Patents by Inventor Charles Johnston
Charles Johnston 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).
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Publication number: 20240117326Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and means for producing nitrogenase polypeptides in the mitochondria of plant cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Ema Jayne JOHNSTON, Robert Silas ALLEN, Christina Maria GREGG, Shoko OKADA, Amratha MENON, Andrew Charles WARDEN, Matthew Craig TAYLOR, Craig Christopher WOOD
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Publication number: 20240072265Abstract: A fuel cell electrode protective layer forming method is disclosed. The method includes forming primary defects in a carbon-based protective layer material via a formation step. The primary defects are configured to transport fuel cell products and/or reactants representing a transported portion of a total fuel cell products and/or reactants. The difference between the total fuel cell products and/or reactants and the transported portion is an untransported portion. The method further includes activating secondary defects in the carbon-based protective layer material via an activation step. The secondary defects are configured to transport a portion of the untransported portion of the total fuel cell reactants and/or products. The activation step is different than the formation step.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Soo KIM, Jonathan MAILOA, Christina JOHNSTON, Charles TUFFILE, Jake CHRISTENSEN
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Publication number: 20220309465Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for integrating various reservation, scheduling, access and payment functions into one platform for ease of utilization of shared coworking spaces, generally, and to a system of informing an individual of a shared space location, allowing an individual to locate shared space availability, credentialing a user for shared space access, allowing an individual to submit payment for a shared space and, correspondingly, permitting a manger to receive appointments and payments via an integrated connection of user, space and space manager and associated calculated perimeters, specifically.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Travis Scheidegger, Josh Hudnall, Nathan Brewer, Josh Freed, Dennis Lankes, Brian Watson, Charles Johnston, Allison Blevins, Tracy Wesley, Geoff Oslund
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Publication number: 20130236565Abstract: The present invention is directed towards various topical protective formulations which may be used as an adjunct in preventing the spread of viral type sexually transmitted diseases. The product is intended to be used as a topical lotion, cream, emulsion, or the like. The film forming excipients and active ingredients in the following formulations have demonstrated unique skin protective barrier properties with enhanced persistence that inhibits transmission of viral type sexually transmitted diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: J&C RESOURCES LLCInventors: George Henry, Charles Johnston
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Patent number: 8411930Abstract: A system and a method for detecting a damaged or missing machine part. The system includes an image capturing device for capturing images of the machine and a processor for processing the captured images. The system may further include a sensible output for providing an indication of a damaged or missing machine part. The method includes capturing images of the machine against a background which moves relative to the machine over time, selecting a pair of time-separated images from the captured images, generating a displacement image from the pair of images, comparing the machine from the displacement image with a machine model, and identifying a damaged or missing machine part from the comparison of the displacement image with the machine model. The method may further include providing a sensible output which indicates a damaged or missing machine part.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Alberta Research Council Inc.Inventors: Rodney K. Ridley, Tadeusz Kazmierczak, Linsong Cai, Paul Charles Johnston, Helen Pinto, Jun Sun, Marc Provencher, John Harry Woolley, Garry Cardinal
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Patent number: 8388274Abstract: A round cutting insert includes a top surface, a clearance side surface and a bottom surface. The top surface includes an asymmetric chipbreaker feature adjacent a cutting edge that includes a finishing portion, a roughing portion, and a transition portion. The asymmetric chipbreaker feature includes a first rake face extending from the cutting edge, a second rake face between a bottom face and the first rake face, and a back face between a central island and the bottom face. The second rake face and the back face are sinusoidal waveforms with different periods to cause the distances from the cutting edge to the second rake face and back face to vary. The first and second rake faces are formed at different rake angles to provide effective chip control during machining operations.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Shi Chen, Nicholas Joseph Henry, Kent Peter Mizgalski, David Charles Johnston
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Publication number: 20110164934Abstract: A round cutting insert includes a top surface, a clearance side surface and a bottom surface. The top surface includes an asymmetric chipbreaker feature adjacent a cutting edge that includes a finishing portion, a roughing portion, and a transition portion. The asymmetric chipbreaker feature includes a first rake face extending from the cutting edge, a second rake face between a bottom face and the first rake face, and a back face between a central island and the bottom face. The second rake face and the back face are sinusoidal waveforms with different periods to cause the distances from the cutting edge to the second rake face and back face to vary. The first and second rake faces are formed at different rake angles to provide effective chip control during machining operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Shi Chen, Nicholas J. Henry, David Charles Johnston, Kent Peter Mizgalski
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Publication number: 20110088979Abstract: A cargo transportation device includes a lift assembly for raising and lowering cargo and an operator cabin in which an operator controls the lift assembly. A load backrest is coupled to the cabin, and an automatic data collection device, which is configured to interrogate wireless communication devices, is coupled to the load backrest. The cargo transportation device includes a computing device having logic for controlling the automatic data collection device and logic for controlling the lift assembly, and a display device in communication with the computing device. The display device is coupled to the cabin and configured to provide the operator with information from the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventors: John S. Bandringa, Ryan R. White, Jerry Allen Johnson, Christopher Charles Johnston, Michael J. Wells, Joshua Merritt Hansen, Matthew F. Willkens, Steven Tzu-Yun Peng, Jeffrey L. Hovorka, Cary Daniel Cronin
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Publication number: 20100142759Abstract: A system and a method for detecting a damaged or missing machine part. The system includes an image capturing device for capturing images of the machine and a processor for processing the captured images. The system may further include a sensible output for providing an indication of a damaged or missing machine part. The method includes capturing images of the machine against a background which moves relative to the machine over time, selecting a pair of time-separated images from the captured images, generating a displacement image from the pair of images, comparing the machine from the displacement image with a machine model, and identifying a damaged or missing machine part from the comparison of the displacement image with the machine model. The method may further include providing a sensible output which indicates a damaged or missing machine part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL INC.Inventors: Rodney K. Ridley, Tadeusz Kazmierczak, Linsong Cai, Paul Charles Johnston, Helen Pinto, Jun Sun, Marc Provencher, John Harry Woolley, Garry Cardinal
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Patent number: 7157059Abstract: A nitrate reduction device has a cadmium structure forming a plurality of longitudinal channels within a flow chamber, which may be formed by a plurality of wires. The device is used to reduce nitrate to a final nitrite product for analysis.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the InteriorInventors: Charles Johnston Patton, Peter Freeman Rogerson
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Publication number: 20060235390Abstract: An anterior instrumentation method of treating spinal deformities involves a combination of a spinal rod anterior system and one or two spinal plates fixed on the cephalad and caudal end vertebrae of the instrumented segment. Deformities are treated by the anterior rod system through compression, distraction and derotation. Two spinal plates are fixed to the cephalad and caudal end vertebrae respectively to prevent the end vertebrae from rotating into kyphosis. A number of cancellous screws are inserted into the cephalad and caudal end vertebrae and their adjacent vertebrae through the spinal plate to provide several points of fixation on the end vertebrae to prevent implant failure and loss of correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Hong Zhang, Charles Johnston, William Pierce, Richard Ashman
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Patent number: 5922373Abstract: The present invention provides a novel method for making a modified soy flour feed which is useful as a protein source in the diets of animals, particularly in the diet of young animals. The method for producing the modified soy flour feed, referred to hereinafter as "MSF feed", comprises the following steps: combining soy flour, sugar and liquid to provide a mixture; gelatinizing the soy flour in the mixture; then reacting yeast with the mixture preferably at a temperature of from about 60.degree. F. to about 125.degree. F. for a time sufficient to reduce the allergenic properties of the soy flour; and terminating the chemical reactions. Preferably, the yeast is added to the gelatinized mixture at a weight which is from about 0.25 to about 15%, by weight, of the combined soy flour-sugar weight. Unlike conventional soy flour, the MSF feed produced by this process does not induce diarrhea, poor growth or weight loss associated with an allergic response.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: The Ohio State UniversityInventor: Charles Johnston
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Patent number: 5565225Abstract: The present invention provides a novel soy flour-wheat flour feed, referred to herein as "MSWF feed" useful as a protein source in the diets of animals. Such MSWF feed is particularly useful for at least partially replacing milk as a protein source in the diets of young animals. The MSWF feed comprises modified soy flour, modified wheat flour and malted grain, preferably malted barley, and preferably yeast. Preferably, the wheat flour and soy flour is added in a ratio of from about 2:1 to about 0.1:9.9, by weight; and from about 0.25 to about 25%, by weight, of the combined soyflour-wheat flour weight, of the malted grain. Unlike conventional soy flour, the MSWF feed does not induce diarrhea, poor growth or weight loss associated with an allergic response. The MSWF feed is useful in the diets of young domestic animals, and is also useful as a food for humans particularly where an allergic reaction to soy flour is a problem.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1995Date of Patent: October 15, 1996Assignee: The Ohio State UniversityInventor: Charles Johnston
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Patent number: 4901671Abstract: Synthetic chicken litter of foamed polymer is coated with a tough polymeric coating which cannot be pecked off by chickens. The litter is distributed on the floor of a chicken pen to prevent direct contact between the floor and the chicken. The depth of the litter on the floor will be from about one to about twelve centimeters.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1988Date of Patent: February 20, 1990Inventor: Charles Johnston
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Patent number: 3933155Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure injection mechanism of the type which, when triggered, expresses predetermined dosages of liquid under high pressure from a dosage orifice at speeds enabling the same to penetrate an injection site which may be the skin of a human or an animal, the stalk or other surface of a plant and so forth. The apparatus is characterized by a novel triggering mechanism which assures that the apparatus may be triggered to effect a dosage administering cycle only when the dosage orifice is positioned against the injection site with a predetermined orientation.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1975Date of Patent: January 20, 1976Assignee: Mizzy Inc.Inventor: Charles Johnston