Patents by Inventor Benjamin West

Benjamin West 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: 12271496
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for providing third-party password-less access to a secure database. A method can include receiving from a first user device, first data indicative of a request to provide password-less access to a data structure in a secure database, encoding a set of permissions into a data string, the encoded set of permissions including (a) a copy of the access key and (b) one or more filtering parameters, generating an electronic message that includes the data string, providing the electronic message to a second user device, receiving data indicative of a selection of the displayed data string, the received data includes the encoded set of permissions, decoding the received data to obtain the set of permissions, accessing the data structure in the secure database using the obtained set of permissions, and providing, to the second user device, password-less access to the real-time stream of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Medical Data Networks LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Earle H West, III
  • Publication number: 20240423412
    Abstract: Grills and charcoal-containing fuel blocks are disclosed. A grill may include a housing at least partially defining a cooking chamber, a combustion chamber having a support surface configured to support a charcoal-containing fuel block, the combustion chamber may be fluidically and thermally connected to the cooking chamber, an igniter configured to heat a charcoal-containing fuel block positioned on the support surface, a stoke chamber positioned under and fluidically connected to the combustion chamber, stoke ducting having a first end fluidically connected to the stoke chamber and a second end fluidically connected to a stoke fan, the stoke fan configured to flow air from outside the housing and into the stoke chamber through the stoke ducting, cooling ducting fluidically connecting the cooking chamber to a cooling fan, and the cooling fan configured to flow air from outside the housing and into the cooking chamber through the cooling ducting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Miguel Christophy, Craig Jacobson, Steve Hibbs, Michael Chiasson, Neville DeWitt, Jon Oxford, Diego Horna, Maggie Venable, Sean Meehan, Lukas Railson, Michael Garver, Dennis Mess, Rylan Miller, Kyle Jones, Jeff Wallingford, Jeremy Woolman, Tyler Edens, Lindsey Smith
  • Patent number: 12082741
    Abstract: Grills and charcoal-containing fuel blocks are disclosed. A grill may include a housing at least partially defining a cooking chamber, a combustion chamber having a support surface configured to support a charcoal-containing fuel block, the combustion chamber may be fluidically and thermally connected to the cooking chamber, an igniter configured to heat a charcoal-containing fuel block positioned on the support surface, a stoke chamber positioned under and fluidically connected to the combustion chamber, stoke ducting having a first end fluidically connected to the stoke chamber and a second end fluidically connected to a stoke fan, the stoke fan configured to flow air from outside the housing and into the stoke chamber through the stoke ducting, cooling ducting fluidically connecting the cooking chamber to a cooling fan, and the cooling fan configured to flow air from outside the housing and into the cooking chamber through the cooling ducting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Char-Broil, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Miguel Christophy, Craig Jacobson, Stephen Hibbs, Michael Chiasson, Neville DeWitt Pierrat, Jon Oxford, Diego Horna, Maggie Venable, Sean Meehan, Lukas Railson, Michael Garver, Dennis Mess, Rylan Miller, Kyle Jones, Jeff Wallingford, Jeremy Woolman, Tyler Edens, Lindsey Smith
  • Publication number: 20240161183
    Abstract: Logic may receive one or more questions from a customer in a chat. The logic may associate the one or more questions with one or more categories of subjects. The logic may store indications of the one or more categories of the subjects with a customer profile. The logic may select questions for a quiz for the customer based on the one or more categories of the subjects in the customer profile from a set of questions. The logic may present the one or more questions to the customer. And, in some embodiments, the logic may receive answers to the one or more questions from the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Leeyat Bracha TESSLER, Illiana REED, Benjamin West POLLAK, Michael Joseph CIRILLO, Abhita MOORTHY, Mia RODRIGUEZ
  • Publication number: 20240071579
    Abstract: Systems and methods for active medical planning and customized budgeting may include a database that stores medical data, an interface, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive and parse a medical document for medical procedure and related information, implement a learning algorithm to predict, based on the parsed medical and related information as well as the medical data, one or more medical procedures that the user is likely to undergo subsequent to any medical procedures parsed from the medical document, a cost associated with each predicted medical procedure, and a time horizon for each of the one or more predicted procedures, and train the predictive model with feedback from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Phoebe ATKINS, Benjamin West POLLAK, Mia RODRIGUEZ, Xiaoguang ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230233026
    Abstract: Various charcoal cartridges are provided herein, including a charcoal cartridge having a unitary charcoal slab and a combustible igniter layer extending across the unitary charcoal slab. In some instances, the charcoal cartridge may have a plurality of holes extending through the unitary charcoal slab and/or a flavor layer that includes wood chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Steve Owen
  • Publication number: 20230141952
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for providing third-party password-less access to a secure database. A method can include receiving from a first user device, first data indicative of a request to provide password-less access to a data structure in a secure database, encoding a set of permissions into a data string, the encoded set of permissions including (a) a copy of the access key and (b) one or more filtering parameters, generating an electronic message that includes the data string, providing the electronic message to a second user device, receiving data indicative of a selection of the displayed data string, the received data includes the encoded set of permissions, decoding the received data to obtain the set of permissions, accessing the data structure in the secure database using the obtained set of permissions, and providing, to the second user device, password-less access to the real-time stream of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Earle H. West, III
  • Patent number: 11439276
    Abstract: Various charcoal cartridges are provided herein, including a charcoal cartridge having a unitary charcoal slab and a combustible igniter layer extending across the unitary charcoal slab. In some instances, the charcoal cartridge may have a plurality of holes extending through the unitary charcoal slab and/or a flavor layer that includes wood chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Spark Grills, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Steve Owen
  • Patent number: 11344155
    Abstract: A method for managing temperature within a charcoal grill system includes: receiving a target grill temperature for a cooking chamber within the charcoal grill system; in response to receiving an ignition trigger, entering an ignition mode; during the ignition mode, activating an igniter within the charcoal grill system to ignite a charcoal cartridge arranged in a cartridge chamber within the charcoal grill system and activating a stoke fan coupled to the cartridge chamber to accelerate combustion of the charcoal cartridge; monitoring a temperature inside the charcoal grill system; in response to the temperature inside the charcoal grill system exceeding an ignition temperature, entering a temperature management mode; and during the temperature management mode, selectively activating the stoke fan and the cooling fan to maintain the cooking chamber at approximately the target grill temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Spark Grills, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Steve Owen
  • Publication number: 20210235928
    Abstract: Grills and charcoal-containing fuel blocks are disclosed. A grill may include a housing at least partially defining a cooking chamber, a combustion chamber having a support surface configured to support a charcoal-containing fuel block, the combustion chamber may be fluidically and thermally connected to the cooking chamber, an igniter configured to heat a charcoal-containing fuel block positioned on the support surface, a stoke chamber positioned under and fluidically connected to the combustion chamber, stoke ducting having a first end fluidically connected to the stoke chamber and a second end fluidically connected to a stoke fan, the stoke fan configured to flow air from outside the housing and into the stoke chamber through the stoke ducting, cooling ducting fluidically connecting the cooking chamber to a cooling fan, and the cooling fan configured to flow air from outside the housing and into the cooking chamber through the cooling ducting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Miguel Christophy, Craig Jacobson, Stephen Hibbs, Michael Chiasson, Neville DeWitt Pierrat, Jon Oxford, Diego Horna, Maggie Venable, Sean Meehan, Lukas Railson, Michael Garver, Dennis Mess, Rylan Miller, Kyle Jones, Jeff Wallingford, Jeremy Woolman, Tyler Edens, Lindsey Smith
  • Publication number: 20200221901
    Abstract: Various charcoal cartridges are provided herein, including a charcoal cartridge having a unitary charcoal slab and a combustible igniter layer extending across the unitary charcoal slab. In some instances, the charcoal cartridge may have a plurality of holes extending through the unitary charcoal slab and/or a flavor layer that includes wood chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Steve Owen
  • Publication number: 20200163489
    Abstract: A method for managing temperature within a charcoal grill system includes: receiving a target grill temperature for a cooking chamber within the charcoal grill system; in response to receiving an ignition trigger, entering an ignition mode; during the ignition mode, activating an igniter within the charcoal grill system to ignite a charcoal cartridge arranged in a cartridge chamber within the charcoal grill system and activating a stoke fan coupled to the cartridge chamber to accelerate combustion of the charcoal cartridge; monitoring a temperature inside the charcoal grill system; in response to the temperature inside the charcoal grill system exceeding an ignition temperature, entering a temperature management mode; and during the temperature management mode, selectively activating the stoke fan and the cooling fan to maintain the cooking chamber at approximately the target grill temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Spark Grills, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Steve Owen
  • Patent number: 10517429
    Abstract: A method for managing temperature within a charcoal grill system includes: receiving a target grill temperature for a cooking chamber within the charcoal grill system; in response to receiving an ignition trigger, entering an ignition mode; during the ignition mode, activating an igniter within the charcoal grill system to ignite a charcoal cartridge arranged in a cartridge chamber within the charcoal grill system and activating a stoke fan coupled to the cartridge chamber to accelerate combustion of the charcoal cartridge; monitoring a temperature inside the charcoal grill system; in response to the temperature inside the charcoal grill system exceeding an ignition temperature, entering a temperature management mode; and during the temperature management mode, selectively activating the stoke fan and the cooling fan to maintain the cooking chamber at approximately the target grill temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SPARK GRILLS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Steve Owen
  • Publication number: 20190117017
    Abstract: A method for managing temperature within a charcoal grill system includes: receiving a target grill temperature for a cooking chamber within the charcoal grill system; in response to receiving an ignition trigger, entering an ignition mode; during the ignition mode, activating an igniter within the charcoal grill system to ignite a charcoal cartridge arranged in a cartridge chamber within the charcoal grill system and activating a stoke fan coupled to the cartridge chamber to accelerate combustion of the charcoal cartridge; monitoring a temperature inside the charcoal grill system; in response to the temperature inside the charcoal grill system exceeding an ignition temperature, entering a temperature management mode; and during the temperature management mode, selectively activating the stoke fan and the cooling fan to maintain the cooking chamber at approximately the target grill temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Steve Owen
  • Patent number: D935267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Spark Grills, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Miguel Christophy, Bret Recor, Kenneth Young, Virosh Rangalla, Merric French, Jack Knoebber
  • Patent number: D941076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Spark Grills, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Miguel Christophy, Bret Recor, Kenneth Young, Virosh Rangalla, Merric French, Jack Knoebber
  • Patent number: D966807
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Spark Grills, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Miguel Christophy, Craig Jacobson, Bret Recor, Kenneth Young, Virosh Rangalla, Merric French, Jack Knoebber