Patents by Inventor David A. Johnson
David 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).
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Patent number: 11884889Abstract: A system for purifying petroleum or oil shale is provided. The system includes a pressurized cracking tank configured to receive petroleum or crushed oil shale; and a rotary kiln configured to receive product from the pressurized cracking tank. A method of processing petroleum or oil shale is also provided. The method includes feeding the petroleum or the oil shale into a pressurized cracking tank; heating the petroleum or the oil shale to withdraw oil vapors containing hydrocarbons; and feeding the petroleum or the oil shale from the pressurized cracking tank into a rotating kiln.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: David Johnson
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Publication number: 20240027295Abstract: Methods and apparatus for lamp housing crack detection are provided herein. For example, a method associated with a process chamber having a lamp housing comprises sequentially processing a plurality of substrates in the process chamber, during processing of the plurality of substrates, collecting lamp housing data indicative of a fluid leak in the lamp housing from a sensor operably connected to the lamp housing of the process chamber, determining from the lamp housing data whether lamp housing crack is present, and responsive to determining lamp housing crack is present, at least one of triggering an alert or stopping processing of the process chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Philip MATHEW, Mehran BEHDJAT, Masamori SANAKA, Koji NAKANISHI, Ryan MURDOCH, Mark David JOHNSON, Jun QIAN, Yuchun CHANG, George GOVEL
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Publication number: 20240024739Abstract: Some disclosed golf club heads include body having at least one raised sole portion and a cantilevered ledge extending down around a perimeter of the club head below the level of the raised sole portion. Some disclosed golf club heads include one or more sole openings in the body and a sole insert that is mounted inside the body over the sole openings. The sole can include weight tracks as well, and a rear weight track can extend between a toe side sole opening and a heel side sole opening. A crown insert can also be included that is mounted over an upper opening in the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Matthew David Johnson, David Bennett, Nathan T. Sargent, Christopher John Harbert, Todd P. Beach
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Patent number: 11879925Abstract: A test apparatus for testing device under test (DUT) having an antenna located on the DUT is disclosed. The test apparatus includes: a housing, a socket configured to electrically connect the DUT to a load board, a gripper assembly configured to hold the DUT in place, a retractor configured to release the DUT from the gripper assembly, and an alignment plate configured to align the DUT with the socket. The gripper assembly includes a base and an extender, the base is attached to the housing, and the extender is configured to hold the DUT in place. When the retractor is disengaged from the extender, the extender is configured to hold the DUT in place. When the retractor is engaged with the extender, the extender is configured to release the DUT on the alignment plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Johnstech International CorporationInventors: Mike Andres, David Johnson, Jason Steinblock
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Patent number: 11872454Abstract: A golf club head comprises a sole, a recessed sole port in the sole; and a rotatably adjustable sole piece adapted to be at least partially received within the sole port and comprising a central body having a plurality of contact surfaces adapted to contact the sole port and being offset from each other along a central axis extending through the central body of the sole piece. The sole piece can be positioned at least partially within the sole port at five or more rotational and axial positions with respect to the central axis, wherein at each rotational position, at least one of said contact surfaces of the central body contacts the sole port to set the axial position of the sole piece. The sole port and/or the sole piece can be generally pentagonal in shape.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Nathan T. Sargent, Joseph Reeve Nielson, Matthew David Johnson, Matthew Greensmith, Todd P. Beach, Michael Franz
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Patent number: 11875002Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for detection of a protective cover film on a capacitive touch screen are described. A device may include a capacitive touch screen having a surface and a sensor grid underneath the surface having a set of conductive columns and a set of conductive rows. The device may measure a mutual capacitance between a subset of conductive columns or a subset of conductive rows associated with a sensor grid, and compare the measured mutual capacitance between the subset of conductive columns or the subset of conductive rows to a baseline mutual capacitance associated with the set of conductive columns and the set of conductive rows. According to the comparison, the device may determine a presence of a protective layer in contact with the surface of the capacitive touch screen, and adjust an operating characteristic of the sensor grid.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Richard Stacy Withers, David Johnson, Hrishikesh Panchawagh
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Patent number: 11869874Abstract: A stacked die system includes at least three dies. A first die has a same design as a second die. The first die includes a first circuit, and the second die includes a corresponding second circuit. A signal is received at the first die and sent to the third die via the second die. The signal is routed through either the first circuit or the second circuit but not both. Accordingly, an operation is performed on the signal prior to the signal reaching the third die but the operation is not performed by both the first circuit and the second circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Inventors: John Wuu, David Johnson
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Publication number: 20240001204Abstract: A cast cup can include a forward portion of a golf club head, including a hosel, forward portions of a crown, sole, heel, and toe, and a face portion or an opening to receive a face insert. A rear ring can be formed separately from the cast cup and coupled to heel and toe portions of the cast cup to form a rigid club head body, such that the club head body defines a hollow interior region, a crown opening, a sole opening, and/or face opening. The cast cup and rear ring can be made of different materials, including various metals, composites, and polymers. Composite crown, sole, and/or face inserts can be coupled to the crown, sole, and/or face openings. Weights can be coupled to the cast cup and to the rear ring. The face can have a complex variable thickness geometry.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Greensmith, Bing-Ling Chao, Matthew David Johnson, Christopher John Harbert, Todd P. Beach
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Publication number: 20240002938Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for increasing the fidelity of measured genetic data, for making allele calls, and for determining the state of aneuploidy, in one or a small set of cells, or from fragmentary DNA, where a limited quantity of genetic data is available. Poorly or incorrectly measured base pairs, missing alleles and missing regions are reconstructed using expected similarities between the target genome and the genome of genetically related individuals. In accordance with one embodiment, incomplete genetic data from an embryonic cell are reconstructed at a plurality of loci using the more complete genetic data from a larger sample of diploid cells from one or both parents, with or without haploid genetic data from one or both parents. In another embodiment, the chromosome copy number can be determined from the measured genetic data, with or without genetic information from one or both parents.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Matthew RABINOWITZ, Milena BANJEVIC, Zachary DEMKO, David JOHNSON, Dusan KIJACIC, Dimitri PETROV, Joshua SWEETKIND-SINGER, Jing XU
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Patent number: 11850484Abstract: A golf club head having a flexible channel to improve the performance of the club head, and a channel tuning system to reduce undesirable club head characteristics introduced, or heightened, via the flexible channel. The channel tuning system includes a sole engaging channel tuning element in contact with the sole and the channel. The club head may include an aerodynamic configuration, as well as a body tuning system.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Jason Andrew Mata, Joseph Henry Hoffman, Bradley Poston, Matthew David Johnson, Mark Vincent Greaney
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Patent number: 11851446Abstract: Provided are imaging agents comprising a compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of their use.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: CHDI Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Celia Dominguez, John Wityak, Jonathan Bard, Alex Kiselyov, Christopher John Brown, Michael Edward Prime, Peter David Johnson, Daniel Clark-Frew
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Publication number: 20230405411Abstract: A golf club includes a golf club head having a body defining an interior cavity. The body includes a sole, a crown and a skirt positioned around a periphery between the sole and crown. A face defines a forward portion of the club head and includes a striking surface width and a hosel defining a hosel bore. A channel and a recessed port are positioned in the sole. The channel extends substantially in a heel-to-toe direction. A sleeve is mounted on a tip end of the golf club shaft and is adapted to be inserted into the hosel bore. A fastener has a shaft portion extending through a passage and a head portion located in the recessed port. Selectively attaching the sleeve adjusts at least one of a loft angle and a lie angle of the club head.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Harbert, Todd P. Beach, Matthew David Johnson, Nathan T. Sargent, Kraig Alan Willett, Michelle Penney, Marc Kronenberg, Matthew Greensmith, Joseph Henry Hoffman
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Publication number: 20230409382Abstract: A system for conducting parallelization of tasks is disclosed. The system includes an interface for receiving messages comprising a representation of logic describing two tasks to be executed in parallel, the message further comprising a content payload for use in the tasks. The system further includes a processor comprising devices running on independent machines, each device comprising a processing manager unit and at least two processing units. The processing manager is configured to parse the received messages and to distribute the at least two tasks to the at least two processing units for independent and parallel processing relative to the content payload.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: CHARLES WARDELL, DAVID JOHNSON
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Patent number: 11847590Abstract: Communications over short-range connections are used to facilitate whether access to resources is to be granted. For example, upon device discovery of one of an electronic user device and an electronic client device by the other device over a Bluetooth Low Energy connection, an access-enabling code associated with a user device or account can be evaluated for validity and applicability with respect to one or more particular resource specifications. User identity can be verified by comparing the user against previously obtained biometric information.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Ives-Halperin, Harry C. Evans, III, David Johnson, Scott Wall, David Lilly, Ajay Pondicherry
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Patent number: 11847924Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reserving airspace for UAV operations. In some implementations, a flight planning system can reserve and allocate airspace for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. For example, a UAV operator device can submit a flight plan to the flight planning system. The flight planning system can submit a flight authorization request to an airspace management system to reserve airspace necessary for the flight plan. The flight planning system can receive approval and/or a reservation of the airspace for the flight plan from the airspace management system, generate a flight data package, and send the flight data package to the operator's device.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Skydio, Inc.Inventors: Eric David Johnson, Jesse Daniel Kallman, Bernard J. Michini
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Publication number: 20230400269Abstract: A firearm system is provided. A pump-action firearm, such as a shotgun, includes a buffer attached to a trigger housing. The buffer consists of a resilient or semi-resilient material and is positioned such as to face towards an opening the receiver in which the magazine tube is partially received. The buffer includes a contoured bottom surface and an upper surface, configured in a way which shortens the space available within an opening of a receiver while accommodating the loading of shells into a magazine tube. Upon moving a shell into the opening, such as by pumping the action, the shell impacts the buffer, which stabilizes the shell prior to being lifted by an elevators. For shorter shells, this reduces the risk of a jamming event. For longer shells, the buffer is configured to compress to accommodate the additional length.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Derek Parker, Thaddeus Boruchowski, David Johnson, Wayne Hopkins
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Patent number: 11839187Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated strains of Epichloƫ endophytes that form symbiotic associations with host plants, wherein the symbiotic associations are combinations of endophytes and host plants that are not found in nature. The invention also relates to combinations of host plants and Epichloƫ endophytes that are not found in nature, methods of making such combinations and methods of conferring at least some level of pest resistance on a host plant using such endophytes.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignees: GRASSLANZ TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, THE GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONInventors: David Edward Hume, Wayne Roydon Simpson, Richard David Johnson
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Publication number: 20230385778Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to automatically determining when meetings are related to each other. The relationship between meetings may be stored in a meeting-oriented knowledge graph that can be analyzed to provide meeting analytics. Various technologies can leverage the meeting relationship information to provide improved meeting services to users. For example, meeting suggestions may be presented to a user with suggested meeting parameters (e.g., suggested attendees, suggested location, suggested topic) that are accurate because a relationship between meetings is used to predict the parameters. The information in the meeting-oriented knowledge graph can be used to generate various analytics and visualizations that help users plan or prepare for meetings.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2022Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Warren David JOHNSON, III, Yuchen LI, Charles Yin-Che LEE
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Publication number: 20230381461Abstract: One aspect is a method of forming a wire, including providing a first wire section comprising a first material, providing a second wire section comprising a second material different from the first material, cooling a joining section that comprises a superelastic material, inserting the first and second wire sections into the joining section, and allowing the joining section to warm such that it compresses on to both the first and second wire section thereby joining them together.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Heraeus Medical Components LLCInventors: Jack Dant, Mark Erie, David Johnson, Trent Birkholz, Eric Lundequam
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Publication number: 20230382566Abstract: Embodiments provide a spacecraft airlock system. Embodiments provide a method and apparatus for attaching space exposed payloads to a space station. The spacecraft airlock system provides a defined volume of space payload to the international space station. The airlock further includes a means of attaching to a space station, a closed structure attached to said means, said means of attaching is capable of robotic manipulation, and a cooling system for cooling payload components within said closed structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: NanoRacks, LLCInventors: Michael David JOHNSON, Mark David ROWLEY, Michael Desmond LEWIS, J. Brockton HOWE