Patents by Inventor Alan A. Johnson

Alan A. Johnson 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: 20240173560
    Abstract: It is well understood in the medical industry that medical disorders can manifest as serious problems for the affected subjects, their families, and society. Today, psychiatrists, neurologists and other physicians treat these disorders with a variety of medications, many of which have significant negative side effects. The teachings provided herein are directed to a novel system and methods for treating certain neurological, psychological, psychiatric and medical disorders by delivering a “magnetic stimulation” to a subject's neural and perineural system using either a static or electromagnetic field to generate a modulated variable power multi-spectral magnetic stimulation on three axis; the modulated stimulation using methods that have predictable, controlled, modifiable, and repeatable characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Round River Research Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel E. Cohen, Jennifer Palmquist, David Cohen, Bruce C. Johnson, Ellen Cohen, Dan Alan Preston
  • Publication number: 20240173559
    Abstract: It is well understood in the medical industry that medical disorders can manifest as serious problems for the affected subjects, their families, and society. Today, psychiatrists, neurologists and other physicians treat these disorders with a variety of medications, many of which have significant negative side effects. The teachings provided herein are directed to a novel system and methods for treating certain neurological, psychological, psychiatric and medical disorders by delivering a “magnetic stimulation” to a subject's neural and perineural system using either a static or electromagnetic field to generate a modulated variable power multi-spectral magnetic stimulation on three axis; the modulated stimulation using methods that have predictable, controlled, modifiable, and repeatable characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Round River Research Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel E. Cohen, Jennifer Palmquist, David Cohen, Bruce C. Johnson, Ellen Cohen, Dan Alan Preston
  • Publication number: 20240173392
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the branches of Biotechnology and Medicine. It describes the use of therapeutic compositions comprising a compound that blocks epidermal growth factor and an antibody that blocks the PD-1/PD-1 ligand signaling pathway in the treatment of tumors of epithelial origin, particularly those that express the native form for human KRAS protein. In patients with cancer of epithelial origin expressing native KRAS treated with said therapeutic compositions, an increase in their survival was observed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Tania Crombet Ramos, Circe Mesa Pardillo, Kalet León Monzón, Zaima Mazorra Herrera, Danay Saavedra Hernández, Patricia Lorenzo Luaces Álvarez, Grace Dy, Mary Reid, Rachel Evans, Jason Muhitch, Kelvin Lee, Alan Hutson, Candace Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240173558
    Abstract: It is well understood in the medical industry that medical disorders can manifest as serious problems for the affected subjects, their families, and society. Today, psychiatrists, neurologists and other physicians treat these disorders with a variety of medications, many of which have significant negative side effects. The teachings provided herein are directed to a novel system and methods for treating certain neurological, psychological, psychiatric and medical disorders by delivering a “magnetic stimulation” to a subject's neural and perineural system using either a static or electromagnetic field to generate a modulated variable power multi-spectral magnetic stimulation on three axis; the modulated stimulation using methods that have predictable, controlled, modifiable, and repeatable characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Round River Research Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel E. Cohen, Jennifer Palmquist, David Cohen, Bruce C. Johnson, Ellen Cohen, Dan Alan Preston
  • Publication number: 20240168973
    Abstract: Technologies for object social network analysis and modification to improve achievement of an identified goal include analyzing, by a processing device, a structure of data in a database complex and determining a context of the data. Additionally, the method includes identifying, by the processing device and based on the analysis, relationships between objects represented in the data that enable or restrict achievement of a goal. The relationships between the objects establish an object social network. The method also includes modifying, based on an analysis of subsequent data produced from the execution of a process to achieve the goal, the object social network to increase the achievement of the goal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Site Guo, Robert E. Johnson, Blaine Robert Hilton, David Alan Nevill
  • Patent number: 11980408
    Abstract: An intravascular catheter for peri-vascular and/or peri-urethral tissue ablation includes multiple needles advanced through supported guide tubes which expand with open ends around a central axis to engage the interior surface of the wall of the renal artery or other vessel of a human body allowing the injection an ablative fluid for ablating tissue, and/or nerve fibers in the outer layer or deep to the outer layer of the vessel, or in prostatic tissue. The system also includes means to limit and/or adjust the depth of penetration of the ablative fluid into and beyond the tissue of the vessel wall. The preferred embodiment of the catheter includes structures which provide radial and lateral support to the guide tubes so that the guide tubes open uniformly and maintain their position against the interior surface of the vessel wall as the sharpened injection needles are advanced to penetrate into the vessel wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Ablative Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Fischell, Tim A. Fischell, Robert Ryan Ragland, Darrin James Kent, Andy Edward Denison, Eric Thomas Johnson, Jeff Alan Burke, Christopher Scott Hayden
  • Patent number: 11972040
    Abstract: A virtual space configuration system of an artificial reality system can detect a user posture and provide various corresponding customizations of the system's virtual space. The virtual space configuration system can, when a user is in a seated posture, provide for seated virtual space customizations. In various implementations, these customizations can include allowing adjustment of a floor height; setting a flag that can be surfaced to applications to adjust the applications' mechanics for seated users; customizing display of virtual space boundaries when in seated mode to be less intrusive; providing options to detect when a user leaves seated mode and trigger corresponding actions; provide a passthrough workspace area allowing a user to interact with certain real-world objects naturally without having to remove a virtual reality headset; or automatically determining virtual space dimensions for seated users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Alan Johnson, Shaik Shabnam Nizamudeen Basha, Mahdi Salmani Rahimi, Benjamin Antoine Georges Lefaudeux
  • Publication number: 20240133303
    Abstract: A turbine engine having a rotor rotatable about a rotational axis, a stator, a plurality of circumferentially spaced bleed air passages, and an inducer. The plurality of circumferentially spaced bleed air passages being located between an axially adjacent set of vanes of the stator and blades of the rotor. The inducer including a nozzle passage fluidly coupling a nozzle inlet of the inducer to a nozzle outlet of the inducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Antonio Guijarro Valencia, Scott Alan Schimmels, Steven Douglas Johnson
  • Patent number: 11965697
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger includes a first wall manifold. The heat exchanger further includes a second wall manifold spaced apart from the first wall manifold. The heat exchanger further includes a plurality of vanes that extend generally circumferentially between the first wall manifold and the second wall manifold. The heat exchanger further includes a plurality of fluid circuits defined within the heat exchanger. Each fluid circuit in the plurality of fluid circuits includes an inlet channel portion and an outlet channel portion defined within the first wall manifold. A return channel portion defined within the second wall manifold. At least one passage portion of a plurality of passage portions defined within each vane of the plurality of vanes. The at least one passage portion extends between the return channel portion and one of the inlet channel portion and the outlet channel portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas M. Daggett, Steven Douglas Johnson, Anand P. Roday, Scott Alan Schimmels
  • Patent number: 11954680
    Abstract: Various implementation described herein are directed to a method for providing access control. User information is received at a device. A request to provide access control is generated by the device based on the received user information. The request is transmitted via a network to an access manager. A response to the request is received from the access manager. Access control via the device is provided based on the response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Simon Phillips, Alan Johnson, Michael John Cowen
  • Publication number: 20240109614
    Abstract: A trailer for use with off-road vehicles such as all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles. The disclosed off-road trailer can be adjusted to accommodate different trailer beds and attachments that can be readily off loaded and can be compactly packaged for shipping and storage. Modules for different conditions (e.g., ground or snow surface) can be implemented for multi-season usage. The disclosed suspension assembly enhances performance and robustness while maintaining cost effectiveness. The utility of the disclosed off-road trailer may be enhanced by grab handles for manual maneuvering, a rear bumper, and an active tail light. The overall design of the off-road trailer enables towing cargo behind a snowmobile or off-road vehicle over rough terrain at higher rates of speed than conventional off-road towable trailers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Barry Alan Johnson, Derek Thibert, Cory Wimpfheimer, Jeffrey A. Eaton, Matthew Prusak, Rachel L. Kendall
  • Publication number: 20240112131
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method, and a system for determining location. The apparatus comprises an apparatus comprising a camera, and a processor. The camera is configured to capture an image of a microscopic object located at a predetermined location. The microscopic object comprises coded information. The processor is configured to process the image to decode the coded information and to determine a location of the device as being the predetermined location based on the decoded information. The apparatus may further comprise a manually operated inventory carrier (such as a shopping trolley or cart) or a robotic inventory carrier. The predetermined location may be in a supermarket or an inventory facility. The microscopic object may comprise a QR code or other barcode, and may be one of an array or repeating patterns of microscopic objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: ALAN JOHNSON, SIMON PHILLIPS
  • Patent number: 11944373
    Abstract: An intravascular catheter for peri-vascular and/or peri-urethral tissue ablation includes multiple needles advanced through supported guide tubes which expand around a central axis to engage the interior surface of the wall of the renal artery or other vessel of a human body allowing the injection an ablative fluid for ablating tissue, and/or nerve fibers in the outer layer or deep to the outer layer of the vessel, or in prostatic tissue. The system may also include a means to limit and/or adjust the depth of penetration of the ablative fluid into and beyond the tissue of the vessel wall. The catheter may also include structures which provide radial and/or lateral support to the guide tubes so that the guide tubes expand uniformly and maintain their position against the interior surface of the vessel wall as the sharpened injection needles are advanced to penetrate into the vessel wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Ablative Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Fischell, Tim A. Fischell, Robert Ryan Ragland, Darrin James Kent, Andy Edward Denison, Eric Thomas Johnson, Jeff Alan Burke, Christopher Scott Hayden
  • Patent number: 11938871
    Abstract: A sensor pod system includes one or more sensor pods with a plurality of sensors configured to collect data from an environment. A sensor pod may include a housing and extend from a portion of a body of a vehicle. The sensor pod housing may have energy absorbing structures configured to absorb and dissipate energy during an impact in order to protect a pedestrian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Austin In-Jei Yi, Mark Alan Bates, Daniel Glenn Johnson
  • Patent number: 11941008
    Abstract: The CONVERGED MERCHANT PROCESSING APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CMP”) facilitates the generation of user accounts with merchants. The user may be logged into an electronic wallet or issuer account, and may initiate an account generation process with a one-click mechanism. The CMP may provide information to the merchant in order to facilitate the generation of the account after receiving data from the electronic wallet or issuer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Thomas Purves, Raul Leyva, Alan Johnson, John C. Wang
  • Patent number: 11931632
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a golf club body including a crown, a sole, and a skirt connected between the crown and the sole, the golf club body including a front including a leading edge and a back including a trailing edge, and a hosel connected to the golf club body; a face connected to the front of the golf club body, the face including a geometric center, the golf club head including modifiable boundary conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Kraig Alan Willett, Matthew Greensmith, Andrew James, Jason Andrew Mata, Matthew David Johnson, David Anderson, Brandon H. Woolley
  • Patent number: 11920500
    Abstract: A passive flow modulation device for a machine defining an axial direction and a radial direction, the passive flow modulation device including: a first ring with a first coefficient of thermal expansion; a second ring disposed coaxially with the first ring and positioned at least partially inward of the first ring along the radial direction, spaced from the first ring along the axial direction, or both, the first ring, the second ring, or both defining at least in part one or more passages, the second ring with a second coefficient of thermal expansion that is less than the first coefficient of thermal expansion to passively modulate a size of the one or more passages during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Steven Douglas Johnson, Yu-Liang Lin, Craig Alan Gonyou, Scott Alan Schimmels, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Brian Gregg Feie
  • Patent number: 11912721
    Abstract: A series of fused pentacyclic imidazole derivatives, being potent modulators of human TNFa activity, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of various human ailments, including autoimmune and inflammatory disorders; neurological and neurodegenerative disorders; pain and nociceptive disorders; cardiovascular disorders; metabolic disorders; ocular disorders; and oncological disorders. In particular, the present invention is concerned with 6, 7-dihydro-7, 14-methanobenzimidazo[1, 2-b][2,5]benzodiazocin-5(14H)-one derivatives and analogs thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: UCB Biopharma SRL, Sanofi
    Inventors: Teresa De Haro Garcia, Michael Deligny, Jag Paul Heer, Joanna Rachel Quincey, Mengyang Xuan, Zhaoning Zhu, Daniel Christopher Brookings, Mark Daniel Calmiano, Yves Evrard, Martin Clive Hutchings, James Andrew Johnson, Sophie Jadot, Jean Keyaerts, Malcolm MacCoss, Matthew Duncan Selby, Michael Alan Shaw, Dominique Louis Leon Swinnen, Laurent Schio, Yann Foricher, Bruno Filoche-Romme
  • Patent number: 11898497
    Abstract: A coated component for a gas turbine engine is provided. The coated component includes a substrate having a surface and a ceramic coating. The ceramic coating includes one or more linear slots and one or more non-linear slots. The one or more non-linear slots intersect the one or more linear slots. The plurality of linear slots and the plurality of non-linear slots form segments of ceramic coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hrishikesh Keshavan, Curtis Alan Johnson, Hongqiang Chen, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Mehmet M. Dede
  • Patent number: 11897123
    Abstract: A fun and affordable animated toy robot operates with varying degrees of autonomy and anthropomorphism. The robot may include a customized chipboard controller or computer, a power source, and may be constructed with specialized connectors, magnets, servo motors, generally less-sturdy (or pliable) thin materials, such as chipboard, card stock, cardboard, or the like, used for the body and limbs of the robot, and LEDs. The specialized connectors may be used to attach the servos to these materials. An application and the controller may be used to control the motion of the robot. Young children may be able to make the attachments to build the robot with little or without the help of adults or older children. Building and operating the robot may be fun activities for children and families, and may provide enjoyable learning activities about robotics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Mathews, Alan Johnson, Micah Nolte