Patents by Inventor Thomas Hayes

Thomas Hayes 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: 11478227
    Abstract: A distributed patient monitoring system comprises at least one standalone portable ultrasound imaging unit configured to be fixed to a stable position against the skin on a patient's body and capable of prolonged ultrasound data acquisition, including an ultrasound imaging array, transmit-receive circuitry, a beamformer, backend signal and image processing subsystem, power and communication subsystems, and a monitoring workstation connected to each standalone portable ultrasound imaging unit configured to request and receive ultrasound imaging information from each standalone portable ultrasound imaging unit, and configured to analyze and display acquired ultrasound information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: URSUS MEDICAL DESIGNS LLC
    Inventors: Sergei Koptenko, Thomas Hayes, Matthew Lyon
  • Patent number: 11443301
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for securely sending and using proxy element in a mobile wallet system. Through a user interface associated with a proxy originator wallet, user input may be received that defines the parameters of the proxy element. The parameters may include one or more of a spending limit, a time duration, a use number condition, and a transfer condition, and a product condition. A request may be sent from the proxy originator wallet to a proxy approver system to create the proxy element. The originator wallet may receive a proxy grant acknowledgement from the proxy approver system. The grant acknowledgement may instructions for obtaining credentials for the proxy element. The proxy element including the parameters and the instructions for obtaining credentials may be sent to a mobile wallet of a recipient. The recipient mobile wallet may use the proxy element for payment or non-payment transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Hayes, Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan
  • Publication number: 20220198442
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to secure communications for mobile wallet applications. A first mobile wallet application may send a content request describing a first offering to a wallet management system. The first mobile wallet application may receive from the wallet management system first merchant web content describing the first offering. The first merchant web content may be verified by the wallet management system and may comprise first address data describing a first address of a first merchant payment gateway. The first mobile wallet application may send payment data to the first merchant payment gateway at the first address. The payment data may indicate a payment amount for the first offering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Thomas Hayes, Ramanathan Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 11344962
    Abstract: A data structure for weld programs associates configuration data for a welding system with a plurality of weld programs and weld sequence data. The data structure allows the welding system to be configured for a particular part, operator, or stage in a welding process, and to be easily reconfigured when the part, operator, or stage changes, providing improved efficiency and flexibility in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Robert R. Davidson, Anthony J. Kowaleski, Bruce A. Casner, L. Thomas Hayes, Richard J. Schuh
  • Patent number: 11250422
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which provide a store credit issued electronically to a mobile wallet application from a merchant. This credit may be issued to a mobile wallet in the form of an enhanced wallet payment element. This enhanced wallet payment element may include the terms and conditions (e.g., repayment terms) of the credit (e.g., a digital/smart contract). The customer may accept or reject these terms. For example, when the customer accepts the terms, the enhanced wallet payment element digitally signs the agreement and indicates acceptance to the merchant mobile wallet system (e.g., sends the digital signature to the merchant). Once accepted, the enhanced wallet payment element may be utilized to pay for goods or services subject to the terms and conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Hayes, Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 11240217
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are devices, systems, and machine readable mediums for establishing peer to peer mobile wallet communications (P2PMW) over short range wireless communication networks. These P2PMW communications allow exchange of information between two wallet clients. Example communications include payments, providing identification, providing loans, and the like. The use of P2PMW communications opens up the prospect of anyone accepting payment from anybody else at any time. All that is needed is a computing device with a mobile wallet. Example short range wireless communications include Wireless LANs (WLAN) such as WIFI (e.g., communicating according to an Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards), BLUETOOTH® or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Hayes, Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 11170363
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for secure purchasing using a mobile wallet. A first mobile wallet may receive secure purchasing data related to an product from a server system associated with a merchant. The secure purchasing data (e.g., stored on a QR code) may include product information and merchant information allowing the mobile wallet to obtain a public key of the merchant. The mobile wallet may determine whether the purchase of the product requires processing by a second mobile wallet based on transaction rules and at least some of the purchasing data. Based on the determination, the first mobile wallet may either send payment data for purchasing the product to the server system of the merchant, without requesting processing by the second mobile wallet or send a request for processing to the second mobile wallet so that the second mobile wallet can approve or purchase the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Thomas Hayes
  • Patent number: 10984409
    Abstract: Various examples described herein are directed to systems and methods for executing a mobile wallet element at a mobile computing device. For example, an executable active element may send a first element message to a mobile wallet application. The first element message may include a subsidiary element request. The mobile wallet application may send to an operating system a request comprising the subsidiary element request. The operating system may send the subsidiary element request to an issuer system. Subsidiary element data describing a subsidiary element may be sent to a second mobile wallet application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Thomas Hayes, Ramanathan Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 10984411
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for securely sending and using proxy element in a mobile wallet system. Through a user interface associated with a proxy originator wallet, user input may be received that defines the parameters of the proxy element. The parameters may include one or more of a spending limit, a time duration, a use number condition, and a transfer condition, and a product condition. A request may be sent from the proxy originator wallet to a proxy approver system to create the proxy element. The originator wallet may receive a proxy grant acknowledgement from the proxy approver system. The grant acknowledgement may instructions for obtaining credentials for the proxy element. The proxy element including the parameters and the instructions for obtaining credentials may be sent to a mobile wallet of a recipient. The recipient mobile wallet may use the proxy element for payment or non-payment transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Hayes, Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 10965469
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for secure end-to-end digital communications involving mobile wallets. The result is direct, secure, in-band messaging using mobile wallets that may be used to send messages such as payments, requests for money, financial information, or messages to authorize a debit or credit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Thomas Hayes
  • Patent number: 10958442
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for secure end-to-end digital communications involving mobile wallets. The result is direct, secure, in-band messaging using mobile wallets that may be used to send messages such as payments, requests for money, financial information, or messages to authorize a debit or credit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Thomas Hayes
  • Publication number: 20210035091
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for secure revision of an element of a mobile wallet. The wallet element includes a revision signature and revision instructions that the mobile wallet may use to determine a revision action for the mobile wallet element. After determining a revision action, the mobile wallet may identify an issuer of the wallet element using the revision instructions and send a message to the issuer. The message may for example include a revision request corresponding to the revision action along with the revision signature of the mobile wallet element. The mobile wallet may send the message to the issuer and receive a response that includes revised wallet element data. The mobile wallet may revise the wallet element based on the revised wallet element data. This may include replacing the wallet element with a new one, updating an expiration data, replace software or updating functionality of the wallet element, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Thomas Hayes
  • Publication number: 20210023433
    Abstract: A golf swing playing aid device for use on a conventional golf club having a handle, an impact head and a shaft. The golf swing playing aid device may include a grip member having an outer portion and an inner portion. The outer portion may be adapted to be grasped by a hand of the user. The inner portion may be configured to slide along the golf club shaft. The playing aid device may include an electronic device including a rotational sensor adapted to detect a change in rotation relative to at least one axis, and a controller operably coupled to the rotational sensor. The controller may read the rotational sensor to determine the change in rotation relative to at least one axis. When the change in rotation is greater than a threshold amount, the controller may provide an indication to the user, thereby indicating over-rotation of the golf swing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Robert P. Means, Curt Geideman, Thomas Hayes
  • Patent number: 10853798
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for secure mobile wallet transactions. A computing device on which a mobile wallet operates may receive payment credentials from other devices using near field communication (NFC) path and/or wallet-to-wallet (W2W) communication paths. The computing device may initiate an NFC mode in response to user selection or the identification of a nearby NFC-enabled device. The computing device may send the received payment credentials to a wallet service provider associated with the mobile wallet using W2W communication. The computing device may send approvals or denials of the transaction to the other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Thomas Hayes
  • Patent number: 10799781
    Abstract: A golf swing playing aid device for use on a conventional golf club having a handle, an impact head and a shaft. The golf swing playing aid device includes a grip member having an outer portion and an inner portion. The outer portion is adapted to be grasped by the lower hand of the user. The inner portion is configured to slide along the golf club shaft. The grip member is configured such that when gripped by the lower hand of the user during a backswing the grip member slides down the shaft toward the head, whereby the hands of the user, when grasping the handle with the upper hand and the grip member with the lower hand can separate progressively during a backswing and then progressively return back into proximity during a downswing and follow-through of a golf swing to promote a more perfect and repeatable golf swing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Swing Memory Xccelerator, LLC
    Inventors: Robert P. Means, Curt Geideman, Thomas Hayes
  • Patent number: 10789640
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for integrating a wallet client with federated directory services are disclosed herein. By integrating merchant services, such as directory services with a wallet service provider, wallet clients on mobile devices can have access to all merchant listings without having to manually add each directory service. The system disclosed herein integrates Chamber of Commerce directory service listings with the wallet client, such that when a request for a merchant directory service is received from a device associated with the wallet client, the request is forwarded to a federated directory service wallet system interface operated by a Chamber of Commerce site. Supply chain data that matches the request, and location information that is included in the request, is then fetched from the federated directory service wallet system interface and forwarded to the device that sent the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Thomas Hayes
  • Publication number: 20200187916
    Abstract: A distributed patient monitoring system comprises at least one standalone portable ultrasound imaging unit configured to be fixed to a stable position against the skin on a patient's body and capable of prolonged ultrasound data acquisition, including an ultrasound imaging array, transmit-receive circuitry, a beamformer, backend signal and image processing subsystem, power and communication subsystems, and a monitoring workstation connected to each standalone portable ultrasound imaging unit configured to request and receive ultrasound imaging information from each standalone portable ultrasound imaging unit, and configured to analyze and display acquired ultrasound information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Sergei Koptenko, Thomas Hayes, Matthew Lyon
  • Patent number: 10652223
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are devices, systems, and machine readable mediums for establishing peer to peer mobile wallet communications (P2PMW) over short range wireless communication networks. These P2PMW communications allow exchange of information between two wallet clients. Example communications include payments, providing identification, providing loans, and the like. The use of P2PMW communications opens up the prospect of anyone accepting payment from anybody else at any time. All that is needed is a computing device with a mobile wallet. Example short range wireless communications include Wireless LANs (WLAN) such as WIFI (e.g., communicating according to an Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards), BLUETOOTH® or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Hayes, Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 10505731
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for secure end-to-end digital communications involving mobile wallets. The result is direct, secure, in-band messaging using mobile wallets that may be used to send messages such as payments, requests for money, financial information, or messages to authorize a debit or credit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Thomas Hayes
  • Patent number: 10505743
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for secure end-to-end digital communications involving mobile wallets. The result is direct, secure, in-band messaging using mobile wallets that may be used to send messages such as payments, requests for money, financial information, or messages to authorize a debit or credit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Thomas Hayes