Patents by Inventor Matt Nichols

Matt Nichols 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: 20230213132
    Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide an exemplary protective insulation system that includes a heating element. The protective insulation system includes a substrate layer and may include a protective layer over the substrate layer. The protective insulation system is lightweight and can be installed with minimal manpower and equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: The Dragon Group, LLC
    Inventors: Todd J. Peretti, Matt Nichols, Brandon Slack
  • Publication number: 20220350877
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, computer program products, and systems are disclosed for multi-core account/transaction processing. A method includes authenticating a user with electronic credentials. A method includes querying a first core processing system to determine an identifier for a first account with the first core processing system. A method includes querying a second core processing system to determine a different identifier for a different account with the second core processing system. A method includes accessing the first account with the first core processing system using the first identifier for the user to receive data associated with the first account. A method includes accessing the different account with the second core processing system using the different identifier for the user to receive data associated with the different account. A method includes providing real-time access to both the data associated with the first account and with the different account within a single electronic interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: MX Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: DAVID WHITCOMB, MATT NICHOLS
  • Publication number: 20220351204
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, computer program products, and systems are disclosed for multi-core account migration. A method includes authenticating a user into a first environment associated with a first core processing system with first electronic credentials for the user. A method includes displaying a user interface element to the user within the first environment. A method includes authenticating the user into a second core processing system in response to user input to the user interface element. A method includes migrating a first account for the user with the first core processing system to a different account for the user with the second core processing system in response to the user input to the user interface element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: MX Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: DAVID WHITCOMB, MATT NICHOLS
  • Publication number: 20220281678
    Abstract: An exemplary pad for placement under a tank, for example, has first and second pad portions and a polymer hinge that allows the pad to be folded or closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: The Dragon Group, LLC
    Inventors: Todd J. Peretti, Scott Buffington, Brandon Slack, Raymond Lester, Matt Nichols
  • Patent number: 10938564
    Abstract: A technical solution for providing data associated with a predetermined, finite lifetime for access via a distributed ledger is provided. A member computing entity receives a submission provided by a supplying member computing entity associated with a supplying member of a distributed ledger; generates a token and attributing the token to a member account corresponding to the supplying member; attributes a value to the token; and makes the submitted instance of data available for access via the distributed ledger. The submission comprises a submitted instance of data. The submitted instance of data (a) is configured to be provided to a consuming member computing entity via the distributed ledger and (b) is associated with a predetermined lifetime. The value of the token changes with time based on (a) a remaining lifetime of the submitted instance of data, (b) a depreciation policy/protocol corresponding to the distributed ledger, or (c) both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Optum, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael N. Jacobs, Matt Nichols, Rick A. Hamilton, Steven S. Ruckdashel, Rajeev Cyrus
  • Publication number: 20200099523
    Abstract: A technical solution for providing data associated with a predetermined, finite lifetime for access via a distributed ledger is provided. A member computing entity receives a submission provided by a supplying member computing entity associated with a supplying member of a distributed ledger; generates a token and attributing the token to a member account corresponding to the supplying member; attributes a value to the token; and makes the submitted instance of data available for access via the distributed ledger. The submission comprises a submitted instance of data. The submitted instance of data (a) is configured to be provided to a consuming member computing entity via the distributed ledger and (b) is associated with a predetermined lifetime. The value of the token changes with time based on (a) a remaining lifetime of the submitted instance of data, (b) a depreciation policy/protocol corresponding to the distributed ledger, or (c) both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Michael N. Jacobs, Matt Nichols, Rick A. Hamilton, Steven S. Ruckdashel, Rajeev Cyrus
  • Patent number: 9633174
    Abstract: Actively engaging members in managing their own healthcare, improving their health, and reducing healthcare costs to the payer involves providing a unified interface for member engagement. The interface may be communicatively coupled with a healthcare system, may be personalized to the member, and may offer multiple possible rewards to the member to encourage member behavior to effectively reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of healthcare plans. The interface may provide the member with a pathway guiding the member to engage in activities to achieve short-term, intermediate and long-term goals for which actions are presented. Goals or actions may be predefined and may additionally be selected by the member. When member-engagement in the actions is verified, rewards may be granted to the member's account. In connection with such member engagement, the healthcare system collects member information, applies rules to that information, and generates alerts from those rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: OPTUM, INC.
    Inventor: Matt Nichols
  • Publication number: 20160284037
    Abstract: A health information system includes a health information data storage machine and a healthcare analytics processor configured to extract healthcare related commentary of healthcare consumers from a social media data storage machine and match portions of the healthcare related commentary to health information of the social media commentators in a combined health information data source. The healthcare analytics processor identifies relationships between consumer sentiment expressed in the social media information and consumer experiences, product usage, diagnoses and outcomes recorded in the health information. Benchmarks and measures of healthcare outcomes and treatments are generated based on matching consumer commentary and consumer sentiments with corresponding indications of actual healthcare experiences of the commentator recorded in the health information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: OPTUM, INC.
    Inventors: Matt Nichols, Genesis Christiansen, David Sam, Benjamin Bublitz, Jesen Surjadi, Mushir Ahmed Basheer
  • Publication number: 20150294089
    Abstract: A system and method that provides for integrated data entry and workflow capabilities through one or more computing devices provided to personnel who work at various stations throughout a facility. Automated identification, record updates, workflow management, and alerts are facilitated through the computing devices, which include a headset that includes one or more input devices such as a microphone, a speaker, a camera, and/or a visual display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: Matt Nichols
  • Publication number: 20150235006
    Abstract: Actively engaging members in managing their own healthcare, improving their health, and reducing healthcare costs to the payer involves providing a unified interface for member engagement. The interface may be communicatively coupled with a healthcare system, may be personalized to the member, and may offer multiple possible rewards to the member to encourage member behavior to effectively reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of healthcare plans. The interface may provide the member with a pathway guiding the member to engage in activities to achieve short-term, intermediate and long-term goals for which actions are presented. Goals or actions may be predefined and may additionally be selected by the member. When member-engagement in the actions is verified, rewards may be granted to the member's account. In connection with such member engagement, the healthcare system collects member information, applies rules to that information, and generates alerts from those rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventor: Matt Nichols
  • Publication number: 20150142459
    Abstract: Consumer care initiatives are implemented by comparing recommended healthcare services with services assumed to have been received by the consumer which are identified through analyzing real-time consumer data. Based on the comparison, assumed gap closures in care are identified, and a consumer outreach suppression period is initiated for the one or more recommended healthcare services with the assumed gap closure during which an outreach initiative is inactive. Reactivation of the initiative may occur when the assumed gap closure is unconfirmed, or the initiative is removed when the healthcare services associated with the assumed gap closure is confirmed to have been received by the consumer. Evaluation of the real-time consumer data further allows for identification of a new disease or condition the consumer is assumed to be experiencing, resulting in the identification of assumed quality gap openings, which enables new care initiatives to be added to the consumer's outreach plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Matt Nichols, Michael Gualtieri, Michael B. Wentzien
  • Publication number: 20140330621
    Abstract: A computer-based method for managing CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Stars program data includes storing historical CMS raw scores and Stars ratings in a database, which is in communication with a computer system having a user interface. The database is updated with CMS measurement data (or Stars rating data) for an insurance program, for example a Medicare Advantage Part C or Part D insurance plan or contract. The computer system is used to calculate CMS raw scores for the insurance program, based on the updated CMS Stars rating data. CMS Stars ratings are modeled and output to the user interface, based on the calculated raw scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Matt Nichols, Terrence Ward, Paul Claseman