Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Johnston

Stephen A. Johnston 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: 20170031909
    Abstract: The systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory media of the various embodiments provide query independent data identification. In various embodiments, query independent data identification may be used to facilitate data reuse. Query independent data identification may be accomplished using an algebraic expression hash (AEH) function to identify data in a graph or table for reuse based on its origin and what has been done to the data. Use of an AEH function may support a top down approach for identification of data reuse and may also facilitate faster searches using an AEH value. For example, a hash-based search of a universe of data sets may facilitate a top down approach to locate the maximal reuse first (as opposed to the last) and may be less sensitive to the size of the universe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Wesley A. HOLLER, Charles Stephen JOHNSTON, Frank Joseph EATON, Joseph C. UNDERBRINK, Rory Windell ROTHER
  • Publication number: 20170031982
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory media of the various embodiments enable the query execution graph for insertions, deletions, and streaming queries to be manipulated to maximize a portion of the query execution that is independent of data changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Charles Stephen JOHNSTON, William Arthur ROGERS, Wesley A. HOLLER
  • Publication number: 20160333569
    Abstract: Modular or temporary healthcare building units are provided that interconnect with a patient's home. In one embodiment, one of the modular or temporary units includes a fully-equipped ADA-compliant bathroom. In another embodiment, the modular or temporary unit is referred to as a flex unit and typically accommodates a hospital bed and other associated support structures and features for housing and accommodating a patient that is in a stage of recovery or rehabilitation or, in some cases, the flex unit is used for end-of-life care.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Stephen A. Johnston
  • Publication number: 20160320392
    Abstract: Methods for diagnosing and characterizing lymphoma, as well as evaluating the disease-free interval following treatment, utilizing patient antibodies bound to peptide microarrays in comparison to an immunosignature characteristic of a lymphoma state or a non-lymphoma state. Characterization includes subtyping of lymphoma utilizing an immunosignature characteristic of a B-cell or T-cell lymphoma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen Johnston, Joseph Legutki, Douglas Thamm
  • Patent number: 9482666
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for identifying cell binding and/or lytic polypeptides that permit production of specific polypeptide therapeutics in a high throughput manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Valeriy Domenyuk, Chris Diehnelt, Stephen Johnston
  • Publication number: 20160222467
    Abstract: Methods for treating breast cancer, specifically cancers resistant to treatment With one or more known breast cancer treatment drugs, and related patient selection strategies for predicting patient response to drug therapy, such strategies including detecting the presence or absence n a patient o one or inure of PIK3CA gene amplification, a mutation in PIK3CA, and a decrease in PTEN protein expression, and treating a patient positive for the presence of one or more of same by administering to the subject a pan-ErbB tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Anna Berkenblit, Christina Marie Coughlin, Jay Marshall Feingold, Daniel Stephen Johnston, Andrew Louis Strahs, Charles Michael Zacharchuk
  • Publication number: 20160207984
    Abstract: Composition of synbodies that bind influenza. The synbodies are composed of two peptides joined on a scaffold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Christopher DIEHNELT, Nidhi GUPTA, Valeriy DOMENYUK, Zhan-Gong ZHAO, Stephen JOHNSTON
  • Publication number: 20160153991
    Abstract: Synbodies specific for Norovirus and coupled with a substrate provide Norovirus binding and detection platforms (FIG. 1). A Norovirus capturing platform, comprising one or more synbodies selected from the group consisting of synbodies 6-6, 92-92, 93-93, and 94-94 coupled to a substrate, has been found to found to bind with either GII.4 Minerva or both GII.4 Minerva and GII.4 Sydney# strains of norovirus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Nidhi GUPTA, Chris DIEHNELT, Charles ARNTZEN, Stephen JOHNSTON
  • Patent number: 9309298
    Abstract: The present invention provides polypeptides, compositions thereof, and methods for use of the polypeptides in treating bacterial infection and for use as disinfectants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Stephen Johnston, Valeriy Domenyuk, Chris Diehnelt
  • Publication number: 20160041158
    Abstract: The present application provides arrays for use in immunosignaturing and quality control of such arrays. Also disclosed are peptide arrays and uses thereof for diagnostics, therapeutics and research.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Neal WOODBURY, Stephen JOHNSTON, Zhan Gong ZHAO, Matthew GREVING
  • Publication number: 20160022832
    Abstract: Improved peptide compositions and synbody compositions are disclosed that show improved stability and antibiotic activity. The new antibacterial peptides for S. aureus have particular D-amino acid substitutions in order to increase protease stability while also preserving marked antibiotic activity. Thus, compositions and methods for treating infections related to S. aureus also are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Chris Diehnelt, Stephen Johnston
  • Publication number: 20160018408
    Abstract: The present application provides arrays for use in immunosignaturing and quality control of such arrays. Also disclosed are peptide arrays and uses thereof for diagnostics, therapeutics and research.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Neal WOODBURY, Stephen JOHNSTON, Phillip STAFFORD
  • Publication number: 20140315751
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for identifying cell binding and/or lytic polypeptides that permit production of specific polypeptide therapeutics in a high throughput manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Valeriy Domenyuk, Chris Diehnelt, Stephen Johnston
  • Patent number: 8858138
    Abstract: A releasable anchorage device for securing seats to tracks in vehicle floors has an elongate body with a fixed, non-slidable downward protrusion at its front end, an actuating lever at its rear end, and sets of slidable securing feet movable relative to the protrusion by the lever operating via an actuating mechanism. The mechanism includes an elongate drive rod connecting the lever to a middle set or front set of the feet which have an anti-rattle mechanism to grip the track, such as by longitudinally-inclined upper surfaces thereon. A rear set of feet may also be slidable and can move together with the middle feet. The lever is easily accessible, being at the rear end, but operates to provide an anti-rattle engagement with the track at an intermediate point along the device, spaced from the rear end, where the prevention of rattling is particularly needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: C.N. Unwin Limited
    Inventors: Gary Alexander Hearn, Stephen Johnston-Hyde
  • Publication number: 20140296132
    Abstract: The present invention provides polypeptides, compositions thereof, and methods for use of the polypeptides in treating bacterial infection and for use as disinfectants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents of behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Stephen Johnston, Valeriy Domenyuk, Chris Diehnelt
  • Patent number: 8821089
    Abstract: Anchorage device for an anchorage system, especially for vehicle seats, using a floor track having a longitudinal channel whose opening has opposed lips with a series of periodic circular cut-outs, the anchorage device has enlarged slidable feet which are insertable into the opening of the track channel at the cut-outs, and when slid along are held captive beneath the lips of the track. A releasable locking mechanism is provided for locking the device longitudinally to the track, so that the feet can be held in the captive position. Preferably, the device has an elongate body, with the locking mechanism operated by a lever at one end. The top surfaces of at least some of the feet are longitudinally inclined relative to the longitudinal direction. When slid to the captive position they come into contact or near contact with the underside of the track lips, reducing or preventing rattle relative to the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: C.N. Unwin Limited
    Inventors: Gary Alexander Hearn, Stephen Johnston-Hyde
  • Publication number: 20140221253
    Abstract: Methods for synthetic antibodies, methods for making synthetic antibodies, methods for identifying ligands, and related methods and reagents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Ariz
    Inventors: Stephen A Johnston, Neal Woodbury, John C Chaput, Christopher W Diehnelt, Hao Yan
  • Patent number: 8796414
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions relating to novopeptides identified by the presence of frameshift mutations in tumor genes previously not identified as being oncogenic. The disclosed peptides can be used in the disclosed methods for the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Inventor: Stephen A. Johnston
  • Patent number: 8753553
    Abstract: A method for use in forming a molded part includes providing a mold having a cavity and a movable pin, injecting a moldable material into the cavity, biasing the movable pin to maintain an end of the movable pin in contact with the moldable material in the cavity during the curing of the moldable material and until the moldable material is cured, and monitoring movement of the biased movable pin during curing of the moldable material in the mold. Also disclosed is a sensor engageable with an end of a movable pin of a mold for monitoring the forming of a moldable part, and systems employing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: David Kazmer, Rahul Panchal, Stephen Johnston
  • Publication number: 20140128280
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for synthetic antibodies, methods for making synthetic antibodies, methods for identifying ligands, and related methods and reagents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behaif of Ariz
    Inventors: Stephen A Johnston, Neal Woodbury, Christopher W. Diehnelt, Paul Belcher, Nidhi Gupta, Zhang-Gong Zhoa, Matthew Greving, Jack Emery