Patents by Inventor Stephen Stone

Stephen 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).

  • Publication number: 20240156850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of cancer. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods useful for treating solid tumors. In a specific embodiment, a method for treating a solid tumor in a patient having cancer comprises the step of administering to the patient a demethylating agent, a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor and a checkpoint inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Cynthia Zahnow, Stephen B. Baylin, Michael Topper, Meredith Stone
  • Patent number: 11378045
    Abstract: An air cleaner assembly can contain an air filter element to filter contaminant material out of an air stream. In some examples, the air cleaner assembly includes a housing with an integrated noise suppression chamber for supplying air to a downstream compressor. The housing forms a cavity into which an air filter element is inserted. Contaminated air enters the housing and passes through the air filter. Filtered air can discharge from the housing through a first opening supplying air to a combustion engine and a second opening supplying air to a compressor. Air supplied to the compressor passes from the interior of the housing containing the filter element and through the integrated noise suppression chamber before being discharged. The acoustic energy released by the filtered air stream exiting the air cleaner assembly may be reduced by passing through the noise suppression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen A. Stone, Richard P. Manahan
  • Patent number: 11072470
    Abstract: A diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) storage system may include a reservoir body having a magnet integrally formed about an inlet opening of the reservoir body. For example, the magnet may be molding about a perimeter of the inlet opening during a molding process in which the reservoir body is formed. In some examples, the inlet opening defines a lumen extending into an interior of the reservoir body with the magnet being positioned at a location along the lumen opposite an external end face. The position of the magnet may be effective to engage a corresponding magnet on a DEF fill nozzle, allowing DEF to be introduced into the reservoir body. By integrating the magnet into the reservoir body, protection features that prevent erroneous filling of the reservoir body cannot be removed or bypassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen A. Stone
  • Publication number: 20210054811
    Abstract: An air cleaner assembly can contain an air filter element to filter contaminant material out of an air stream. In some examples, the air cleaner assembly includes a housing with an integrated noise suppression chamber for supplying air to a downstream compressor. The housing forms a cavity into which an air filter element is inserted. Contaminated air enters the housing and passes through the air filter. Filtered air can discharge from the housing through a first opening supplying air to a combustion engine and a second opening supplying air to a compressor. Air supplied to the compressor passes from the interior of the housing containing the filter element and through the integrated noise suppression chamber before being discharged. The acoustic energy released by the filtered air stream exiting the air cleaner assembly may be reduced by passing through the noise suppression chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen A. STONE, Richard P. MANAHAN
  • Patent number: 10595658
    Abstract: A safety mailbox assembly, comprising: a substantially hollow and post-less top structure configured with a top portion of a reversible connection at a base of the top structure and including at least one mail box disposed therein; a substantially hollow and post-less bottom structure configured with a bottom portion of the reversible connection; wherein the top portion and the bottom portion connect together to reversibly connect the top structure and the bottom structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Dominick D'Andrea, Lawrence Stephen Stone
  • Publication number: 20190225391
    Abstract: A diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) storage system may include a reservoir body having a magnet integrally formed about an inlet opening of the reservoir body. For example, the magnet may be molding about a perimeter of the inlet opening during a molding process in which the reservoir body is formed. In some examples, the inlet opening defines a lumen extending into an interior of the reservoir body with the magnet being positioned at a location along the lumen opposite an external end face. The position of the magnet may be effective to engage a corresponding magnet on a DEF fill nozzle, allowing DEF to be introduced into the reservoir body. By integrating the magnet into the reservoir body, protection features that prevent erroneous filling of the reservoir body cannot be removed or bypassed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Stephen A. Stone
  • Publication number: 20190021535
    Abstract: A safety mailbox assembly, comprising: a substantially hollow and post-less top structure configured with a top portion of a reversible connection at a base of the top structure and including at least one mail box disposed therein; a substantially hollow and post-less bottom structure configured with a bottom portion of the reversible connection; wherein the top portion and the bottom portion connect together to reversibly connect the top structure and the bottom structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Dominick D'Andrea, Lawrence Stephen Stone
  • Patent number: 9808727
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for purging water in a waterpark reservoir by inducing a siphon and several examples of an apparatus to achieve this result. The apparatus disclosed herein provides an emptying mechanism which may have no moving parts or valves between the inlet and the outlet and yet delivers a short term large volume dump or purge of water to patrons in an impact area of a patron region of a waterpark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Avalanche Waterslides, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Michael Stone, Michael Stephen Stone
  • Publication number: 20170007931
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for purging water in a waterpark reservoir by inducing a siphon and several examples of an apparatus to achieve this result. The apparatus disclosed herein provides an emptying mechanism which may have no moving parts or valves between the inlet and the outlet and yet delivers a short term large volume dump or purge of water to patrons in an impact area of a patron region of a waterpark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Avalanche Waterslides, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Michael Stone, Michael Stephen Stone
  • Patent number: 9446275
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for purging water in a waterpark reservoir by inducing a siphon and several examples of an apparatus to achieve this result. The apparatus disclosed herein provides an emptying mechanism which may have no moving parts or valves between the inlet and the outlet and yet delivers a short term large volume dump or purge of water to patrons in an impact area of a patron region of a waterpark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Avalanche Waterslides, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Michael Stone, Michael Stephen Stone
  • Publication number: 20150314188
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for purging water in a waterpark reservoir by inducing a siphon and several examples of an apparatus to achieve this result. The apparatus disclosed herein provides an emptying mechanism which may have no moving parts or valves between the inlet and the outlet and yet delivers a short term large volume dump or purge of water to patrons in an impact area of a patron region of a waterpark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Zachary Michael Stone, Michael Stephen Stone
  • Publication number: 20130171491
    Abstract: An apparatus for transferring thermal energy to or from a battery cell is disclosed, which includes a thermally conductive plate enclosing a conduit in communication with an inlet for receiving a heat transfer fluid stream and being configured to cause the fluid to flow through the plate to an outlet. The plate has a surface for receiving thermal energy generated by operation of the battery cell and is operable to couple thermal energy to the fluid. In one aspect the plate includes first and second opposing walls and the conduit includes a first conduit portion formed in the first wall and a second corresponding conduit portion formed in the second wall defining the conduit. In another aspect the conduit includes an aperture in a central wall and first and second cover walls on either side of the central wall. The cover walls enclose aperture and provide a seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: PEV Power Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Jinzhu Wei, Stephen Stone, Dawei Chen
  • Patent number: 8336767
    Abstract: A banking system is controlled responsive to data read from data bearing records. The banking system includes an automated banking machine. The machine is operable to carry out a financial transaction for a person responsive to a determination that the person is an authorized user of the machine based on correspondence between identifying data read by a reader of the machine and data store information. The machine includes a check acceptor that is operative to receive checks from authorized machine users. The check acceptor is operable to continuously move a received check along its transport path while simultaneously rotationally orienting the check into alignment with the transport path. A check determined not to have at least one property of an acceptable check is returned to the machine user. Acceptable checks are processed and stored in the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: H. Thomas Graef, Damon J. Blackford, Mike R. Ryan, William D. Beskitt, Thomas A. VanKirk, Stephen Stone, David A. Peters
  • Patent number: 8083131
    Abstract: An automated banking machine controlled responsive to data bearing records includes a card reader that is operative to read data from user cards including identifying data and to authorize operation of an automated banking machine responsive to the identifying data. The automated banking machine includes a deposit accepting device. The deposit accepting device is operative to receive a stack of sheets and to separate each sheet from the stack through operation of a picker. Each sheet is aligned with the sheet path and analyzed by analysis devices including at least one magnetic read head, an imager and/or a validation device. Sheets determined not to have at least one property of a genuine sheet are returned to a user of the machine. Sheets determined to have at least one property of genuine sheets are processed and stored in the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Damon J. Blackford, Mike R. Ryan, William D. Beskitt, Thomas A. VanKirk, Stephen Stone, David A. Peters
  • Publication number: 20110202591
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus infrastructure provide real time wireless tracking of multiple initial data parameters transmitted from individual mobile receiving or system units installed in customer vehicles. A management network receives and decodes initial data parameters from respective receiving mobile units, matches and encodes the same according to stored predetermined customer specified format preferences, and transmits customer specified data streams to customers. An additional step correlates the received specified-data streams with additional public-supplied data or third-party contractually supplied data to provide an enhanced customer report enabling a number of reports; including a credibility determination between the public-supplied data and the received specified-data, a customer vehicle travel efficiency report, a safe operation vehicle report, and a vehicle operator effectiveness report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Victor Reis, Stephen A. Stone, Patrick V. Bellone
  • Patent number: 7946478
    Abstract: A banking machine system controlled by data bearing records includes an automated banking machine which includes a deposit accepting device. Data read from a user card through operation of a card reader in the machine is used to determine if the data on the card corresponds to an authorized machine user. The deposit accepting device is operative to receive a stack of sheets and to separate each sheet from the stack through operation of a picker. Each sheet is aligned with the sheet path and analyzed by analysis devices including at least one magnetic read head, an imager and/or a validation device. Sheets determined not to have at least one property of a genuine sheet are returned to a user of the machine. Sheets determined to have at least one property of genuine sheets are processed and stored in the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: William D. Beskitt, Damon J. Blackford, Thomas A. VanKirk, Mike R. Ryan, Jasen J. Smolk, Songtao Ma, David A. Peters, Stephen Stone, H. Thomas Graef
  • Publication number: 20090145961
    Abstract: An automated banking machine controlled responsive to data bearing records includes a card reader that is operative to read data from user cards including identifying data and to authorize operation of an automated banking machine responsive to the identifying data. The automated banking machine includes a deposit accepting device. The deposit accepting device is operative to receive a stack of sheets and to separate each sheet from the stack through operation of a picker. Each sheet is aligned with the sheet path and analyzed by analysis devices including at least one magnetic read head, an imager and/or a validation device. Sheets determined not to have at least one property of a genuine sheet are returned to a user of the machine. Sheets determined to have at least one property of genuine sheets are processed and stored in the machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Damon J. Blackford, Mike R. Ryan, William D. Beskitt, Thomas A. VanKirk, Stephen Stone, David A. Peters
  • Publication number: 20080149708
    Abstract: A banking machine system controlled by data bearing records includes an automated banking machine which includes a deposit accepting device. Data read from a user card through operation of a card reader in the machine is used to determine if the data on the card corresponds to an authorized machine user. The deposit accepting device is operative to receive a stack of sheets and to separate each sheet from the stack through operation of a picker. Each sheet is aligned with the sheet path and analyzed by analysis devices including at least one magnetic read head, an imager and/or a validation device. Sheets determined not to have at least one property of a genuine sheet are returned to a user of the machine. Sheets determined to have at least one property of genuine sheets are processed and stored in the machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: William D. Beskitt, Damon J. Blackford, Thomas A. VanKirk, Mike R. Ryan, Jasen J. Smolk, Songtao Ma, David A. Peters, Stephen Stone, H. Thomas Graef
  • Publication number: 20060263208
    Abstract: A turbomachine has a number of interspersed stages of rotor blades and stator vanes. A split case has first and second case sections meeting along a junction extending essentially along a longitudinal first plane. The metallic spring seal extends along the junction. The spring seal may be installed in a remanufacturing of an existing turbomachine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Stephen Stone, Dominick More
  • Patent number: 6571302
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high speed, multi-ported, direct data flow memory architecture that employs memory width and speed greater than system bus width and speed to allow shallow burst depth and reduce other-port latencies, while maintaining multi-port throughput. The inventive system has a data storage device (SDRAM) and a multiplexer connected to the SDRAM. Two or more interfaces or ports are provided with data sourcing controllers respectively connected to the interfaces. A communications bus connects the SDRAM to the data sourcing controllers for facilitating data communications. A FIFO buffer memory is located between the multiplexer and the data sourcing controllers. The need for retries is eliminated and host bus widths are matched to memory data width. Read-ahead algorithms are provided that adapt the larger system bus burst sizes to the smaller memory burst sizes with the ability to cancel unneeded advance requests for data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Advanced Digital Information Corporation
    Inventors: Mark DeWilde, Stephen Stone