Patents by Inventor Stephen Hibbs

Stephen Hibbs 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).

  • Publication number: 20210235928
    Abstract: Grills and charcoal-containing fuel blocks are disclosed. A grill may include a housing at least partially defining a cooking chamber, a combustion chamber having a support surface configured to support a charcoal-containing fuel block, the combustion chamber may be fluidically and thermally connected to the cooking chamber, an igniter configured to heat a charcoal-containing fuel block positioned on the support surface, a stoke chamber positioned under and fluidically connected to the combustion chamber, stoke ducting having a first end fluidically connected to the stoke chamber and a second end fluidically connected to a stoke fan, the stoke fan configured to flow air from outside the housing and into the stoke chamber through the stoke ducting, cooling ducting fluidically connecting the cooking chamber to a cooling fan, and the cooling fan configured to flow air from outside the housing and into the cooking chamber through the cooling ducting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin West, Miguel Christophy, Craig Jacobson, Stephen Hibbs, Michael Chiasson, Neville DeWitt Pierrat, Jon Oxford, Diego Horna, Maggie Venable, Sean Meehan, Lukas Railson, Michael Garver, Dennis Mess, Rylan Miller, Kyle Jones, Jeff Wallingford, Jeremy Woolman, Tyler Edens, Lindsey Smith
  • Patent number: 9599878
    Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a motion time-lapse photography device. The device includes an outer enclosure, base, motor, controlling circuitry, stepper-motor, a plurality of gears, a backlash mitigation membrane, and an external interface panel. Embodiments of the motion time-lapse photography device enable the capture of a sequence of photographs at an interval in coordination with axial movement in at least one rotational degree of freedom of a photographic capture device attached to the motion time-lapse photography device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Alpine Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Marcus Albonico, Kris Cheng, Jonathan Denby, Stephen Hibbs, Kevin Ting
  • Publication number: 20150078737
    Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a motion time-lapse photography device. The device includes an outer enclosure, base, motor, controlling circuitry, stepper-motor, a plurality of gears, a backlash mitigation membrane, and an external interface panel. Embodiments of the motion time-lapse photography device enable the capture of a sequence of photographs at an interval in coordination with axial movement in at least one rotational degree of freedom of a photographic capture device attached to the motion time-lapse photography device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: ALPINE LABS, LLC
    Inventors: Marcus Albonico, Kris Cheng, Jonathan Denby, Stephen Hibbs, Kevin Ting