Dispensing Or Vending Patents (Class 700/231)
- Customized dispensed article (e.g., operator design) (Class 700/233)
- Demonstration or duplication of article (e.g., software, video) (Class 700/234)
- Printing on or of dispensed or vended article (Class 700/235)
- Data collection or reporting (e.g., sales, inventory) (Class 700/236)
- Authorization (e.g., password, time usage limit, personal identification number (PIN) (Class 700/237)
- Price adjustment (Class 700/238)
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Patent number: 11967215Abstract: A gift card system and method for purchasing gift cards at a kiosk is disclosed. The system/method includes a gift card distribution kiosk located at a retail establishment that provides a user with access to a multitude of different forms of gift cards that may be purchased and printed onto a customizable card with a personalized message. The kiosk includes a kiosk processor interface, a gift card dispenser, a card reader and gift card management server connected to a network. The gift card management server, through the kiosk processor interface, provides vendor options to users to select and pay via the card reader. In another embodiment, the kiosk is used to redeem unused user gift cards for a reduced value user selected gift card, reduced cash value, full value store card, rewards points, bank debit, and/or electronic code user towards online purchases.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Inventor: James Curtis
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Patent number: 11954551Abstract: An RF module and method include a base with a probe, a reader unit, a communications unit, and a control unit that establish tracking activation EM field into a container having electrically-conductive walls. RFID tags attached to medical articles located within the container are activated and produce identification signals. The probe and base receive the identification signals and provide identification data related to medical articles located within the container. The RF module is self-contained excepting power and a data connection with which to operate. Where an Ethernet is used, power is obtained by PoE. The RF module is used to retrofit existing medication containers and may be used during the construction of a new medication container.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MEPS Real-Time, Inc.Inventors: Shariq Hussain, Paul M. Elizondo, II
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Patent number: 11926517Abstract: A container management system (1) with a number of containers (2) which have identifying, electronically readable codes assigned to them, and with a number of dispensing/filling stations configured for dispensing a liquid from the container (2) or supplying said container with a fluid. The dispensing/filling stations are associated with electronic reading units by means of which the codes of containers (2) can be read. Data read by the electronic reading units are fed into a cloud-based computer system (13) configured for storing and analyzing the data.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: AS Strömungstechnik GmbHInventors: Andreas Szeteli, Nico Fischer
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Patent number: 11928659Abstract: A document handler system and method includes timed operation functionality in which the manufacturer of the document handler may input coded information in the document handler to establish a timed operation of the document handler which may be contingent on continued payments for use of the document handler. Alternatively, or in addition, the timed operation may be used to establish an appropriate warranty period during which the manufacturer is obligated to provide repairs, modification and/or support for the document handler.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: JCM American CorporationInventors: Mark Henderson, Bryan Allen Wilcutt, Mark Adams, David Christopher Kubajak, Steven Johnson
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Patent number: 11851290Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to use a robotic arm to palletize or depalletize diverse items. In various embodiments, data associated with a plurality of items to be stacked on or in a destination location is received. A plan to stack the items on or in the destination location is generated based at least in part on the received data. The plan is implemented at least in part by controlling a robotic arm of the robot to pick up the items and stack them on or in the receptacle according to the plan, including by for each item: using one or more first order sensors to move the item to a first approximation of a destination position for that item at the destination location; and using one or more second order sensors to snug the item into a final position.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Dexterity, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Jose Chavez, Yuan Gao, Rohit Pidaparthi, Talbot Morris-Downing, Harry Zhe Su, Samir Menon
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Patent number: 11832027Abstract: This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: ARxIUM, Inc.Inventors: Aaron C. Swarvar, Jacob A. Dent, Gabriel V. Taut, Thomas E. Doherty
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Patent number: 11790313Abstract: Methods and systems for item delivery using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles are provided. The methods and systems include operations comprising: obtaining, by a distance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a package that includes a plurality of items, each item being associated with a target delivery destination; delivering, by the distance UAV, the package to a regional hub that includes a local UAV, the distance UAV being configured to travel a longer distance and carry more weight than the local UAV; retrieving, by the local UAV, a given item of the plurality of items from the package; determining, by the local UAV, the target delivery destination associated with the given item; and delivering, by the local UAV, the given item to the target delivery destination.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.Inventor: Timothy B. Clise
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Patent number: 11772878Abstract: A storage container for a storage and dispensing station for drugs is provided. The storage container includes a housing enclosing a receiving space, a circular-cylindrical section and a bottom area having a discharge opening. A singling device situated in the circular-cylindrical portion of the housing includes at least one duct and a restrainer completely situated within the housing enclosing the receiving space. The restrainer includes a fastening portion and a restraining portion. The restraining portion is kept above the discharge opening and the fastening portion works together with at least one fastening socket within the housing to fix the restrainer in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: CareFusion Germany 326 GmbHInventor: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger
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Patent number: 11750043Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for performing wireless power transfer and foreign object detection with authentication at different power levels. The impact of time required for an authentication process to execute between transitions to different power levels is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd.Inventor: Vladimir Alexander Muratov
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Patent number: 11734722Abstract: A contact lens package includes a first package layer and a second package layer joined to the first package layer at an edge of the first package layer. The first package layer and the second package layer collectively define, at least in part, a cavity and a contact lens is disposed within the cavity. A visual trigger is depicted on either the first package layer or the second package layer, and the visual trigger is identifiable by a mobile device to be associated with an executable file.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Menicon Singapore PTE LTD.Inventor: Stephen D. Newman
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Patent number: 11729595Abstract: A piece of hygiene equipment includes a transmitting section configured to transmit an outbound radio signal carrying transmission payload data; a receiving section configured to receive an inbound radio signal carrying reception payload data; a processing section configured to transmit an outbound radio signal carrying specific transmission payload data and/or to receive an inbound radio signal carrying specific reception payload data for determining a communication partner to which outbound radio signals are to be transmitted and from which inbound radio signals are to be received; and a memory section. The processing section is configured to determine said communication partner and to store information on the determined communication partner in said memory section.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAGInventor: Håkan Lindström
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Patent number: 11680559Abstract: A hybrid actuation device including an artificial muscle is disclosed. The artificial muscle includes a housing including a first reinforcing thread extending across an expandable fluid region of the housing, an electrode pair positioned in an electrode region of the housing, and a dielectric fluid housed within the housing. The electrode pair includes a first electrode positioned adjacent a first surface of the housing and a second electrode positioned adjacent a second surface of the housing. The electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into the expandable fluid region. The first reinforcing thread restricts expansion of the expandable fluid region when the electrode pair is in the actuated state.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Michael P. Rowe, Shardul S. Panwar, Maduran Palaniswamy
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Patent number: 11591161Abstract: Provided herein is a methods, apparatus, and system for the configuration of customizable trays for the storage and dispensing of articles. Methods may include: receiving an indication of a plurality of articles to be stored in a tray; determining a plurality of bins corresponding to the plurality of articles; generating a layout of the bins on the tray; identifying locations of the plurality of articles within the bins on the tray; and causing the tray to be configured according to the layout of the plurality of bins on the tray. Methods may include: receiving an indication of an article to be loaded into a bin of the plurality of bins; receiving a unique identifier of the bin of the plurality of bins into which the article is loaded; and storing, in a memory, a correlation between the unique identifier of the bin and the article loaded into the bin.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: OMNICELL, INC.Inventors: Robert Warren Jaynes, Michael Edward McGregor
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Patent number: 11580483Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods include an intraocular lens (IOL) cart that may assist with inventory management and may help users identify an IOL for use in a particular surgical application. The IOL cart may include sensors and indicators that provide information to a user and may update IOL inventory automatically whenever the IOL cart is accessed by a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Mikhail Boukhny, David Thoe
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Patent number: 11570265Abstract: The present invention relates to a data transmission method including injecting signals into a communications channel between a predefined hardware device for a computing system and an application executing on the computing system, for receipt by the application. A data transmission system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SPARKLE CS LTDInventors: Judd Ferrer, Mark Brighton
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Patent number: 11541866Abstract: A power distribution control system of a vehicle includes a driving information provider for collecting and providing information required for power distribution control of an engine and a motor in the vehicle; a communication unit for transmitting the information provided by the driving information provider from the vehicle; a cloud server outside the vehicle for selecting and transmitting optimal power distribution control logic data corresponding to a driving situation of the vehicle based on the information provided through the communication unit from the vehicle; and a vehicle controller for performing power distribution control of the engine and the motor based on real-time driving state variable information of the vehicle using the optimal power distribution control logic data received through the communication unit by the vehicle from the cloud server.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Hee Yun Lee
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Patent number: 11515027Abstract: Ambulatory medical devices, which includes ambulatory medicament pumps, and blood glucose control systems that provide therapy to a subject, such as blood glucose control, are disclosed. Disclosed systems and devices can implement one or more features that improve the user experience, such as prompting and/or facilitating the user to order additional infusion sets, sensors, and/or other components to facilitate treatment.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Beta Bionics, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Rosinko, Himanshu Patel, Edward R. Damiano, Firas H. El-Khatib
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Patent number: 11461734Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: determining, by a computer device, initial locations of products in a repository; determining, by the computer device, an initial arrangement of the products based on the initial locations; determining, by the computer device, current locations of the products in the repository; determining, by the computer device and based on the initial locations and the current locations, that one of the products is moved away from its home location; determining, by the computer device and based on the determining the one of the products is moved away from its home location, that the one of the products is misplaced based on predefined conditions being satisfied; and generating, by the computer device, an alert based on the determining the one of the products is misplaced.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.Inventors: Pramod Verma, Rachel Leekin, Seema Nagar, Kuntal Dey
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Patent number: 11411417Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to a battery kiosk that houses and distributes rechargeable batteries for light electric vehicles. The battery kiosk includes various visual indicators that are activated based on the individual's progress with a rechargeable battery exchange process.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Neutron Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Michael Steiner, David Krawczyk
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Patent number: 11402971Abstract: Described are systems and techniques configured to provide a user interface for an unauthenticated user of a materials handling facility. A transient profile indicative of one or more user preferences may be created and associated with the unauthenticated user. As the unauthenticated user interacts with the facility, preferences may be determined and included in the transient profile. Subsequent operation of the facility may take into account the transient profile. As the unauthenticated user moves throughout the facility, the transient profile may “follow” them, providing an ongoing user experience. Should the unauthenticated user later be authenticated, the transient preferences may be incorporated into a persistent profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Alexander Michael McNamara, Sridhar Boyapati, Korwin Jon Smith, Aaron Craig Thompson, Ammar Chinoy, David Echevarria Ignacio
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Patent number: 11398307Abstract: A remote controlled robot system that includes a mobile robot and a remote control station. The mobile robot is controlled by the remote control station and includes a robot monitor, and a robot camera that captures a robot image. The system also includes a medical image device that can be coupled to the robot. The remote control station includes a camera that captures a remote station image, and a monitor that displays the robot image captured by the robot camera in a robot view field, displays the remote station image in a station view field. The robot transmits the robot and medical images to the remote control station such that a larger portion of a network bandwidth is allocated for the medical image than the robot image.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: TELADOC HEALTH, INC.Inventors: Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Marco Pinter
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Patent number: 11392936Abstract: An exchange service robot includes a communication unit, a traveling unit including at least one wheel and a traveling motor, an output unit configured to output a request for putting a currency, a currency recognition sensor configured to recognize the amount of currency put through a currency slot, and a processor configured to acquire information on a withdrawal amount based on exchange rate information between the put currency and a currency to be withdrawn and the amount of put currency, and provide the currency to be withdrawn based on the acquired information.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyongguk Kim, Jaeyoung Kim, Hyoungmi Kim, Yujune Jang
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Patent number: 11386740Abstract: A vending system is disclosed and claimed. In particular, the disclosed vending machine system allows multiple vendors to sell food items through a vending machine. The vending machine provides multiple locked bins, each of which can authenticate to a single vendor. Also, the vending machine implements price adjustment rules, such as raising the price of a particular item during, before, and after a high traffic event. In addition, customer dietary restrictions can be tracked, and purchases of food items that would violate those dietary restrictions can be prevented. The vending system allows a consumer to perform contactless vending transactions, with the identity of the consumer being verified through biometrics and a camera. Upon verification of the consumer, the vending system transacts payment for selected items, dispenses items in a contactless manner, updates inventory of items, records the purchase history of consumer, and provides indisputable visual media evidence of the transaction.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Inventor: Nishant Shah
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Patent number: 11379794Abstract: A drug dispensing system includes fulfillment stations that are each characterized by a set of dispensary attributes. The fulfillment stations each, in response to receiving a first order message including a first unique drug identifier, fill a container with pills matching the first unique drug identifier. A routing determination module, for each order message corresponding to a prescription order, selects one of the fulfillment stations based on compatibility between dispensary attributes for the selected fulfillment station and dispensation preferences related to the order message and transmits the order message to the selected fulfillment station. An order status subsystem conditionally sends a cancellation instruction relating to one of the order messages to the respective fulfillment station to cancel dispensing of pills.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.Inventors: Charles E. Eller, Jonathan W. Joplin
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Patent number: 11373139Abstract: Medical item usage is monitored, and a number of new items to store in a dispensing device is determined. A first maximum number of items that can be stored in a first compartment of the dispensing device is determined based on a volumetric space of an item unit loaded into the first compartment, and a second maximum number of items that can be stored in a second compartment is determined based on the determined first maximum number, the volumetric space of the respective item unit loaded into the first compartment, and a change of volume between the first and second compartments and, when the number of new item units to store in the dispensing device exceeds the first maximum number of items that can be stored the first compartment, the second compartment is assigned for storage of new item units, and a notification is sent regarding the assignment.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.Inventors: Thomas William Utech, Maria Consolacion Jaskela
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Patent number: 11350636Abstract: A grain and flour supply apparatus is provided, including a holding bin provided above a container and having an exhaust port from which gas is discharged, an introduction port into which grain and flour are introduced, and a supply port which supplies the grain and flour to the container; a first vacuum breaker valve opening and closing the exhaust port; a second vacuum breaker valve opening and closing the introduction port; a third vacuum breaker valve opening and closing the supply port; a temperature sensor measuring the temperature in the holding bin; a vacuum device drawing a vacuum in the holding bin; and a control device configured to control the first vacuum breaker valve, the second vacuum breaker valve, the third vacuum breaker valve, and the vacuum device, and set with a target temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: SODICK CO., LTD.Inventors: Maya Ueno, Akinori Noguchi
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Patent number: 11348054Abstract: A system and related methods of enhanced distribution of pharmaceuticals in long-term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a system includes one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines each positioned in a long-term care facility remote from a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server and in communication therewith, and long-term care facility pharmacy management computer programs associated with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server to enhance use of the one or more of pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TECH PHARMACY SERVICES, LLCInventors: James W. Moncrief, James J. Martin
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Patent number: 11341450Abstract: Methods of enhanced distribution of pharmaceuticals in long-term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a method includes positioning two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines each positioned in a different long-term care facility remote from a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server and in communication therewith, and long-term care facility pharmacy management computer programs associated with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server to enhance use of the one or more of pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: TECH PHARMACY SERVICES, LLCInventors: James W. Moncrief, James J. Martin
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Patent number: 11336127Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for performing wireless power transfer and foreign object detection with authentication at different power levels. The impact of time required for an authentication process to execute between transitions to different power levels is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd.Inventor: Vladimir A. Muratov
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Patent number: 11312001Abstract: Asynchronous item delivery utilizes a system including a first depot and a first mobile robot at a first site and a second depot and a second mobile robot at a second site. A centralized control system manages asynchronous delivery of items through the first depot and the second depot such that the first mobile robot can retrieve an item from the first depot and deliver the item to a transportation systems for transition to the second site, such that the second depot at the second site can, in an asynchronous fashion, receive the item and deliver the item to the second mobile robot for transportation to the ultimate destination at the second site. Two or more sites can be coordinated by the centralized control system for management of movement of items through a supply chain using asynchronous item delivery and movement through each respective site to an ultimate destination.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Vecna Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Theobald
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Patent number: 11250410Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and computer implemented method for executing card present transaction dynamically from remote environment. A first payment terminal receives payment details and configuration information of a second payment terminal associated with a merchant located separate from the first payment terminal from an intermediate agent device. A payment channel is initiated by emulating the second payment terminal using the configuration details. The first payment terminal receives transaction related data once user initiates the payment transaction using a physical payment card in the first payment terminal. The transaction related data is communicated to the second payment terminal which sends a transaction message comprising transaction related data to an issuer system for authorization. Thereafter, a result of the payment transaction is received from the second payment terminal via the intermediate agent device.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Gaurav Srikant Mokhasi, Rohit Sukhija, Abhishek Minocha
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Patent number: 11236897Abstract: An order to customer linking system may include a sensor to sense a position of an order, a projector and a processing unit to associate a customer with the order and to output signals causing the projector to project a customer identification image based upon the position.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Design Mill Inc.Inventors: Nathan L. Greiner, Alexander Jon Schuster, Jane McCleary, Jasmine Nobis-Olson, John Brian Priest
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Patent number: 11238449Abstract: Systems and methods for validation of transaction policy compliance are provided. Code is implemented, including a transaction policy compliance check, in a form of a trusted application to be executed in a trusted execution environment (TEE). A secret is attested and provisioned to a trusted application instance in the TEE. The trusted application instance is executed on a client transaction request to generate a policy compliance result. A transaction object is generated, including the policy compliance result and a proof of the execution. The transaction object is proposed to a distributed ledger system. The policy compliance result and a proof of the execution during transaction validation in the distributed ledger system is verified.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Sergey Fedorov, Wenting Li, Ghassan Karame
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Patent number: 11240323Abstract: The present invention relates to a data transmission method including injecting signals into a communications channel between a predefined hardware device for a computing system and an application executing on the computing system, for receipt by the application. A data transmission system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: SPARKLE CS LTD.Inventors: Judd Ferrer, Mark Brighton
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Business method of providing trade and data and analyzing suggestion to product and service platform
Patent number: 11227272Abstract: A business method of providing trade and data and analyzing suggestion to product and service platform includes following steps: a step of providing at least one vending machine, wherein a cash flow for a payment is processed by a consumer via the vending machine, and the vending machine provides a logistic flow of supplying product to the buyer; a step of listing at least one supplier; a step of establishing at least one payment mode means; a step of establishing at least one platform; and a step of establishing at least one data analysis; accordingly, the buyer and the supplier can both be provided with the product and the purchase payment in a safe means, the supplier can be prevented from wasting the product via a product data analysis or suggestion, so that the platform and the supplier can both have benefits and share the financial gains.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: EZ PLATFORMInventors: Wen-Hsin Chen, Jack Tseng, Hai-Wei Lin -
Patent number: 11224551Abstract: An IV product transport device is configured to transport an IV product from one location to another in automated fashion. The transport device may comprise a chassis with one or more ports for IV products. A drive mechanism is configured to move the transport device. In one embodiment, the transport device includes a controller. Information may be provided to the controller about an IV product, such as its intended destination or use. The controller may also exchange information with a delivery device, such as an infusion pump, to verify that the IV product is delivered to the proper destination. The transport device may include a delivery mechanism for off-loading an IV product. The transport device may deliver IV products of various configurations, including one in which the product comprises a flexible bag and a container housing for supporting and protecting the fluid bag.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventor: Graham Ross
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Patent number: 11182728Abstract: Methods for managing preparation, delivery, and recycling of a medication for a patient are provided. In one aspect, a method includes interfacing with a medication preparation component, an inventory management component, a delivery management component, and a medication recycling management component. The medication preparation component fulfills a plurality of medication orders based on a first set of parameters. The medication preparation component cannot interface directly with the parameters for the other components. The method includes providing the medication preparation component the first set of parameters based on the parameters for the other components. In another aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of medication orders, providing preparation instructions when a medication order cannot be fulfilled by unused medications, providing delivery instructions for the medications, and receiving delivery verifications. Machine-readable media are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: Nivaldo Diaz, Guy Eldredge, Thomas William Utech, Maria Consolacion Jaskela, William Lee Webster, Timothy W. Vanderveen
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Patent number: 11173097Abstract: A programmable medication dispenser is provided to securely dispense medication to a patient and mitigate the risk of diversion of the medication to an unauthorized user. The programmable medication dispenser may include a processor, a memory, a housing, a biometric verification module, an inner receptacle having a plurality of compartments for storing the medication, and a gate for dispensing the medication from one of the compartments. A patient may access the medication stored within the medication dispenser according to a prescribed dosing schedule based on instructions executed by the processor after verifying his or her identify via the biometric verification module. A system is also provided for securely dispensing, monitoring, controlling medication for a patient using the programmable medication dispenser and for mitigating the risk of diversion of the medication to an unauthorized user.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: SBG MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Michael Greenspan, David Greenspan
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Patent number: 11174139Abstract: Lifting system for lifting a vehicle and a method there for. The system comprises one or more lifting devices, wherein each lifting device includes: a frame with a carrier configured for carrying the vehicle; a drive for driving the carrier in at least one of the ascent or decent of the carrier; a sensor for measuring at least one of the ascent or descent of the carrier; and a controller including: a connection for connecting to the sensor; a release system for releasing the carrier enabling the lifting system to lift the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Stertil B.V.Inventors: Jan Bernhard Stapensea, Ulbe Gerrit Bijlsma
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Patent number: 11120416Abstract: A mobile terminal (10) includes an identification information acquisition unit (101) configured to acquire identification information for identifying a vending machine (20), and a payment processing execution unit (104) configured to execute payment processing for receiving provision of a product or a service from the vending machine (20).Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2016Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.Inventor: Kikumi Kai
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Patent number: 11087246Abstract: Techniques facilitating cognitive route planning for unit replenishment in a distributed network are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can include determining, by a system operatively coupled to one or more processors, a time limit for unit replenishment at a unit dispensing device based on a unit depletion rate for the unit dispensing device. The computer-implemented method can also include generating, by the system, a route plan for the unit replenishment based on the unit depletion rate, the time limit, and respective unit depletion rates and respective time limits for other unit dispensing devices of a set of unit dispensing devices. The unit depletion rate can be based on historical and projected withdrawal data. Further, the unit dispensing device can be included in the set of unit dispensing devices located within a defined area. The time limit can indicate time remaining until the unit dispensing device is depleted of units.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Shang Qing Guo, Jonathan Lenchner, Maharaj Mukherjee
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Patent number: 11070895Abstract: A system for automatically monitoring merchandise in a retail sales environment is provided. The system includes a display fixture configured to store and display for sale a group of perishable items and one or more gas emission sensors associated with the display fixture and configured to measure gas emissions from the group of perishable items. The system further includes a control circuit coupled to the one or more gas emission sensors and configured to receive a gas emission measurement taken at the display fixture, compare the gas emission measurement with stored gas emission data associated with a category of the group of perishable items; and make a determination corresponding to the group of perishable items based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventor: Joseph D. Taylor
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Patent number: 11055949Abstract: Technologies are disclosed herein for providing content management for deploying and updating a fleet of resources. A system for providing content management may include a web server or other apparatus configured to receive a local content request from a local device of a fleet of resources, the local content request comprising a canonical uniform resource locator (URL) that uniquely identifies the local device. The web server may be further configured to analyze the local content request to determine if the URL matches one or more rewrite rules, formulate a response to the local content request based on the analyzing, and transmit the formulated response.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventor: Andrew Jarnagin
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Patent number: 11043061Abstract: Methods and apparatuses provide a vending machine with a dispenser the moves product from a shelf to a conveyor bucket. The dispenser includes an elongate divider with a drive gear at its bucket end. A drive gear from the bucket engages the dispenser drive gear causing a linear positioner to move a carriage along the elongate divider and toward the bucket. The movement causes product on the shelf, and between the carriage and the bucket, to be forced into the bucket.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Swyft Inc.Inventors: Diego Vazquez, Lincoln Smith, Gower Smith
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Patent number: 11024041Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating depth and motion estimation in machine learning environments, according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes receiving a frame associated with a scene captured by one or more cameras of a computing device; processing the frame using a deep recurrent neural network architecture, wherein processing includes simultaneously predicating values associated with multiple loss functions corresponding to the frame; and estimating depth and motion based the predicted values.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Koba Natroshvili, Kay-Ulrich Scholl
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Patent number: 11011012Abstract: A token repository apparatus that facilitates management of tokens is disclosed. The token repository apparatus can receive tokens, capture images and/or other metadata pertaining to the tokens, and retain the tokens in a repository. For example, the tokens can be gaming tokens, and the token repository apparatus can be coupled to a multi-player gaming apparatus (e.g., gaming table) supporting wager-based games. Advantageously, gaming tokens, such as pertaining to table commissions or tips, can be securely and reliably deposited. The imaging and/or metadata pertaining to the tokens can be used to validate the tokens being deposited. The token repository apparatus can also facilitate recording of values of various gaming tokens being deposited.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Empire Technological Group LimitedInventors: Linyi Frank Feng, Daryn Kiely, Randy Graham
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Patent number: 10998094Abstract: A method includes identifying drugs to be dispensed from medication containers within filling cabinets in a pharmacy dispensing system. The drugs are automatically dispensed from the medication containers into pill containers. The method also includes determining a distribution parameter for the medication containers. The distribution parameter represents one or more of a quantity of the drugs that is dispensed or a limit on dispensing the drugs. The method also includes determining at least one allocation of the drugs in the medication containers that differs from a current allocation of the drugs in the medication containers, and changing the current allocation of the drugs in the medication containers to increase a distribution velocity at which the drugs are dispensed from the pharmacy dispensing system.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.Inventors: Roger Yu-Wei Chiu, Henna R. Griego, Ryan J. Phillips, Ryan Stoll, Yigong Zhang
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Patent number: 10974953Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, embodiments of a material dispenser configured to dispense material while tracking an amount of dispensed material and messaging to a user, in near-real-time, the amount of dispensed materials, a running cost of the dispensed materials, and/or the like. The material dispenser may include one or more weight sensors to track an amount of dispensed material and a display to indicate to a user a running amount of material that has been dispensed and a running cost to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Robert Towers, Sridhar Boyapati, Dilip Kumar, Gianna Lise Puerini, Jason Michael Famularo
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Patent number: 10977685Abstract: The systems and methods are directed to identity resolution service (IRS) which may be used to enable accurate and faster conversion contribution analysis across multiple channels. IRS may be responsible for keeping track of relationships between user identifiers and for determining a user canonical identifier given a set of input identifiers and identity mappings. Users may utilize multiple devices and browsers to view advertisements and perform actions that result in conversion events. Users may be anonymous on one device but logged in and recognized on a different device and/or browser. The canonical identifier associated with a user may be used to obtain a full set of conversion events generated by the user and the full set of ad traffic to which the user was exposed. Conversion attribution analysis using the full set of conversion events and full set of ad traffic will result in accurate conversion rates for advertisers.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Halston Crites, Richard Everett Edwards, III, John Koster, IV, John Michael Nilles, Michael G. Yee
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Patent number: 10963834Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for utilizing sensor data to determine the results of events within a system. Upon receiving sensor data indicative of an event, the sensor data is analyzed to determine a result of the event. For instance, a user may identified upon entry to a facility, may pick items from shelves in the facility, and may be identified upon exit. Contents of a virtual shopping cart of the user may be maintained based on analysis of the sensor data as the user picks the items. When a user exits, a payment instrument of the user may be charged for a cost of the items and a receipt may be sent to a device of the user. A state-invariant time, representing a time before which all events have been processed, may be maintained such that no shopping sessions are finalized prior to the state-invariant time to avoid mistaken charges.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Casey Louis Thurston, Alexander Clark Prater, Kevin Alexander Lee, Kenneth King-Fung Lee