Patents by Inventor Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens 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: 12378083
    Abstract: In one aspect, a gap blocker having a body configured to be supported in a gap of a roller conveyor by upstream and downstream rollers. The body has an upper blocking portion with upper contact portions for slidingly contacting the upstream and downstream rollers above a narrowest portion of the gap. The body further includes a plurality of laterally spaced upstream leg portions connected to the upper blocking portion and a plurality of laterally spaced downstream leg portions connected to the upper blocking portion longitudinally spaced from the upstream leg portions. The upstream leg portions have upstream distal end portions to be positioned below the narrowest portion of the gap for keeping the body in the gap. The downstream leg portions likewise have downstream end portions to be positioned below the narrowest portion of the gap for keeping the body in the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Patent number: 12365550
    Abstract: In one aspect, a transfer guard member having a body for being positioned in a gap intermediate conveying surfaces, an upper portion of the body for spanning the gap and outer portions of the upper body for slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces, and a pair of spaced, resilient legs having distal end portions for resiliently and slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces. In another aspect, a transfer guard member having a body and at least one attachment member of the body configured for being detachably fixed to a mounting bar. The body has at least one recess adjacent the attachment member for receiving at least one attachment member of another transfer guard member fixed to the mounting bar so that upper transfer surfaces of the attachment members are adjacent one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Patent number: 12362038
    Abstract: In silico tools are used to determine possibly effective therapies for treating a patient's cancer based on patient, drug, and cancer information. Functional assays can be performed on living cancer cells from the patient to evaluate the possibly effective therapies along with subsequent genomic or other more destructive assays to provide additional information from a single sample. Drug, patient, cancer, and outcome information can be recorded and updated iteratively and analyzed using machine learning to identify correlations between various patient, cancer, and drug characteristics and expected outcomes and drug efficacies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Travera, Inc.
    Inventors: Rob Kimmerling, Selim Olcum, Clifford Reid, Mark Stevens
  • Patent number: 12361286
    Abstract: In an aspect, an apparatus for procedural training is presented. An apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to at least a processor. A memory contains instructions configuring at least a processor to receive optical data from a sensor comprising a machine vision system in electronic communication with the at least a processor, wherein the machine vision system is configured to identify at least one object within optical data. At least a processor is configured to determine a procedural performance parameter as a function of optical data wherein determining the procedural performance parameter comprises classifying the at least one object within optical data to an optical data category using an optical data classifier. At least a processor is configured to compare a procedural performance parameter to a procedural performance threshold. At least a processor is configured to display procedural training feedback through a display unit as a function of a comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Pro Trainings, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Christopher Andersen, Adam Matthew Fox, Jason Edwin Leighton, Mark Steven VanderVoord
  • Patent number: 12351307
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus for shortening a wingspan of an aircraft is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a first link extending from a wingtip of the aircraft and moveably coupled to a fixed wing of the aircraft. A second link also extends from the wingtip and is moveably coupled to the fixed wing. An actuator is coupled to the fixed wing and to the second link. The actuator is configured to move the second link and cause the wingtip to move between an extended position and a stowed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Monica Thommen, Mark Steven Good
  • Patent number: 12345622
    Abstract: The invention provides devices and methods for linked multimodal measurements of individual particles using a mass sensor and an additional sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Travera, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Kimmerling, Selim Olcum, Mark Stevens
  • Publication number: 20250195786
    Abstract: Devices and/or adapters for use with a syringe are disclosed. An example device for use with a syringe may include a first member having a holding region configured to engage a flange of a syringe barrel. The device may also include a second member coupled to the first member. The second member may have an end surface configured to engage a syringe plunger. Relative movement between the first member and the second member may shift the syringe plunger within the syringe barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Gupta, Randy Raymond, Mark Steven Smith
  • Publication number: 20250194895
    Abstract: A dishwasher and a reversible tray for a dishwasher a reversible tray carried by the dish rack and removably disposed within the dish rack to flip between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: FABIO CARDANO, UMIT CAN KORALAY, GIUSEPPINA ARRESTA, MARK STEVEN FEDDEMA, HRUSHIKESH CHANDRAKANT PRABHU
  • Patent number: 12329346
    Abstract: A dishwasher for treating dishes according to a cycle of operation, the dishwasher having a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber, a dish rack having a first wash zone and a second wash zone, and a spray tube having at least one set of nozzles and rotatable between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Steven Feddema, Joseph T. Ferencevich
  • Patent number: 12329668
    Abstract: One or more medical devices may be provided that may be used, for example, in bariatric surgery including a vertical sleeve gastrectomy. Occlusion devices can be integrated with a catheter or tube to occlude one or more proximal or distal landmarks of a stomach and a stapling guide may be used to occlude a lateral boundary of the stomach to define a cavity. A volume of the potential resultant sleeve may be determined by inserting fluid or gas into the catheter or tube, measuring pressure, and calculating the volume of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: STANDARD BARIATRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Thompson, Mark Steven Ortiz
  • Patent number: 12333601
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamic pricing of collective investment vehicles (CIVs). Portfolio composition data that identifies a plurality of portfolio securities of a CIV is received at a pricing server. Pricing data is obtained at the pricing server. A market-dynamic security price is determined at the pricing server for each portfolio security of the plurality of portfolio securities. The market-dynamic security price is dependent at least in part upon market-feed metrics determined from the pricing data. Based on the determined market-dynamic prices, an indicative value of a CIV share is generated at the pricing server. The indicative value of the CIV share is transmitted for publication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: D12 Ventures, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Edward Kuhnle, Daniel Joseph McCabe, Mark Steven Criscitello, John Stuart Thomas
  • Patent number: 12330886
    Abstract: In one aspect, a transfer guard member having a body for being positioned in a gap intermediate conveying surfaces, an upper portion of the body for spanning the gap and outer portions of the upper body for slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces, and a pair of spaced, resilient legs having distal end portions for resiliently and slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces. In another aspect, a transfer guard member having a body and at least one attachment member of the body configured for being detachably fixed to a mounting bar. The body has at least one recess adjacent the attachment member for receiving at least one attachment member of another transfer guard member fixed to the mounting bar so that upper transfer surfaces of the attachment members are adjacent one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Patent number: 12325754
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of treatment or prevention of B-cell related disease in a subject comprising the administration of a binding molecule capable of binding to a B-cell and promoting killing of the B-cell; and an immunostimulatory agent arranged to stimulate effector lymphocytes, such as NK and/or T cells. Additionally, an anti-CD27 binding agent for use in a combination therapy with an anti-CD20 binding agent for the treatment or prevention of B-cell related disease in a subject. The disclosure also relates to a method of treatment or prevention of cancer in a subject comprising the administration of a cancer-cell-depleting binding agent capable of binding to the cancer cell and promoting killing of the cancer cell; and an immunostimulatory agent arranged to stimulate NK and/or T-cell activation. Additionally, an anti-CD27 binding agent for use in a combination therapy with a cancer-cell-depleting binding agent for the treatment or prevention of cancer in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: University of Southampton
    Inventors: Martin John Glennie, Aymen Al-Shamkhani, Mark Steven Cragg, Sean Hua Lim
  • Publication number: 20250172553
    Abstract: An exemplary system and method are disclosed for a lateral flow immunoassay test designed for testing insulin efficacy and a method of using the device. The exemplary test, and associated device or system, specifically detects ineffective insulin by testing, in an insulin sample, for the presence of amyloid fibrils that may have formed from denatured insulin protein molecules. If amyloid fibrils are present, the antibodies conjugated with a label of the label-conjugated anti-amyloid fibrils (e.g., gold nanoparticles), of the test, would bind to the amyloid fibrils present in the sample to reveal a test line, or other indicator described herein, indicating the presence of amyloid fibrils. The test can employ a secondary antibody as a control line to detect the presence of insulin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Steven Nissen, Danielle Ryann Glickstein, Sierra Chun-Ying Houang, Janie Nicole Johnson, Grady Ian Mosby Lee, Charles Gilliland, Lea Gilliland
  • Patent number: 12296954
    Abstract: A flap actuation mechanism incorporates a coupler rod eccentrically supported at an aft end and at a forward end. The coupler rod is configured to translate from an aft position to a forward position. An inboard crank arm is coupled to the rotary actuator and engaged to the aft end of the coupler rod. The inboard crank is configured rotate responsive to rotation of the rotary actuator thereby inducing translation of the coupler rod. An outboard crank arm engaged to a forward end of the coupler rod and is configured to rotate responsive to translation of the coupler rod. A flap drive arm is attached to the outboard crank arm and is configured to rotate with the outboard crank arm from a stowed position to a deployed position responsive to translation of the coupler rod from the aft position to the forward position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kevin R. Tsai, Mark Steven Good
  • Publication number: 20250135119
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to flow control devices for cancer treatment systems and related methods. In an embodiment, a fluid flow control device for a cancer therapy system is included having a receiver housing, wherein the receiver housing can be configured to interface with a fluid delivery device. The fluid flow control device can also include a rotational plunger. The rotational plunger can include indicia, such as markings, on an end of the rotational plunger. The rotational plunger can be configured to engage with the receiver housing and rotation of the rotational plunger causes a plunger of the syringe to be depressed. Other embodiments are also included herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Ajay Gupta, Randy Raymond, Mark Steven Smith
  • Patent number: 12286302
    Abstract: In one aspect, a gap blocker is provided for a roller conveyor having rollers for conveying an object in a downstream longitudinal direction. The rollers include adjacent rollers having a longitudinally extending gap therebetween and at least one of the rollers has an annular groove for receiving a drive member. The gap blocker includes a body configured to be supported in the gap by the adjacent rollers and an upper blocking portion of the body to extend across the gap. The body further includes a locating member configured to extend into the annular groove and inhibit lateral movement of the body in the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Patent number: 12282643
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying and rendering content relevant to a user's current mental state and context. In an aspect, a system includes a state component that determines a state of a user during a current session of the user with the media system based on navigation of the media system by the user during the current session, media items provided by the media system that are played for watching by the user during the current session, and a manner via which the user interacts with or reacts to the played media items. In an aspect, the state of the user includes a mood of the user. A selection component then selects a media item provided by the media provider based on the state of the user, and a rendering component effectuates rendering of the media item to the user during the current session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thabet Alfishawi, Sagar Mittal, Mark Stevens
  • Patent number: 12274635
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of an apparatus, system, and method for performing a sleeve gastrectomy. The apparatus can include a bougie for insertion into an interior of a stomach, the bougie having a proximal bougie end and a distal bougie end, an inflation lumen having a proximal lumen end and a distal lumen end, the inflation lumen extending from the proximal bougie end through the distal bougie end, a fluid delivery system coupled with the proximal lumen end, the fluid delivery system being operably configured to deliver positive pressure in a predetermined positive pressure range into the stomach, and a monitor coupled with the proximal lumen end operably configured for the monitoring of pressure or volume within the stomach. The bougie can be operably configured to define a resection line for the sleeve gastrectomy when the predetermined positive pressure range is achieved within the stomach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Standard Bariatrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Thompson, Mark Steven Ortiz, Saylan James Lukas, Liam Clayton Groom
  • Publication number: 20250115211
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring for theft of a vehicle component (e.g., a catalytic converter) or another item is provided herein. A monitoring device can be communicatively coupled with a GPS locator and a wireless transceiver such that a location signal can be generated and sent upon certain conditions being met. Preferably, the monitoring device is connected to an external power source and causes the location signal to be generated and sent when there is an interruption in power received from the external power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: CATrak Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Steven Richardi, John Rollins, Natasha Peterson, Gregory Duff Bracy