Patents by Inventor Chris Cummins

Chris Cummins 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: 9160711
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing a cleansing farm are presented. A cleansing farm may comprise of a computing device that filters customer requests directed to an organization before they are routed internal to the organization. A cleansing farm may receive customer requests and filter the requests based on a set of filtering rules. The cleansing farm may inspect the customer request in order to determine whether it should be filtered. In an example where the organization is a financial institution, the customer request may include confidential customer information. Accordingly, in this example, the cleansing farm may be administered by an entity that is permitted to access the confidential customer information. A visualization tool may be used to visualize a plurality of customer requests at a cleansing farm and to generate rules for filtering customer requests at a cleansing farm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Sweet, Andrew Smith, Gregory Moore, Charles Wheeler, Chris Cummins, James Monroe, Timothy Byrd, Daniel Gapastione, Michael Stark, Craig A. Froelich
  • Publication number: 20020175197
    Abstract: A pet waste disposal bag dispenser comprises a compartment for holding a box of bags. The compartment can be secured to a pet collar or a belt by securing a flap on the compartment around the collar or belt. The compartment includes an opening providing access to the box of bags which itself includes an opening to the bags within the box. The opening can be covered by means of a second flap extending from the first flap. The flap arrangement allows access to the bags while still retaining the compartment on the collar or belt. Release of both flaps allows removal of the entire device from the collar or belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventor: Chris Cummins
  • Patent number: 6382952
    Abstract: A rounder bar for shaping pieces of baking dough advancing upon a conveyor belt has an elongated configuration having top and rear surfaces and an arcuate dough-contacting surface of convex contour with respect to the top and rear surfaces. The dough-contacting surface is provided with a non-occluding texture which minimizes adherence of the dough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Inventors: Chris Cummins, Sam Seiling
  • Patent number: 5605708
    Abstract: An apparatus for rounding the sequential pieces of bakery dough dispensed by a dough handling machine employs upper and lower advancing assemblies. Each assembly has an endless flat conveyor belt. Both belts move in opposite directions, and are dimensioned such that the pieces of dough fall off the extremity of the upper belt onto the lower belt. Stationary vanes on the top surfaces of the belts contact the pieces of dough to cause rounding thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Cummins Eagle, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Cummins, Sam Seiling