Patents by Inventor Jeff Dotson

Jeff Dotson 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).

  • Publication number: 20230157355
    Abstract: A lighter including: a lighter portion that is movable between an extended state and a retracted state; and a storage compartment located adjacent to the lighter portion that holds one or more stored items that may be lit by the lighter portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventor: Jeff Dotson
  • Publication number: 20220161011
    Abstract: A transdermal delivery system: a delivery device; a band configured to connect the delivery device to a body part of a user, the delivery device comprising: a delivery chamber that is configured to receive a substance and a heating chamber configured to heat the substance in the delivery chamber so that the substance is liquified, vaporized, or both and exits the delivery chamber into contact with the body part of the user so that the substance is transdermally absorbed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Dotson
  • Patent number: 10592675
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computerized method for assessing and managing information security risks in a computer system includes the step of receiving a customer security assessment. The method includes the step of obtaining a set of already-answered security assessment questions. The method includes the step of applying one or more machine learning methods to generate a strength of one or more similarities scores. The method includes the step of automatically populating one or more direct mappings between the set of already-answered security assessment questions with the other set of questions in a customer security assessment. The method includes the step of setting a baseline score for the one or more direct mappings to already-answered security assessment questions to a set of answered questions in the customer security assessment by using the strength of one or more similarities scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventors: Jeff Dotson, Andrew Watanabe, Joshua Mortensen, Juan Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20180129813
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computerized method for assessing and managing information security risks in a computer system includes the step of receiving a customer security assessment. The method includes the step of obtaining a set of already-answered security assessment questions. The method includes the step of applying one or more machine learning methods to generate a strength of one or more similarities scores. The method includes the step of automatically populating one or more direct mappings between the set of already-answered security assessment questions with the other set of questions in a customer security assessment. The method includes the step of setting a baseline score for the one or more direct mappings to already-answered security assessment questions to a set of answered questions in the customer security assessment by using the strength of one or more similarities scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Jeff Dotson, Andrew Watanabe, Joshua Mortensen, Juan Rodriguez