Patents by Inventor Patrick Sweeting

Patrick Sweeting 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: 9160711
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing a cleansing farm are presented. A cleansing farm may comprise of a computing device that filters customer requests directed to an organization before they are routed internal to the organization. A cleansing farm may receive customer requests and filter the requests based on a set of filtering rules. The cleansing farm may inspect the customer request in order to determine whether it should be filtered. In an example where the organization is a financial institution, the customer request may include confidential customer information. Accordingly, in this example, the cleansing farm may be administered by an entity that is permitted to access the confidential customer information. A visualization tool may be used to visualize a plurality of customer requests at a cleansing farm and to generate rules for filtering customer requests at a cleansing farm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Sweet, Andrew Smith, Gregory Moore, Charles Wheeler, Chris Cummins, James Monroe, Timothy Byrd, Daniel Gapastione, Michael Stark, Craig A. Froelich
  • Publication number: 20090293733
    Abstract: Various forms of apparatus (1) for preparing and dispensing beverages, preferably based on coffee, can receive instructions from a customer and deliver the beverage automatically. The apparatus is preferably capable of fully automatic cleaning in a cleaning cycle in which a cleaning agent is flushed through the lines (62, 64), and the apparatus is preferably arranged to ensure that not only are the lines cleaned properly but that no cleaning agent can be dispensed. The apparatus includes a brewer assembly (78) having a chamber (81) in which freshly ground coffee can be introduced and either espresso or filter coffee can be automatically prepared by passing hot water through the chamber and removing the spent coffee grounds. The coffee may be stored as coffee beans in sealed containers (208) that can automatically be pierced to release the beans which are ground immediately before preparation of the beverage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: COFFEE NATION LTD.
    Inventors: Scott Martin, Steve Irwin, Andrew Chi Wai Yau, David William Smith, Jake Philip Tuner, John McGarva, Patrick Sweeting, Simon James Naylor, David William Harper, David Bradshaw, Michael Robert Nelson, Martyn Dawes, Damyn James Musgrave
  • Patent number: 6171623
    Abstract: A liquid feed bottle for an infant having a body made from a container portion bonded to a teat with an orifice. The body holds a liquid feed such as milk. A cap is bonded or sealed to the body and protects the teat. A cap portion is initially detachable from the body by pulling and removing a tear strip, the cap portion thus released being subsequently securable on the body by a press fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Cambridge Consultants Limited
    Inventors: Ian Michael Daines Gaylor, Christopher John Andrew Barnardo, Patrick Sweeting