick, Jason Adam Cherkas, Anil Kumar Narra, Jack Dillon Cobb, JR., José Damián Rosario Ortega
  • Patent number: 11148059
    Abstract: Generating and validating a subscription key based on subscription parameters associated with a jurisdiction file stored in a NVRAM, the subscription key having characters based on a subscription start date, a subscription term, a key generation date, and a cyclical redundancy check value. Parameters are extracted from the subscription key including the subscription start date, the subscription term, the key generation date, and the cyclical redundancy check value and are stored in a memory of the gaming machine. The key is checked by generating a local cyclical redundancy check value based on a MAC address of the gaming machine and one or more of the extracted parameters, and is validated when the local cyclical redundancy check value matches the cyclical redundancy check value extracted from the subscription key. The jurisdiction file may be updated during a RAM clear function during installation of the gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Shrikant Vasant Potulwar, Scott Andrew Melnick, Jason Adam Cherkas, Anil Kumar Narra, Jack Dillon Cobb, Jr., José Damián Rosario Ortega
  • Publication number: 20210201624
    Abstract: A progressive pool controller within a gaming environment can have programmable contents thereof retrieved or changed without need for user interaction with the controller other than inserting a dynamically-linkable and reprogrammable storage device (e.g., a USB flash drive) into an I/O receptacle of the controller. The controller has a service automatically repeatedly executing therein, checking for insertion of the storage device, checking for recognizable commands within the inserted storage device after it is inserted, executing command following programs for the recognizable commands, saving output results of the executed programs into the inserted storage device and signaling that the storage device should be removed from the I/O receptacle upon completed execution of all the command following programs. Contents of the storage device remain encrypted when in transit and are exposed within secured confines of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Narra, Jasonlee Kissee Hohman, Scott Andrew Melnick
  • Patent number: 10957158
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) learning machine is integrated into a gaming system to adaptively learn to predict when and where excessive chronological clustering of winning hits is likely to occur for a progressive jackpot (e.g., a high frequency one) within the gaming system, to preemptively prepare for such occurrences by prefunding one or more smart-awards funds to cope with such excessive chronological clusterings of hits and to use the one or more smart-awards funds to pay off not-first-in-time winners with a same jackpot award amount as is paid to the true first-in-time winner of the jackpot if such runner up winners hit their respective win conditions within a predetermined smart-awards time span after the first-in-time winner hits. This can avoid or reduce feelings of unfairness by the not-first-in-time winners especially when the latter hit just a split second after the true first-in-time winner hits the jackpot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Andrew James Burke, Anil Kumar Narra, Bradley Donald Schultz, Leah Anne Pinnow
  • Patent number: 10957153
    Abstract: A progressive pool controller within a gaming environment can have programmable contents thereof retrieved or changed without need for user interaction with the controller other than inserting a dynamically-linkable and reprogrammable storage device (e.g., a USB flash drive) into an I/O receptacle of the controller. The controller has a service automatically repeatedly executing therein, checking for insertion of the storage device, checking for recognizable commands within the inserted storage device after it is inserted, executing command following programs for the recognizable commands, saving output results of the executed programs into the inserted storage device and signaling that the storage device should be removed from the I/O receptacle upon completed execution of all the command following programs. Contents of the storage device remain encrypted when in transit and are exposed within secured confines of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Narra, Jasonlee Kissee Hohman, Scott Andrew Melnick
  • Publication number: 20200294353
    Abstract: A progressive pool controller within a gaming environment can have programmable contents thereof retrieved or changed without need for user interaction with the controller other than inserting a dynamically-linkable and reprogrammable storage device (e.g., a USB flash drive) into an I/O receptacle of the controller. The controller has a service automatically repeatedly executing therein, checking for insertion of the storage device, checking for recognizable commands within the inserted storage device after it is inserted, executing command following programs for the recognizable commands, saving output results of the executed programs into the inserted storage device and signaling that the storage device should be removed from the I/O receptacle upon completed execution of all the command following programs. Contents of the storage device remain encrypted when in transit and are exposed within secured confines of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Narra, Jasonlee Kissee Hohman, Scott Andrew Melnick
  • Publication number: 20190355215
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) learning machine is integrated into a gaming system to adaptively learn to predict when and where excessive chronological clustering of winning hits is likely to occur for a progressive jackpot (e.g., a high frequency one) within the gaming system, to preemptively prepare for such occurrences by prefunding one or more smart-awards funds to cope with such excessive chronological clusterings of hits and to use the one or more smart-awards funds to pay off not-first-in-time winners with a same jackpot award amount as is paid to the true first-in-time winner of the jackpot if such runner up winners hit their respective win conditions within a predetermined smart-awards time span after the first-in-time winner hits. This can avoid or reduce feelings of unfairness by the not-first-in-time winners especially when the latter hit just a split second after the true first-in-time winner hits the jackpot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Andrew James Burke, Anil Kumar Narra, Bradley Donald Schultz, Leah Anne Pinnow
  • Publication number: 20190325703
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) learning machine is integrated into a gaming system to adaptively learn to predict when and where excessive chronological clustering of winning hits is likely to occur for a progressive jackpot (e.g., a high frequency one) within the gaming system, to preemptively prepare for such occurrences by prefunding one or more smart-awards funds to cope with such excessive chronological clusterings of hits and to use the one or more smart-awards funds to pay off not-first-in-time winners with a same jackpot award amount as is paid to the true first-in-time winner of the jackpot if such runner up winners hit their respective win conditions within a predetermined smart-awards time span after the first-in-time winner hits. This can avoid or reduce feelings of unfairness by the not-first-in-time winners especially when the latter hit just a split second after the true first-in-time winner hits the jackpot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Andrew James Burke, Anil Kumar Narra, Bradley Donald Schultz, Leah Anne Pinnow
  • Patent number: 10445983
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) learning machine is integrated into a gaming system to adaptively learn to predict when and where excessive chronological clustering of winning hits is likely to occur for a progressive jackpot (e.g., a high frequency one) within the gaming system, to preemptively prepare for such occurrences by prefunding one or more smart-awards funds to cope with such excessive chronological clusterings of hits and to use the one or more smart-awards funds to pay off not-first-in-time winners with a same jackpot award amount as is paid to the true first-in-time winner of the jackpot if such runner up winners hit their respective win conditions within a predetermined smart-awards time span after the first-in-time winner hits. This can avoid or reduce feelings of unfairness by the not-first-in-time winners especially when the latter hit just a split second after the true first-in-time winner hits the jackpot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Andrew James Burke, Anil Kumar Narra, Bradley Donald Schultz, Leah Anne Pinnow
  • Patent number: 10354491
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive wagers on one or more paylines. The systems and methods may utilize one or more tournament game structures. The systems and methods may utilize one or more power-up cards in the one or more tournament game structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Carmen DiMichele
  • Publication number: 20190091579
    Abstract: Generating and validating a subscription key based on subscription parameters associated with a jurisdiction file stored in a NVRAM, the subscription key having characters based on a subscription start date, a subscription term, a key generation date, and a cyclical redundancy check value. Parameters are extracted from the subscription key including the subscription start date, the subscription term, the key generation date, and the cyclical redundancy check value and are stored in a memory of the gaming machine. The key is checked by generating a local cyclical redundancy check value based on a MAC address of the gaming machine and one or more of the extracted parameters, and is validated when the local cyclical redundancy check value matches the cyclical redundancy check value extracted from the subscription key. The jurisdiction file may be updated during a RAM clear function during installation of the gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Shrikant Vasant Potulwar, Scott Andrew Melnick, Jason Adam Cherkas, Anil Kumar Narra, Jack Dillon Cobb, JR., José Damián Rosario Ortega
  • Publication number: 20170148273
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive wagers on one or more paylines. The systems and methods may utilize one or more tournament game structures. The systems and methods may utilize one or more power-up cards in the one or more tournament game structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Carmen DiMichele
  • Patent number: 9558632
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive wagers on one or more paylines. The systems and methods may utilize one or more tournament game structures. The systems and methods may utilize one or more power-up cards in the one or more tournament game structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cadillac Jack, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Carmen DiMichele
  • Patent number: 9552687
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for delivering game play, which may include providing wagering game options that may include a two-dimensional option, a three-dimensional option, and/or a combination of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Cadillac Jack, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Carmen DiMichele, Donald James Rollo, III, Enock Etienne
  • Patent number: 9530280
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive wagers on one or more paylines. The systems and methods may utilize one or more tournament game structures. The systems and methods may utilize one or more power-up cards in the one or more tournament game structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Cadillac Jack, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Carmen DiMichele
  • Patent number: 9508214
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for delivering game play, which may include providing wagering game options that may include a two-dimensional option, a three-dimensional option, and/or a combination of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Cadillac Jack, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Carmen DiMichele, Donald James Rollo, III, Enock Etienne
  • Patent number: 9483912
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive wagers on one or more repeat paylines. The systems and methods may receive one or more secondary wagers on one or more repeat paylines. The repeat paylines may be based on data received from a player. The systems and methods may determine a repeat paylines payout based on the one or more repeat paylines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Cadillac Jack, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Mauro Alejandro Franic, Godfrey Omoregie Imudia
  • Publication number: 20140045570
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive wagers on one or more repeat paylines. The systems and methods may receive one or more secondary wagers on one or more repeat paylines. The repeat paylines may be based on data received from a player. The systems and methods may determine a repeat paylines payout based on the one or more repeat paylines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: CADILLAC JACK
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Melnick, Mauro Alejandro Franic, Godfrey Omoregie Imudia
  • Publication number: 20140032566
    Abstract: Methods and systems to build and utilize a search infrastructure are described. The system generates index information components in real-time based on a database that is time-stamped. The system updates index information at a plurality of query node servers based on the index information components. A query engine receives a search query from a client machine and identifies search results based on the query and the index information. The system communicates the search results, over the network, to the client machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Swati Agarwal, Richard D. Henderson, Davide Libenzi, Jagadish Nallapaneni, Pradeep Sankaranthi, Nicholas Whyte, Thomas Pan, Carson Hoffacker, Amit Basu, He Gang, Mel Sun, Andrew Melnick