Patents by Inventor H. Thomas
H. Thomas 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: 10158643Abstract: An apparatus including an in-network transfer processor configured to receive a transfer request, a sender token, and a receiver token, to identify an institution associated with a sender based on the sender token, and to identify an institution associated with a receiver based on the receiver token. The in-network transfer processor is configured to facilitate an internal transfer to the sender when the sender and the receiver are the same user and to facilitate an internal transfer to the receiver when the sender and the receiver are different users. The in-network transfer processor is configured to facilitate a transfer to the receiver using service network resources when the membership for the institution associated with the receiver indicates an in-network institution and to facilitate a transfer to the institution associated with the receiver using secondary network resources when the membership for the institution associated with the receiver indicates an out-of-network institution.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Richard H. Thomas, Joseph B. Castinado
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Patent number: 10158644Abstract: A token-based routing system that includes an out-of-network transfer processor configured to receive a transfer request, a sender token, and a receiver token and to identify an institution associated with a sender based on the sender token. The out-of-network transfer processor is configured to determine a membership for an institution associated with a receiver based on the receiver token. The out-of-network transfer processor is configured to facilitate a transfer from the institution associated with the sender to the receiver using service network resources in response to determining that the membership for the institution associated with the receiver indicates an in-network institution.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Richard H. Thomas, Joseph B. Castinado
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Publication number: 20180347800Abstract: A lamp assembly adapted to cast shadow-free illumination over an area. Typically, a lamp assembly includes a plurality of light modules that are disposed in a spaced apart relationship over an area. Desirably, the lamp assembly is arranged to aim the light output of each module for overlapping summation on a target footprint. Modules generally each include a LED light source, a collimating lens disposed at a distal end of the mirror, and a tube disposed between the LED and the collimating lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: H. Thomas LOCKAMY, Mark WEDELL, Jason W. SPENCER, Daniel MANGLICMOT, Austin UNSWORTH
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Patent number: 10132484Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improved dental operatory lamp having an LED light source that directs light to a reflector that in turn reflects the light to illuminate a treatment area. In one embodiment, the lamp is adapted for efficient transfer of heat from the light source and into the environment. In another embodiment, the lamp is adapted to generate a predetermined pattern of light optimal for the treatment area. In other embodiments, the lamp includes structural features that enable the lamp to maintain optimum light intensity and/or temperature. Also, disclosed herein are unique reflector embodiments that intentionally provide a generally smooth surface, without facets, that reflect light at all visible and infrared wavelengths.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: KAVO DENTAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: H. Thomas Lockamy, Nabil Dagher, Jamie Swayne, Nathan Hemmer
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Patent number: 10127552Abstract: A system includes a memory and a processor. The memory may store a customer account associated with a customer and an enterprise account associated with an enterprise. The processor may be communicatively coupled to the memory and may cause the system to receive a request to deposit a first amount of a cryptocurrency in the customer account from the customer. The processor may also cause the system to determine a public key associated with the customer account and receive the first amount of the cryptocurrency. The processor may further cause the system to determine a first value approximately equivalent to the first amount of cryptocurrency and associate the first value with the customer account. The processor is further able to aggregate the first amount of cryptocurrency with an aggregated amount of the cryptocurrency in the enterprise account and facilitate securing the public key in the enterprise account.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: James G. Ronca, Jason P. Blackhurst, Joseph B. Castinado, Heather Dolan, Thomas E. Durbin, Richard H. Thomas
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Patent number: 10129263Abstract: A tokenization system that includes a tokenizer, a token and alias directory, and a network node. The tokenizer is configured to generate tokens. The token and alias directory is configured to store tokens. The network node is configured to receive user information for a user and to determine a membership for an institution associated with the user based on the user information. The network node is configured to send an authorization request to an authorization processor in response to determining that the membership for the institution associated with the receiver indicates an in-network institution and to receive an authorization approval in response to sending the authorization request. The network node is further configured to send a token request to the tokenizer, to receive a token in response to the token request, and to store the token in the token and alias directory.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Bank of AmericaInventors: Richard H. Thomas, Joseph B. Castinado
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Publication number: 20180291248Abstract: Disclosed are the use of fluorine substituted olefins, including tetra- and penta-fluoropropenes, in a variety of applications, including in methods of depositing catalyst on a solid support, methods of sterilizing articles, cleaning methods and compositions, methods of applying medicaments, fire extinguishing/suppression compositions and methods, flavor formulations, fragrance formulations and inflating agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Rajiv R. Singh, Hang T. Pham, David P. Wilson, Raymond H. Thomas
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Patent number: 10068231Abstract: A banking system operates responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system includes an automated banking machine comprising a card reader. The card reader includes a movable read head that can read card data along a magnetic stripe of a card that was inserted long-edge first. The card reader includes a card entry gate. The gate is opened for a card that is determined to be properly oriented for data reading. The card reader can encrypt card data, including account data. The machine also includes a PIN keypad. The card reader can send encrypted card data to the keypad. The keypad can decipher the encrypted card data. The keypad can encrypt both deciphered card data and a received user PIN. The card data and the PIN are usable by the machine to authorize a user to carry out a financial transfer involving the account.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf, IncorporatedInventors: David N. Lewis, Klaus A. Steinbach, Jeffery M. Enright, Natarajan Ramachandran, Mark A. Douglass, Timothy Crews, Songtao Ma, Randall W. Jenkins, H. Thomas Graef, Sathish M. Irudayam
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Publication number: 20180187376Abstract: Methods of and systems for controlling dosing of drainage aid and optionally defoamer to brown stock of a brown stock washing process are provided. Certain embodiments of the invention provide independent control of drainage aid and/or defoamer to brown stock, which tends to provide improved efficiency in dosing each of the drainage aid and the defoamer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2017Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Karry Mackie, Jon Clegg, Joseph Konopa, John H. Thomas
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Publication number: 20180171195Abstract: The invention pertains to heat transfer compositions, particularly to automobile refrigerants comprising a hydrofluoroalkene, an iodocarbon, and at least one lubricant having hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms, wherein no more than 17% of the total number of hydrogen atoms which are attached to a carbon atom are tertiary hydrogen atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Raymond H. Thomas, Rajiv R. Singh, George J. Samuels, Ian Shankland, David P. Wilson, Roy P. Robinson, Michael Van Der Puy, John L. Welch, Gregory J. Shafer, Mark W. Spatz, Ryan Hulse
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Patent number: 9994750Abstract: Disclosed are the use of fluorine substituted olefins, including tetra- and penta-fluoropropenes, in a variety of applications, including in methods of depositing catalyst on a solid support, methods of sterilizing articles, cleaning methods and compositions, methods of applying medicaments, fire extinguishing/suppression compositions and methods, flavor formulations, fragrance formulations and inflating agents.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Rajiv R. Singh, Hang T. Pham, David P. Wilson, Raymond H. Thomas
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Patent number: 9938442Abstract: A composition comprising from about 40 weight percent to about 99.9 weight percent of at least one C1-C5 hydrofluorocarbon, from about 0.1 weight percent to about 50 weight percent of CF3I, and from about 0.1 weight percent to about 10 weight percent of at least one C1-C6 hydrocarbon and the use of these composition for in methods of the recharging of refrigeration systems.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Mark W. Spatz, Raymond H. Thomas, Rajiv R. Singh, Samuel F. Yana Motta, David P. Wilson, Elizabet del Carmen Vera Becerra
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Publication number: 20180094179Abstract: Liquid compositions for use in compression refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump systems in which a fluoroalkene containing from 3 to 4 carbon atoms and at least 1 but no more than 2 double bonds is combined with an effective amount to provide lubrication of an essentially miscible organic lubricant comprised of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen and having a ratio of oxygen to carbon effective to provide a degree of miscibility with said fluoroalkene so that when up to five weight percent of lubricant is added to said fluoroalkene the refrigerant has one liquid phase at at least one temperature between ?40 and +70° C. Methods for producing refrigeration and heating with the fluoroalkenes, alone or in combination with the disclosed lubricants, are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Raymond H. Thomas, Rajiv R. Singh
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Patent number: 9920230Abstract: The invention pertains to heat transfer compositions, particularly to automobile refrigerants comprising a hydrofluoroalkene, an iodocarbon, and at least one lubricant having hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms, wherein no more than 17% of the total number of hydrogen atoms which are attached to a carbon atom are tertiary hydrogen atoms.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Raymond H. Thomas, Rajiv R. Singh, George J. Samuels, Ian Shankland, David P. Wilson, Roy P. Robinson, Michael Van Der Puy, John L. Welch, Gregory J. Shafer, Mark W. Spatz, Ryan Hulse
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Patent number: 9916736Abstract: In an example embodiment, an automated banking machine that allows a customer to employ a mobile wireless device for performing banking transactions. The customer may request assistance from a teller or other bank personnel at a remote location. An audio, and optionally video, communication may be initiated between the remote location and the customer. The customer may use either the automated banking machine, mobile wireless device, or both for communicating with the remote location.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf, IncorporatedInventors: James Block, H. Thomas Graef, Paul D. Magee, Donald Nelson, James Meek, Daniel S. McIntyre, Mark A. Depietro, Natarajan Ramachandran
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Publication number: 20180050630Abstract: A captive beam system is provided. The system includes a beam assembly comprising a beam and channel units at each end. The beam comprising a top surface that, when the captive beam system is installed, faces upward, wherein the top surface establishes a flat resting surface. Each channel unit supports a bracket and a pawl, the pawl is rotatable with respect to the first end of the channel unit. The pawl comprises a support surface that is configured, when the captive beam system is installed, to rest upon a bottom edge of an aperture disposed within a fixed track, wherein a vertical distance between the support surface and the flat resting surface of the beam is about 2.58 inches. An optional upper latch is configured to substantially prevent movement of the beam assembly in a direction along a long axis of an aperture of a fixed track.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: Ancra International LLCInventors: Gregory A. Kauffman, H. Thomas Knox
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Publication number: 20180025336Abstract: An automated banking machine is operated at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The machine is operative to carry out a financial transfer responsive at least in part to a determination that data read through a card reader of the machine corresponds to a financial account that is authorized to conduct a transaction through operation of the machine. The machine also includes a check acceptor operative to receive checks from machine users. The check acceptor is operative image checks and data resolved from check images is used in operation of the machine to cause financial transfers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: James Block, H. Thomas GRAEF, Paul D. Magee, Donald S. Nelson, JR., James Meek, Daniel S. McINTYRE, Mark A. DEPIETRO, Natarajan Ramachandran
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Patent number: 9858556Abstract: A banking system operates to cause financial transfers responsive to card data read from data bearing records by a card reader. The system includes at least one automated banking machine comprising a cash dispenser. The system is operative during a cash dispense transaction request to receive through an automated banking machine, machine user input of data corresponding to a mobile phone number. The system is operative to generate a security code for the requested cash dispense transaction. The system uses the phone number to send the generated security code to the mobile phone. The cash dispense transaction is allowed to proceed only if the system receives machine user input of the sent security code.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf, IncorporatedInventors: Willis Miller, Matthew R. Zaugg, James Block, H. Thomas Graef, Natarajan Ramachandran, Jeffery M. Enright, Mark A. Douglass, Dale H. Blackson
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Patent number: 9836790Abstract: A system comprises a memory operable to store a customer account, a first float account, and a second float account. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor may receive an electronic request for a currency exchange and determine exchange rates for exchanging a first currency for a second currency. The processor may also determine an optimal exchange rate. In response to determining the optimal exchange rate, the processor may determine a first amount of the first currency and associate the first amount with the customer account. The processor may also transfer the first amount of the first currency into the first float account and determine a second amount of the second currency. The processor is further able to associate the second amount with the second float account and transfer the second amount of the second currency to the customer.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: James G. Ronca, Joseph B. Castinado, Heather Dolan, Thomas E. Durbin, Richard H. Thomas
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Patent number: 9830581Abstract: An automated banking machine is operated at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The machine is operative to carry out a financial transfer responsive at least in part to a determination that data read through a card reader of the machine corresponds to a financial account that is authorized to conduct a transaction through operation of the machine. The machine also includes a check acceptor operative to receive checks from machine users. The check acceptor is operative image checks and data resolved from check images is used in operation of the machine to cause financial transfers.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf, IncorporatedInventors: James Block, H. Thomas Graef, Paul D. Magee, Donald S. Nelson, Jr., James Meek, Daniel S. McIntyre, Mark A. Depietro, Natarajan Ramachandran