Patents by Inventor Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith 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).
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Publication number: 20240142385Abstract: A jewelry viewing stand including a stand, an imaging device, and an adjustable base is provided. The imaging device is configured to image a piece of jewelry and the stand is configured to hold and position the imaging device. The adjustable base is attached to the stand and positioned beneath the imaging device. The adjustable device is configured to move a piece of jewelry vertically toward and away from the imaging device while the stand maintains the imaging device in a stable, stationary position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: STERLING JEWELERS, INC.Inventors: Stephen HUTFILZ, Sean KELLEY, Stephen MAILLARD, Tenielle MCCARRON, Natalie R. MALLINAK, Richard SMITH, Brad YARRIS, Rachel WEBER, Maie AMER-GUERRERA
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Patent number: 11971106Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present a valve assembly that includes a valve body having a gas passage bore, a valving bore extending along a longitudinal axis and intersecting the gas passage bore, a first bearing surface concentric with the longitudinal axis and a radially spaced apart second bearing surface concentric with the longitudinal axis, wherein an interface of the gas passage bore and the valving bore defines a flow port radially intermediate the first bearing surface and the second bearing surface. The valve assembly further includes a shaft valve extending along the longitudinal axis and rotatably mounted in the valving bore.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: G.W. Lisk Company, Inc.Inventors: Brian Smith, Daniel Meath, Stephen Muscarella
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Publication number: 20240135786Abstract: A valuable media sanitizing/cleansing cassette is provided for sanitizing/cleansing surfaces of valuable media dispensed to a consumer during a dispense transaction at a transaction terminal. Dispensed media is urged from one or more media cassettes within the terminal along a transport path. The transport path is altered to pass the media through the sanitizing/cleansing cassette where the top and bottom surfaces of the media are illuminated with Ultraviolet (UV) radiation to eradicate any bacteria or virus that may be adhered to the top or the bottom surfaces of the media. Once the media passes through the sanitizing/cleansing cassette, the now sanitized/cleansed media is urged along a remainder of the transport path and dispensed from a media interface of the terminal to the consumer. In an embodiment, media deposited at the terminal is also sanitized/cleansed by passing through the sanitizing/cleansing cassette before being stored in the appropriate media cassettes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Ian McFarlane Denny, Stephen Anderson, Grant A. McNicoll, Graeme Smith
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Publication number: 20240115576Abstract: Compositions comprising, for example, caffeine, sodium benzoate and one or more of lactic acid, acetic acid, aspartic acid and glutamic acid, processes for making the compositions and methods of using the compositions. The methods include accelerating emergence from anesthesia and/or countering the effects of anesthesia, including reversing the effects of anesthesia. The methods also include treating opioid intoxication or overdose.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Brett Dines, Pamela A. Smith, Stephen R. Byrn, Susan Bogdanowich-Knipp
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Patent number: 11952169Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure generally relate to a collapsible storage container with multiple sleeves. In some implementations a two-sleeve variant is described. In some implementations a three-sleeve variant is described. Both variants may be used to contain appropriately sized and shaped objects, for example bread, maps, posters, blueprints, plans, etc.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Stephen A. Smith
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Publication number: 20240109564Abstract: A method is provided that can include activating at least two wireless communication channels in parallel, between a first wireless transceiver and a second wireless transceiver. Each of the at least two wireless communication channels can operate at a different radio carrier frequency, and the first wireless transceiver may be part of a first vehicle. The method can also include transmitting, by the first wireless transceiver, common information in parallel on the at least two wireless communication channels to the second wireless transceiver and deactivating the at least two wireless communication channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Padam Dhoj Swar, Carl L. Haas, Danial Rice, Rebecca W. Dreasher, Adam Hausmann, Matthew Steven Vrba, Edward J. Kuchar, James Lucas, Andrew Ryan Staats, Jerrid D. Chapman, Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Janmejay Tripathy, Stephen Craven, Tania Lindsley, Derek K. Woo, Ann K. Grimm, Scott Sollars, Phillip A. Burgart, James Allen Oswald, Shannon K. Struttmann, Stuart J. Barr, Keith Smith, Francois P. Pretorius, Craig K. Green, Kendrick Gawne, Irwin Morris, Joseph W. Gorman, Srivallidevi Muthusami, Mahesh Babu Natarajan, Jeremiah Dirnberger, Adam Franco
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Publication number: 20240113974Abstract: Mobile management method, system and client. Method includes receiving a DNS query for a host name from an application on client; retrieving reputation data associated with host name from a local cache on client; and determining a policy based on host name and the reputation data. Based on determined policy for the host name, blocking attempted network flows to a host corresponding to host name to produce blocked attempted network flows. Method also includes sending attempted network flow metadata related to the blocked attempted network flows to a collector on client; transmitting the attempted network flow metadata from the collector to a VPN server pool via a VPN tunnel; and producing an anomaly report from the transmitted attempted network flow metadata. The anomaly report includes at least one of anomalies, cohorts, trends, location boundaries, detected network security issues, detected compromised clients and/or optimized network usage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: MOBILE SONIC, INC.Inventors: Joseph T. SAVARESE, Steven HECKT, Michael E. BRYANT, Eric C. MCNEILL, Carter SMITH, Elizabeth KIHSLINGER, Thomas Gunther HELMS, Camilla KEENAN-KOCH, Joseph G. SOUZA, Paul HOOVER, S. Aaron STAVENS, Christian E. HOFSTAEDTER, Jonathan SCOTT, Erik OLSON, James Scott SIMPKINS, Stephen Gregory FALLIN, John Harvey HILLOCK, Eivind NAESS, Michael Lee SNYDER, David Michael MIRLY, Marius LEE, Glenn Patrick ARANAS, Norman C. HAMER, Tridib DUTTA, Andrew James HOOVER, Thomas A. SWEET, Mark ANACKER, An PHAN
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Patent number: 11946339Abstract: A valve arrangement is for a downhole apparatus having a tubular body having first and second ports in a wall thereof. The valve arrangement comprises a valve member that comprises a first port associated with the first port of the tubular body; and a second port associated with the second port of the tubular body. The valve arrangement is configurable to be locked in a first configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is closed. The valve arrangement is configurable to be locked in a second configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is open and the second port is closed. The valve arrangement is configurable to be locked in a third configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is open.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Manufacturing and Services LimitedInventors: Stephen Edmund Bruce, David Grant, Scott E. Wallace, Ewan Smith
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Patent number: 11942404Abstract: Apparatuses, such as semiconductor device packages, may include, for example, a device substrate including a semiconductor material and bond pads coupled with an active surface of the device substrate. A package substrate may be secured to the device substrate, the package substrate configured to route signals to and from the bond pads. A ball grid array may be supported on, and electrically connected to, the package substrate. Each ball of the ball grid array positioned and configured to carry a clock signal or a strobe signal may be located in a central column of the ball grid array.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Matthew B. Leslie, Timothy M. Hollis, Scott R. Cyr, Stephen F. Moxham, Matthew A. Prather, Scott Smith
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Patent number: 11939839Abstract: A valve arrangement is for a downhole apparatus having a tubular body having first and second ports in a wall thereof. The valve arrangement comprises a first valve arrangement comprising a first valve member associated with the first port of the tubular body; and a second valve arrangement comprising a second valve member associated with the second port of the tubular body. The first valve arrangement and the second valve arrangement are configurable to lock in a first configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is closed; to lock in a second configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is open and the second port is closed; and to lock in a third configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is open.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Manufacturing and Services LimitedInventors: Stephen Edmund Bruce, David Grant, Scott E. Wallace, Ewan Smith
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Publication number: 20240095772Abstract: The referral system described herein can give users the ability to recommend a vendor (such as, e.g., a company or a service provider) to another user via electronic sharing of a dynamically generated code when one or more pre-established conditions have been met, such as when the vendor has submitted a qualifying offer to the referral system and the user is verified to have previously utilized the referral system to redeem a prior offer of the given vendor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Josh Adam Peasley, Shawnee Marie Hayes, David Scott Smith, Devon Dominic Niccole, Tony Stephen Sailer
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Publication number: 20240082149Abstract: The present invention relates to an intranasal pharmaceutical dosage form comprising a dosing unit comprising naloxone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in an amount of equivalent to ?0.5 mg naloxone HCl dissolved in an application fluid of a volume of ?250 ?l. Furthermore, the present invention relates to such an intranasal pharmaceutical dosage form for use in the treatment of opioid overdosing and/or at least one symptom thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: John Strang, Alexander Oksche, Stephen Harris, Kevin Smith, Lucie Helene Jeanne Mottier
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Publication number: 20240090086Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cartridge for an aerosol delivery device such as a smoking article. The cartridge may include a base, a reservoir substrate, and an atomizer. The reservoir substrate may define a cavity therethrough. The atomizer may comprise a liquid transport element and a heating element extending at least partially about the liquid transport element. The atomizer may extend through the cavity through the reservoir substrate such that the heating element is positioned proximate an end of the reservoir substrate. Ends of the liquid transport element may extend to an opposing end of the reservoir substrate. A related method for assembling a cartridge for a smoking article is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: John DePiano, David Smith, Charles Jacob Novak, III, Frank S. Silveira, Steven Lee Alderman, Grady Lance Dooly, Frederic Philippe Ampolini, Timothy Brian Nestor, Quentin Paul Guenther, JR., Stephen Benson Sears, John William Wolber, Michael Laine
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Publication number: 20240081987Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to prosthetic valves having a frame, a frame cover, and a leaflet construct. Some aspects are directed to a diametric taper for the prosthetic valve for achieving enhanced performance of the prosthetic valve under operational conditions, enhanced compressibility and delivery characteristics, and other additional or alternative advantages. Other aspects are directed toward unique assembly and attachment methods for securing leaflet constructs to support structures. Other aspects are directed toward features for interacting with transcatheter delivery systems. Still other aspects are directed to such apparatuses, systems, and methods for valve replacement, such as cardiac valve replacement.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: David J. Arcaro, Kevin J. Derryberry, Dustin V. Dienno, Edwin W. Field, Bill R. Finney, Joshua C. Haarer, Logan R. Hagaman, Cody L. Hartman, Russell L. Jacoby, Roy Manygoats, JR., Stephen M. Probert, Benjamin A. Smith, Andrew P. Hilton, Olga Baykova, Jason T. Alger
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Publication number: 20240080221Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for a hybrid DOCSIS-5G NR system are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes implementing, in a first network node a hybrid coax fiber (HFC) centralized access architecture (I-CCAP) modified to include a wireless core. The method also includes establishing communication links from the wireless core to radio equipment of a second network node. According to another aspect, a method provides implementing, in the second network node, a remote physical architecture (R-PHY), the R-PHY configured to communicate with a CCAP core of the I-CAPP of the first network node, and implementing in the first node, radio base station (RBS) equipment configured to communicate with the R-PHY to enable wireless communication system services to consumer premises equipment (CPE).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Roland SMITH, Stephen RAYMENT, Miguel BERG, Elmar TROJER
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Patent number: 11920433Abstract: A valve arrangement is for a downhole apparatus having a tubular body having first and second ports in a wall thereof. The valve arrangement comprises a first valve arrangement associated with the first port and comprising a first valve; and a second valve arrangement associated with the second port comprising a second valve. The valve arrangement is configurable to lock in a first configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is closed; lock in a second configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is open and the second port is closed; and lock in a third configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is open.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Manufacturing and Services LimitedInventors: Stephen Edmund Bruce, David Grant, Scott E. Wallace, Ewan Smith
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Patent number: 11920434Abstract: A method comprising operating a first valve arrangement and a second valve arrangement from a locked first configuration, in which the first port is closed and the second port is closed, to a locked second configuration, in which the first port is open and the second port is closed, wherein the first valve arrangement comprises one or more locking devices configured to lock a first valve member of the first valve arrangement in place relative to the tubular body. The method comprising operating the first valve arrangement and the second valve arrangement from the locked second configuration to a third configuration, in which the first port is closed and the second port is open.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Manufacturing and Services LimitedInventors: Stephen Edmund Bruce, David Grant, Scott E. Wallace, Ewan Smith
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Patent number: 11893109Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for protection and recovery of backup storage systems from ransomware attacks. A request to modify data stored in a storage system is received. The storage system includes at least one component configured to store the deduplicated data. An acknowledgement of the received request is generated. The acknowledgement indicates that the data stored in the at least one component and identified in the received request was modified. Modification of the data stored in the at least one component and identified in the received request for a predetermined period of time is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Exagrid Systems, Inc.Inventors: Alex Pientka, Michael Carleton, Adrian T. VanderSpek, Stephen Smith, Luke Makosky, Peter Watkins, Nathaniel W. Turner, Sandra C. Scott, Yee-Ching Chao, Thomas J. Gillispie, William Andrews, David G. Therrien, Jamey C. Poirier, Mark B. Hecker, Andrew H. French
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Patent number: 11871054Abstract: A playout system for providing playout of fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a non-transitory data store and a processor. The processor is configured to playout content for video origination using a fragmented format. The processor can receive a playlist and generate a plurality of video fragments from source content. A transcoder can process video fragments based on one or more program scheduling requirements from the playlist to generate new video fragments. A manifest is updated to reference the new video fragments. The process can output a video stream based on the new video fragments.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.Inventors: Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Brick Eksten, Steven Reynolds
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Patent number: D1024944Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Locus Robotics Corp.Inventors: Hian Kai Kwa, Colin Alexander Davis, John Stephen Lanier, Seth Edwards Allen, Michael Sussman, Christina Nicole Fong, Keegan Burgess Smith, Rafael Gregorio Chavez, John Boezi, III, Scott Matthew Rydbeck