Patents by Inventor William C. Johnson

William C. 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: 20220100836
    Abstract: According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, techniques for performing genomic security-related control of a digital ecosystem are disclosed. In embodiments, the digital ecosystem includes an ecosystem VDAX that maintains a progenitor genomic data set corresponding to the digital ecosystem, generates a plurality of respective progeny genomic data sets based on the progenitor genomic data set, and allocates the progeny genomic data set to a respective progeny VDAX of a plurality of progeny VDAXs, wherein the progeny VDAX establishes unique non-recurring engagements with other progeny VDAXs in the digital ecosystem based on the respective progeny genomic data set allocated to the progeny VDAX without any further interaction from the ecosystem VDAX.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Quantum Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Johnson, Gurgen Khachatryan, Karen Ispiryan
  • Publication number: 20210124470
    Abstract: A system for submitting posts to an online social media platform, and for calendrically cataloging posts to the online social media platform, including a calendar platform in communication with an online social media platform. The calendar platform includes a calendar, being graphically represented calendar days. For each one of the graphically represented calendar days, the calendar platform is for automatically posting a link to a post on the graphically represented calendar day when the post is made to the online social media platform from the calendar platform on a calendar day represented by the graphically-represented calendar day.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: William C. Johnson, Cheryl C. Kosloske, James D. Torgerson
  • Patent number: 10922723
    Abstract: A system includes a content provider serving a first user webpage that displays an external posting link associated with a computer store and a second user webpage of a social networking service. The computer store contains posts each associated with a post select control. A computer server at the content provider is coupled to the computer store and for each of the posts is programmed to receive from a web browser of a computer user a signal indicating activation of the post select control of a selected one of the posts displayed by the first user webpage, automatically link the selected one of the posts to the external posting link, receive from the web browser of the computer user a signal indicating activation of the external posting link, and automatically issue the selected one of the posts to the second user webpage for posting thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventors: Cheryl C. Kosloske, James D. Torgerson, William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10430834
    Abstract: A system includes a content provider serving a first user webpage that displays an external posting link associated with a computer store and a second user webpage of a social networking service. The computer store contains posts each associated with a post select control. A computer server at the content provider is coupled to the computer store and for each of the posts is programmed to receive from a web browser of a computer user a signal indicating activation of the post select control of a selected one of the posts displayed by the first user webpage, automatically link the selected one of the posts to the external posting link, receive from the web browser of the computer user a signal indicating activation of the external posting link, and automatically issue the selected one of the posts to the second user webpage for posting thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Inventors: Cheryl C. Kosloske, James D. Torgerson, William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10006171
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and compositions for enhancing the performance of a sizing agent in a papermaking process using a sizing agent enhancer. The sizing agent can be emulsified with an emulsifier and the sizing enhancer can be a polymer comprising at least one primary or secondary amine containing monomer. The method can comprise emulsifying the sizing agent with the emulsifier; and thereafter adding the emulsified sizing agent and the sizing enhancer, separately from or contemporaneously with the emulsified sizing agent, to a fiber furnish of a papermaking process. The combination of the emulsified sizing agent and the sizing enhancer improves the sizing of product paper over the use of the sizing agent without the sizing enhancer. In at least some embodiments, the emulsified sizing agent is ASA emulsified with a polymer comprising at least one primary or secondary amine containing monomer and the sizing enhancer comprises a diallylamine-acrylamide copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: William C. Johnson, Bradley Benz
  • Publication number: 20170306564
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and compositions for enhancing the performance of a sizing agent in a papermaking process using a sizing agent enhancer. The sizing agent can be emulsified with an emulsifier and the sizing enhancer can be a polymer comprising at least one primary or secondary amine containing monomer. The method can comprise emulsifying the sizing agent with the emulsifier; and thereafter adding the emulsified sizing agent and the sizing enhancer, separately from or contemporaneously with the emulsified sizing agent, to a fiber furnish of a papermaking process. The combination of the emulsified sizing agent and the sizing enhancer improves the sizing of product paper over the use of the sizing agent without the sizing enhancer. In at least some embodiments, the emulsified sizing agent is ASA emulsified with a polymer comprising at least one primary or secondary amine containing monomer and the sizing enhancer comprises a diallylamine-acrylamide copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: William C. Johnson, Bradley Benz
  • Publication number: 20160313886
    Abstract: A system for submitting posts to an online social media platform, and for calendrically cataloging posts to the online social media platform, including a calendar platform in communication with an online social media platform. The calendar platform includes a calendar, being graphically represented calendar days. For each one of the graphically represented calendar days, the calendar platform is for automatically posting a link to a post on the graphically represented calendar day when the post is made to the online social media platform from the calendar platform on a calendar day represented by the graphically-represented calendar day.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: William C. Johnson, Cheryl C. Kosloske, James D. Torgerson
  • Publication number: 20160275561
    Abstract: A system includes a content provider serving a first user webpage that displays an external posting link associated with a computer store and a second user webpage of a social networking service. The computer store contains posts each associated with a post select control. A computer server at the content provider is coupled to the computer store and for each of the posts is programmed to receive from a web browser of a computer user a signal indicating activation of the post select control of a selected one of the posts displayed by the first user webpage, automatically link the selected one of the posts to the external posting link, receive from the web browser of the computer user a signal indicating activation of the external posting link, and automatically issue the selected one of the posts to the second user webpage for posting thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Cheryl C. Kosloske, James D. Torgerson, William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9409458
    Abstract: A vehicle includes two wheels on each side, with the pair of wheels on the left side mounted on a single bar that pivots up and down about a pivot point (left side wheel pivot plate) fastened to an axle that runs through the vehicle chassis from side-to-side. A pair wheels on the right side is similarly mounted (right side wheel pivot plate) on the right end of the axle. A stabilizer bar and associated components are attached to the rear portion of both pivot plates limits the independence of the up and down motion of the pivot plates, stabilizing the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Inventor: William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9357719
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0104YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0104YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9357720
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0153YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0153YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9313964
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid EX 13056682 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid EX 13056682 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9313963
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid EX 04858026 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid EX 04858026 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9222159
    Abstract: A method of forming bulk metallic glass engineering materials, and more particularly a method for forming coarsening microstructures within said engineering materials is provided. Specifically, the method forms ‘designed composites’ by introducing ‘soft’ elastic/plastic inhomogeneities in a metallic glass matrix to initiate local shear banding around the inhomogeneity, and matching of microstructural length scales (for example, L and S) to the characteristic length scale RP (for plastic shielding of an opening crack tip) to limit shear band extension, suppress shear band opening, and avoid crack development.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Douglas C. Hofmann, William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9145646
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods to increase paper machine performance and enhance sizing. The compositions include a sizing agent, an emulsifier, and an aqueous component. The emulsifier may be an aldehyde-functionalized polymer. The sizing agent may be selected from rosin size, an alkyl ketene dimer, an alkenyl succinic anhydride, and any combination of these sizing agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Nalco Company
    Inventors: Bradley J. Benz, William C. Johnson, Mei Liu, Shawnee Wilson, Mark Grimm, Michael R. St. John
  • Patent number: 9125355
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid ZGNEHH6009 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid ZGNEHH6009 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9125354
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid LEBEHH9044 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid LEBEHH9044 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: William C. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20150084301
    Abstract: A vehicle includes two wheels on each side, with the pair of wheels on the left side mounted on a single bar that pivots up and down about a pivot point (left side wheel pivot plate) fastened to an axle that runs through the vehicle chassis from side-to-side. A pair wheels on the right side is similarly mounted (right side wheel pivot plate) on the right end of the axle. A stabilizer bar and associated components are attached to the rear portion of both pivot plates limits the independence of the up and down motion of the pivot plates, stabilizing the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: William C. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20140336314
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods to increase paper machine performance and enhance sizing. The compositions include a sizing agent, an emulsifier, and an aqueous component. The emulsifier may be an aldehyde-functionalized polymer. The sizing agent may be selected from rosin size, an alkyl ketene dimer, an alkenyl succinic anhydride, and any combination of these sizing agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicants: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Bradley J. Benz, William C. Johnson, Mei Liu, Shawnee Wilson, Mark Grimm, Michael R. St. John
  • Patent number: 8840759
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods to increase paper machine performance and enhance sizing. The compositions include a sizing agent, an emulsifier, and an aqueous component. The emulsifier may be an aldehyde-functionalized polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley J. Benz, William C. Johnson, Mei Liu, Shawnee Wilson, Mark Grimm, Michael R. St. John