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The R&D Dept.: Local patent roundup for 9.9.26

The R&D Dept.: Local patent roundup for 9.9.26

Lubricant Additives For Performance Boosting
Patent No. 12723216
The present disclosure relates to booster additive packages and lubricating oil compositions including the booster additive packages improved deposits, sludge, wear, TBN retention, and/or rust protection. The booster additive package includes at least one or more oil soluble nitrogen-containing compounds and one or more detergent additives.
Inventors: Kristi Engelman (Richmond); Amy M. James (Glen Allen, Va.); John Atherton (Montpelier, Va.); Gregory Guinther (Richmond)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp.
Sept. 1, 2026

Low Latency And Redundant Proof Of Possession For Content Subscription With Outbound Message Synchronization
Patent No. 12726476
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for mitigating computing latency associated with proving possession of network endpoints across customer domains by leveraging fingerprints associated with user devices. One system includes (i) a user device, e.g., a smartphone or a personal computer, (ii) a proof of possession service running on one or more computers, and (iii) an authorization service running on one or more computers.
Inventors: Adam Turner (Scottsdale, Ariz.); Joshua C. Altherr (Indianapolis, Ind.); Jerry Dilan Walters (Richmond); Kameron Ahler (Denver, Colo.); Kristine Tanya Moskalets (Sammamish, Wash.); Miles Drew Everest (Seattle, Wash.); Nicole Marie Perry (Oakland, Calif.); Thomas James Cuevas (Havertown, Penn.); Siddarth Pathela (Brampton, Canada); Vanessa Nerin Katz (Portland, Ore.)
Assignee: Stodge Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Sept. 1, 2026

Methods Of Tobacco Classification Via Hyperspectral Imaging
Patent No. 12725248
Methods of classifying tobacco include imaging tobacco with an imaging system to obtain an image and classifying the tobacco as very low nicotine (VLN) or traditional based on the obtained image. The imaging system includes a hyperspectral camera and an image processing system.
Inventors: Amrita Sahu (Richmond); Evan Haase (Henrico, Va.); Henry Dante (Midlothian, Va.); Maurice Stancil (Washington, D.C.); William C. Wilkinson (Powhatan, Va.); Austin Hayes (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services
Sept. 1, 2026

Rydberg Sensor Having An Array Of Quantum Radio Frequency (QRF) Cavities And Associated Methods
Patent No. 12724052
A Rydberg sensor may include an array of Rydberg quantum radio frequency (QRF) cavities arranged in rows and columns. A probe laser source may be configured to generate a time delayed probe beams for respective ones of the rows of Rydberg QRF cavities. An RF signal source may be configured to generate time delayed RF signals for respective ones of the columns of Rydberg QRF cavities.
Inventors: Victor G. Bucklew (Richmond); James A. Drakes (Occoquan, Va.)
Assignee: Eagle Technology (Melbourne, Fla.)
Sept. 1, 2026

Cloud Based Test Data Management
Patent No. 12724701
A test data management platform consistent with at least one embodiment of this disclosure is configured to provide both scheduled and on-demand automated secure data delivery in a cloud native services environment. Various dataset delivery is provided including but not limited to masked and subset datasets. Additionally, the platform is configured to allow user and developer access, particularly in a continuous integration and deployment environment. Still further, the platform interfaces with production data to provision different types of lower environment data, including production-to-lower environment with and without masking, and lower-to-lower environment with and without masking. Additionally, the platform implements security and control features including data governance, data encryption, data masking using security-approved algorithms, logging and monitoring, auditing, scanning credentials, and identity and access management.
Inventors: Bliznyuk Ruslan (Lancaster, Penn.); Zhou Dingbo (Potomac, Md.); Milicevic Lazar (Bethesda, Md.); Daniel Seeley (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Fannie Mae (Washington, D.C.)
Sept. 1, 2026

Conference System For Use Of Multiple Devices
Patent No. 12726374
A conference system is described that associates a first device and a second device to the same user, compares a first input from the first device and a second input from the second device, and modifies a setting of a conference session. The first input and the second input may be a video input or an audio input. The modification may include, for example, noise removal, determination of the user’s AV feed device, or removing a background image.
Inventors: Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.); Mehulkumar Jayantilal Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.); Vamsi Kavuri (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 1, 2026

Systems And Methods For Virtual Certification Number Generation
Patent No. 12725164
Systems and methods for triggering a virtual certification number (VCN) generation for use at a source include receiving a VCN generation request from an external entity, the VCN generation request comprising an external request code, external risk signals, and one or more source data for the source, verifying a registration authentication of an account associated with the external request code by comparing the external request code to a database entry, identifying a certification mechanism reference identifier associated with the external request code based on verifying the registration authentication, generating a risk authentication based on a risk analysis conducted using the external risk signals and the external request code, identifying a source identifier based on the one or more source data, and generating the VCN based on the certification mechanism reference identifier and the source identifier.
Inventors: Kelly Jo Brown (Rockville, Md.); Jesse Emery (Arlington, Va.); Jonathan Blocksom (Reston, Va.); Swapna Mandala (Glen Allen, Va.); Todd Safford (Bethesda, Md.); Victoria Yang (Fairfax, Va.); Brian Glowniak (Arlington, Va.); Edward Husa (Manassas, Va.); Calvin Sun (Fairfax, Va.); Audrey Zhang (Arlington, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (Arlington, Va.)
Sept. 1, 2026

Trusted Execution Environment For Data Sharing
Patent No. 12724873
In some implementations, a device may obtain an indication of one or more permissions associated with a dataset shared by a data provider via a first execution environment. The device may obtain an indication of one or more data processing applications associated with respective intents, wherein the one or more data processing applications are executable via a second execution environment, and wherein the respective intents indicate an intended use of data in association with the one or more data processing applications. The device may detect a data usage violation associated with a data processing application, from the one or more data processing applications, that has accessed and processed data from the dataset in the second execution environment, based on an intent associated with the data processing application not being permitted by the one or more permissions. The device may perform an action based on detecting the data usage violation.
Inventors: Niharendu Chandra (Glen Allen, Va.); Anoop Gupta (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Va.)
Sept. 1, 2026

Cleaning And Organizing Schemaless Semi-structured Data For Extract, Transform, And Load Processing
Patent No. 12724788
In some implementations, a system may obtain, from a first data repository, a first dataset that includes event data associated with a generic schema. The system may infer an event-specific schema that defines an organizational structure for the event data based on common attributes identified among a plurality of events included in the event data using one or more data analytics functions. The system may store, in a second data repository, a second dataset in which the event data is partitioned based on the organizational structure defined by the event-specific schema. The system may generate a third dataset that includes a subset of the event data included in the second dataset that satisfies one or more registration parameters related to an extract, transform, load (ETL) use case. The system may provide the third dataset to an ETL system configured to process the third dataset based on the ETL use case.
Inventors: Venkateshwara Mudumba (Glen Allen, Va.); Govind Pande (Chantilly, Va.); Angshuman Bhattacharya (Glen Allen, Va.)
Assignee: Capital One Services
Sept. 1, 2026

Proactive Monitoring Of File Status Updates In Transaction Systems
Patent No. 12730691
File status updates can be proactively monitored in transaction systems. For example, a system can send an X9 file comprising transaction data associated with a plurality of transactions to a downstream transaction processing system. The system can receive, via an X9 file status application programming interface (API), a message indicating a status of the X9 file. The X9 file status API can be configured to receive the message from a listener system monitoring for X9 file status updates. The system can cause an action based on the status of the X9 file.
Inventors: Omganesh Teekaramsingh (Johns Creek, Ga.); Louis Allin (Richmond, Calif.); Jonathan Topp (Montpelier, Va.); Sreelekshmi Padmakumar (Richmond)
Assignee: Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
Sept. 8, 2026