Patents by Inventor Nancy L. Van Nest

Nancy L. Van Nest 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).

  • Systems and methods for customer deactivation of security elements
    Patent number: 9552710
    Abstract: Systems (100) and methods (1100) for activating an Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) element deactivator. The methods involve: obtaining customer-related data from a customer of a business organization who is attempting to deactivate an EAS element of at least one item; obtaining transaction data contained in a receipt issued upon completion of a checkout transaction for the customer; communicating the customer-related data, transaction data and a unique identifier for an EAS element deactivation system to a remote computing device; processing the customer-related data and transaction data to obtain confirmation that the customer has recently successfully completed the checkout transaction for the item and the EAS element of the item has not yet been deactivated; and activating the EAS element deactivator of the EAS element deactivation system subsequent to when the confirmation is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Paul B. Rasband, Hubert A. Patterson, Stewart E. Hall, Nancy L. Van Nest, Douglas A. Drew
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER DEACTIVATION OF SECURITY ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20150009035
    Abstract: Systems (100) and methods (1100) for activating an Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) element deactivator. The methods involve: obtaining customer-related data from a customer of a business organization who is attempting to deactivate an EAS element of at least one item; obtaining transaction data contained in a receipt issued upon completion of a checkout transaction for the customer; communicating the customer-related data, transaction data and a unique identifier for an EAS element deactivation system to a remote computing device; processing the customer-related data and transaction data to obtain confirmation that the customer has recently successfully completed the checkout transaction for the item and the EAS element of the item has not yet been deactivated; and activating the EAS element deactivator of the EAS element deactivation system subsequent to when the confirmation is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: PAUL B. RASBAND, Hubert A. Patterson, Stewart E. Hall, Nancy L. Van Nest, Douglas A. Drew