Patents by Inventor Byron Johnson

Byron 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: 20200337839
    Abstract: A delivery system for percutaneously deploying a valve prosthesis. The system includes a catheter assembly including a delivery sheath capsule and a handle having an oscillating device. The capsule is configured to compressively retain the valve prosthesis during implantation. After the valve prosthesis is partially exposed during implantation, the oscillating device can create a vibratory motion to reduce the friction between the valve prosthesis and the delivery sheath capsule in order to recapture the valve prosthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Jason Quill, Paul Rothstein, Thomas Secord, Byron Johnson
  • Patent number: 10743989
    Abstract: A delivery system for percutaneously deploying a valve prosthesis. The system includes a catheter assembly including a delivery sheath capsule and a handle having an oscillating device. The capsule is configured to compressively retain the valve prosthesis during implantation. After the valve prosthesis is partially exposed during implantation, the oscillating device can create a vibratory motion to reduce the friction between the valve prosthesis and the delivery sheath capsule in order to recapture the valve prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Quill, Paul Rothstein, Thomas Secord, Byron Johnson
  • Patent number: 10660233
    Abstract: An electrical enclosure apparatus includes a protective apparatus that permits forced-air cooling of the interior of the enclosure while resisting structures that are within in the interior from being blown out of the electrical enclosure as a result of an arc event or other event. The protective apparatus includes a flow apparatus formed from one or more blocks of ceramic material having foamed therein a plurality of elongated flow channels. The flow apparatus is supported inside a duct with the use of a support apparatus. The ceramic material from which the flow apparatus is formed is configured to withstand the heat that may be experienced in an arc event and is additionally configured to be sufficiently rigid and tough to retain within the duct any structures within the enclosure from being blown out of the protective apparatus, thereby protecting personnel who may be in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Wesley Byron Johnson, Jon Christopher Beaver
  • Patent number: 10646254
    Abstract: A burr cap assembly is at least partially inserted into a burr hole within the cranium of a patient. The burr cap assembly enables a elongate member to be inserted through the burr cap assembly to access a brain of the patient. A shifting member of the burr cap assembly may be configured to enable the elongate member to move with shifting fluid and matter of the brain. The shifting member of the burr cap assembly may be configured to move within a cavity defined by the burr cap assembly. The shifting member may be configured to move in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the distal portion of the elongate member. The shifting member may at least partially retain the elongate member, so as the shifting brain applies forces upon the elongate member, the elongate member and the shifting member may move within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Walton W. Baxter, III, Byron Johnson
  • Publication number: 20200015484
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of cooking ovens for the preparation of foodstuffs in an enclosed environment including a visual flame along with a rotating cooking plate upon which foodstuffs are placed and are transported through various cooking regions before being removed from the cooking oven for consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Harry E. Hegarty, Lawrence Byron Johnson, Kurt Eickmeyer, Bryan Martens, Greg Bird, Mark Stephenson, Brett Van Leeuwen
  • Patent number: 10470329
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an enclosure comprising first and second abutting compartment and at least one cable passing between the first and second compartments through a sealing multi-cable transit mounted in a wall shared by the first and second compartments. The first compartment may contain arc-generating equipment and the second compartment may contain equipment vulnerable to arc damage. The first compartment may include a medium-voltage cubicle and the second compartment may include a low-voltage control cubicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventor: Wesley Byron Johnson
  • Publication number: 20190308025
    Abstract: A cranial implant may include an interior guide portion, an exterior guide portion, and one or more flanges. In one example, the interior guide portion may be disposed in a burr hole of a cranium and include a distal end, a proximal end, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The distal end may be inserted further into the burr hole than the proximal end. The inner surface may at least partially define a channel that accepts an elongated member, and the outer surface may extend around the full circumference of the burr hole. The exterior guide portion may be coupled to the interior guide portion and may contact an external surface of the cranium. The interior guide portion may define one or more surface features configured to secure the interior guide portion to the burr hole or secure an elongated member within the channel of the cranial implant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Ryan T. Bauer, Byron Johnson, Arnis L. Kurmis
  • Patent number: 10420347
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of cooking ovens for the preparation of foodstuffs in an enclosed environment including a visual flame along with a rotating cooking plate upon which foodstuffs are placed and are transported through various cooking regions before being removed from the cooking oven for consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Wood Stone Corporation
    Inventors: Harry E. Hegarty, Lawrence Byron Johnson, Kurt Eickmeyer, Bryan Martens, Greg Bird, Mark Stephenson, Brett VanLeeuwen
  • Patent number: 10297986
    Abstract: An arc-resistant electrical enclosure includes an arresting system that permits forced-air cooling of the interior region to occur during ordinary operation of the enclosure while resisting the flow of hot gases, plasma, and flames to the exterior of the electrical enclosure in an arc event or other event. The arresting system advantageously includes a louver apparatus and a cover apparatus that work in conjunction to resist the flow of gases, plasma, and flames to the exterior of the cabinet in an arc event. The louver apparatus includes louvers that can be moved from an open state to a closed state responsive to a predetermined fluid pressure impinging on the louvers. The cover apparatus includes a fire blocking panel that permits fluid flow therethrough during ordinary operation but which, responsive to a flame, initiates a transformation from one state to another state wherein the openings resist the communication of flames therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Wesley Byron Johnson, David Glenn Woolard
  • Publication number: 20190069927
    Abstract: A burr cap assembly is at least partially inserted into a burr hole within the cranium of a patient. The burr cap assembly enables a elongate member to be inserted through the burr cap assembly to access a brain of the patient. A shifting member of the burr cap assembly may be configured to enable the elongate member to move with shifting fluid and matter of the brain. The shifting member of the burr cap assembly may be configured to move within a cavity defined by the burr cap assembly. The shifting member may be configured to move in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the distal portion of the elongate member. The shifting member may at least partially retain the elongate member, so as the shifting brain applies forces upon the elongate member, the elongate member and the shifting member may move within the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Walton W. Baxter, III, Byron Johnson
  • Patent number: 10171006
    Abstract: An arm assembly is provided. The arm assembly includes a plurality of electrical components and a number of electrical buses. Each electrical component is coupled to, and in electrical communication with, one electrical bus. A sealing compound is then applied to each electrical bus and to a limited number of the electrical components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Crouch, Wesley Byron Johnson, Irving Gibbs, Ron Schueneman
  • Publication number: 20180352684
    Abstract: A power pole inverter is provided. The power pole inverter includes a housing assembly, a capacitor assembly, a number of arm assemblies, a number of heat sinks, and a support assembly. The housing assembly includes a number of sidewalls. The housing assembly sidewalls defining an enclosed space. The capacitor assembly is coupled to the housing assembly. Each arm assembly includes a plurality of electrical components and a number of electrical buses. Each the electrical bus includes a body with terminals, each the terminal structured to be coupled to, and in electrical communication with, the capacitor assembly, each arm assembly including a neutral terminal. Each arm assembly is coupled to, and in electrical communication with, the capacitor assembly. The support assembly includes a non-conductive frame assembly. The support assembly is structured to support each the heat sink in isolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Jonathan Charles Crouch, Irving Albert Gibbs, Wesley Byron Johnson, Paul Thomas Murray, Ron Carl Schueneman
  • Patent number: 9936615
    Abstract: A power pole inverter is provided. The power pole inverter includes a housing assembly, a capacitor assembly, a number of arm assemblies, a number of heat sinks, and a support assembly. The housing assembly includes a number of sidewalls. The housing assembly sidewalls defining an enclosed space. The capacitor assembly is coupled to the housing assembly. Each arm assembly includes a plurality of electrical components and a number of electrical buses. Each the electrical bus includes a body with terminals, each the terminal structured to be coupled to, and in electrical communication with, the capacitor assembly, each arm assembly including a neutral terminal. Each arm assembly is coupled to, and in electrical communication with, the capacitor assembly. The support assembly includes a non-conductive frame assembly. The support assembly is structured to support each the heat sink in isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Jonathan Charles Crouch, Irving Albert Gibbs, Wesley Byron Johnson, Paul Thomas Murray, Ron Carl Schueneman
  • Publication number: 20180055058
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of cooking ovens for the preparation of foodstuffs in an enclosed environment including a visual flame along with a rotating cooking plate upon which foodstuffs are placed and are transported through various cooking regions before being removed from the cooking oven for consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Harry E. Hegarty, Lawrence Byron Johnson, Kurt Eickmeyer, Bryan Martens, Greg Bird, Mark Stephenson, Brett VanLeeuwen
  • Patent number: 9795147
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of cooking ovens for the preparation of foodstuffs in an enclosed environment including a visual flame along with a rotating cooking plate upon which foodstuffs are placed and are transported through various cooking regions before being removed from the cooking oven for consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Wood Stone Corporation
    Inventors: Harry Hegarty, Lawrence Byron Johnson, Kurt Eickmeyer, Bryan Martens, Greg Bird, Mark Stephenson, Brett VanLeeuwen
  • Publication number: 20170265327
    Abstract: An electrical enclosure apparatus includes a protective apparatus that permits forced-air cooling of the interior of the enclosure while resisting structures that are within in the interior from being blown out of the electrical enclosure as a result of an arc event or other event. The protective apparatus includes a flow apparatus formed from one or more blocks of ceramic material having foamed therein a plurality of elongated flow channels. The flow apparatus is supported inside a duct with the use of a support apparatus. The ceramic material from which the flow apparatus is formed is configured to withstand the heat that may be experienced in an arc event and is additionally configured to be sufficiently rigid and tough to retain within the duct any structures within the enclosure from being blown out of the protective apparatus, thereby protecting personnel who may be in the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: WESLEY BYRON JOHNSON, JON CHRISTOPHER BEAVER
  • Publication number: 20170239047
    Abstract: A delivery system for percutaneously deploying a valve prosthesis. The system includes a catheter assembly including a delivery sheath capsule and a handle having an oscillating device. The capsule is configured to compressively retain the valve prosthesis during implantation. After the valve prosthesis is partially exposed during implantation, the oscillating device can create a vibratory motion to reduce the friction between the valve prosthesis and the delivery sheath capsule in order to recapture the valve prosthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Jason Quill, Paul Rothstein, Thomas Secord, Byron Johnson
  • Publication number: 20170223850
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an enclosure comprising first and second abutting compartment and at least one cable passing between the first and second compartments through a sealing multi-cable transit mounted in a wall shared by the first and second compartments. The first compartment may contain arc-generating equipment and the second compartment may contain equipment vulnerable to arc damage. The first compartment may include a medium-voltage cubicle and the second compartment may include a low-voltage control cubicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventor: Wesley Byron Johnson
  • Publication number: 20170214332
    Abstract: An arm assembly is provided. The arm assembly includes a plurality of electrical components and a number of electrical buses. Each electrical component is coupled to, and in electrical communication with, one electrical bus. A sealing compound is then applied to each electrical bus and to a limited number of the electrical components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Crouch, Wesley Byron Johnson, Irving Gibbs, Ron Schueneman
  • Publication number: 20170181331
    Abstract: A power pole inverter (10) is provided. The power pole inverter (10) includes a housing assembly (12), a capacitor assembly (14), a number of arm assemblies (16), a number of heat sinks (32), and a support assembly (20). The housing assembly (12) includes a number of sidewalls (17). The housing assembly sidewalls (17) defining an enclosed space (21). The capacitor assembly (14) is coupled to the housing assembly (12). Each arm assembly (16) includes a plurality of electrical components (50) and a number of electrical buses (70). Each the electrical bus (70) includes a body (72) with terminals (88), each the terminal (88) structured to be coupled to, and in electrical communication with, the capacitor assembly (14), each arm assembly (16) including a neutral terminal (88). Each arm assembly (16) is coupled to, and in electrical communication with, the capacitor assembly (14). The support assembly (20) includes a non-conductive frame assembly (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Charles Crouch, Irving Albert Gibbs, Wesley Byron Johnson, Paul Thomas Murray, Ron Carl Schueneman