Patents by Inventor A. R. Johnson

A. R. 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).

  • Patent number: 11934211
    Abstract: A handheld computer device is configured to selectively receive a plurality of fluid output values from a paint sprayer and configured to operate in an accessible mode in which the handheld computer device is in a first location where wireless connectivity, via a continuous or near continuous communication path, to at least one of a network server or the paint sprayer is accessible or operate in an inaccessible mode in which the handheld computer device is in a second location out of range of the continuous or near continuous communication path to at least one of the network server or the paint sprayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GRACO MINNESOTA INC.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Lange, Nicholas A. Pagano, Benjamin R. Godding, Mark T. Weinberger, Michael J. Mansheim, Nicholas H. Reath, Andrew J. Kopel, Daniel R. Johnson, Kevin C. Robb, Robert J. Gundersen
  • Publication number: 20240084051
    Abstract: Disclosed are support-activators and catalyst compositions comprising the support-activators for polymerizing olefins in which the support-activator includes clay heteroadduct, prepare from a colloidal phyllosilicate such as a colloidal smectite clay, which is chemically-modified with a heterocoagulation agent. By limiting the amount of heterocoagulation reagent relative to the colloidal smectite clay as described herein, the smectite heteroadduct support-activator is a porous and amorphous solid which can be readily isolated from the resulting slurry by a conventional filtration process, and which can activate metallocenes and related catalysts toward olefin polymerization. Related compositions and processes are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A.
    Inventors: Michael D. Jensen, Kevin Chung, Daoyong Wang, Wei-Chun Shih, Guangxue Xu, Chih-Jian Chen, Charles R. Johnson, II, Mary Lou Cowen
  • Publication number: 20240084578
    Abstract: Post assemblies and post and beam assemblies for decking systems. A post assembly can include a post member and one or more post caps. The post caps can include one or more tabs that, when in an assembled configuration, are inserted into one or more slots in an interior portion of the post member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Elijah R. JOHNSON, Eric WEHRLI, Roger Edwin WINTER
  • Publication number: 20240090141
    Abstract: A wireless remote controller includes a housing including front and rear enclosures defining a PCB cavity, a PCB disposed within the PCB cavity, a switch, communication circuitry to generate wireless signals, and a button to actuate the switch. The button includes a button body having a button portion and first and second button sidewalls having a retaining finger to engage the support board. The button width is substantially the same as the housing width. The wireless remote controller may include a mounting cavity formed in a rear surface of the housing which includes first and second converging cavity sidewall extending from a base. A mounting plate removably secures the wireless remote controller to a wall and includes first and second converging mount sidewalls each including a rail. The cavity sidewalls and the mount sidewalls include a first and second rail and a first and second channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: John R. JOHNSON, Michael CRIST, John Peter ROQUEMORE
  • Publication number: 20240081802
    Abstract: Various methods and devices are provided for allowing multiple surgical instruments to be inserted into sealing elements of a single surgical access device. The sealing elements can be movable along predefined pathways within the device to allow surgical instruments inserted through the sealing elements to be moved laterally, rotationally, angularly, and vertically relative to a central longitudinal axis of the device for ease of manipulation within a patient's body while maintaining insufflation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Mark S. Ortiz, David T. Martin, Matthew C. Miller, Mark J. Reese, Wells D. Haberstich, Carl Shurtleff, Charles J. Scheib, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jerome R. Morgan, Daniel H. Duke, Daniel J. Mumaw, Gregory W. Johnson, Kevin L. Houser
  • Patent number: 11925465
    Abstract: Uroflowmeters and methods for processing data generated therefrom are disclosed. In one aspect, the uroflowmeter is a handheld device. The uroflowmeter includes a handle, a flow chamber coupled to the handle, and a sensor associated with the flow chamber that detects a parameter of urine received in the flow chamber. The uroflowmeter may include both reusable and disposable components. As a uroflowmeter it can identify and record data corresponding to the rate of flow over the measured duration of a void of urine, but may also timestamp the voiding act and communicate the data to an external data collection center for additional analysis and incorporation into a comprehensive voiding report or voiding diary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ClearTrac Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brent Laing, John Green, Paul R. Johnson, Robert John Smith, Robert Edwin Schneider, Magnus Hargis, Elise Geolat Edson, Elizabeth A. O'Brien, Joseph L. Kapushion
  • Publication number: 20240075304
    Abstract: A medical device includes wake circuitry and telemetry circuitry. The wake circuitry is configured to receive a first set of data from a device associated with the medical device, where the first set of data is received at a frequency band. The wake circuitry is configured to output a set of pulses based on the first set of data. The wake circuitry is configured to detect a data pattern using the set of pulses. The wake circuitry is configured to output an activation signal in response to a determination that the data pattern satisfies a data pattern requirement. The telemetry circuitry is configured to output a second set of data in response to receiving the activation signal. The second set of data is transmitted at the frequency band. The telemetry circuitry is configured to establish a communication session with the device using the second set of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ashutosh Mehra, Nathan A. Torgerson, Venkat R. Gaddam, Arthur K. Lai, Bernard P. Bechara, Joel A. Anderson, Brent P. Johnson, Trevor D. Webster, Mandla T. Shongwe, Cesar G. Moran, Charles M. Nowell, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20240075882
    Abstract: A combination step and obstacle side guard for a vehicle has a first hollow housing portion including an outer robust housing which has a top surface step and bottom obstacle guard surface and a side surface. The side surface including outer edges and forming an inset cavity. An automated deployable running board which has a step portion which is stowed in the inset cavity. A drive linkage mechanism is situated within and protected by said hollow portion of said first hollow housing portion for driving the step between a stowed position in the inset cavity and a deployed step position wherein the step portion can be used for stepping into the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Magna Exteriors Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Povinelli, Jeffry J. Zielinski, Mark T. Pilette, Jeffrey R. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11922241
    Abstract: A printing system is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Walter F. Kailey, Scott R. Johnson, Pallavi Premkumar, William Manchester
  • Publication number: 20240070637
    Abstract: A computing device retrieves a stabilized weight and a weight-based item count for one or more items to be purchased. Responsive to retrieving the stabilized weight, the computing device retrieves an image-based item count and an expected weight based on the image-based item count for the one or more items to be purchased. The computing device selects between authorizing and blocking checkout of the one or more items based on the weight-based item count, the image-based item count, the stabilized weight, and the expected weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: J. Wacho Slaughter, Brad M. Johnson, William Laird Dungan, Yevgeni Tsirulnik, Phil Brown, Charles R. Kirk, Evgeny Shevtsov, Tracy Cate, James L. Frank, Andrei Khaitas
  • Publication number: 20240069742
    Abstract: One aspect of the application can provide a system and method for replacing a failing node with a spare node in a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) system. During operation, in response to determining that a node-migration condition is met, the system can initialize a node controller of the spare node such that accesses to a memory local to the spare node are to be processed by the node controller, quiesce the failing node and the spare node to allow state information of processors on the failing node to be migrated to processors on the spare node, and subsequent to unquiescing the failing node and the spare node, migrate data from the failing node to the spare node while maintaining cache coherence in the NUMA system and while the NUMA system remains in operation, thereby facilitating continuous execution of processes previously executed on the failing node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Edward McGee, Brian J. Johnson, Frank R. Dropps, Derek S. Schumacher, Stuart C. Haden, Michael S. Woodacre
  • Publication number: 20240071556
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for memory with parallel main and test interfaces are described. A memory die may be configured with parallel interfaces that may individually (e.g., separately) support evaluation operations (e.g., before or as part of assembly in a multiple-die stack) or access operations (e.g., after assembly in a multiple die stack). For example, a memory die may include a first set of one or more contacts that support communicating signaling with or via another memory die in a multiple-die stack. The memory die may also include a second set of one or more contacts that support probing for pre-assembly evaluations, which may be electrically isolated from the first set of contacts. By implementing such parallel interfaces, evaluation operations may be performed using the second set of contacts without damaging the first set of contacts, which may improve capabilities for supporting a multiple-die stack in a memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: James Brian Johnson, Kunal R. Parekh, Brent Keeth, Eiichi Nakano, Amy Rae Griffin
  • Patent number: 11911721
    Abstract: A fuel filtration system and methods controlling, and operating a fuel filtration system. A first fuel filter head is fluidly coupled to one or more first fuel filters, a second fuel filter head is fluidly coupled to one or more second fuel filters and a selector valve is coupled to the first fuel filter head and the second fuel filter head. The selector valve includes a primary valve inlet port, a primary valve outlet port, and a movable valve body movable from a first position to a second position. The first position fluidly couples the first fuel filter head to the primary valve outlet port and fluidly decouples the second fuel filter head from the primary valve outlet port. The second position fluidly couples the second fuel filter head to the primary valve outlet port and fluidly decouples the first fuel filter head from the primary valve outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Johnson, Gregory S. Franks, Joseph A. Worthington, Sandesh R. Patil, Amit Yeole, David P. Genter
  • Publication number: 20240059744
    Abstract: Provided for herein are viral particles comprising a heterologous viral glycoprotein and a targeting moiety, wherein the targeting moiety comprises a polypeptide comprising a formula of T-S1, wherein T is a target binding domain and S1 is a stalk portion. The stalk portion may comprise a variant Fe domain. The stalk portion may comprise a flexible polypeptide domain. The targeting moiety comprising the formula T-S1 may be incorporated into a viral particle to assist with targeting such particles to a specific cell type. Also provided for herein are compositions comprising the same, and methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Bruce C. Schnepp, Philip R. Johnson, James I. Andorko
  • Publication number: 20240059066
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for enhanced flushing of printing systems. One embodiment is a printing system that includes an ink flushing controller. The ink flushing controller is able to identify an overlap region wherein nozzles at adjacent printheads of a marking engine overlap along a widthwise direction, to detect primary nozzles that print image data within the overlap region, and to detect overlap nozzles that do not have firing instructions to eject ink within the overlap region. The ink flushing controller is further able to analyze nozzle firing data for each overlap nozzle to determine inactive firing spans for each overlap nozzle, and in response to determining that an inactive firing span for an overlap nozzle exceeds a threshold, to generate a firing instruction directing the overlap nozzle to eject ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Walter F. Kailey, Scott R. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11904095
    Abstract: A medical system for assisting with an intubation procedure for a patient. The system comprising airflow sensors configured to obtain data indicative of airflow in the patient's airway and physiological sensors configured to obtain information regarding airflow in the patient's lungs. The system further including a monitoring device communicatively coupled to the airflow sensors and the physiological sensors. The patient monitoring device comprising at least one processor coupled to memory and configured to: provide a user interface on a display and assist the rescuer in determining proper placement of an endotracheal tube, receive the data indicative of the airflow in the patient's airway, receive the physiological information regarding the airflow in the patient's lungs, and determine whether the tube is properly placed based on the received physiological information, and present an output of the determination of whether the ET tube was properly placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Annemarie E Silver, Gary A Freeman, George Beck, Guy R Johnson, Ulrich R Herken, Wayne F Stanley, Shin-Luen Chai
  • Patent number: 11906252
    Abstract: A composite cooling film (100) comprises an antisoiling layer (160) secured to a first major surface of a reflective microporous layer (110). The reflective microporous layer (110) comprises a first fluoropolymer and is diffusely reflective of electromagnetic radiation over a majority of wavelengths in the range of 400 to 2500 nanometers. The antisoiling layer (160) has an outwardly facing antisoiling surface (162) opposite the micro-voided polymer film. An article (1100) comprising the composite cooling film (1112) secured to a substrate (1110) is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy J. Hebrink, Michelle M. Mok, Derek J. Dehn, Mary E. Johansen, Lon R. Johnson, Todd G. Pett, Moses M. David, James P. Burke, Vivian W. Jones, Haiyan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240041882
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral dosage forms comprising letermovir and, in particular, to compressed mini-tablets comprising letermovir. The invention also relates to methods of using the oral dosage forms for the treatment, prevention, or prophylaxis of HCMV in a patient. In addition, the invention also provides methods for making the mini-tablets of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Cory Bottone, Andrew J. Gmitter, Ashley R. Johnson, Eric A. Kemp, Feng Li, Fochive Njikam, Michael H. Wang
  • Patent number: D1014442
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING, LLC
    Inventor: John R. Johnson
  • Patent number: D1017933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Kyu Lee, Owen R. Johnson