Patents by Inventor James A. Esposito

James A. Esposito 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: 10740852
    Abstract: Techniques and arrangements for industry vertical classification of merchants using merchant signals, based, in part, on comparing the merchant signals with collected business class profiles. The merchant signals can include reported data, collected data, and third-party data associated with the merchant. The techniques can include identifying one or more business class profiles using the data associated with the merchant and classifying and/or reclassifying the merchant within a business class using the one or more identified business class profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew R. George, Jonathan Steven Landy, John Berian James, Mehmet Zahit Guneri, James A. Esposito, Drew A. Edmond
  • Publication number: 20090242097
    Abstract: A peel plate assembly that functions in a normal position of being extended for the purposes of peeling labels from a supply web and directing them toward containers, but which can be retracted selectively by reciprocation when a label is identified as incorrect or faulty, thereby leaving faulty or incorrect labels on the label supply web at least until they are removed from the active site of label application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventor: James A. Esposito
  • Publication number: 20080173610
    Abstract: A container is formed as a container body having a wall that defines a beverage chamber for holding a beverage and an upper end and lower closed end. The upper end has a chamber opening. A closure is over the chamber opening and seals the chamber opening to prevent the beverage from passing through the chamber opening. A closure has a straw opening. A straw is contained within the beverage chamber and has an upper end passing through the straw opening. A removable cap is on the closure that temporarily seals the straw from the environment whereupom removal of the cap the straw is exposed for use by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: James A. Esposito
  • Patent number: 7398871
    Abstract: An adjustable star wheel device for the indexing of items of differing sizes for use in a manufacturing process such as the attaching of outserters to containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Inventors: Thomas M. Basgil, James A. Esposito, Eric Anderson, John Cooper, III