Patents by Inventor Kenneth Bays

Kenneth Bays 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: 11144874
    Abstract: A product returns processing system may include mobile devices communicating respective purchase transaction receipts for respective products. The system may also include a returns processing server including a processor and a memory. The memory may store the purchase transaction receipts, for each product, a product return rule, a product availability status, and a disposition, and for each user, a return mode preference. The processor may determine a return expiration for each product based upon a respective product return rule, send a notice to each mobile device based upon a respective return window expiration, and receive a return request. The processor may, when the request is received before a return expiration, determine a product availability and condition, determine a return address based upon the disposition and at least one of the product availability and condition, and generate a label with the return address and based upon the return mode preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: INMAR RX SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Zomok, Julie Goodman, Kenneth Bays, Brian Rogers, Seth Maxwell, Caleb Brown, Jacob Bowman, Elizabeth Stewart
  • Patent number: 11010744
    Abstract: A system for tax tracking of blended goods may include a value tracking server configured to, at a time of sale of an item including materials blended together, collect relative material quantities in the item, each of the materials having different respective tax rates associated therewith, and generate an identification (ID) for association with the item. The value tracking server may also be configured to, at a time of return, read the ID from the item to determine the relative material quantities in the item, determine a returned portion of the item, and determine a tax refund due based upon the relative material quantities, the respective tax rates, and the returned portion of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: INMAR RX SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Zomok, Kenneth Bays, Brian Rogers
  • Publication number: 20200342434
    Abstract: A system for tax tracking of blended goods may include a value tracking server configured to, at a time of sale of an item including materials blended together, collect relative material quantities in the item, each of the materials having different respective tax rates associated therewith, and generate an identification (ID) for association with the item. The value tracking server may also be configured to, at a time of return, read the ID from the item to determine the relative material quantities in the item, determine a returned portion of the item, and determine a tax refund due based upon the relative material quantities, the respective tax rates, and the returned portion of the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Zomok, Kenneth Bays, Brian Rogers
  • Publication number: 20140344167
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing an application system that permits application for multiple products, services, accounts, and the like via one application are provided. In some examples, user input may be received and, based at least in part on the user input, recommended products, upgrades, packages, and the like, that a user may apply for that may aid in providing a benefit to the user may be communicated to the user/applicant. For instance, the recommended products, upgrades, packages and the like, may provide fee waivers, reduced fees, and/or other benefits and advantages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Julie Ann Kisselburg Johnson, John Kenneth Bay, Michael Adam, George William Taylor, Allison Cronin