Patents by Inventor Brian A. Johns

Brian A. Johns 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: 20250045485
    Abstract: A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, that when executed by a computer processor, cause the computer processor to perform obtain a model defining a geometry of a component for manufacturing using an additive manufacturing system, discretize the geometry of the component into a plurality of voxels, each voxel representing a volumetric portion of the component, identify voxels of the plurality of voxels having a value of stress greater than a threshold value, determine regions of the component contributing to the identified voxels having the value of stress greater than the threshold value through a build process simulation configured to iteratively simulate modifications to voxels of the component so that the value of stress of the identified voxels is reduced, modify the geometry of the regions of the component, and store an updated model of the component incorporating the modifications to the geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Brian S. McCarthy, Justin John Gambone, JR., Thomas C. Adcock, Daniel J. Erno, Christopher D. Immer, Christina Vasil
  • Publication number: 20250035518
    Abstract: A liquid sample processing method includes opening a closed container by removing a closure of the container from an opening of the container to access a liquid sample collector including a liquid sample collection member and an elongated handle. Before removing the closure, the container may be secured with a holder. After separating the liquid sample collection member, a plunger with a liquid pathway extending through it is pushed downward to compress the liquid sample collection member such that at least some of the liquid sample flows through the liquid pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Avi Robbins, Christopher John Ruf, Brian VanHiel, Maureen Carroll
  • Patent number: 12212571
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses for determining access models for applications. The access models can be determined using various techniques described herein. The access models can enable the applications to be onboarded into the enterprise system and, in some cases, can be utilized by an identity and access management (IdAM) system and/or identity and governance administration (IGA) system to facilitate ongoing identity management and access control functions for the applications in the enterprise system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ACEISS, INC.
    Inventors: Lloyd O'Connor, Brian Jou, Nigel John Slinn, Cory Hacking
  • Patent number: 12207590
    Abstract: An agricultural implement includes a fertilizer section. The fertilizer section includes a first interface configured to engage a three-point hitch, and a second interface configured to engage an interface of a planter section. Further, the interface of the planter section is configured to engage the three-point hitch. The second interface includes multiple plates, and each of the plates includes at least one opening configured to receive a connector to connect the second interface to the interface of the planter section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventors: Johnathon Raymond Dienst, Michael J. Connors, Brian John Anderson, Nathan Folger, Clayton J. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 12207640
    Abstract: An arthropod trapping device comprising a housing and an insert. The housing comprises a base and a shade coupled to the base, where the base comprises a light source (e.g., LED) and where the shade is configured to receive an insert that comprises a light source-facing surface with an adhesive disposed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Lawrence Smith, Benjamin Patrick Hale, Adam James Burt, Erik John Hasenoehrl, Danilo Rossi, Andrea Pedrotti, Walter Sordo, Alessio Giovanelli, Brian Lee Floyd, Hirotaka Uchiyama, Thomas Bernard Walker, III, Anthony Xavier Jean-Yves Clerc
  • Patent number: 12208868
    Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer for a boat includes an enclosure mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure, and a flywheel assembly including a flywheel and flywheel shaft, with the flywheel assembly rotatably mounted inside the enclosure for rotation about a flywheel axis. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer also includes a motor operative to rotate the flywheel assembly and disposed inside the enclosure. A motor cooling circuit is configured to transfer heat away from the motor. The motor cooling circuit has a closed fluid pathway for recirculating cooling fluid therein. The fluid pathway includes a fluid channel jointly defined by the motor and the enclosure and having the cooling fluid therein. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer is configured to transfer heat away from the motor to the cooling fluid. Related methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: WAVETAMER LLC
    Inventors: Brian John Sohacki, Aaron Powers, Grady Smith
  • Patent number: 12208892
    Abstract: A system generating an environment for an operation using a set of assets includes processor(s) configured to: obtain data associated with task(s) to be performed by a set of assets, wherein: 1) the set of assets comprises semi-autonomous drones and 2) the data associated with the task(s) comprises parameter(s) pertaining to a geographic location in which at least one asset is to perform the task(s); determine a discretized representation of the geographic location, wherein the discretized representation comprises discrete elements each corresponding to a volume associated with the geographic location; annotate the discretized representation to create an annotated representation with the parameter(s) pertaining to the geographic location with a subset of the discrete elements based on a determination that the parameter(s) pertain to the geographic location; determine a plan to perform the task(s), wherein the plan is based on the annotated representation; and cause the task(s) to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Anduril Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Abhay Venkatesh, Brian W. Schimpf, Elston ToChip, Jared Newman, Joshua John Bennett, Nikhil Reddy, Samuel R. Elie
  • Publication number: 20250028556
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing resources to client devices are described. A computer-implemented system receives a request for a resource distribution constraint for a given resource of a first type, determines that a second type of resource that has a sufficient amount of historical distribution data to generate a distribution constraint, and determines the resource distribution constraint using historical distribution data for the second type of resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Joshua Ruizhi Wang, Brian Mulford, Qiaoran Li, Michael John de Ridder, Pawel Opalinski, Tresa Johnson, Paul David Duetting, Guru Guruganesh, Jonathan Schneider
  • Patent number: 12206951
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for presenting user selected scenes. A media guidance application may generate for display a listing for a media asset, wherein a play length of the media asset includes a non-selectable play length portion and a selectable play length portion. The media guidance application may generate for display a first scene option corresponding to a first scene and a second scene option corresponding to a second scene. The media guidance application may receive a user selection of the first or second scene option and incorporate the selected scene into the selectable play length portion of the media asset. The media guidance application may generate for display the media asset with the selected scene incorporated into the selectable play length portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Peterson, Vanessa Wickenkamp, David John Wheatley, Walter R. Klappert
  • Patent number: 12203653
    Abstract: A cooking appliance gas burner system includes a gas burner adapted to receive gas flow from a gas feed line via a venturi. A flow sensor includes a gas flow input in fluid connection with the venturi and configured to measure pressure at the venturi. The flow sensor further includes a differential pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure differential at the venturi between a maximum burner air/gas mixture flow rate and a user input burner air/gas mixture flow rate that is input by a user as a requested percentage of the maximum burner air/gas mixture flow rate. A proportional valve is configured to modulate the air/gas mixture flow rate into the gas burner. A controller is configured to read burner air/gas mixture flow rates from the flow sensor and regulate the burner air/gas mixture flow rate via the proportional valve based upon a user-defined input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Tekelek Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Brian David Smith, Stephen John Thornton
  • Publication number: 20250024272
    Abstract: The system creates a first group including a first multiplicity of UEs and a second group including a second multiplicity of UEs. The system provides an information campaign to the first group and prevents the second group from being exposed to the information campaign. The system obtains a first parameters across multiple interaction channels associated with a network and a second parameters across the multiple interaction channels associated with the network. The system determines a difference between the first multiplicity of indications associated with the first group and the second multiplicity of indications associated with the second group. Based on the difference, the system predicts bandwidth consumption in multiple interaction channels of the network upon releasing the information campaign to other UEs operating on the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Brian John Behunin, Joshua Conley, Kirtikumar Dhanabalan, Joohyung Kim, Sharan Sai Kumar, Nishant Makhija, Fnu Neha, Eugene Shulga, Dhrishya Subramanian, Qianwen Wen
  • Patent number: 12197433
    Abstract: A social electronic learning system, including a plurality of computing devices for communicating with a plurality of users in an educational community, and at least one server in communication with each of the plurality of computing devices, each server in communication with at least one data storage device configured to host a plurality of electronic portfolios, each electronic portfolio associated with one or more users of the plurality of users in the educational community, wherein each server is configured such that one or more users may associate one or more digital items with each electronic portfolio, and the plurality of users may take actions on the digital items in each electronic portfolio depending on authorization criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: D2L Corporation
    Inventors: John Allan Baker, Kenneth James Chapman, Brian John Cepuran, Jeremy Jason Auger
  • Patent number: 12197561
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods and apparatus for securing documents. The system comprises a server having a processor and a data storage device for storing documents, at least one document provider connected to the server, the at least one document provider operable to provide user documents to the server for storage in the data storage device, the user documents containing at least one object of security concern, and at least one document consumer connected to the server, the at least one document consumer operable to receive the user documents containing the at least one object of security concern from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: D2L Corporation
    Inventors: Brian John Cepuran, Daryl McMillan, David Robert Lockhart, Dariusz Grabka
  • Publication number: 20250011473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the area of improved anti-IgE antibodies and antigen binding agents, and compositions thereof, which target IgE, for instance: for use in treating disorders caused by IgE (such as allergic responses, or certain autoimmune responses); and, in particular, disorders caused by the interaction of IgE with the Fc?RI receptor. In particular, this invention relates to improved anti-IgE antibodies and antigen binding agents related to novel mutants of omalizumab (Xolair®). The improved anti-IgE antibodies and antigen binding agents of the invention may have improved affinity for IgE and/or an improved interaction with the C?2 domain of IgE and/or an improved modified epitope on IgE (for instance further involving the C?2 domain of IgE) and/or the ability to disassociate IgE from the Fc?RI receptor for instance at pharmaceutically-relevant concentrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Ralph ADAMS, Thomas Allen CESKA, Anna Marie DAVIES, Alistair James HENRY, Xiaofeng LIU, James Michael MCDONNELL, Brian John SUTTON, Marta Katarzyna WESTWOOD
  • Publication number: 20250009904
    Abstract: Provided herein are engineered guides configured, upon hybridization to target RNA molecules, to form double stranded RNA substrates comprising (i) a region comprising at least one structural feature; and (ii) a first internal loop and a second internal loop, wherein the double stranded RNA substrates recruit RNA editing entities and facilitate chemical modifications of base nucleotides in the target RNA molecules. Also provided herein are compositions, vectors, and cells comprising the engineered guides disclosed herein. Also provided herein are methods of introducing the engineered guides described herein into cells and methods of treating a disease or condition in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject the engineered guides, polynucleotides encoding the engineered guides, delivery vehicles comprising such engineered guides or such polynucleotides, or pharmaceutical compositions comprising any one of these as described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Yiannis SAVVA, Jason Thaddeus DEAN, Brian John BOOTH, Richard Thomas SULLIVAN, Adrian Wrangham BRIGGS, Lina Rajili BAGEPALLI, Yazmin Ines ROVIRA GONZALEZ, Lan GUO
  • Publication number: 20250000069
    Abstract: The current invention describes a laboratory animal model for dirofilarial nematodes wherein said laboratory animal is fed a dietary admixture of laboratory feed containing an immunosuppressing agent, for example, a glucocorticoid. The invention also describes the use of the laboratory animal model for screening endoparasiticides for the treatment and/or prevention of filarial nematode infections in animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Brian John Mills, Tom L. McTier, Christopher S. Knauer, Debra Jean Woods
  • Publication number: 20240428891
    Abstract: Examples of methods are described herein. In some examples, a method includes generating a plot of a fluorescence signal over time. In some examples, the fluorescence signal is measured from a substance. In some examples, the method includes detecting, using a machine learning model, a target molecule in the substance based on the plot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Anton Wiranata, Yiming Zuo, Paul J. Benning, Brian John Keefe, Amy Devitt
  • Patent number: 12167770
    Abstract: An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole coupled to the upper. The article of footwear includes a vacuum pump assembly. The vacuum pump assembly includes a flexible bladder and a pump disposed in the sole and in fluid communication with the bladder. The pump removes air from the bladder to draw a vacuum within the bladder. The pump includes a plunger that activates the pump in response to the application of force against the sole. The bladder constricts and conforms the upper against the wearer's foot as the pump removes air from the bladder to generate the vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Reebok International Limited
    Inventors: Brian Christensen, Erasmo Rodriguez, Henry L. Hardigan, Ricardo Vestuti, Brian John Hamilton
  • Patent number: 12165140
    Abstract: In one embodiment, techniques include receiving, by a computing device associated with a payment service system, a request to create a blockchain-enforced contract corresponding to a new transaction between a merchant and a customer. Techniques include generating, based on analysis using machine-learned models of a transaction history associated with the merchant, a condition of the blockchain-enforced contract requisite for completion of the new transaction. Techniques includes generating the blockchain-enforced contract including the condition. Techniques include providing the blockchain-enforced contract to nodes in a blockchain network. Techniques include creating a blockchain transaction addressed to the blockchain-enforced contract and including information regarding the condition. Techniques include providing the blockchain transaction to the nodes. Techniques include receiving confirmation that the nodes have validated the blockchain transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian John Mullins, Kay Sueru Feker, Steffano Santiago Chavez, Michael Andrew Tomkins, Nicole Antonio Maulino, Ryan Yi-Lin Tai
  • Patent number: D1059182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Junyong Park, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Eric John Fairbanks, Brian Dennis Paschke, CĂ©dric Eric Jean-Edouard Bernard, Jonah Avram Becker, Gregoire Ludovic Vincent Vandenbussche