Patents by Inventor Brian Johns

Brian 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: 20250252250
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to an annotation system having a remote processor, and a client processor in data communication with the remote processor. The client processor is adapted to send a first request for an electronic file to the remote processor, receive the electronic file from the remote processor, define at least one new annotation about the electronic file, and define at least one anchor associated with the at least one annotation. The at least one of the remote processor and the client processor is adapted to store the at least one anchor and the at least one annotation in an annotation file that is separate from the electronic file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Teskey, Kenneth James Chapman, Jeremy Jason Auger, Brian John Cepuran
  • Publication number: 20250232420
    Abstract: A true color image enhancement system includes an ambient light sensor, a circuit and a processor. The ambient light sensor measures an ambient light level. The circuit generates a histogram based on an input video signal; and generates an output video signal by converting gray shades in the input video signal based on input video luminance ratios and a look up table to determine new output gray shade values to maintain input video color coordinates. The processor develops the look up table based on the histogram and the ambient light level; dynamically remaps the gray shades in the look up table in response to the ambient light signal to compress one region and stretch another region; dynamically remaps the gray shades in the look up table to correct for ambient lighting conditions; and transfers the look up table to the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf, Brian John Hayden
  • Publication number: 20250231936
    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: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: John Allan Baker, Kenneth James Chapman, Brian John Cepuran, Jeremy Jason Auger
  • Patent number: 12351282
    Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer includes an enclosure, a flywheel assembly, a bearing, a motor, and a bearing cooling circuit. The enclosure is mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure. The flywheel assembly includes a flywheel and flywheel shaft. The bearing rotatably mounts the flywheel assembly inside the enclosure for rotation about a flywheel axis. The bearing has an inner race and an outer race. The inner race is rotationally fixed relative to the flywheel shaft, and the outer race is held rotationally fixed relative to the enclosure. The motor is operative to rotate the flywheel assembly. The bearing cooling circuit is configured to transfer heat away from the bearing by recirculating coolant along a closed fluid pathway. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer is configured to transfer heat away from the inner and/or outer race of the bearing to the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: WAVETAMER LLC
    Inventors: Brian John Sohacki, Aaron P. Powers, Grady F. Smith
  • Publication number: 20250214687
    Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer includes an enclosure, a flywheel assembly, a bearing, a motor, and a bearing cooling circuit. The enclosure is mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure. The flywheel assembly includes a flywheel and flywheel shaft. The bearing rotatably mounts the flywheel assembly inside the enclosure for rotation about a flywheel axis. The bearing has an inner race and an outer race. The inner race is rotationally fixed relative to the flywheel shaft, and the outer race is held rotationally fixed relative to the enclosure. The motor is operative to rotate the flywheel assembly. The bearing cooling circuit is configured to transfer heat away from the bearing by recirculating coolant along a closed fluid pathway. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer is configured to transfer heat away from the inner and/or outer race of the bearing to the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Brian John Sohacki, Aaron P. Powers, Grady F. Smith
  • Publication number: 20250214686
    Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer includes an enclosure, a flywheel assembly, a bearing, a motor, and a bearing cooling circuit. The enclosure is mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure. The flywheel assembly includes a flywheel and flywheel shaft. The bearing rotatably mounts the flywheel assembly inside the enclosure for rotation about a flywheel axis. The bearing has an inner race and an outer race. The inner race is rotationally fixed relative to the flywheel shaft, and the outer race is held rotationally fixed relative to the enclosure. The motor is operative to rotate the flywheel assembly. The bearing cooling circuit is configured to transfer heat away from the bearing by recirculating coolant along a closed fluid pathway. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer is configured to transfer heat away from the inner and/or outer race of the bearing to the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Brian John Sohacki, Aaron P. Powers, Grady F. Smith
  • Patent number: 12345878
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for designing a multimodal photonic component. In one aspect, a method includes defining a loss function within a simulation space including multiple voxels and encompassing features of the multimodal photonic component. The loss function corresponds to a target output mode profile for an input mode profile, where the target output mode profile includes a relationship between a set of operating conditions and one or more supported modes of the multimodal photonic component at a particular operative wavelength. The initial structure is defined for one or more features, where at least some of the voxels corresponding to features have a dimension smaller than a smallest operative wavelength of the multimodal photonic component, and values for structural parameters for the features are determined so that a loss according to the loss function is within a threshold loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Jesse Lu, Brian John Adolf, Martin Friedrich Schubert
  • Publication number: 20250174168
    Abstract: A dynamic edge enhancement system includes a light sensor, a circuit, and a microcontroller. The light sensor is operational to generate a light background signal by measuring an ambient light falling on a display. The circuit is operational to generate a histogram of gray shade values in multiple frames of an input video signal received by the circuit, detect multiple edges in the input video signal, enhance the multiple edges in response to a gray shade transfer table and an edge mask strength value, and generate an output video signal suitable to drive the display after the enhancement of the edges. The microcontroller is operational to generate the gray shade transfer table based on the histogram generated by the circuit, and generate the edge mask strength value in response to the gray shade transfer table, the light background signal, a night luminance threshold value, and a day luminance threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brian John Hayden, Ucheol Lee, Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf, Danail Krasimirov Totev
  • Patent number: 12295278
    Abstract: An agricultural planting implement includes a first wing toolbar configured to support a first set of row units. The first wing toolbar is configured to pivotally couple to a main frame of the agricultural planting implement. The agricultural planting implement also includes a second wing toolbar configured to support a second set of row units. In addition, the agricultural planting implement includes a connection assembly having at least one arm pivotally coupling the second wing toolbar to the first wing toolbar. The at least one arm is pivotally coupled to the first wing toolbar and non-pivotally coupled to the second wing toolbar. Furthermore, the connection assembly includes an actuator configured to drive the second wing toolbar to rotate relative to the first wing toolbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Johnathon Raymond Dienst, Monte Lee DeKam, Jacob Allan Weis, Brandon James Kuboushek, Mayur Kishorchandra Joshi, Chad Michael Johnson, Michael J. Connors, Brian John Anderson
  • Patent number: 12301380
    Abstract: Protocol detection circuits for detecting the field device protocol of a field device attached to a channel having a data line are sequentially connected to the data line by a controller that communicates to the field device through the protocol detection circuits. The protocol detection circuits are disconnected from the field device after protocol detection is completed. The channel may be one of a number of channels; the controller may also connect and disconnect the protocol detection circuits from the one channel whereby the protocol detection circuits can be used with any channel. After the protocol of the field device is identified a protocol adapter can be inserted into the channel to enable data conversion between the field device protocol and an another protocol used by the channel for data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Lonnel J. Swarr, David N. Katz, Davis Mathews, Brian John Gillespie, Brenton E. Helfrick, Scott Michael Frye, Jason Alan Norris
  • Publication number: 20250145256
    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 mounted in a boss that is integrally formed in 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 extends through the boss so that the cooling fluid circulates through the boss around the motor. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer is configured to transfer heat away from the motor to the cooling fluid. Related methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Brian John Sohacki, Aaron Powers, Grady Smith
  • Patent number: 12269564
    Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer includes an enclosure, a flywheel assembly, a bearing, a motor, and a bearing cooling circuit. The enclosure is mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure. The flywheel assembly includes a flywheel and flywheel shaft. The bearing rotatably mounts the flywheel assembly inside the enclosure for rotation about a flywheel axis. The bearing has an inner race and an outer race. The inner race is rotationally fixed relative to the flywheel shaft, and the outer race is held rotationally fixed relative to the enclosure. The motor is operative to rotate the flywheel assembly. The bearing cooling circuit is configured to transfer heat away from the bearing by recirculating coolant along a closed fluid pathway. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer is configured to transfer heat away from the inner and/or outer race of the bearing to the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: WAVETAMER LLC
    Inventors: Brian John Sohacki, Aaron P. Powers, Grady F. Smith
  • Publication number: 20250084408
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are engineered RNAs and compositions comprising the same for treatment of diseases or conditions in a subject. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating diseases or conditions in a subject by administering engineered RNAs, polynucleotides encoding the described engineered RNAs, or pharmaceutical compositions described here.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Susan BYRNE, Brian John BOOTH, Richard Thomas SULLIVAN, Adrian Wrangham BRIGGS, Yiannis SAVVA
  • Patent number: 12240161
    Abstract: A display cover can include a rectangular body having opposing outer and inner surfaces and an edge that connects the outer and inner surfaces. A central region, widthwise edge regions, and lengthwise edge regions can each define a portion of the outer and inner surfaces, and the edge regions each can extend from the central region to define a portion of the edge. The central region can be planar such that a plane lies between the outer and inner surfaces throughout the central region. Each of the widthwise edge regions can curve away from the central region such that a line that is tangent to the outer surface at the edge region is substantially perpendicular to the plane of the central region. The body's average thickness can be less than or equal to 0.5 mm, and the body can comprise at least a majority, by weight, of a polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Abbatiello, Laurent A. Regimbal, Brian John Yates
  • Patent number: 12242798
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to an annotation system having a remote processor, and a client processor in data communication with the remote processor. The client processor is adapted to send a first request for an electronic file to the remote processor, receive the electronic file from the remote processor, define at least one new annotation about the electronic file, and define at least one anchor associated with the at least one annotation. The at least one of the remote processor and the client processor is adapted to store the at least one anchor and the at least one annotation in an annotation file that is separate from the electronic file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: D2L Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Teskey, Kenneth James Chapman, Jeremy Jason Auger, Brian John Cepuran
  • Patent number: 12230226
    Abstract: A controller configured for minimizing power dissipation of a full area local dimming (FALD) display. The controller configured for determining an input grayscale value for each of a plurality of pixels comprising the image, remapping the input grayscale values to output grayscale values, displaying the image according to the output grayscale values, and controlling a normalized backlight luminance for each zone according to a maximum grayscale value determined therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf, Brian John Hayden, Danail Krasimirov Totev
  • 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: D1074612
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian John Gillespie, Scott Michael Frye
  • Patent number: D1074613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian John Gillespie, Scott Michael Frye
  • Patent number: D1078204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Inventor: Brian John Benson