Patents by Inventor Stephen M. Peters

Stephen M. Peters 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: 11944539
    Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering and implanting heart valves are disclosed. The delivery systems can include an integrated introducer. The integrated introducer can include a sheath having an inner diameter that is smaller than the outer diameter of a delivery capsule of the delivery system and an outer diameter that is approximately equal to the outer diameter of the delivery capsule. The integrated introducer can include a hub having a hemostatic seal. The hub can have a locking mechanism configured to fix the integrated introducer in place on the delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Susheel R. Deshmukh, Patrick Griffin, Patrick E. Macaulay, A K M. Masud, Adam J. Shipley, John P. Shanahan, Hubert K. Yeung, Stephen J. Peter, Gustaf L P Belt, Joshua J. Dwork
  • Publication number: 20230048513
    Abstract: Example aspects include techniques for accurate and expeditious cloud service health communication to customers. These techniques may include determining that a service health incident has customer impact, the service health incident corresponding to an outage of one or more services of a cloud computing platform, identifying a plurality of customers impacted by the service health incident, and predicting, based on the service health incident and one or more other service health incidents, aggregated incident information identifying a plurality of service health incidents associated with the outage of the one or more services. In addition, the techniques may include identifying the one or more services associated with the service health incident, and transmitting, based at least in part on the aggregated incident information and the one or more services, a health notification to the plurality of customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaofeng GAO, Zhangwei XU, Stephen M. PETERS, Hwaji YOU, Tejasvee BOLISETTY, Pochian LEE, Jian SUN, Li YANG
  • Patent number: 8042160
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of identity management for application access. The method includes identifying access enabling information for users. The access enabling information related to users of a first enterprise network to enable the users to access applications on a second enterprise network. The method includes obtaining the identified access enabling information from the first enterprise network, and storing the access enabling information in an identity data store. The method also includes provisioning the access enabling information from the identity data store to one or more applications on the second enterprise network to enable the users of the first enterprise network to access the one or more applications on the second enterprise network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Boydstun, Stephen W. Grimm, Steven R. Hentzen, Stephen M. Peters