Patents by Inventor W. Cooper
W. Cooper 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).
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Patent number: 12211602Abstract: Methods and systems for classifying and editing insurance claims records are described. In one embodiment, a method, which can be performed by a processor, includes identifying that a first prescription drug prescribed to a first patient, identifying a first date and a second date related to the first prescription, the second date occurring after the first date, both the first and second dates depending on a previous fill of the first prescription drug, identifying, at the processor, a third date associated with a second prescription, comparing, at the processor, the third date to the first and second dates to determine whether the third date occurs after the first date and before the second date, and filling and dispensing the first prescription drug and the second prescription drug on the same dispense date when the third date occurs after the first date and before the second date.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.Inventors: Susan E. Anselmi, Alexi E. Makarkin, Samuel Affare, John W. Cooper, IV, Jeffrey Whitworth
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Patent number: 12208297Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for treating contaminated material. The material is heated by nonconductive and nonconvective heating in a vacuum chamber such that the surface of the material is heated without significant heating of the air within the chamber. The surface of the material is heated to at least a volatilization temperature of the contaminants or to a decomposition temperature of one or more compounds in intimate contact with the contaminants, so that the concentration of contaminants in the material is reduced. Exhaust is removed from the chamber and cooled. A solids and/or liquids collector removes condensed solids and/or liquids and has a gas outlet connected to a vacuum pump.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Thomas P. Hoelen, Cesar Ovalles, Adam J. Dassey, Carl W. Lam, Russell E. Cooper, Janelle L. Lewis
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Patent number: 12136477Abstract: Methods and systems for performing multidose packaging targeting are provided. The methods and systems perform operations comprising: receiving prescription related complexity data associated with a patient, the prescription related complexity data comprising medication regiment information for a plurality of medications and patient specific information, the prescription related complexity data representing complexity for the patient in adhering to the one or more medications; applying a model to the prescription related complexity data to generate a score for at least one medication of the plurality of medications, the score being indicative of a likelihood of converting the patient from a current dispensing process to an alternate dispensing process; and triggering, based on the generated score, a notification associated with converting the patient from the current dispensing process to the alternate dispensing process.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Evernorth Strategic Development, Inc.Inventors: John W. Cooper, IV, Susan E. Anselmi, Robert Monzyk, Brady Novak
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Publication number: 20240161896Abstract: Methods and systems for classifying and editing insurance claims records are described. In one embodiment, a method, which can be performed by a processor, includes identifying that a first prescription drug prescribed to a first patient, identifying a first date and a second date related to the first prescription, the second date occurring after the first date, both the first and second dates depending on a previous fill of the first prescription drug, identifying, at the processor, a third date associated with a second prescription, comparing, at the processor, the third date to the first and second dates to determine whether the third date occurs after the first date and before the second date, and filling and dispensing the first prescription drug and the second prescription drug on the same dispense date when the third date occurs after the first date and before the second date.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Susan E. Anselmi, Alexi E. Makarkin, Samuel Affare, Jack W. Cooper, Jeffrey Whitworth
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Patent number: 11848085Abstract: Methods and systems for classifying and editing insurance claims records are described. In one embodiment, a method, which can be performed by a processor, includes determining that a first prescription drug prescribed to a first patient should be filled by a pharmacy, determining a first guidepost date and a second guidepost date related to the first prescription, determining a third guidepost date associated with a second prescription, comparing the third guidepost date to the first and second guidepost dates to determine whether the third guidepost date occurs after the first guidepost date and before the second guidepost date, and filling and dispensing the first prescription drug as a full prescription supply and the second prescription drug as a full prescription supply on the same dispense date when the third guidepost date occurs after the first guidepost date and before the second guidepost date.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.Inventors: Susan E. Anselmi, Alexi E. Makarkin, Samuel Affare, John W. Cooper, IV, Jeffrey Whitworth
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Publication number: 20230042725Abstract: Methods and systems for classifying and editing insurance claims records are described. In one embodiment, a method, which can be performed by a processor, includes determining that a first prescription drug prescribed to a first patient should be filled by a pharmacy, determining a first guidepost date and a second guidepost date related to the first prescription, determining a third guidepost date associated with a second prescription, comparing the third guidepost date to the first and second guidepost dates to determine whether the third guidepost date occurs after the first guidepost date and before the second guidepost date, and filling and dispensing the first prescription drug as a full prescription supply and the second prescription drug as a full prescription supply on the same dispense date when the third guidepost date occurs after the first guidepost date and before the second guidepost date.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Susan E. Anselmi, Alexi E. Makarkin, Samuel Affare, John W. Cooper, IV, Jeffrey Whitworth
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Patent number: 11508471Abstract: Methods and systems for classifying and editing insurance claims records are described. In one embodiment, a method, which can be performed by a processor, includes determining that a first prescription drug prescribed to a first patient should be filled by a pharmacy, determining a first guidepost date and a second guidepost date related to the first prescription, determining a third guidepost date associated with a second prescription, comparing the third guidepost date to the first and second guidepost dates to determine whether the third guidepost date occurs after the first guidepost date and before the second guidepost date, and filling and dispensing the first prescription drug as a full prescription supply and the second prescription drug as a full prescription supply on the same dispense date when the third guidepost date occurs after the first guidepost date and before the second guidepost date.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.Inventors: Susan E. Anselmi, Alexi E. Makarkin, Samuel Affare, John W. Cooper, IV, Jeffrey Whitworth
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Publication number: 20220367025Abstract: Methods and systems for performing multidose packaging targeting are provided. The methods and systems perform operations comprising: receiving prescription related complexity data associated with a patient, the prescription related complexity data comprising medication regiment information for a plurality of medications and patient specific information, the prescription related complexity data representing complexity for the patient in adhering to the one or more medications; applying a model to the prescription related complexity data to generate a score for at least one medication of the plurality of medications, the score being indicative of a likelihood of converting the patient from a current dispensing process to an alternate dispensing process; and triggering, based on the generated score, a notification associated with converting the patient from the current dispensing process to the alternate dispensing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: John W. Cooper, IV, Susan E. Anselmi, Robert Monzyk, Brady Novak
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Patent number: 11455184Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for end-to-end validation of virtual machines. A control system including a processor can detect a validation request that can include a request to create an end-to-end validation function to perform end-to-end validation of a service. The processor can analyze a policy to determine components of the end-to-end validation function and a virtual machine that will host the end-to-end validation function. The components can include a generator function and a receiver function that can encompass the service. The processor can load, or trigger loading of, an image to the virtual machine and instantiation of the virtual machine. The image can include the end-to-end validation function. The processor also can validate the service using the end-to-end validation function based upon a test scenario stored in a test library of the end-to-end validation function.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: W. Cooper Chastain, Larry B. Pearson, Cameron Scott Blandford
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Publication number: 20210342177Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for end-to-end validation of virtual machines. A control system including a processor can detect a validation request that can include a request to create an end-to-end validation function to perform end-to-end validation of a service. The processor can analyze a policy to determine components of the end-to-end validation function and a virtual machine that will host the end-to-end validation function. The components can include a generator function and a receiver function that can encompass the service. The processor can load, or trigger loading of, an image to the virtual machine and instantiation of the virtual machine. The image can include the end-to-end validation function. The processor also can validate the service using the end-to-end validation function based upon a test scenario stored in a test library of the end-to-end validation function.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: W. Cooper Chastain, Larry B. Pearson, Cameron Scott Blandford
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Patent number: 11138630Abstract: Extracting and sharing user preference information includes receiving a call from a user device, retrieving user information from a user account stored in a user databank in response to receiving the call, executing a data backup operation to share the user account information with at least one established account partner remotely via a secure communication channel, wherein executing the data backup operation comprises transmitting the user account information to a remote databank of the at least one established account partner over the secure communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: INTRADO CORPORATIONInventors: Brian W. Cooper, Fonda J. Narke
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Patent number: 11061707Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for end-to-end validation of virtual machines. A control system including a processor can detect a validation request that can include a request to create an end-to-end validation function to perform end-to-end validation of a service. The processor can analyze a policy to determine components of the end-to-end validation function and a virtual machine that will host the end-to-end validation function. The components can include a generator function and a receiver function that can encompass the service. The processor can load, or trigger loading of, an image to the virtual machine and instantiation of the virtual machine. The image can include the end-to-end validation function. The processor also can validate the service using the end-to-end validation function based upon a test scenario stored in a test library of the end-to-end validation function.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: W. Cooper Chastain, Larry B. Pearson, Cameron Scott Blandford
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Patent number: 10931820Abstract: A method and apparatus of processing multiple user call records via an IVR call processing application is disclosed. One example method may include receiving a call from a user device, obtaining first user information from a user account stored in a user databank. The first information may be associated with a first call record established during a first previously received call from the user device. The method may also include establishing a first confidence level based on the first user information and obtaining second user information from the user account stored in the user databank. The second user information may be associated with a second call record established during a second previously received call from the user device. The method may also include establishing a second confidence level based on the second user information and transmitting an offer to the user device based on the first confidence level and second confidence level.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: West CorporationInventor: Brian W. Cooper
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Patent number: 10785845Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The housing may have a stand that supports the housing on a support surface or may have other shapes. The display may have pixels that display an image. The display may also have a two-dimensional array of light-emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes that supply backlight illumination for the pixels. An array of temperature sensors may be overlapped by the pixels. Control circuitry may maintain historical backlight aging information during operation of the display. The aging information may include information on output brightness levels of the light-emitting diodes and light-emitting diode operating temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Adrian E. Sun, ByoungSuk Kim, Jason P. Marini, Jun Qi, Kerry J. Kopp, Matthew W. Cooper, Mingxia Gu, Yanming Li, Kevin J. Ryan, Shmuel G. Link
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Patent number: 10588575Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for determining a metric and/or indicator of a reliability of a blood glucose sensor in providing glucose measurements. In one aspect, the metric and/or indicator may be computed based, at least in part, on an observed trend associated with signals generated by the blood glucose sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Medtronic Minimed, Inc.Inventors: Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Ying Luo, Raghavendhar Gautham, Bradley Liang, Anirban Roy, Kenneth W. Cooper, Rajiv Shah, Barry Keenan
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Patent number: 10564800Abstract: Method and apparatus for facilitating virtual object selection and interaction in a computer-generated environment such as a virtual or augmented reality 3-D environment are disclosed. A physical controller allows interaction by the user with a tool displayed at a first position in the computer-generated environment where, when a first signal is received from the physical controller to initiate selection of the tool, a visual cue is created in the computer-generated environment. The visual cue includes a vector that allows targeting of the tool and is displayed with respect to a virtual controller that is a graphical representation of the physical controller in the computer-generated environment. Upon receipt of a selection signal from the physical controller when the vector and the tool intersect, the computer-generated environment is updated to display the tool at a second location that is relative to the virtual controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: SPATIALAND INC.Inventors: Kyle W. Cooper, Kimberly Cooper, Amir Alavi, Brian C. Holmes
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Patent number: 10505901Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing a basic firewall using a virtual networking function. A control system having a processor can detect a firewall request that can include a request to create a basic firewall. The processor can analyze a recipe to determine a virtual switch and a basic firewall virtual function that are to provide the functionality of the basic firewall. The processor can trigger instantiation of the virtual switch via a network control function and instantiation of the basic firewall virtual function via a service control function. The processor also can validate the basic firewall. The basic firewall can provide filtering of traffic at the network transport layer using the virtual switch, and as such, the virtual switch may not operate on the application layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: W. Cooper Chastain
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Patent number: 10455086Abstract: A method and apparatus of processing a user call via an intelligent voice response (IVR) call processing application is disclosed. One example method may include receiving a call from a user device, obtaining user information from the received call, comparing the user information to at least one pre-stored user information stored in a user databank associated with a user account, and calculating a first confidence level by comparing the user information to the pre-stored user information. The method may also include authorizing the user device to receive an offer based on the first confidence level, and transmitting the offer to the user authorized by the first confidence level.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Brian W. Cooper, Fonda J. Narke
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Publication number: 20190277249Abstract: A vertical axis wind turbine system having a vertical mast with one or more turbine units supported thereon. The turbine units are of modular construction for assembly around the foot of the mast; are vertically moveable along the height of the mast by a winch system; and are selectively interlocking with the mast to fix the turbine units in parked positions. The turbine system and each turbine unit includes a network of portals and interior rooms for the passage of personnel through the system, including each turbine unit. The electrical generators, and other sub-components, in the turbine units are of modular construction that permits the selective removal and replacement of component segments, including the transport of component segments through the portals and interior rooms of the turbine system while the turbine units remain supported on the mast. The electrical generators are also selectively convertible between AC generators and DC generators.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: VERT NOVA, LLCInventors: Jorge Aranovich, Frank W. Cooper, JR., José Jorge Gayarre Villoria
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Patent number: 10316821Abstract: A vertical axis wind turbine system having a vertical mast with one or more turbine units supported thereon. The turbine units are of modular construction for assembly around the foot of the mast; are vertically moveable along the height of the mast by a winch system; and are selectively interlocking with the mast to fix the turbine units in parked positions. The turbine system and each turbine unit includes a network of portals and interior rooms for the passage of personnel through the system, including each turbine unit. The electrical generators, and other sub-components, in the turbine units are of modular construction that permits the selective removal and replacement of component segments, including the transport of component segments through the portals and interior rooms of the turbine system while the turbine units remain supported on the mast. The electrical generators are also selectively convertible between AC generators and DC generators.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: VERT NOVA, LLCInventors: Jorge Aranovich, Frank W Cooper, Jr., José Jorge Gayarre Villoria