Patents by Inventor Benjamin Blake

Benjamin Blake 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).

  • Mitigating near-field-communication (NFC) antenna interference
    Patent number: 12039517
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and techniques for enabling a communication device to communicate wirelessly with a near-field-communication (NFC)-enabled payment terminal while avoiding interference between the NFC-enabled payment terminal and other NFC payment instruments. In some instances, the communication device may receive, via a non-NFC communication protocol, a payment token from an identification device and may send, over NFC, the payment token to the NFC-enabled payment terminal for satisfying the cost of a transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Blake Macy, Sora Kim, Kaustuva Acharya, Jacob Francis Garstki
  • Mitigating near-field-communication (NFC) antenna interference
    Patent number: 11625707
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and techniques for enabling a communication device to communicate wirelessly with a near-field-communication (NFC)-enabled payment terminal while avoiding interference between the NFC-enabled payment terminal and other NFC payment instruments. In some instances, the communication device may receive, via a non-NFC communication protocol, a payment token from an identification device and may send, over NFC, the payment token to the NFC-enabled payment terminal for satisfying the cost of a transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Blake Macy, Sora Kim, Kaustuva Acharya, Jacob Francis Garstki
  • STUDENT PROGRESS SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180108265
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to generating and monitoring one or more student programs. For example, one or more processors may load education data corresponding to one or more students. The one or more processors may generate, for each student, a generated student program and identify one or more generated student programs which fail to satisfy at least one or more rules. The one or more generated student programs which fail to satisfy the at least one or more rules may be automatically reported, by the one or more processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Raymond J. Huntington, Beverly Collins, Frank Frontignano, Benjamin Blake, Carol Lovallo