The R&D Dept.: Local patent roundup for 3.15.23

May 09, 2023

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Non-nicotine Pod Assemblies And Non-nicotine E-vaping Devices’Patent No. 11596172A non-nicotine e-vaping device may include a non-nicotine pod assembly and a device body. The non-nicotine pod assembly has upstream and downstream ends and is configured to hold a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation. The upstream end may define at least one upstream recess, and the downstream end may define at least one downstream recess. The device body defines a through hole configured to receive the non-nicotine pod assembly. The through hole includes an upstream sidewall and a downstream sidewall. The upstream sidewall may include at least one upstream protrusion, and the downstream sidewall may include at least one downstream protrusion. The at least one upstream protrusion and the at least one downstream protrusion may be configured to engage with the at least one upstream recess and the at least one downstream recess, respectively, so as to retain the non-nicotine pod assembly within the through hole of the device body.Inventors: Dean Twite (Richmond); Yannick Hourmound (Richmond); Charles Dendy (Ruther Glen); Bipin Patil (Richmond); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond); Christopher Newcomb (Richmond); Niall Gallagher (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Richmond)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Aerosol-generating DevicesPatent No. 11596179An aerosol-generating device comprises a device housing comprising a first receiving chamber configured to receive and accommodate a first consumable and a second receiving chamber configured to receive and accommodate a second consumable. The device further comprises a power source in an internal space defined by the device housing and a controller configured to control aerosolization of an aerosol-forming substrate in a consumable in one of the first receiving chamber and in the second receiving chamber. At least the second receiving chamber includes electrical contacts configured to be detachably connected to a battery based on the separate power source being in the second receiving chamber such that the electrical contacts provide additional power from the separate power source to the aerosol-generating device.Inventor: Tony Reevell (London, Great Britain)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Sustained Duration Trigger Sprayers And Methods For Making The SamePatent No. 11596960A sustained duration trigger sprayer capable of dispensing at least 3 mL of product over a time period of about 3 seconds utilizing a force-to-actuate of between about 10 pounds and about 15 pounds. The trigger sprayer includes an enlarged piston bore and piston and an elongated trigger lever creating a high output fluid displacement with a 0.5 inch displacement distance. The container bottle and/or the sprayer shroud are contoured to provide a gripping area opposing the terminal end of the trigger lever wherein the gripping distance in from the gripping area to the terminal end of the trigger lever is no greater than 3.3 inches.Inventors: Steven Sweeton (Lake Winnebago, Mo.)Assignee: Silgan Dispensing Systems Corp. (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Cartridge With A Capacity SensorPatent No. 11602019A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system includes a sensor including a capacitor with a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate, a storage portion for storing an aerosol-forming substrate, and a vaporizer. The storage portion is between the first capacitor plate and the second capacitor plate. The permittivity of the liquid storage portion changes upon a change of the volume f the liquid aerosol-forming substrate held in the liquid storage portion. The sensor is configured to measure the capacitance of the capacitor. The measured capacitance relates to a corresponding permittivity of the aerosol-forming substrate held in the storage portion so that the amount of the volume of the aerosol-forming substrate held in the storage portion is determinable from the measured capacitance.Inventors: Tony Reevell (London, Great Britain)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Sensor Receiver Having Rydberg Cell And Spaced Apart Pulsed Probe Beams And Associated MethodsPatent No. 11598798A sensor receiver includes a Rydberg cell configured to be exposed to a radio frequency (RF) signal, and a probe source configured to generate a plurality of spaced apart pulsed probe beams within the Rydberg cell. The pulsed probe beams are offset in time from one another. A detector is positioned downstream from the Rydberg cell.Inventors: Victor G. Bucklew (Richmond); Jerrod Langston (W. Melbourne, Fla.); James Drakes (Occoquan, Va.); Samuel H. Knarr (Melbourne, Fla.)Assignee: Eagle Technology (Melbourne, Fla.)March 7, 2023

Tamp-and-stir Apparatus And Process ThereforPatent No. 11596169A machine and method for packaging tobacco sachets, comprising a plurality of linearly arranged, multi-functional, vertically moveable chambers having fluid sealing means on lower portions thereof, conveyor means disposed below the plurality of multi-functional, vertically moveable chambers, and a lidding apparatus disposed downstream of and in communication with the plurality of vertically moveable chambers through the conveyor means.Inventors: James D. Evans (Chesterfield, Va.); Travis M. Garthaffner (Midlothian, Va.); Herbert Cary Longest (Midlothian, Va.)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Cartridge And E-vaping DevicePatent No. 11602017A cartridge of an e-vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, a reservoir in the housing, a heater in the housing, and an absorbent material at least partially surrounding the sinusoidal shaped member. The reservoir is configured to store a pre-vapor formulation. The heater has a sinusoidal shaped member translating about an elliptical shape to define a channel there through. The absorbent material is in fluid communication with the reservoir.Inventors: Shmuel Gavrielov (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Yuval Malka (Richmond); Rangarag S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.); Isaac Weigensberg (Tekoa, Israel); David Rubil (Revava, Israel); Moshe Eliyahu (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Arye Weigensberg (Richmond); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Aggregated Virtual Session For Multiple Virtual SessionsPatent No. 11601619In some implementations, a system may retrieve an electronic calendar associated with a user. The system may identify, based on the electronic calendar, a plurality of virtual sessions. The system may generate an electronic invitation to join an aggregated virtual session for the plurality of virtual sessions. The system may transmit the electronic invitation to a client device associated with the user. The system may receive, from the client device, a selection of the electronic invitation. The system may establish, based on the electronic invitation, the aggregated virtual session for the client device that enables the client device to connect to each of the plurality of virtual sessions associated with the aggregated virtual session.Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Richmond); Jignesh Rangwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Mehukumar Jayantilal Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.); Muthukurmaran Velbuli (Glen Allen, Va.); Santhi Sridharan (Glen Allen, Va.); Soumyajit Ray (Glen Allen, Va.); Steven Voltz (Henrico, Va.)Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)March 7, 2023

Labyrinth Seal With Interlocking Rotor And Seal Case InsertPatent No. 11598375A labyrinth seal includes a seal case with an inner-diameter leg encircling a rotation axis, and an insert fixed in the seal case and encircling the rotation axis. The labyrinth seal also includes a slinger encircling the rotation axis and wrapping around the inner-diameter leg to cooperate with the seal case to form a first part of a labyrinth path. The slinger rotates relative to the seal case. The labyrinth seal also includes a rotor that encircles the rotation axis, cooperates with the insert to form a second part of the labyrinth path, and interlocks with the insert to limit axial movement of the rotor when the rotor rotates relative to the insert. The labyrinth seal may be combined with a bearing cone, a bearing cup, and a plurality of rollers to form a roller bearing assembly.Inventors: James Hargraves (Richmond)Assignee: Amsted Rail Co. (Petersburg, Va.)March 7, 2023

Data Certification Process For Cloud Database PlatformPatent No. 11599664Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify criteria that limit access to the records stored by the database. The one or more first rules may be received via a user interface. The data sharing platform may perform, based on the rules, a data access certification process on the records stored by the database to generate a table of certification results. The data sharing platform may generate, based on the table of certification results, and without modifying the records stored by the database, a limited consumer view definition. Based on updates to the records, a new limited consumer view definition may be generated.Inventors: Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Va.); Yudhish Batra (McLean, Va.); Syed Shamaz Salim (Potomac, Md.); Praveen Kandukuri (Ashburn, Va.)Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)March 7, 2023

Methods And Compositions For Inhibiting Corrosion On Metal SurfacesPatent No. 11597846Methods and compositions for inhibiting corrosion of a metal product are provided. The metal product can be contacted with water that includes at least one carbonate and/or bicarbonate salt, or otherwise has components that increase the alkalinity of the water. In addition, or as an alternative, the water can include a stannous corrosion inhibitor. The water can be evaporated off of a surface of the metal product to provide a residual of the salt on the surface and/or a protective stannous film on the surface.Inventors: Rajendra Prasad Kalakodimi (Glen Allen, Va.); Raymond Post (Langhorne, Penn.); Douglas A. Godwin (Fairhope, Ala.); James Hatcher (Zionsville, Ind.)Assignee: Chemtreat (Glen Allen, Va.)March 7, 2023

Methods And Compositions Related To Improved Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency In TobaccoPatent No.11602118The present disclosure provides metabolic signatures and genetic markers for tracking enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency phenotypes in tobacco plants and for introgressing enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency phenotypes into tobacco plants. The disclosure also provides tobacco plants comprising enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency and methods to the creation of tobacco plants comprising enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency. The disclosure also provides recombinant polynucleotides and polypeptides for enhancing nitrogen utilization efficiency in modified tobacco plants and tobacco plants comprising the provided recombinant polynucleotides and polypeptides.Inventors: Jesse Frederick (Richmond); Chengalrayan Kudithpudi (Midlothian, Va.); Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Document Package Merge In Document Management SystemPatent No. 11604839A centralized document system receives a request to merge a first document package associated with a first party and a second document package associated with a second party. The first document package includes a first set of documents and the second document package includes a second set of documents. In response to the request, the centralized document system identifies a first subset of documents included in both the first and second sets of documents and identifies a second subset of documents with conflicts between the first and second sets of documents. The centralized document system rectifies the second subset of documents to cure the conflicts between the first and second sets of documents. The centralized document system generates a merged document package including the first subset of documents and the rectified second subset of documents for execution by the first and second parties.Inventors: Andrew James Ashlock (San Francisco, Calif.); Marguerite Bouscaren (San Francisco, Calif.); Jacob Scott Mitchell (Richmond); Duane Robert Wald (Kent, Wash.); Christopher Shane Durham (Seattle, Wash.); Saul Adams Aguilar (Redwood City, Calif.)Assignee: Docusign (San Francisco, Calif.)March 14, 2023

Cartridge And E-vaping Device With Serpentine HeaterPatent No. 11602167A cartridge of an e-vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, a reservoir in the housing, a heater in the housing, and an absorbent material at least partially surrounding the sinusoidal shaped member. The reservoir is configured to store a pre-vapor formulation. The heater has a sinusoidal shaped member translating about an elliptical shape to define a channel there through. The absorbent material is in fluid communication with the reservoir.Inventors: Shmuel Gavrielov (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Yuval Malka (Richmond); Rangaraj Sundar (Richmond); Isaac Weigensberg (Tekoa, Israel); David Rubli (Revava, Israel); Moshe Eliyahu (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Arye Weigensberg (Richmond); Scott A. Fath (Henrico, Va.); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); William J. Bogdziewicz (Richmond)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Intermediate Compounds And MethodsPatent No. 11603354The present invention relates to compounds of (II) and an acceptable salt or hydrate thereof method of making same. ##STR00001##Inventors: Phouvieng Beyer (New Milford, Conn.); Jason A. Brazzillo (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.); Weitong Dong (Sandy Hook, Conn.); Magnus Eriksson (Brookfield, Conn.); Jon Charles Lorenz (New Milford, Conn.); Laurence J. Nummy (Newburgh, N.Y.); Sonia Roadriguez (Avon, Conn.); Jolaine Savoie (Sandy Hook, Conn.); Kanwar Pal Singh Sidhu (Orange, Conn.); Joshua D. Sieber (Richmond); Thomas Gabriel Tampone (Southbury, Conn.); Zhulin Tan (Cheshire, Conn.); Jun Wang (New Milford, Conn.); Li Zhang (New Milford, Conn.); Pengtao Zhang (Shanghai, China)Assignee: N/AMarch 14, 2023

Sliding Packs With Flip Top Hinged LidsPatent No. 11603258A slide-action hinged-lid pack includes a hinged-lid inner pack configured to hold consumer items. The hinged-lid inner pack includes a front wall, a back wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, a bottom wall and a hinged-lid pivotally connected to an upper end of the back wall for movement between an open position and a closed position, and an outer shell. The hinged-lid inner pack can slide from a first position at which the hinged-lid is in the closed position to a second position at which the hinged-lid is in the open position. The outer shell includes a first stop tab on an inner side of the back wall. The hinged-lid inner pack includes a second stop tab on a tongue extending from the hinged-lid, and a third stop tab on the back wall of the hinged-lid inner pack.Inventors: Brian Casey (Richmond)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Recyclable Flexible Films And Bags For Packaging Flowable MaterialsPatent No. 11603242The disclosure provides ethylene/α-olefin copolymer based co-extruded, multi-layer films, including barrier films and non-barrier films, and articles of manufacture that include the films, such as flexible bags and containers for flowable materials. The films and articles that include the films have improved flex-crak resistance and toughness. The films and articles that include the films have good barrier properties as the barrier films include a core layer of ethylene-vinyl alcohol (EVOH) copolymer having a high ethylene content. The low amount of EVOH copolymer in the total film that is needed to achieve the flex-crack resistance, toughness, and good barrier properties, further allow for the recycling of the films and articles of manufacture.Inventors: Nicholas Farkas (Glenburnie, Calif.); Lamy Chopin (Missouri City, Texas)Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Cigarette Wrapper With Novel PatternPatent No. 11602161A wrapper for a smoking article has a base web and a plurality of elements each having at least a pair of patch areas where diffusivity is in the range of 0 to about 0.2 cm/sec. Patches of adjacent elements are circumferentially offset from one another along the axis of a smoking article. The add-on material can be applied by gravure printing in a single pass in a chevron pattern such that an apex of the element is co-linear with substantially symmetrically spaced points on a trailing, outer edge of an adjacent element. Testing elements may be simultaneously printed with the add-on material to monitor diffusivity and/or presence of add-on material.Inventors: Marc Rose (Mechanicsville, Va.); Timothy S. Sherwood (Midlothian, Va.); Robert N. Smith (Glen Allen, Va.)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Flexible Aerosol-generating DevicesPatent No. 11602166An aerosol-generating device may include a housing having flexible portion along its length. The flexible portion is configured to transition between a relaxed or unloaded configuration and a flexed or deflected configuration. A flexible heating element and mouthpiece may also be disposed in the housing. When the housing is in a relaxed or unloaded configuration, the flexible heating element and the mouthpiece are at least partially longitudinally aligned with the flexible portion of the housing.Inventors: Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland); Stephane Antony Hedarchet (Pully, Switzerland)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Obfuscating Cryptographic Material In MemoryPatent No. 11604740Methods and systems disclosed herein describe obfuscating plaintext cryptographic material stored in memory. A random location in an obfuscation buffer may be selected for each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material. The location of each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may be stored in a position tracking buffer. To recover the scrambled plaintext cryptographic material, the location of each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may be read from the position tracking buffer. Each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may then be read from the obfuscation buffer and written to a temporary buffer. When each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material is recovered, the plaintext cryptographic material may be used to perform one or more cryptographic operations. The scrambling techniques described herein reduce the likelihood of a malicious user recovering plaintext cryptographic material while stored in memory.Inventors: Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.); Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.); Lan Xie (Chantilly, Va.)Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)March 14, 2023

System And Method For Multi-account ProvisioningPatent No. 11606360In a method for providing provisioning information, a central data processing system receives from a transaction data processing system, an encrypted user datum associated with a client user of the transaction data processing system; receives from at least one of a plurality of account administrator data processing systems, a response comprising a notification that a user account administrated by that account administrator data processing system is associated with the client user; receives an account administrator selection message including identification of a user-selected account administrator from an account administrator list; transmits to the account administrator data processing system associated with the user-selected account administrator, a provisioning request for client user account provisioning information; receives from the account administrator data processing system associated with the user-selected account administrator, the client user account provisioning information; and transmits to the transaction data processing system, the client user account provisioning information.Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Jackson Macomber (Henrico, Va.)Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)March 14, 2023

Non-nicotine Pod Assemblies And Non-nicotine E-vaping Devices’Patent No. 11596172A non-nicotine e-vaping device may include a non-nicotine pod assembly and a device body. The non-nicotine pod assembly has upstream and downstream ends and is configured to hold a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation. The upstream end may define at least one upstream recess, and the downstream end may define at least one downstream recess. The device body defines a through hole configured to receive the non-nicotine pod assembly. The through hole includes an upstream sidewall and a downstream sidewall. The upstream sidewall may include at least one upstream protrusion, and the downstream sidewall may include at least one downstream protrusion. The at least one upstream protrusion and the at least one downstream protrusion may be configured to engage with the at least one upstream recess and the at least one downstream recess, respectively, so as to retain the non-nicotine pod assembly within the through hole of the device body.Inventors: Dean Twite (Richmond); Yannick Hourmound (Richmond); Charles Dendy (Ruther Glen); Bipin Patil (Richmond); Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond); Christopher Newcomb (Richmond); Niall Gallagher (Richmond); Raymond W. Lau (Richmond); Eric Hawes (Richmond)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Aerosol-generating DevicesPatent No. 11596179An aerosol-generating device comprises a device housing comprising a first receiving chamber configured to receive and accommodate a first consumable and a second receiving chamber configured to receive and accommodate a second consumable. The device further comprises a power source in an internal space defined by the device housing and a controller configured to control aerosolization of an aerosol-forming substrate in a consumable in one of the first receiving chamber and in the second receiving chamber. At least the second receiving chamber includes electrical contacts configured to be detachably connected to a battery based on the separate power source being in the second receiving chamber such that the electrical contacts provide additional power from the separate power source to the aerosol-generating device.Inventor: Tony Reevell (London, Great Britain)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Sustained Duration Trigger Sprayers And Methods For Making The SamePatent No. 11596960A sustained duration trigger sprayer capable of dispensing at least 3 mL of product over a time period of about 3 seconds utilizing a force-to-actuate of between about 10 pounds and about 15 pounds. The trigger sprayer includes an enlarged piston bore and piston and an elongated trigger lever creating a high output fluid displacement with a 0.5 inch displacement distance. The container bottle and/or the sprayer shroud are contoured to provide a gripping area opposing the terminal end of the trigger lever wherein the gripping distance in from the gripping area to the terminal end of the trigger lever is no greater than 3.3 inches.Inventors: Steven Sweeton (Lake Winnebago, Mo.)Assignee: Silgan Dispensing Systems Corp. (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Cartridge With A Capacity SensorPatent No. 11602019A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system includes a sensor including a capacitor with a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate, a storage portion for storing an aerosol-forming substrate, and a vaporizer. The storage portion is between the first capacitor plate and the second capacitor plate. The permittivity of the liquid storage portion changes upon a change of the volume f the liquid aerosol-forming substrate held in the liquid storage portion. The sensor is configured to measure the capacitance of the capacitor. The measured capacitance relates to a corresponding permittivity of the aerosol-forming substrate held in the storage portion so that the amount of the volume of the aerosol-forming substrate held in the storage portion is determinable from the measured capacitance.Inventors: Tony Reevell (London, Great Britain)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Sensor Receiver Having Rydberg Cell And Spaced Apart Pulsed Probe Beams And Associated MethodsPatent No. 11598798A sensor receiver includes a Rydberg cell configured to be exposed to a radio frequency (RF) signal, and a probe source configured to generate a plurality of spaced apart pulsed probe beams within the Rydberg cell. The pulsed probe beams are offset in time from one another. A detector is positioned downstream from the Rydberg cell.Inventors: Victor G. Bucklew (Richmond); Jerrod Langston (W. Melbourne, Fla.); James Drakes (Occoquan, Va.); Samuel H. Knarr (Melbourne, Fla.)Assignee: Eagle Technology (Melbourne, Fla.)March 7, 2023

Tamp-and-stir Apparatus And Process ThereforPatent No. 11596169A machine and method for packaging tobacco sachets, comprising a plurality of linearly arranged, multi-functional, vertically moveable chambers having fluid sealing means on lower portions thereof, conveyor means disposed below the plurality of multi-functional, vertically moveable chambers, and a lidding apparatus disposed downstream of and in communication with the plurality of vertically moveable chambers through the conveyor means.Inventors: James D. Evans (Chesterfield, Va.); Travis M. Garthaffner (Midlothian, Va.); Herbert Cary Longest (Midlothian, Va.)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Cartridge And E-vaping DevicePatent No. 11602017A cartridge of an e-vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, a reservoir in the housing, a heater in the housing, and an absorbent material at least partially surrounding the sinusoidal shaped member. The reservoir is configured to store a pre-vapor formulation. The heater has a sinusoidal shaped member translating about an elliptical shape to define a channel there through. The absorbent material is in fluid communication with the reservoir.Inventors: Shmuel Gavrielov (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Yuval Malka (Richmond); Rangarag S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.); Isaac Weigensberg (Tekoa, Israel); David Rubil (Revava, Israel); Moshe Eliyahu (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Arye Weigensberg (Richmond); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 7, 2023

Aggregated Virtual Session For Multiple Virtual SessionsPatent No. 11601619In some implementations, a system may retrieve an electronic calendar associated with a user. The system may identify, based on the electronic calendar, a plurality of virtual sessions. The system may generate an electronic invitation to join an aggregated virtual session for the plurality of virtual sessions. The system may transmit the electronic invitation to a client device associated with the user. The system may receive, from the client device, a selection of the electronic invitation. The system may establish, based on the electronic invitation, the aggregated virtual session for the client device that enables the client device to connect to each of the plurality of virtual sessions associated with the aggregated virtual session.Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Richmond); Jignesh Rangwala (Glen Allen, Va.); Mehukumar Jayantilal Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.); Muthukurmaran Velbuli (Glen Allen, Va.); Santhi Sridharan (Glen Allen, Va.); Soumyajit Ray (Glen Allen, Va.); Steven Voltz (Henrico, Va.)Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)March 7, 2023

Labyrinth Seal With Interlocking Rotor And Seal Case InsertPatent No. 11598375A labyrinth seal includes a seal case with an inner-diameter leg encircling a rotation axis, and an insert fixed in the seal case and encircling the rotation axis. The labyrinth seal also includes a slinger encircling the rotation axis and wrapping around the inner-diameter leg to cooperate with the seal case to form a first part of a labyrinth path. The slinger rotates relative to the seal case. The labyrinth seal also includes a rotor that encircles the rotation axis, cooperates with the insert to form a second part of the labyrinth path, and interlocks with the insert to limit axial movement of the rotor when the rotor rotates relative to the insert. The labyrinth seal may be combined with a bearing cone, a bearing cup, and a plurality of rollers to form a roller bearing assembly.Inventors: James Hargraves (Richmond)Assignee: Amsted Rail Co. (Petersburg, Va.)March 7, 2023

Data Certification Process For Cloud Database PlatformPatent No. 11599664Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify criteria that limit access to the records stored by the database. The one or more first rules may be received via a user interface. The data sharing platform may perform, based on the rules, a data access certification process on the records stored by the database to generate a table of certification results. The data sharing platform may generate, based on the table of certification results, and without modifying the records stored by the database, a limited consumer view definition. Based on updates to the records, a new limited consumer view definition may be generated.Inventors: Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Va.); Yudhish Batra (McLean, Va.); Syed Shamaz Salim (Potomac, Md.); Praveen Kandukuri (Ashburn, Va.)Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)March 7, 2023

Methods And Compositions For Inhibiting Corrosion On Metal SurfacesPatent No. 11597846Methods and compositions for inhibiting corrosion of a metal product are provided. The metal product can be contacted with water that includes at least one carbonate and/or bicarbonate salt, or otherwise has components that increase the alkalinity of the water. In addition, or as an alternative, the water can include a stannous corrosion inhibitor. The water can be evaporated off of a surface of the metal product to provide a residual of the salt on the surface and/or a protective stannous film on the surface.Inventors: Rajendra Prasad Kalakodimi (Glen Allen, Va.); Raymond Post (Langhorne, Penn.); Douglas A. Godwin (Fairhope, Ala.); James Hatcher (Zionsville, Ind.)Assignee: Chemtreat (Glen Allen, Va.)March 7, 2023

Methods And Compositions Related To Improved Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency In TobaccoPatent No.11602118The present disclosure provides metabolic signatures and genetic markers for tracking enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency phenotypes in tobacco plants and for introgressing enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency phenotypes into tobacco plants. The disclosure also provides tobacco plants comprising enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency and methods to the creation of tobacco plants comprising enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency. The disclosure also provides recombinant polynucleotides and polypeptides for enhancing nitrogen utilization efficiency in modified tobacco plants and tobacco plants comprising the provided recombinant polynucleotides and polypeptides.Inventors: Jesse Frederick (Richmond); Chengalrayan Kudithpudi (Midlothian, Va.); Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Document Package Merge In Document Management SystemPatent No. 11604839A centralized document system receives a request to merge a first document package associated with a first party and a second document package associated with a second party. The first document package includes a first set of documents and the second document package includes a second set of documents. In response to the request, the centralized document system identifies a first subset of documents included in both the first and second sets of documents and identifies a second subset of documents with conflicts between the first and second sets of documents. The centralized document system rectifies the second subset of documents to cure the conflicts between the first and second sets of documents. The centralized document system generates a merged document package including the first subset of documents and the rectified second subset of documents for execution by the first and second parties.Inventors: Andrew James Ashlock (San Francisco, Calif.); Marguerite Bouscaren (San Francisco, Calif.); Jacob Scott Mitchell (Richmond); Duane Robert Wald (Kent, Wash.); Christopher Shane Durham (Seattle, Wash.); Saul Adams Aguilar (Redwood City, Calif.)Assignee: Docusign (San Francisco, Calif.)March 14, 2023

Cartridge And E-vaping Device With Serpentine HeaterPatent No. 11602167A cartridge of an e-vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, a reservoir in the housing, a heater in the housing, and an absorbent material at least partially surrounding the sinusoidal shaped member. The reservoir is configured to store a pre-vapor formulation. The heater has a sinusoidal shaped member translating about an elliptical shape to define a channel there through. The absorbent material is in fluid communication with the reservoir.Inventors: Shmuel Gavrielov (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Yuval Malka (Richmond); Rangaraj Sundar (Richmond); Isaac Weigensberg (Tekoa, Israel); David Rubli (Revava, Israel); Moshe Eliyahu (Beit Shemesh, Israel); Arye Weigensberg (Richmond); Scott A. Fath (Henrico, Va.); Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.); William J. Bogdziewicz (Richmond)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Intermediate Compounds And MethodsPatent No. 11603354The present invention relates to compounds of (II) and an acceptable salt or hydrate thereof method of making same. ##STR00001##Inventors: Phouvieng Beyer (New Milford, Conn.); Jason A. Brazzillo (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.); Weitong Dong (Sandy Hook, Conn.); Magnus Eriksson (Brookfield, Conn.); Jon Charles Lorenz (New Milford, Conn.); Laurence J. Nummy (Newburgh, N.Y.); Sonia Roadriguez (Avon, Conn.); Jolaine Savoie (Sandy Hook, Conn.); Kanwar Pal Singh Sidhu (Orange, Conn.); Joshua D. Sieber (Richmond); Thomas Gabriel Tampone (Southbury, Conn.); Zhulin Tan (Cheshire, Conn.); Jun Wang (New Milford, Conn.); Li Zhang (New Milford, Conn.); Pengtao Zhang (Shanghai, China)Assignee: N/AMarch 14, 2023

Sliding Packs With Flip Top Hinged LidsPatent No. 11603258A slide-action hinged-lid pack includes a hinged-lid inner pack configured to hold consumer items. The hinged-lid inner pack includes a front wall, a back wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, a bottom wall and a hinged-lid pivotally connected to an upper end of the back wall for movement between an open position and a closed position, and an outer shell. The hinged-lid inner pack can slide from a first position at which the hinged-lid is in the closed position to a second position at which the hinged-lid is in the open position. The outer shell includes a first stop tab on an inner side of the back wall. The hinged-lid inner pack includes a second stop tab on a tongue extending from the hinged-lid, and a third stop tab on the back wall of the hinged-lid inner pack.Inventors: Brian Casey (Richmond)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Recyclable Flexible Films And Bags For Packaging Flowable MaterialsPatent No. 11603242The disclosure provides ethylene/α-olefin copolymer based co-extruded, multi-layer films, including barrier films and non-barrier films, and articles of manufacture that include the films, such as flexible bags and containers for flowable materials. The films and articles that include the films have improved flex-crak resistance and toughness. The films and articles that include the films have good barrier properties as the barrier films include a core layer of ethylene-vinyl alcohol (EVOH) copolymer having a high ethylene content. The low amount of EVOH copolymer in the total film that is needed to achieve the flex-crack resistance, toughness, and good barrier properties, further allow for the recycling of the films and articles of manufacture.Inventors: Nicholas Farkas (Glenburnie, Calif.); Lamy Chopin (Missouri City, Texas)Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp. (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Cigarette Wrapper With Novel PatternPatent No. 11602161A wrapper for a smoking article has a base web and a plurality of elements each having at least a pair of patch areas where diffusivity is in the range of 0 to about 0.2 cm/sec. Patches of adjacent elements are circumferentially offset from one another along the axis of a smoking article. The add-on material can be applied by gravure printing in a single pass in a chevron pattern such that an apex of the element is co-linear with substantially symmetrically spaced points on a trailing, outer edge of an adjacent element. Testing elements may be simultaneously printed with the add-on material to monitor diffusivity and/or presence of add-on material.Inventors: Marc Rose (Mechanicsville, Va.); Timothy S. Sherwood (Midlothian, Va.); Robert N. Smith (Glen Allen, Va.)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Flexible Aerosol-generating DevicesPatent No. 11602166An aerosol-generating device may include a housing having flexible portion along its length. The flexible portion is configured to transition between a relaxed or unloaded configuration and a flexed or deflected configuration. A flexible heating element and mouthpiece may also be disposed in the housing. When the housing is in a relaxed or unloaded configuration, the flexible heating element and the mouthpiece are at least partially longitudinally aligned with the flexible portion of the housing.Inventors: Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland); Stephane Antony Hedarchet (Pully, Switzerland)Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)March 14, 2023

Obfuscating Cryptographic Material In MemoryPatent No. 11604740Methods and systems disclosed herein describe obfuscating plaintext cryptographic material stored in memory. A random location in an obfuscation buffer may be selected for each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material. The location of each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may be stored in a position tracking buffer. To recover the scrambled plaintext cryptographic material, the location of each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may be read from the position tracking buffer. Each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material may then be read from the obfuscation buffer and written to a temporary buffer. When each byte of the plaintext cryptographic material is recovered, the plaintext cryptographic material may be used to perform one or more cryptographic operations. The scrambling techniques described herein reduce the likelihood of a malicious user recovering plaintext cryptographic material while stored in memory.Inventors: Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.); Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.); Lan Xie (Chantilly, Va.)Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)March 14, 2023

System And Method For Multi-account ProvisioningPatent No. 11606360In a method for providing provisioning information, a central data processing system receives from a transaction data processing system, an encrypted user datum associated with a client user of the transaction data processing system; receives from at least one of a plurality of account administrator data processing systems, a response comprising a notification that a user account administrated by that account administrator data processing system is associated with the client user; receives an account administrator selection message including identification of a user-selected account administrator from an account administrator list; transmits to the account administrator data processing system associated with the user-selected account administrator, a provisioning request for client user account provisioning information; receives from the account administrator data processing system associated with the user-selected account administrator, the client user account provisioning information; and transmits to the transaction data processing system, the client user account provisioning information.Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.); Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.); Jackson Macomber (Henrico, Va.)Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)March 14, 2023

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