The R&D Dept.: Local patent roundup for 7.30.25

Carton And Blank Therefor
Patent No. 12365526
The disclosure relates to a top engaging carrier formed from a paperboard substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, with a polymer film laminated onto the first surface.
Inventors: Matthew E. Zacherle (Moseley, Va.); Rahul Bhardwaj (Glen Allen, Va.); Linh L. Kooc (Richmond); Bradford J. Walling (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems (Atlanta, Ga.)
July 22, 2025

Systems And Methods For A Net Worth Algorithm For Vulnerabilities
Patent No. 12367291
Methods and systems are described herein for novel uses and/or improvements to artificial intelligence applications for vulnerability management. Additionally, methods and systems are described herein for contextualizing the importance of finding a patch for a vulnerability and helping to prioritize vulnerabilities to patch. As one example, methods and systems are described herein for generating a ranking of vulnerabilities based on the risk score and a corresponding compensation amount to incentivize individuals to find patches for vulnerabilities. Additionally, methods and systems are described to determine a computing environment specific risk score for vulnerabilities detected within the computing environment.
Inventors: Thaddeus Madison Jr. (Richmond); Biswash Ghimire (East Lansing, Mich.); Anna Graves (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Electronic Cigarette
Patent No. 12364826
An electronic cigarette includes a liquid supply including liquid material, a heater operable to heat the liquid material to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the liquid material and form an aerosol, a wick in communication with the liquid material and in communication with the heater such that the wick delivers the liquid material to the heater, at least one air inlet operable to deliver air to a central air passage upstream of the heater, and a mouth end insert having at least two diverging outlets. The electronic cigarette can also include an air flow diverter which directs incoming air away from a heating zone of the heater.
Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian,Va.); Barry S. Smith (Hopewell, Va.); Ali A. Rostami (Richmond); Charles E. B. Glenn Sr. (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 22, 2025

Systems And Methods For Correlating Probability Models With Non-homogenous Time Dependencies To Generate Time-specific Data Processing Predictions
Patent No. 12367080
Methods and systems use an additional determination to generate predictions of future data processing load predictions. Specifically, the methods and systems generate additional predictions based on other data sets and data calculation methodologies (e.g., data with non-homogeneous time dependencies). The methods and systems then use these additional predictions to determine whether or not the prediction of the real-time average of data processing loads is an outlier. Thus, the methods and systems generate a time-specific data processing prediction.
Inventor: Kevin M. Lowe (Richmond)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Aerosol-generating Article Having A Cover Layer
Patent No. 12364287
An aerosol-generating article may include a base layer, at least one aerosol-forming substrate positioned on the base layer, and a cover layer overlying the at least one aerosol-forming substrate and secured to the base layer so that the at least one aerosol-forming substrate is sealed between the base layer and the cover layer. The cover layer includes a polymeric film comprising at least one of a plurality of micropores and a plurality of microperforations.
Inventors: Oleg Mironov (Cudrefin, Switzerland); Stephane Antony Hedarchet (Pully, Switzerland); Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland); Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland); Keethan Dasnavis Fernando (Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 22, 2025

Heater Of An Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12369230
A method of forming a heater assembly of an e-vaping device includes bending a wire to form a first lobe and bending the wire to form a second lobe. The first lobe and the second lobe form a generally sinuously-shaped heater having a first set of lobes and a second set of lobe. A first apex of the first lobe is generally opposite a second apex of the second lobe. The method may also include curling the first set of lobes towards the second set of lobes to form a heater having a substantially tubular form. The heater defines an opening there through.
Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); Charles Dendy (Richmond); Nam Tran (Richmond); David Alvarez (Richmond); Patrick McElhinney (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 22, 2025

Electrically Heated Aerosol Generating System And Method
Patent No. 12364289
An electrically heated aerosol generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes at least one heating element for heating the substrate to form the aerosol and a power supply for supplying power to the at least one heating element. The power supply includes a voltage source, two or more supercapacitors, and switches between the voltage source and the two or more supercapacitors. The switches are arranged so that, during a charging mode, the supercapacitors are connected so as to be charged by the voltage source and, during a heating mode, the supercapacitors are connected so as to discharge through the at least one heating element.
Inventors: Felix Fernando (Berkshire, Great Britain); Franck Pourrat (Montlebon, France); Jean-Pierre Cordey (Cheseaux, Switzerland)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
July 22, 2025

Charger Assembly And Charging System For An Electronic Vaping Device
Patent No. 12368308
A charger assembly is configured to charge the electronic vaping device. The charger assembly includes a base including a housing defining a port. The port is configured to receive a tip end of an electronic vaping device. The port includes a magnetic electrical contact centrally positioned at a bottom of the port and a first pin positioned at the bottom of the port. The charger assembly also includes a microprocessor electrically connected to the magnetic electrical contact and the first pin.
Inventors: Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Barry S. Smith (Hopewell, Va.); Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.); Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.); Sean Sundberg (Richmond); Berina Yerkic-Husejnovic (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 22, 2025

Systems And Methods For Producing Non-standard Shaped Cards
Patent No. 12367368
Example embodiments of systems and methods for card production are provided. A card may include processing circuitry including a chip and memory. The card may include one or more antennas in communication with the chip. The card may include a first layer of material aligned within a perimeter of the card via laminate encapsulation. The first layer of material may comprise a non-rectangular shape. The first layer of material may be offset with a shape of the card. The first layer of material may be in communication with the chip. The first layer of material may comprise at least one selected from the group of steel, tungsten, titanium, or any combination thereof. The card may be compliant with one or more form factors.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, N.Y.); Suzanne Parker (Rhoadesville, Va.); Adrian Garner (Chesterfield, Va.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Biometric Authentication-based Token
Patent No. 12367269
In some implementations, a physical medium may include a fingerprint scanner, one or more memories that store fingerprint data and a PIN, and one or more processors. The physical medium may receive power from a terminal that is in communication with the physical medium. The physical medium may scan a fingerprint using the fingerprint scanner and the power received from the terminal. The physical medium may compare scanned fingerprint data, determined based on scanning the fingerprint, and the stored fingerprint data using the power received from the terminal. The physical medium may determine that the scanned fingerprint data sufficiently matches the stored fingerprint data based on comparing the scanned fingerprint data and the stored fingerprint data. The physical medium may transmit the PIN to the terminal based on determining that the scanned fingerprint data sufficiently matches the stored fingerprint data.
Inventors: Robert Dwane Wokaty Jr. (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Sulfur-heterocycle Exchange Chemistry And Uses Thereof
Patent No. 12366579
Sulfonyl-triazole compounds and related sulfonyl-heterocycle compounds are described. The compounds can be used to identify reactive nucleophilic amino acid residues, such as reactive tyrosines and reactive lysines, in proteins and to modify the activity of proteins with reactive nucleophilic amino acid residues via the formation of protein adducts comprising a fragment of the compounds. Methods are also described for screening the compounds to identify ligands of proteins comprising a reactive lysine or a reactive tyrosine.
Inventors: Ku-Lung Hsu (Charlottesville, Va.); Heung Sik Hahm (Atlanta, Ga.); Emmanuel K. Toroitich (Charlottesville, Va.); Jeffrey W. Brulet (Glen Allen, Va.); Adam L. Borne (Charlottesville, Va.); Adam Herman Libby (Charlottesville, Va.); Kun Yuan (Charlottesville, Va.)
Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Sequential Machine Learning For Data Modification
Patent No. 12367430
In some implementations, a device may receive a request associated with a data record, the request including a first set of input for a first machine learning model, and the first set of input defining a first set of values associated with a first set of parameters that correspond to the data record. The device may obtain, from a data storage device, a second set of values associated with a second set of parameters that correspond to the data record. The device may determine, using the first machine learning model, a score for the data record based on the first set of input and the second set of values, wherein the first machine learning model is trained to receive the first set of input and the second set of values and produce, as output, the score. The device may determine based on determining that the score satisfies a threshold, and using a second machine learning model, a third set of values for the first set of parameters, wherein the second machine learning model is trained, based on historical information associated with the data record, to receive at least a portion of the second set of values as input and produce, as output, the third set of values. The device may modify the data record by updating the first set of parameters using the third set of values.
Inventors: Jeffrey Wolfe (Austin, Texas); Sushant Likhate (Glen Allen, Va.); Jonathan Lipkin (Vienna, Va.); Megan Edds (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Continuous Scheduling For Automated Suspension And Resumption Of Cloud Resources
Patent No. 12368639
In some implementations, a scheduling system may receive a scheduling tag to define a custom schedule that includes one or more downtime windows for a cloud resource over a scheduling period. The scheduling system may determine a regular continuous schedule for the cloud resource that recurs over multiple scheduling periods based on the one or more downtime windows defined in the scheduling tag. The scheduling system may determine at a current scan time, whether a target state for the cloud resource is a running state or a suspended state based on the one or more uptime windows and the one or more downtime windows included in the regular continuous schedule. The scheduling system may align a current state of the cloud resource with the target state.
Inventors: Clayton Mottley (Alexandria, Va.); Loreeg Tramblian (Glen Allen, Va.); Cameron Mayes (Alexandria, Va.); Amy Ann Maxwell (Henrico, Va.); Kevin Ho (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Torrance Graham (York, Penn.); Robert Wright (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Unmanned Rail Vehicle And Method Of Determining Its Position
Patent No. 12365374
An unmanned rail vehicle for surveillance, inspection and/or maintenance of an infrastructure, the infrastructure including a rail structure with a rail, the unmanned rail vehicle being movable along the rail and the unmanned rail vehicle including a first position sensor system configured for measuring, by interaction with the rail structure, first position data indicative of a position of the unmanned rail vehicle along the rail, a second position sensor system configured for measuring, by interaction with the rail structure, second position data indicative of a position of the unmanned rail vehicle along the rail, a position determining unit configured for receiving and combining first and second position data to determine the position of the unmanned rail vehicle along the rail.
Inventors: Harald Staab (Neckaggemund, Germany); Daniel Lasko (East Granby, Conn.); Will Eakins (Coventry, Conn.); Harshang Shah (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: ABB Schweiz ABB (Baden, Switzerland)
July 22, 2025

Restricting Access Based On Voice Communication Parameters
Patent No. 12368798
Methods and systems are described herein for manipulating a communication acceptance screen, manipulating an interactive communication acceptance icon, and restricting access to accounts based on voice communication parameters. In particular, when a communication is detected from one device to another device, that communication may be risky. Thus, the risk is mitigated by giving a user information about the source of the communication to give a user a chance to reject the communication. In addition, in instances where the user accepts the communication, the system enables monitoring the communication and restricting any accounts that are disclosed within the communication.
Inventors: Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.); Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.); Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.); Salik Shah (Washington, D.C.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Identifying High Effort Statements For Call Center Summaries
Patent No. 12367345
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for machine learning systems to process incoming call-center calls to provide communication summaries that capture effort levels of statements made during interactive communications. For a given call, the system receives a transcript as the input and generates a textual summary as the output. In order to improve a call summary and customize a summarization task to a call center domain, the technology disclosed herein may employ a classifier that predicts an effort level and attention score for individual utterances within a call transcript, ranks the attention scores and uses selected ones of the ranked utterances in the summary.
Inventors: Aysu Ezen Can (Cary, N.C.); Zachary S. Brown (Midlothian, Va.); Chris Symons (Hilton, N.Y.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Systems And Methods For Preventing Synthetic Misappropriation Events Over An Electronic Network
Patent No. 12368783
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for preventing synthetic misappropriation events over an electronic network. The present disclosure is configured to identify a user communication associated with a communication channel; identify a user account associated with the user communication; collect user account data associated with the user account; receive at least one user communication data via the communication channel; transmit the at least one user communication data to at least one internal communication component; receive at least one internal communication data from the internal communication component; generate a virtual avatar based on at least one of user account data, the at least one user communication data, or the at least one internal communication data; and transmit a virtual avatar interface component based on the virtual avatar to a user device associated with the communication channel, wherein the virtual avatar comprises the at least one internal communication data.
Inventors: Steven Nathan Greene (Scarsdale, N.Y.); Aravind Shankaragouda Singtalur (McKinney, Texas); Srinath S. Chakravarty (Plano, Texas); Dinesh Kumar Agrawal (Rowlett, Texas); Stephen Richard Belton (Garden City, N.Y.); Petar Evan Puskarich (Murphy, Texas); Manmohan V. Datla (Frisco, Texas); Kenneth L. Boyd (Mechanicsville, Va.); Kerry M. Vaughan (Lawrenceville, N.J.); Elina Shkodnik (Staten Island, N.Y.); Tonya Kyra Miller (Charlotte, N.C.)
Assignee: Bank of America (Charlotte, N.C.)
July 22, 2025

System And Method For Detecting Fraudulent Bank Transaction
Patent No. 12367493
A system for detecting a fraudulent ATM transaction is disclosed. The system relates to an ATM machine that receives a bank/ATM card from a customer. The ATM first attempts to read information from the card chip, but is unable to do so due to a read error. The ATM then instead reads the information from the magnetic strip, and initiates a fraud detection procedure. In one such procedure, the ATM uses a local wireless access point to detect a customer’s device, such as a phone, in the vicinity of the ATM. In another such procedure, the ATM communicates with a backend server. The backend server then determines the location of the customer device either by transmitting a message to request authorization, or by utilizing GPS or other location-detection means on the customer device to determine whether the customer device is within the ATM vicinity.
Inventor: Richard Allen Post (Mechanicsville, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 22, 2025

Electronic Vaping Device Including Transfer Pad With Oriented Fibers
Patent No. 12369618
A cartridge for an electronic vaping device includes an outer housing extending in a longitudinal direction and a reservoir configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation. The reservoir is in the outer housing. The reservoir has a first reservoir end and a second reservoir end. The cartridge also includes a seal at the first reservoir end, a transfer pad at the second reservoir end, and a wick in contact with the transfer pad. The transfer pad includes a plurality of fibers. Each of the plurality of fibers is substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction.
Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); William J. Crowe (Richmond); Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.); Bipin R. Patil (Richmond); Jarrett Keen (Richmond); Michael Roberts (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 29, 2025

Insulation Products And Methods And Machines For Making Insulation Products
Patent No. 12372191
An insulation or cushioning product including a first panel that may include a second layer having a second width and including one or more extension portions. The first panel may include a core layer having a first width less than the second width and including a first continuous paper sheet formed into a first plurality of flexible loops disposed on and attached to the second layer, and defining a first plurality of air channels that extend in a direction that is substantially perpendicular with a length direction of the first panel. The second layer may cover at least a portion of one or more edges of the core layer and covers at least a portion of a top or bottom surface of the core panel. The one or more extension portions may have an extension width greater than or equal to a thickness of the core layer.
Inventors: Samuel Alarcon (Richmond); Scott Karpen (Richmond); Alexander Norman Dimen (Richmond); Stefan Marchetti (Richmond); John Schuhle (Richmond); James McGoff (Richmond); Charles-Alexandre Archambault Vincent (Richmond); Justin Turner-Gonzalez (Richmond)
Assignee: TemperPack Technologies (Richmond)
July 29, 2025

Atomizing Assembly For Use In An Aerosol-generating System
Patent No. 12370563
An atomizing assembly includes a tubing section having an inlet end and an outlet end. The inlet end of the tubing section is connectable to a liquid storage portion, and the outlet end of the tubing section is in fluid communication with an atomizing nozzle. The tubing section is configured to deliver a flow of liquid aerosol-forming substrate through the atomizing nozzle. The atomizing nozzle includes an air channel configured to establish an air flow through the nozzle. The air flow is mixed with the flow of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.
Inventors: Laurent Manca (Sullens, Switzerland); Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 29, 2025

Transcript Tagging And Real-time Whisper In Interactive Communications
Patent No. 12374324
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer readable medium embodiments for machine learning systems to process interactive communications between at least two participants. Speech and text within the interactive communications are analyzed using machine learning models to infer insights located within the interactive communications. The inferred insights are converted to descriptive text or audio and tagged to the interactive communication as graphics or audio whispers reflecting the insights added to the interactive communication.
Inventors: Anup Shirodkar (Glen Allen, Va.); Thomas Zahorik (Charlottesville, Va.); Matthew C. Ford (Chesterfield, Va.); Miguel De La Rocha (Richmond); Sara R. McDole (Midlothian, Va.); Robert L. Scholtz III (Midlothian, Va.); Raghav Sahai (Plain City, Ohio); Kevin T. Shaffer (Chesterfield, Va.); Trent F. Hodges (Richmond); Avinash Kawale (Glen Allen, Va.); David Aber (Winter Garden, Fla.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 29, 2025

Slide Measuring System For Filling Pouches And Associated Method
Patent No. 12369614
Systems and methods for measuring tobacco for packaging in pouches are disclosed. A system includes a hopper structured and arranged to hold a granular material in a hopper cavity. The system also includes a measuring system including a measuring cavity and a tube that is slidable in the hopper cavity between a first position unaligned with the measuring cavity and a second position over and aligned with the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to continuously communicate a vacuum to the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to move a portion of the granular material from the hopper cavity to the measuring cavity when the tube is in the first position. The measuring system is configured to move the portion of the granular material from the measuring cavity to a pouch making machine using pressurized gas that overcomes the vacuum when the tube is in the second position.
Inventors: Herbert C. Longest (Midlothian, Va.); Jarrod W. Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.); Tamika S. Murrell (Richmond); Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Va.); Travis M. Garthaffner (Midlothian, Va.); Leah A. Meyers (Midlothian, Va.); James D. Evans (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 29, 2025

Package With Locking Mechanism Including Flexible Member Having First Segment And Second Segment, And Container With Flexible Tab
Patent No. 12371234
Inventors: William J. Bogdziewicz (Richmond); Christopher J. Hession (Mechanicsville, Va.); Bipin Patil (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 29, 2025

Providing An Interface For Interview Sessions
Patent No. 12373796
In some implementations, a system may establish an interview session between a first client device associated with an interviewer and a second client device associated with a candidate. The system may transmit, to the first client device associated with the interviewer, a first user interface during the interview session between the first client device and the second client device. The system may transmit, to the second client device associated with the candidate, a second user interface during the interview session between the first client device and the second client device. The system may receive, from the first client device, the feedback associated with the interview session. The system may transmit, to a human resource system, the feedback to enable a hiring recommendation regarding whether to offer the position associated with the interview session to the candidate.
Inventors: Jonathan T. Shea (Ashland, Va.); Steven Coulbourne (Haymarket, Va.); Jamie Taylor (Chesterfield, Va.); Abigail Greene (San Francisco, Calif.); Deepak Shanmukha Rama (Sunnyvale, Calif.); Elizabeth Ashley Binns (Richmond); Williams Giles (Rhome, Texas)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 29, 2025

Assembly Comprising Sheet Heating Element And Delivery Device
Patent No. 12370332
A vaporizing assembly for an aerosol generating system includes a sheet heating element and a delivery device configured to deliver a liquid aerosol-forming substrate from a liquid storing portion to the sheet heating element. The sheet heating element is spaced apart from the delivery device and is configured to heat the delivered liquid aerosol forming substrate.
Inventors: Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland); Dani Ruscio (Cressier, Switzerland)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 29, 2025

Tobacco Having Altered Leaf Properties And Methods Of Making And Using
Patent No. 12371703
This disclosure provides tobacco plants having a mutation in PR50 and transgenic tobacco plants containing a PR50 RNAi, and methods of making and using such plants.
Inventors: Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.); Alec J. Hayes (Chesterfield, Va.)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
July 29, 2025

Parallel Transaction Pre-authorization Platform
Patent No. 12373834
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for the direct sharing and use of transaction data separately from transaction authorization processes. Transaction metadata associated with a transaction may be received and validated. Authorization information corresponding to the transaction may be received. The degree to which the transaction metadata is tested may be based on a predicted time of receipt of the authorization information. The transaction metadata and authorization information may be correlated. A computing device may determine whether to authorize the financial transaction based on the authorization information and the correlated transaction metadata. All or portions of the transaction metadata may be provided to one or more users after the transaction has been authorized or denied.
Inventors: Wesley Perkins (Henrico, Va.); Venkata Satya Sriram Kalyan Namuduri (Glen Allen, Va.); David Ross (Richmond); Andrew Coulson (Washington, D.C.); Hunter Roberts (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 29, 2025

Stabilizer To Support An Object
Patent No. 12370982
A stabilizer to support an object. The stabilizer includes a beam with a contact surface to contact against the object. The stabilizer also includes legs that extend from the beam and contact against a floor. The beam is divided into two sections that are connected together with a bracket. The two-piece beam provides for the stabilizer to fold together in a closed orientation to facilitate storage.
Inventors: Ryan Beaver (Richmond); Williams Myles Riley (Richmond); Paul G. Rockwell (Midlothian, Va.)
Assignee: ETN Capital (Sanford, N.C.)
July 29, 2025

Techniques For Mitigating NIC KTLS Denial-of-service Attacks
Patent No. 12375462
In various embodiments, a kernel uses a NIC to transmit encrypted data over TCP connections. The kernel causes the NIC to encrypt first data to generate a first transmission control protocol (TCP) packet in accordance with a hardware-based transport layer security (TLS) offload mode. The kernel computes a first re-transmission statistic in response to the first TCP packet failing to reach a first device over a first TCP connection; the kernel assigns the first TCP connection to a software-based TLS offload mode instead of the hardware-based TLS offload mode based on the first re-transmission statistic. Subsequently, the kernel encrypts second data to generate a second TCP packet in accordance with the software-based TLS offload mode, the kernel then causes the NIC to transmit the second TCP packet to the first device over the first TCP connection.
Inventor: Andrew John Gallatin (Richmond)
Assignee: Netflix (Los Gatos, Calif.)
July 29, 2025

Methods For Hydrocarbon Recovery
Patent No. 12371606
Provided herein are liquid polymer (LP) compositions comprising a synthetic (co)polymer (e.g., an acrylamide (co)polymer), as well as methods for preparing inverted polymer solutions by inverting these LP compositions in an aqueous fluid. The resulting inverted polymer solutions can have a concentration of a synthetic (co)polymer (e.g., an acrylamide (co)polymer) of from 50 to 15,000 ppm, and a filter ratio of 1.5 or less at 15 psi using a 1.2 μm filter. Also provided are methods of using these inverted polymer solutions in oil and gas operations, including enhanced oil recovery.
Inventors: Do Hoon Kim (Katy, Texas); Dennis Arun Alexis (Richmond); Varadarajan Dwarakanath (Houston, Texas); David Espinosa (Houston, Texas); Taimur Malik (Houston, Texas); Logan Jackson (Norcross, Ga.); Tom Lynch (Roswell, Ga.); Ronald Robinson (Newman, Ga.); Frances Fournier (Marietta, Ga.); Hong Yong (Atlanta, Ga.); Sukhjit Aujla (The Woodlands, Texas)
Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. (San Ramon, Calif.)
July 29, 2025

Interactive Conversation Assistance Using Semantic Search And Generative AI
Patent No. 12373473
A method of generating content in association with an information search and retrieval system. It begins by receiving a query from a user. The query is semantically-searched to identify a context. A conversation history between the user and the system is identified. An enriched query is then generated by associating to the query both the context and at least a portion of the conversation history. The enriched query is then evaluated/processed by a generative-AI. In response, information associated with the enriched query is received from the generative-AI. A response to the query is then generated using the information, e.g., by passing the information back to the user, by modifying (e.g., editing or supplementing) the information to generate modified information and passing the modified information back to the user, or by dismissing the information. If sensitive information is identified in the utterance, it is masked prior to generating the enriched query.
Inventors: Matt Taylert (Richmond); Bernard Ngombi Kiyanda (Mansfield, Mass.); Maria C. Moya (Everett, Mass.); Joseph S. Demple (Boston, Mass.); Matthew Pierce (Somerville, Mass.)
Assignee: Salesloft (Atlanta, Ga.)
July 29, 2025

Systems And Methods For Executing Programmable Macros Based On External Device Interactions
Patent No. 12373806
Disclosed embodiments may include a system for executing programmable macros based on external device interactions. The system may include one or more processors, and a memory in communication with the one or more processors and storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to cause the system to execute programmable macros based on external device interactions. The system may receive a device identification of an external device. The system may receive a rule associated with the external device, wherein the rule comprises a triggering event and transfer instructions. The system may receive, from the external device, device data. Responsive to determining, from the device data, that the triggering event has occurred, the system may execute the transfer instructions.
Inventors: Samuel Sharpe (Cambridge, Mass.); Brian Barr (Schenectady, N.Y.); Michael Davis (Arlington, Va.); Taylor Turner (Richmond); Justin Au-Yeung (Somerville, Mass.); Tyler Farnan (San Diego, Calif.); Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 29, 2025

System And Method For Multi-factor Authentication
Patent No. 12375489
A system and method for authentication a user attempting access to a service is disclosed herein. When a user attempts to gain access, a client associated with the user generates a unique authentication code that is stored at a callback server associated with the client. The user accesses an authentication server associated with the service and provides the authentication server with standard login credentials. The authentication server also obtains the authentication code from the user. If the authentication server successfully verifies the user’s credentials, then the authentication server transmits a code validation request to the callback server to validate the authentication code. The callback server verifies that the received code matches a stored code and is current, and then issues a reply message to the authentication server. The authentication server grants or denies the user’s access request based on the reply.
Inventor: Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 29, 2025

Utilizing Machine Learning Models To Synthesize Perturbation Data To Generate Perturbation Heatmap Graphical User Interfaces
Patent No. 12374429
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for embedding perturbation data via a machine learning model and filtering, aligning, and aggregating the embeddings to generate a genome-wide perturbation database for real-time generation of perturbation heatmaps. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems can receive a plurality of perturbation images portraying cells from a plurality of wells corresponding to a plurality of cell perturbations. Further, the systems can generate, utilizing a machine learning model, a plurality of well-level image embeddings from the plurality of perturbation images. Moreover, the systems can align, utilizing an alignment model, the plurality of well-level image embeddings to generate aligned well-level image embeddings. Additionally, the systems can aggregate, according to perturbations of one or more perturbation experiments, the well-level image embeddings to generate perturbation-level image embeddings. Furthermore, the systems can generate perturbation comparisons utilizing the perturbation-level image embeddings.
Inventors: Marta Marie Fay (Salt Lake City, Utah); August Orvis Allen (Boulder, Colo.); Eugene Yin-Chung Ting (Toronto, Canada); Lina Maria Nilsson (Salt Lake City, Utah); Condie Thomas Swallow II (West Valley City, Utah); Michael Haines (Salt Lake City, Utah); Denton Hallar Greenfield (Evansville, Ill.); Kristin Ann Clark (Lehi, Utah); Lovina Rounddy (Orem, Utah); Michael Joseph Uloth (Dundas, Canada); Sara Marjean Moore (Boise, Idaho); Shweta Deepchand Bhandare (Boulder, Colo.); Ted Douglas Monchamp (Nashua, N.H.); Summer Walid Elias (Salt Lake City, Utah); Berton Allen Earnshaw (Cedar Hills, Utah); Mason Lemoyne Victors (Riverton, Utah); Safiye Celik (Sudbury, Mass.); James Benjamin Taylor (Midlothian, Va.); Jacob Carter Cooper (Sandy, Utah); Conor Austin Forsman Tillinghast (Salt Lake City, Utah); Seyhmus Guler (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kyle Rollins Hansen (Kaysville, Utah); Sarah Jordan DeVore (Salt Lake City, Utah); Tongzhou Shen (Surrey, Canada)
Assignee: Recursion Pharmaceuticals (Salt Lake City, Utah)
July 29, 2025

Systems And Methods For Securely Generating And Printing A Document
Patent No. 12373818
Systems and methods for securely generating and printing documents are disclosed. For example, processor(s) of a computer system may receive information for the document from a computing device through a network, verify the information for the document, and upon verification, generate document generation data using at least a portion of the information for the document. The document generation data may include document metadata that enables generation of an image of the document and/or the image of the document. Upon the processor(s) verifying first authentication information of a first code associated with a printing device received from the computing device through the network and second authentication information of a second code associated with the computing device received from the printing device through the network, the processor(s) may transmit the document generation data to the printing device through the network, and cause the printing device to print the image of the document.
Inventors: Jade Garrett (Sterling, Va.); David Kelly Wurmfeld (Palm Bay, Fla.); Michael Littlejohn (Fairfax, Va.); Michael Louie (Spotsylvania, Va.); Michael Canavatchel (Midlothian, Va.); Spencer Cutrell (Arlington, Va.); Steve Faletti (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Rex Lacy (Sterling, Va.); Alexander Medeiros (Arlington, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 29, 2025

Method And System For Digital Identity And Transaction Verification
Patent No. 12373533
Methods of determining whether to trust an entity before sharing information with the entity, as well as methods of verifying whether to trust information received from an entity, are disclosed. In the processes, two entities, referred to as a holder and a verifier, desire to engage in an exchange of digital information. Before the holder will share information with the verifier, the holder will determine whether the verifier is a trusted entity. Before the verifier trusts information that it receives from the holder, it will examine a proof that it received from the holder to determine whether the proof includes information from or about a trusted third party referred to as an issuer. Information from an identity authority may be used in each of these verification steps.
Inventors: Rahul Puri (Saint Joseph, Mo.); Andrew Ferreira (Holmdel, N.J.); Ivan Jackson (Midlothian, Va.); Piyush Bhatnagar (Morganville, N.J.)
Assignee: GCOM Software (N/A)
July 29, 2025

Systems And Methods For Variable-length Encoding And Decoding For Enhancing Computer Systems
Patent No. 12375477
A method for variable length decoding, the method including: receiving, in a default word length mode, at least one first data word having a default first word length; combining the received at least one first data word as a first portion of data; receiving, after the at least one first data word, a transition word indicative of transitioning to a variable word length mode; receiving, after the transition word, a first word length word indicative of a second word length; receiving, after the first word length word, at least one second data word having the second word length; and combining the received at least one second data word as a second portion of the data.
Inventors: Brian Penny (Astoria, N.Y.); Desmond Penny (Astoria, N.Y.);
Assignee: Kara Partners (Midlothian, Va.)
July 29, 2025

Augmented Data For Security During Record Updates
Patent No. 12373589
A method and related system may analyze metadata associated with a first set of transactions to determine whether to perform a second set of transactions. The method and related system may include determining a data category based on first device-provided data of a first database transaction indicating a first record associated with a second record, and may further include obtaining, based on whether the data category satisfies a first set of criteria, an identifier and an amount based on image data using a prediction model. The method may further include querying a database based on the identifier to obtain an indication that the identifier is mapped to an object category, validating the amount based on a result indicating whether the object category satisfies a second set of criteria, and causing a second transaction that changes fields of the first and second records.
Inventors: Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Jackson Macomber (Henrico, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
July 29, 2025

System And Method For Restoration Of A Power System
Patent No. 12374887
A method for controlling power restoration of a power grid is disclosed. The method includes setting initial conditions on the power grid based on a combined model of the power grid, setting the initial conditions including at least one of controlling a plurality of field components of the power grid or sending information for controlling the plurality of field components, wherein controlling the plurality of field components includes opening a plurality of breakers, and performing a first iterative process including: performing a balancing operation that includes determining if a frequency of a black start generator of the power grid meets generator criteria, determining if a voltage of a generator voltage bus of the power grid meets bus criteria, or determining if an MW of an isochronous generator of the power grid meets MW criteria.
Inventor: Richard Steinbacher (Moseley, Va.)
Assignee: Genesis Grid Consulting (Moseley, Va.)
July 29, 2025

System And Method For Supporting Workers And Material On A Sloped Roof
Patent No. 12371912
A roof scaffolding support system comprises two ridge hooks, two cables, and two roof jacks. Each ridge hook comprises a generally J-shaped bar and a cross-bar at a distal end and perpendicular to the J-shaped bar. Each cable comprises a main flexible portion and a plurality of spaced-apart nodules on the main flexible portion that are larger than the main flexible portion. The base of each roof jack defines a slot having an open end for selectively receiving one of the cables to selectively secure the base to its corresponding cable. The slot has a width that is (a) greater than the main flexible portions of the cables and (b) less than the nodules such that the main flexible portion of each cable can pass through the slot of its corresponding base but the nodules of each cable cannot pass through the slot of its corresponding base.
Inventor: William Webster Kain (Montpelier, Va.)
Assignee: N/A
July 29, 2025

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