Patents by Inventor John Rutherford
John Rutherford 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: 11868984Abstract: A method for secured receipt and usage of payment credentials using a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) device includes: storing, in the COTS device, a secure application program and cryptographic keys; establishing, by the program, a secure communication channel with a back-end system inaccessible by any application program or component in the COTS device; exchanging attestation data between the program and the back-end system using the communication channel; receiving payment credentials from a payment card by a near field communication (NFC) interface in the COTS device; transmitting the payment credentials to the program by the NFC interface; enciphering, by the program, the payment credentials; and transmitting, by the program of the COTS device, the enciphered payment credentials to the back-end system using the secure communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Alan Mushing, Fernando Lourenco, Bruce John Rutherford
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Publication number: 20230360021Abstract: Provided are a payment card, system and method for storing and reading tokenized payment account information from a payment card. In an exemplary embodiment, a payment card may include a substrate forming a body of the payment card, and an electronic chip attached to or included in the substrate. According to various exemplary embodiments, the electronic chip may include a storage storing tokenized payment account information corresponding to a payment account linked to the payment card. The electronic chip may be read by a payment terminal and may provide the tokenized payment information to the payment terminal during reading.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Bruce John Rutherford, Mark Lulic
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Patent number: 11748741Abstract: Provided are a payment card, system and method for storing and reading tokenized payment account information from a payment card. In an exemplary embodiment, a payment card may include a substrate forming a body of the payment card, and an electronic chip attached to or included in the substrate. According to various exemplary embodiments, the electronic chip may include a storage storing tokenized payment account information corresponding to a payment account linked to the payment card. The electronic chip may be read by a payment terminal and may provide the tokenized payment information to the payment terminal during reading.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Bruce John Rutherford, Mark Lulic
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Publication number: 20230001420Abstract: A food waste processor including a food waste inlet; a grinding station located downstream of the inlet, wherein the grinding station includes a grinding apparatus which grinds the food waste and increases pressure on the food waste; a liquid exit path from the grinding station, wherein the liquid exit path includes a filter; and a solid exit path from the grinding station, wherein a liquid component of the ground food waste is forced through the filter and exits the grinding station via the liquid exit path and a solid organic component of the ground food waste exits the grinding station via the solid exit path; the liquid exit path is in communication with a separator; the solid exit path is in communication with a compressed food waste collector; the separator separates the liquid component into water and an organic component which includes entrained food particles; the separator including a water exit path in communication with a water treatment station, and an organic component exit path in communicationType: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: EXIMO SOUTH EAST LIMITEDInventors: Jerry CATHCART, John RUTHERFORD
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Publication number: 20220318783Abstract: A method for secured receipt and usage of payment credentials using a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) device includes: storing, in the COTS device, a secure application program and cryptographic keys; establishing, by the program, a secure communication channel with a back-end system inaccessible by any application program or component in the COTS device; exchanging attestation data between the program and the back-end system using the communication channel; receiving payment credentials from a payment card by a near field communication (NFC) interface in the COTS device; transmitting the payment credentials to the program by the NFC interface; enciphering, by the program, the payment credentials; and transmitting, by the program of the COTS device, the enciphered payment credentials to the back-end system using the secure communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Alan MUSHING, Fernando LOURENCO, Bruce John RUTHERFORD
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Patent number: 11392925Abstract: A method for secured receipt and usage of payment credentials using a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) device includes: storing, in the COTS device, a secure application program and cryptographic keys; establishing, by the program, a secure communication channel with a back-end system inaccessible by any application program or component in the COTS device; exchanging attestation data between the program and the back-end system using the communication channel; receiving payment credentials from a payment card by a near field communication (NFC) interface in the COTS device; transmitting the payment credentials to the program by the NFC interface; enciphering, by the program, the payment credentials; and transmitting, by the program of the COTS device, the enciphered payment credentials to the back-end system using the secure communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Alan Mushing, Fernando Lourenco, Bruce John Rutherford
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Patent number: 11244296Abstract: A method for authentication facilitated via a trusted execution environment includes: reading payment credentials in a first application program stored in a first memory area of a computing device; transmitting an authentication request to a second application program stored in a trusted execution environment of the computing device separate from the first memory area; displaying a prompt for authentication data based on an instruction supplied by the second application program; receiving authentication data; transmitting the received authentication data to an external computing device; receiving, by the second application program of the computing device, an authentication result from the external computing device; and transmitting, by the second application program of the computing device, the authentication result to the first application program in response to the authentication request.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Bruce John Rutherford, Prashant Sharma, David Cutler, Alan Mushing
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Publication number: 20200356982Abstract: Provided are a payment card, system and method for storing and reading tokenized payment account information from a payment card. In an exemplary embodiment, a payment card may include a substrate forming a body of the payment card, and an electronic chip attached to or included in the substrate. According to various exemplary embodiments, the electronic chip may include a storage storing tokenized payment account information corresponding to a payment account linked to the payment card. The electronic chip may be read by a payment terminal and may provide the tokenized payment information to the payment terminal during reading.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Bruce John Rutherford, Mark Lulic
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Publication number: 20190318342Abstract: A method for secured receipt and usage of payment credentials using a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) device includes: storing, in the COTS device, a secure application program and cryptographic keys; establishing, by the program, a secure communication channel with a back-end system inaccessible by any application program or component in the COTS device; exchanging attestation data between the program and the back-end system using the communication channel; receiving payment credentials from a payment card by a near field communication (NFC) interface in the COTS device; transmitting the payment credentials to the program by the NFC interface; enciphering, by the program, the payment credentials; and transmitting, by the program of the COTS device, the enciphered payment credentials to the back-end system using the secure communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Alan Mushing, Fernando Lourenco, Bruce John Rutherford
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Patent number: 10322820Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system comprises a hangar structure configurable to mount on a host platform. The hangar structure comprises electrical circuits comprising a charging circuit and a communications circuit. The UAV system further comprises a plurality of stackable UAVs. The plurality of stackable UAVs comprise respective batteries and control circuits. The plurality of stackable UAVs are configured to cooperate with the charging circuit to charge the batteries and to cooperate with the communications circuit to communicate with the control circuits while the plurality of stackable UAVs are in a stacked configuration within the hangar structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: SparkCognition, Inc.Inventors: Syed Mohammad Amir Husain, John Rutherford Allen
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Publication number: 20190077519Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system comprises a hangar structure configurable to mount on a host platform. The hangar structure comprises electrical circuits comprising a charging circuit and a communications circuit. The UAV system further comprises a plurality of stackable UAVs. The plurality of stackable UAVs comprise respective batteries and control circuits. The plurality of stackable UAVs are configured to cooperate with the charging circuit to charge the batteries and to cooperate with the communications circuit to communicate with the control circuits while the plurality of stackable UAVs are in a stacked configuration within the hangar structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Syed Mohammad Amir Husain, John Rutherford Allen
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Publication number: 20190082015Abstract: A distributed sensor module system comprises a plurality of sensor modules configured to be aerially deployable from a deployment device, the deployment device including an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or an aeronautically deployable unitized container, the plurality of sensor modules configured to communicate with each other. A first sensor module comprises a first sensor configured to obtain first sensor information from a first environment proximate to the first sensor, a processor coupled to the first sensor, the processor configured to process the first sensor information to obtain locally processed first sensor information, and a communication transceiver coupled to the processor, the communication transceiver configured to communicate the locally processed first sensor information to a second sensor module, the first sensor module and the second sensor module configured to be aerially deployable.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Syed Mohammad Amir Husain, John Rutherford Allen
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Patent number: 10207816Abstract: A distributed sensor module system comprises a plurality of sensor modules configured to be aerially deployable from a deployment device, the deployment device including an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or an aeronautically deployable unitized container, the plurality of sensor modules configured to communicate with each other. A first sensor module comprises a first sensor configured to obtain first sensor information from a first environment proximate to the first sensor, a processor coupled to the first sensor, the processor configured to process the first sensor information to obtain locally processed first sensor information, and a communication transceiver coupled to the processor, the communication transceiver configured to communicate the locally processed first sensor information to a second sensor module, the first sensor module and the second sensor module configured to be aerially deployable.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: SparkCognition, Inc.Inventors: Syed Mohammad Amir Husain, John Rutherford Allen
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Patent number: 10065717Abstract: An autonomous vessel comprises a hull. The hull contains a plurality of subsystems. The subsystems comprise a sensor subsystem configured to sense potential target information regarding a potential target, a database subsystem configured to store target characterization information, a processing subsystem coupled to the sensing subsystem and to the database subsystem, and an ordnance subsystem. The processing subsystem is configured to process the potential target information according to the target characterization information to confirm the potential target as being a confirmed target. The ordnance subsystem comprises an ordnance magazine configured to store ordnance, the ordnance deliverable by an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). The ordnance is deployable against the confirmed target.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: SPARKCOGNITION, INC.Inventors: Syed Mohammad Amir Husain, John Rutherford Allen
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Patent number: 10065718Abstract: A submersible vessel comprises a hull. The hull contains a plurality of subsystems. The subsystems comprise a sensor subsystem configured to sense potential target information regarding a potential target, a database subsystem configured to store target characterization information, a processing subsystem coupled to the sensing subsystem and to the database subsystem, and an ordnance subsystem. The processing subsystem is configured to process the potential target information according to the target characterization information to confirm the potential target as being a confirmed target. The ordnance subsystem comprises an ordnance magazine configured to store ordnance. The ordnance is deployable against the confirmed target, wherein the confirmed target is an aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: SPARKCOGNITION, INC.Inventors: Syed Mohammad Amir Husain, John Rutherford Allen
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Publication number: 20180211236Abstract: A method for authentication facilitated via a trusted execution environment includes: reading payment credentials in a first application program stored in a first memory area of a computing device; transmitting an authentication request to a second application program stored in a trusted execution environment of the computing device separate from the first memory area; displaying a prompt for authentication data based on an instruction supplied by the second application program; receiving authentication data; transmitting the received authentication data to an external computing device; receiving, by the second application program of the computing device, an authentication result from the external computing device; and transmitting, by the second application program of the computing device, the authentication result to the first application program in response to the authentication request.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: Mastercard International IncorporatedInventors: Bruce John RUTHERFORD, Prashant SHARMA, David CUTLER, Alan MUSHING
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Patent number: 9983581Abstract: A method and system comprises a plurality of electronically controlled distributed devices and a supervisory node. The supervisory node comprises a communications interface, a processor, and a display. The supervisory node is configured to communicate with the plurality of electronically controlled distributed devices via the communications interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: SPARKCOGNITION, INC.Inventors: Syed Mohammad Amir Husain, John Rutherford Allen
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Publication number: 20160267467Abstract: Provided are a payment card, system and method for storing and reading tokenized payment account information from a payment card. In an exemplary embodiment, a payment card may include a substrate forming a body of the payment card, and an electronic chip attached to or included in the substrate. According to various exemplary embodiments, the electronic chip may include a storage storing tokenized payment account information corresponding to a payment account linked to the payment card. The electronic chip may be read by a payment terminal and may provide the tokenized payment information to the payment terminal during reading.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Bruce John Rutherford, Mark Lulic
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Publication number: 20140001739Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of an outrigger having a replaceable foot mount may be described. The replaceable foot mount may be removably coupled to a hydraulic cylinder using a variety of fasteners. The replaceable foot mount can be easily removed and replaced when broken to allow outriggers to be quickly repaired and deployed to new work locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventor: John RUTHERFORD
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Publication number: 20120114501Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method associated with the device. It is a wall for collecting wind energy, holds multiple wind turbines at increased heights, the device also pivots around a central point and keeps the turbines aligned into the direction of the wind. This device can be used to increase the yield of energy collected from the wind and to place wind turbines in stronger winds. The device enables turbines to be located within the structure. The rotation is around a center pivot point with the outer vertexes of the triangle free to move. With respect to the method, the modular cells locate the wind turbines in higher wind speeds. The wind flows around and through the cell structure creating beneficial vortexes. The wind is converted into energy at the turbine, at the conclusion of these steps wind energy is converted into electrical power.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Inventor: John Rutherford