Patents by Inventor Charles Alan McAllister
Charles Alan McAllister 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).
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Patent number: 11790071Abstract: An embedded trace capacitive signet is described. The embedded trace capacitive signet provides for authentication and validation through interaction with a touch screen of a computing device such as a smart phone. The embedded trace capacitive signet has a substrate such as a card, a plurality of conductive circle points affixed to the substrate, a user conductive area that allows a user to provide capacitance to the conductive circle points, and thin traces connecting each circle point to the user conductive area. Placing the circle points in different locations produces unique cards that can be detected by a touch screen of a computing device to initiate a software based application.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SnowShoeFood, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Ree Worley, Jesse Edward Stewart, Alex Norman Haines, Sheradyn Thomas Mikul, Charles Alan McAllister
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Publication number: 20230110605Abstract: A socket security and authentication device is disclosed that has a socket configured to receive a verification module or plug, where the verification module or plug may include, but is not limited to, RFID and Near Field Communications (NFC), QR codes, bar codes, bluetooth communications, magnetic stripe, magnetic memory, fingerprint and biometric identification, as well as capacitively patterned stamps and devices. The socket may have a cradle for receiving and retaining the verification module or plug. The socket may also have a shell for mechanical retention as well as aesthetics.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: SnowShoeFood Inc.Inventors: Ned Dykstra Hayes, Charles Alan McAllister
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Publication number: 20220164428Abstract: An embedded trace capacitive signet is described. The embedded trace capacitive signet provides for authentication and validation through interaction with a touch screen of a computing device such as a smart phone. The embedded trace capacitive signet has a substrate such as a card, a plurality of conductive circle points affixed to the substrate, a user conductive area that allows a user to provide capacitance to the conductive circle points, and thin traces connecting each circle point to the user conductive area. Placing the circle points in different locations produces unique cards that can be detected by a touch screen of a computing device to initiate a software based application.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: SnowShoeFood Inc.Inventors: Thomas Ree Worley, Jesse Edward Stewart, Alex Norman Haines, Sheradyn Thomas Mikul, Charles Alan McAllister
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Patent number: 11328046Abstract: An embedded trace capacitive signet is described. The embedded trace capacitive signet provides for authentication and validation through interaction with a touch screen of a computing device such as a smart phone. The embedded trace capacitive signet has a substrate such as a card, a plurality of conductive circle points affixed to the substrate, a user conductive area that allows a user to provide capacitance to the conductive circle points, and thin traces connecting each circle point to the user conductive area. Placing the circle points in different locations produces unique cards that can be detected by a touch screen of a computing device to initiate a software based application.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: SnowShowFood Inc.Inventors: Thomas Ree Worley, Jesse Edward Stewart, Alex Norman Haines, Sheradyn Thomas Mikul, Charles Alan McAllister
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Publication number: 20210365751Abstract: A punched card capacitive touch stamp is disclosed along with systems and methods for authentication using the punched card capacitive touch stamp. The punched card capacitive touch stamp provides for authentication and validation through interaction with a capacitive touch sensor of a computing device such as a smart phone. The punched card capacitive touch stamp has a substrate such as a card, and a plurality of punched holes through this substrate with either clearance for a user's fingers to directly contact the capacitive touch sensor or containing electrically conductive inserts allowing users to indirectly make electrical contact with the capacitive touch sensor. Contact with the capacitive touch sensor in a unique spatial pattern is transferred simultaneously, or in a sequential combination, and is captured by the electronic device and transmitted to an external server to be decoded and authenticated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: SnowShoeFood Inc.Inventors: Thomas Ree Worley, Charles Alan McAllister, Jesse Edward Stewart, Alex Norman Haines, Sheradyn Thomas Mikul
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Publication number: 20200226240Abstract: An embedded trace capacitive signet is described. The embedded trace capacitive signet provides for authentication and validation through interaction with a touch screen of a computing device such as a smart phone. The embedded trace capacitive signet has a substrate such as a card, a plurality of conductive circle points affixed to the substrate, a user conductive area that allows a user to provide capacitance to the conductive circle points, and thin traces connecting each circle point to the user conductive area. Placing the circle points in different locations produces unique cards that can be detected by a touch screen of a computing device to initiate a software based application.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: SnowShoeFood Inc.Inventors: Thomas Ree Worley, Jesse Edward Stewart, Alex Norman Haines, Sheradyn Thomas Mikul, Charles Alan McAllister
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Patent number: 10601825Abstract: A method for authorizing an electronic device to perform an action includes detecting interaction data from an interaction between a hardware sensor and an identity-augmented tangible object; wherein data of the first set of interaction data is intrinsically dependent on physical characteristics of the identity-augmented tangible device; computing parametric descriptors from the interaction data; transmitting the parametric descriptors and supplementary data to a remote database system; generating, on the remote database system, identity data from a comparison of parametric descriptors with a known set of parametric descriptors; and authorizing, in response to both of the identity data and the supplementary data, the electronic device to perform a first action.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SnowShoeFood Inc.Inventors: Thomas Ree Worley, Jesse Edward Stewart, Alex Norman Haines, Sheradyn Thomas Mikul, Charles Alan McAllister
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Publication number: 20180176220Abstract: A method for authorizing an electronic device to perform an action includes detecting interaction data from an interaction between a hardware sensor and an identity-augmented tangible object; wherein data of the first set of interaction data is intrinsically dependent on physical characteristics of the identity-augmented tangible device; computing parametric descriptors from the interaction data; transmitting the parametric descriptors and supplementary data to a remote database system; generating, on the remote database system, identity data from a comparison of parametric descriptors with a known set of parametric descriptors; and authorizing, in response to both of the identity data and the supplementary data, the electronic device to perform a first action.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: SnowShoeFood Inc.Inventors: Thomas Ree Worley, Jesse Edward Stewart, Alex Norman Haines, Sheradyn Thomas Mikul, Charles Alan McAllister