Patents by Inventor Benjamin Schulte
Benjamin Schulte 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).
-
Publication number: 20260285245Abstract: A vehicle steer-by-wire system includes a column jacket. The steer-by-wire system also includes a hand wheel actuator operatively coupled to an end of the column jacket, the hand wheel actuator comprising a motor and a spindle, the spindle operatively coupleable to a steering wheel hub. The steer-by-wire system further includes a rotatable wire harness assembly. The wire harness assembly includes a guide tube having at least a portion thereof disposed within an interior cavity defined by the spindle. The wire harness assembly also includes an electrical connection conduit having at least a portion thereof disposed within an interior of the guide tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2025Publication date: September 24, 2026Inventors: Benjamin Schulte, Jesse Holden, Aidan Watson
-
Patent number: 11762883Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
-
Patent number: 10909553Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an affinity graph are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include (1) receiving customer data for a plurality of customers and merchant data for a plurality of merchants; (2) generating an initial customer table for each customer from the customer data; (3) generating an initial merchant table for each merchant from the merchant data; (4) receiving transaction data from a plurality of sources; (5) enhancing the initial customer tables and the initial merchant tables; (7) associating each customer and each merchant with at least one attribute based on the enhanced customer tables and the enhanced merchant tables; (8) determining an attribute score for each attribute; and (9) determining an affinity for one of the plurality of customers based on the attribute score for an attribute that is common to the one customer and another one of the plurality of customers.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.Inventors: Benjamin Schulte, Gavin C. Michael, Abhijit Bose, Matthew Lightman, Vijay Pappu, John Maiden
-
Publication number: 20170228454Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
-
Patent number: 9665661Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMANY, INC.Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
-
Patent number: 9195988Abstract: The method of processing an analysis cycle to determine interest merchants may include selecting a seed merchant relevant to a topic interest, identifying consumers that have completed a transaction with the seed merchant to generate a list of identified consumers, determining merchants visited by the identified consumers, scoring all the merchants based on network connectivity, activity, and merchant over-index, updating the seed merchant in response to the list of scored merchants relative to a scoring threshold, and scoring the list of identified consumers based on the number of distinct merchants in transaction and over-indexing. Additionally, the method may further comprise producing a list of updated interest merchants and a list of updated identified consumers, where the updated interest merchants and the updated identified consumers are relevant to the topic interest.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Terrence Fischer, Anthony Harry Mavromatis, Monique M. Navarro, Benjamin Schulte, Venkat Varadachary
-
Publication number: 20150294028Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
-
Patent number: 9087088Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
-
Publication number: 20130246124Abstract: The method of processing an analysis cycle to determine interest merchants may include selecting a seed merchant relevant to a topic interest, identifying consumers that have completed a transaction with the seed merchant to generate a list of identified consumers, determining merchants visited by the identified consumers, scoring all the merchants based on network connectivity, activity, and merchant over-index, updating the seed merchant in response to the list of scored merchants relative to a scoring threshold, and scoring the list of identified consumers based on the number of distinct merchants in transaction and over-indexing. Additionally, the method may further comprise producing a list of updated interest merchants and a list of updated identified consumers, where the updated interest merchants and the updated identified consumers are relevant to the topic interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Terrence Fischer, Anthony Harry Mavromatis, Monique M. Navarro, Benjamin Schulte, Venkat Varadachary