Patents by Inventor Jeffrey S. Stone

Jeffrey S. Stone has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11957577
    Abstract: Embodiments of delivery systems, devices and methods for delivering a prosthetic heart valve device to a heart chamber for expanded implementation are disclosed. More specifically, methods, systems and devices are disclosed for delivering a self-expanding prosthetic mitral valve device to the left atrium, with no engagement of the left ventricle, the native mitral valve leaflets or the annular tissue downstream of the upper annular surface during delivery, and in some embodiments with no engagement of the ventricle, mitral valve leaflets and/or annular tissue located downstream of the upper annular surface by the delivered, positioned and expanded prosthetic mitral valve device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: 4C Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Chambers, Gregory G. Brucker, Joseph P. Higgins, Saravana B. Kumar, Jason S. Diedering, Karl A. Kabarowski, Robert J. Thatcher, James E. Flaherty, Jeffrey R. Stone
  • Patent number: 11944347
    Abstract: A trocar assembly can include a cannula, a seal cartridge, and an obturator. The seal cartridge is configured to be releasably coupled to the cannula and to be disposed at least partially within the cannula in a coupled configuration of the seal cartridge. The obturator is configured to directly latch to the cannula and to extends through the cannula and the seal cartridge in a coupled configuration of the obturator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Joseph Mozloom, Jr., Christopher Brock Stone, Andrew S. Berkowitz, Steven G. Hall, Jeffrey P. Wiley, Richard Patrick Chesnes, Jeffery T. Kirk, Aren Calder Hill
  • Publication number: 20100287584
    Abstract: Embodiments related to the parental control of media item playback are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computing device is configured to receive an input of unified parental control information that comprises a selection of an age to which to compare a rating of a media item. The computing device is further configured to receive a first media item and a second media item that are rated under different first and second rating systems, and to receive ratings information associated with each media item. The computing device is further configured to compare the ratings information for each media item to the unified parental control information, and to restrict playback of the first and/or second media item if the unified parental control information meets a threshold condition compared to the ratings information associated with the first and/or second media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yuri Starikov, Philip Lo, Jeffrey S. Stone
  • Patent number: 7708643
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of saving audio source identifiers for soundtracks in a gaming system, an audio track is obtained from an audio source and the audio track is saved so that a copy of the audio track is available when the audio source is no longer accessible to a game console. The audio track is at least part of a user-created soundtrack and/or a user-selected soundtrack. The identifier of the audio source is also saved, and when a database containing meta data associated with the audio track is available, the meta data associated with the audio track is obtained from the database, based at least in part on the identifier saved on the storage device, and the obtained meta data is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James E. Allard, Jeffrey S. Stone, Tracy Sharpe, James N. Helm, Victor Keith Blanco
  • Publication number: 20090210493
    Abstract: Various aspects are disclosed herein for communicating and displaying of hyperlinks in a computing community. Hyperlinks can be communicated by being embedded in messages, such that users of a closed computing community can send and receive such hyperlinks. These hyperlinks can link to hyperlinked content that can be stored on a central computing device responsible for administering the community. Moreover, any content that is associated with hyperlinks, whether that content is in the form of blogs, RSS feeds, and so on, can be made publicly available while any associated hyperlinks will be visible only to a subset of computing devices, namely, the community computing devices (but not to any general computing devices accessing the content). This task may be accomplished by using predetermined and/or proprietary schema properly understood only by the community computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry A. Johnson, Jeffrey S. Stone, Christian R. Lehew, Michael R. Courage, Brendan K. Reville, Linus Lee, Chandler J. Holbrook
  • Publication number: 20040005923
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of saving audio source identifiers for soundtracks in a gaming system, an audio track is obtained from an audio source and the audio track is saved so that a copy of the audio track is available when the audio source is no longer accessible to a game console. The audio track is at least part of a user-created soundtrack and/or a user-selected soundtrack. The identifier of the audio source is also saved, and when a database containing meta data associated with the audio track is available, the meta data associated with the audio track is obtained from the database, based at least in part on the identifier saved on the storage device, and the obtained meta data is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Inventors: James E. Allard, Jeffrey S. Stone, Tracy Sharpe, James N. Helm, Victor Keith Blanco
  • Patent number: 5642279
    Abstract: A technique for utilizing a computer system to provide price protection to retail customers of a dealer for its least selected goods. Information on each retail transaction for the goods and information on selected goods advertised for sale by others within a selected geographic area are entered into the computer system. The computer system then determines at selected time intervals whether automatic rebates are due to any customers, rebates being due when the computer determines that a product of the selected goods purchased by the customer has been advertised at a lower price by another dealer within the selected time period after the purchase transaction. The computer also prints a check to the customer for the determined difference when it determines that a rebate is due with the check being sent to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: New England Audio Company
    Inventors: Samuel J. Bloomberg, Jeffrey S. Stone
  • Patent number: D584737
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Stone, Eddie L. Mays
  • Patent number: D588148
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Stone, Eddie L. Mays
  • Patent number: D588150
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Stone, Eddie L. Mays
  • Patent number: D597551
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Stone, Eddie L. Mays