Patents by Inventor Stephen Joseph Contreras

Stephen Joseph Contreras 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 to analyze product pricing
    Patent number: 11900429
    Abstract: The described systems and methods provide a user's mobile device with a graphical user interface that can provide information about the lowest price offered for one or more products. For instance, when a person at a physical retail store places one or more products in a physical shopping cart, a scanning device may scan the one or more products to obtain information about the one or more products, the scanned information is sent to a server that provides pricing and store location information to a mobile device based on the scanned information, the pricing and store location information can be analyzed by the mobile device to display the lowest price and store location for each product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Michelle Susan Croak, Stephen Joseph Contreras, Jo Anne Yau, Charise Renee Whitaker, Jason Algernon Webster, Salvador J. Rodriguez, Jon D. McEachron, Kimberly Wiessner, Oscar Guerra
  • Systems and methods to analyze product pricing
    Patent number: 11210731
    Abstract: The described systems and methods provide a user's mobile device with a graphical user interface that can provide information about the lowest price offered for one or more products. For instance, when a person at a physical retail store places one or more products in a physical shopping cart, a scanning device may scan the one or more products to obtain information about the one or more products, the scanned information is sent to a server that provides pricing and store location information to a mobile device based on the scanned information, the pricing and store location information can be analyzed by the mobile device to display the lowest price and store location for each product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Michelle Susan Croak, Stephen Joseph Contreras, Jo Anne Yau, Charise Renee Whitaker, Jason Algernon Webster, Salvador J. Rodriguez, Jon D. McEachron, Kimberly Wiessner, Oscar Guerra