Patents by Inventor Kevin James

Kevin James 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: 11538026
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a system and associated processes for sharing cardholder data (CHD) between a merchant that utilizes tokenization and a second merchant that may or may not utilize tokenization. In one embodiment, the merchant, or an employee of the merchant, can use the system and associated processes to reacquire CHD from a tokenization provider system. In one embodiment, the merchant identifies to the tokenization provider system a desire to share CHD, which is associated with a token, with a second merchant. The merchant and/or the tokenization provider system can then invite the second merchant to register with the tokenization provider system. Once registered with the tokenization provider system, the second merchant can access any CHD that the merchant associated with the second merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Shift4 Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin James Cronic, Steven Mark Sommers, John David Oder, II, John David Oder, Steven Calandrelli, Jeremy B. Fried
  • Patent number: 11535181
    Abstract: An apparatus for covering an open top of a transportation trailer container, such as a chip train carrying wood chips, is provided. A flexible cover (e.g. tarp) may be deployed and retracted using a roller moved overtop of the container using pivotable arms. An electrically powered covering mechanism automatically deploys and retracts the cover. The covering mechanism is powered by a supercapacitor, which is charged when connected to an external power source. A charging control circuit can selectably allow or inhibit charging of the supercapacitor depending on power demands of other electrical loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Ty-Crop Manufacturing Ltd.
    Inventors: Jitze Floris, Gary Wayne Teichrob, Alan Arthur Martens, Ian Breeweg, Rick Jonker, Kevin James Standeven
  • Patent number: 11534933
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of automated food preparation. Specifically, the present is a invention system and method for depositing slices of an ingredient onto a bread or other media. Additionally, the present invention can be used to selectively slice a plurality of ingredients onto a sandwich based on customer inputs and the apparatus can be used for slicing meats, cheeses, vegetables and other deli products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Kevin James Saccone, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20220405501
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining human-object interactions (HOIs) in images are provided. The method includes receiving an image. The method further includes detecting at least one human in the image, and at least one object in the image. The method further includes creating one or more proposals, wherein each proposal includes a human of the at least one human and an object of the at least one object. The method further includes determining whether an HOI exist in each of the one or more proposals. In some embodiments, the method further includes generating a mask for each proposal of the one or more proposals in which an HOI is determined to exist, the mask generated based on the determined HOI. In some embodiment, the HOI determination is based on one or more of extracted human feature information, extracted object appearance feature information, and extracted spatial feature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tahmid Zubayer CHOWDHURY, Kevin James CANNONS, Zhan XU
  • Publication number: 20220400953
    Abstract: The invention may be applied to selectively heat a diseased area in the lung while minimizing heating to the healthy area and surrounding tissue. This can be done by exposing the lung to an electromagnetic field causing dielectric or eddy current heating. The invention is particularly useful for treating emphysema as the diseased areas in emphysema patients have reduced blood flow. The diseased area will heat up rapidly while the healthy tissue will be cooled by the blood flow. This is particularly effective for treating emphysema because of the low mass of the lungs and the high blood flow. To avoid heating of surrounding organs the direction of the electromagnetic energy may be switched in a way it always passes through lungs but only intermittently passes through adjacent organs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Samuel Victor LICHTENSTEIN, Daniel GELBART, Eran ELIZUR, Kevin James CANNONS
  • Publication number: 20220405780
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and computing architectures and data models configured to facilitate management and performance of enterprise functions, and, more specifically, to an enterprise computing and data processing platform configured to identify and aggregate engagement data for managing enterprise data and work flows, and, in response to data values of aggregated engagement data, the enterprise computing and data processing platform is further configured to generate a command, for example, to modify automatically an enterprise data flow or work flow. In some examples, a method may include analyzing a pool of data including project, billing, and supply chain data to generate an engagement dataset including attributes based on aggregated subsets of project, billing, and supply chain data, and calculating updated values for the engagement dataset automatically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: FinancialForce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jocasta Katharine Rebecca Perry, Heidi Renee Minzner, Richa Dubey, Kevin James Jones
  • Patent number: 11530583
    Abstract: A flow rate control system includes a housing and a valve assembly slidingly disposed within a housing inner bore. The housing includes bypass openings. The valve assembly includes a valve and an orifice disposed in a valve inner bore. The valve includes a plurality of valve bypass bores extending axially through a valve collar. The valve assembly slides between closed and fully open positions. A spring biases the valve assembly toward the closed position in which the valve closes the housing bypass openings. In the open position, a bypass fluid path is formed including the valve bypass bores and the housing bypass openings. The valve assembly is flow rate controlled in the closed position and pressure controlled in the open position. The valve assembly may slide within a sleeve assembly including sleeve bypass openings, which connect the valve bypass bores and housing bypass openings in the bypass fluid path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Workover Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Gunther H H von Gynz-Rekowski, Russell Wayne Koenig, Kevin James Rudy
  • Publication number: 20220397962
    Abstract: Gesture-controlled virtual reality systems and methods of controlling the same are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an on-body sensor to output first signals associated with at least one of movement of a body part of a user or a position of the body part relative to a virtual object and an off-body sensor to output second signals associated with at least one of the movement or the position relative to the virtual object. The apparatus also includes at least one processor to generate gesture data based on at least one of the first or second signals, generate position data based on at least one of the first or second signals, determine an intended action of the user relative to the virtual object based on the position data and the gesture data, and generate an output of the virtual object in response to the intended action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Manan Goel, Saurin Shah, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Steven Xing, Matthew Pinner, Kevin James Doucette
  • Publication number: 20220395323
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for treating pulmonary tissues via delivery of energy, generally characterized by high voltage pulses, to target tissue using a pulmonary tissue modification system (e.g., an energy delivery catheter system). Example pulmonary tissues include, without cells), lamina propria, submucosa, submucosal glands, basement membrane, smooth muscle, cartilage, nerves, pathogens resident near or within the tissue, or a combination of any of these. The system may be used to treat a variety of pulmonary diseases or disorders such as or associated with COPD (e.g., chronic bronchitis, emphysema), asthma, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), acute bronchitis and/or other pulmonary diseases or disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Reuben WALDSTREICHER, William Sanford KRIMSKY, Denise Marie ZARINS, Robert J. BEETEL, III, Paul Brian FRIEDRICHS, Kevin James TAYLOR, Roman TUROVSKIY, Gary L. LONG
  • Patent number: 11527239
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for distributing syndicated content or content with one or more distribution restrictions. In one aspect, a method may include assigning a unique ID to a plurality of content items, where the unique ID of at least one of the content items is associated with one or more property distribution restrictions. The method may further include streaming in a video stream the content items to at least two properties and monitoring the unique IDs of the plurality of content items streamed in the video stream to detect least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions. The distribution of the least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions may be blocked from the one or more properties concurrently with streaming the video stream, based on the one or more property distribution restrictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aaron Miller, Jason D. Justman, Lora Clark Bouchard, Michael Ellery Bouchard, Kevin James Cotlove, Mathew Keith Gitchell, Stacia Lynn Haisch, Jonathan David Kersten, Matthew Karl Marchio, Peter Arthur Pulliam, George Allen Smith, Todd Christopher Tibbetts
  • Patent number: 11521183
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for facilitating heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) air filter replacement on at least one computing device. One method includes identifying interface requirements for a set of services to be implemented between service oriented architecture (SOA) front-end components and SOA back-end components. One of the SOA front-end components is configured to communicate with a home automation system of a first user and one of the SOA front-end components is configured to communicate with a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with the first user. One of the SOA back-end components is configured to communicate with a weather service database and one of the SOA back-end components is configured to communicate with an order fulfillment service. The SOA front-end components are operable to be combined with the SOA back-end components to form an operable SOA solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SECOND NATURE BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin James Barry, Thaddeus Worth Tarkington
  • Patent number: 11522911
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing passive and active identity verification in association with online communications. For example, a computer-implemented method may include receiving one or more electronic messages associated with a user account, analyzing the electronic messages based on a plurality of identity verification profiles associated with the user account, generating an identity trust score associated with the electronic messages based on the analyzing, determining whether to issue a security challenge in response to the electronic messages based on the generated identity trust score, and issuing the security challenge in response to the electronic messages based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Wardman, Jakub Ceiran Burgis, Nicole Harris, Blake Butler, Nathan Robert Pratt, Kevin James Tyers
  • Publication number: 20220383539
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for positioning mixed-reality devices within mixed-reality environments. The devices, which are configured to perform inside out tracking, transition between position tracking states in mixed-reality environments and utilize positional information from other inside out tracking devices that share the mixed-reality environments to identify/update positioning of the devices when they become disoriented within the environments and without requiring an extensive or full scan and comparison/matching of feature points that are detectable by the devices with mapped feature points of the maps associated with the mixed-reality environments. Such techniques can conserve processing and power consumption that would be required when performing a full or extensive scan and comparison of matching feature points. Such techniques can also enhance the accuracy and speed of positioning mixed-reality devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Erik Alexander HILL, Kathleen Carol HEASLEY, Jake Thomas SHIELDS, Kevin James-Peddicord LUECKE, Robert Neil DRURY, Garret Paul JACOBSON
  • Publication number: 20220372596
    Abstract: An alloy comprising or consisting of 40 to 62.5 atomic percent copper, 5 to 40 atomic percent manganese, up to 24 atomic percent nickel, 5 to 24 atomic percent zinc, and 1 to 15 atomic percent aluminium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin James LAWS, Peter Tyrrell NICHOLSON, Patrick Lars Joseph CONWAY, Lori Cheryl BASSMAN, Warren Richard MCKENZIE
  • Publication number: 20220373750
    Abstract: Fiber optic cable assemblies having a construction suitable for a first deployment scenario where the optical connection is made to the device externally that may be transformed for a second deployment scenario where the optical connection is disposed within an internal cavity of the device are disclosed. The cable assembly has one or more cable legs disposed within a profile support element and are disposed under the heat shrink. The fiber optic connectors are exposed and suitable for optical connection with the heat shrink intact on the cable assembly and the profile support element further provides further flexibility using different outer housings with the cable assembly when making external optical connections to the device Thus, the concepts disclosed advantageously allow a single cable assembly to support multiple deployment scenarios in the field, thereby reducing complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin James Baker, Joseph Clinton Jensen, Radawan Ripumaree
  • Patent number: 11506007
    Abstract: A modular fluid-carrying manifold apparatus is provided for use in hydraulic fracturing blenders and other devices. A manifold can include one or more interchangeable sections. Each section may have a flat front face with ports cut into the front face. Components such as valves and hammer unions are directly removably connected to the ports via bolts. This eliminates the need for welded-on piping. Removable, wear-resistant inserts can be located in the ports. The removable components may be considered consumable and replaced when worn out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ty-Crop Manufacturing Ltd.
    Inventors: James Ryan Brezden, Kevin Brent Thiessen, Brent Douglas Van Kleeck, Kevin James Standeven
  • Publication number: 20220363748
    Abstract: present disclosure relates to a method of treating kidney injury, by administering an anti-IL-33 therapeutic agent which inhibits both ST2 signaling and RAGE signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: David James BAKER, Carol Patricia MORENO QUINN, Kevin James WOOLLARD, Asha SETH, Elena LIARTE MARIN, Barbara MUSIAL, Emma Suzanne COHEN, Sam STRICKSON, Kirsty HOUSLAY
  • Publication number: 20220363673
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds of Formula I, wherein R1, R2, and R3 are defined herein, their use as branched-chain alpha keto acid dehydrogenase kinase inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions containing such inhibitors and the use of such inhibitors to treat, for example, diabetes, NASH and heart failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Samit Kumar Bhattacharya, Christopher Ryan Butler, Kevin James Filipski, Bethany Lyn Kormos, Luis Angel Martinez-Alsina, Russell Alan Miller, Kiyoyuki Omoto, Brian Raymer, Matthew Richard Reese, Rachel Jane Roth Flach, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220366873
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may access an image to be displayed by a display. The system may determine one or more first characteristics associated with a content of the image. The one or more first characteristics may include a contrast level of the content of the image with respect to a background of the image. The system may determine a first display persistence time period for the display to display the image based on the one or more first characteristics associated with the content of the image. The system may configure the display to display the image using the first display persistence time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander Goettker, Thomas Scott Murdison, Kevin James MacKenzie, Larry Seiler
  • Publication number: 20220362315
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to viral vectors and viral particles based on Anelloviruses, which can be used to deliver an agent (e.g., an exogenous effector or an endogenous effector, e.g., a therapeutic effector) to a cell (e.g., a cell in a subject to be treated therapeutically). Described herein are anellosomes, anellovectors, and compositions and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Simon Delagrave, Fernando Martin Diaz, Avak Kahvejian, Kevin James Lebo, Dhananjay Maniklal Nawandar, Jared David Pitts, Ryan D. Tedstone, Erica Gabrielle Weinstein, Nathan Lawrence Yozwiak