Patents by Inventor Craig Johnstone

Craig Johnstone 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: 20230392492
    Abstract: A system to test barrier pressure includes a Christmas Tree (XT) coupled to a wellbore including a downhole pressure barrier. The XT includes a first valve along a flow path and a second valve coupled to the flow path. The system further includes a testing unit that includes a vessel fluidly coupled to the flow path. The testing unit also includes a fluid mover associated with the vessel to draw fluid into or to drive fluid out of the vessel. The testing unit further includes an actuator coupled to the fluid mover to control operation of the fluid mover. The testing unit is configured to draw a volume of fluid out of the XT and to further return the volume of fluid to the XT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
    Inventors: Julian Tucker, Craig Scott, Michael John Blowers, Craig Johnstone, Charles August, Krystian Kobylinski
  • Patent number: 11803351
    Abstract: A communication system, method, and computer-readable medium therefor comprise a media server configured to receive a plurality of audio streams from a corresponding plurality of client devices, the media server including circuitry configured to rank the plurality of audio streams based on a predetermined metric, group a first portion of the plurality of audio streams into a first set, the first portion of the plurality of audio streams being the N highest-ranked audio streams, group a second portion of the plurality of audio streams into a second set, the second portion of the plurality of audio streams being the M lowest-ranked audio streams, forward respective audio streams of the first set to a receiver device, and discard respective audio streams of the second set, wherein N and M are independent integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn N. Dickins, Feng Deng, Michael Eckert, Craig Johnston, Paul Holmberg
  • Publication number: 20230272692
    Abstract: A system and method for carbon capture and storage in a depleted hydrocarbon reservoir or dedicated aquifer is disclosed. A wellhead block includes or supports therewith a barrier subsystem having one or more of at least one isolation gate valve or one or more plugs. The barrier subsystem is to allow access to a well that is associated with the depleted hydrocarbon reservoir or dedicated aquifer. The system includes modulation valves to modulate an injection of a wellhead fluid that includes a carbon component into the wellhead block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
    Inventors: Julian Tucker, Fiona Robertson, Craig Johnstone
  • Patent number: 11583830
    Abstract: A process for recovery of lithium ions from a lithium-bearing brine includes contacting the lithium-bearing brine with a lithium ion sieve (where that LIS includes an oxide of titanium or niobium) in a first stirred reactor to form a lithium ion complex with the lithium ion sieve, and decomplexing the lithium ion from the lithium ion sieve in a second stirred reactor to form the lithium ion sieve and an acidic lithium salt eluate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: STANDARD LITHIUM LTD.
    Inventor: Craig Johnstone Brown
  • Patent number: 11534748
    Abstract: A process for recovery of lithium ions from a lithium-bearing brine includes contacting the lithium-bearing brine with a lithium ion sieve (where that LIS includes an oxide of titanium or niobium) in a first stirred reactor to form a lithium ion complex with the lithium ion sieve, and decomplexing the lithium ion from the lithium ion sieve in a second stirred reactor to form the lithium ion sieve and an acidic lithium salt eluate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: STANDARD LITHIUM LTD.
    Inventor: Craig Johnstone Brown
  • Patent number: 11518686
    Abstract: A process for recovery of lithium ions from a lithium-bearing brine includes contacting the lithium-bearing brine with a lithium ion sieve (where that LIS includes an oxide of titanium or niobium) in a first stirred reactor to form a lithium ion complex with the lithium ion sieve, and decomplexing the lithium ion from the lithium ion sieve in a second stirred reactor to form the lithium ion sieve and an acidic lithium salt eluate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: STANDARD LITHIUM LTD.
    Inventor: Craig Johnstone Brown
  • Publication number: 20220197592
    Abstract: A communication system, method, and computer-readable medium therefor comprise a media server configured to receive a plurality of audio streams from a corresponding plurality of client devices, the media server including circuitry configured to rank the plurality of audio streams based on a predetermined metric, group a first portion of the plurality of audio streams into a first set, the first portion of the plurality of audio streams being the N highest-ranked audio streams, group a second portion of the plurality of audio streams into a second set, the second portion of the plurality of audio streams being the M lowest-ranked audio streams, forward respective audio streams of the first set to a receiver device, and discard respective audio streams of the second set, wherein N and M are independent integers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn N. DICKINS, Feng DENG, Michael ECKERT, Craig JOHNSTON, Paul HOLMBERG
  • Patent number: 11293044
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the co-production and isolation of mycoprotein and ethanol from carbohydrate feedstock material (e.g cereals). The present invention also provides a fermentation system for the co-production of mycoprotein from a carbohydrate feedstock material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventors: Mariana Fazenda, Craig Johnston, Brian McNeil
  • Publication number: 20210350936
    Abstract: A method of determining a target IOL based on an optimized IOL constant, including, with a computing device, sorting available refraction data from a plurality of cataract surgery patients to identify appropriate post-operative refraction results based on user configurable criteria. Then, for each identified appropriate post-operative refraction result, the method determines a reference IOL constant that would have given an exact desired result for a selected IOL power estimation formula and analyzing the reference IOL constants to provide at least one optimized IOL constant that is: sub-grouped according to an axial length for the selected IOL power estimation formula; or determined as a function of axial length. The computing device determines based on the at least one optimized IOL constant, a target IOL power for a target axial length and target IOL power estimation formula; and provides, based on the target IOL power, a target IOL implant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kyle Hunter Smith, Jeremiah Robert Elliott, John Cooper Bell, Ian Deetz, Craig Johnston
  • Publication number: 20200298207
    Abstract: A process for recovery of lithium ions from a lithium-bearing brine includes contacting the lithium-bearing brine with a lithium ion sieve (where that LIS includes an oxide of titanium or niobium) in a first stirred reactor to form a lithium ion complex with the lithium ion sieve, and decomplexing the lithium ion from the lithium ion sieve in a second stirred reactor to form the lithium ion sieve and an acidic lithium salt eluate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: 2661881 ONTARIO LIMITED
    Inventor: Craig Johnstone Brown
  • Publication number: 20200248222
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the co-production and isolation of mycoprotein and ethanol from carbohydrate feedstock material (e.g cereals). The present invention also provides a fermentation system for the co-production of mycoprotein from a carbohydrate feedstock material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Mariana Fazenda, Craig Johnston, Brian McNeil
  • Patent number: 10655155
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the co-production and isolation of mycoprotein and ethanol from carbohydrate feedstock material (e.g cereals). The present invention also provides a fermentation system for the co-production of mycoprotein from a carbohydrate feedstock material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
    Inventors: Mariana Fazenda, Craig Johnston, Brian McNeil
  • Publication number: 20190276327
    Abstract: A process for recovery of lithium ions from a lithium-bearing brine includes contacting the lithium-bearing brine with a lithium ion sieve (where that LIS includes an oxide of titanium or niobium) in a first stirred reactor to form a lithium ion complex with the lithium ion sieve, and decomplexing the lithium ion from the lithium ion sieve in a second stirred reactor to form the lithium ion sieve and an acidic lithium salt eluate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: 2661881 ONTARIO LIMITED
    Inventor: Craig Johnstone Brown
  • Publication number: 20190193069
    Abstract: A process for recovery of lithium ions from a lithium-bearing brine includes contacting the lithium-bearing brine with a lithium ion sieve (where that LIS includes an oxide of titanium or niobium) in a first stirred reactor to form a lithium ion complex with the lithium ion sieve, and decomplexing the lithium ion from the lithium ion sieve in a second stirred reactor to form the lithium ion sieve and an acidic lithium salt eluate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: 2661881 ONTARIO LIMITED
    Inventor: Craig Johnstone Brown
  • Patent number: 9928249
    Abstract: A system can maintain multiple queues for deduplication requests of different priorities. The system can also designate priority of storage units. The scheduling priority of a deduplication request is based on the priority of the storage unit indicated in the deduplication request and a trigger for the deduplication request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake Lewis, Ling Zheng, Craig Johnston, Vinod Daga
  • Patent number: 9868749
    Abstract: A series of substituted benzimidazole, imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine and pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine derivatives, and analogues thereof, being potent modulators of human TNF? activity, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of various human ailments, including autoimmune and inflammatory disorders; neurological and neurodegenerative disorders; pain and nociceptive disorders; cardiovascular disorders; metabolic disorders; ocular disorders; and oncological disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: UCB BIOPHARMA SPRL
    Inventors: Rikki Peter Alexander, Jonathan Mark Bentley, Gareth Neil Brace, Daniel Christopher Brookings, Prafulkumar Tulshibhai Chovatia, Hervé Jean Claude Deboves, Craig Johnstone, Elizabeth Pearl Jones, Boris Kroeplien, Fabien Claude Lecomte, James Madden, Craig Miller, John Robert Porter, Matthew Duncan Selby, Michael Alan Shaw, Darshan Gunvant Vaidya, Ian Andrew Yule
  • Publication number: 20170226551
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the co-production and isolation of mycoprotein and ethanol from carbohydrate feedstock material (e.g cereals). The present invention also provides a fermentation system for the co-production of mycoprotein from a carbohydrate feedstock material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Mariana FAZENDA, Craig JOHNSTON, Brian MCNEIL
  • Publication number: 20170132243
    Abstract: A system can maintain multiple queues for deduplication requests of different priorities. The system can also designate priority of storage units. The scheduling priority of a deduplication request is based on the priority of the storage unit indicated in the deduplication request and a trigger for the deduplication request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Blake Lewis, Ling Zheng, Craig Johnston, Vinod Daga
  • Patent number: D983119
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Stabicraft Marine Limited
    Inventors: Paul Adams, Craig Johnston, Agata Kaluzna, Sam Milne, Michael Stenton, Scott Thompson, Daniel Upperton, Michael Whittaker
  • Patent number: D1033320
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventors: Samuel Milne, Agata Kaluzna, Scott Thompson, Craig Johnstone, Michael Whittaker, Lori Comer, Daniel Upperton