Patents by Inventor E. A. Johnson

E. A. 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: 20230313999
    Abstract: A combination gas burner assembly includes a first burner forming a first profile shape and a second burner positioned above the first burner. The second burner forms a second profile shape different from the first profile shape. The first burner and the second burner form a perimeter of the gas burner assembly. The first profile shape overlaps with the second profile shape forming an overlapping portion of the perimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Victor Gerardo Caloca, Alok C. Deshpande, Patrick J. Duffy, Ken E. Johnson, Victor H. Manrique, Ashish Mittal
  • Publication number: 20230315380
    Abstract: A system for enhancing audio including a plurality of sensors, an output device, and a processor in communication with the plurality of sensors and the output device. The processor is configured to process data captured by the plurality of sensors, and based on that, modify an output of the output device. The processor also is configured to determine whether there are a plurality of users associated with a video conferencing session, determine which user of the plurality of users is speaking, and enhance the audio or video output of the speaking user on the output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Aleksandar Pance, Brett Bilbrey, Darby E. Hadley, Martin E. Johnson, Ronald Nadim Isaac
  • Patent number: 11776265
    Abstract: A computerized apparatus for creating a highlight video, including an interface for charting an event by recording information in regard to the event, where the event information is associated with time codes. A camera captures video of the event, where the video is associated with the time codes. The interface also creates triggers including lists of at least one action. An input/output uploads the event information, video, and triggers to a server. A processor produces entries in an action log from the event information, compares the entries in the action log to the triggers to determine if any of the entries in the action log match any of the triggers, collects the time codes of those entries that match the triggers, creates video clips from the video of the event, based on the collected time codes, and compiles the video clips into the highlight video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CSR Lab, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher M. Clark, Stephen E. Johnson, Robert J. Corsi
  • Publication number: 20230284567
    Abstract: A grain management system includes a robot and a computer system located remotely from one another and configured to wirelessly communicate. The robot comprises an auger-based drive system, a memory, and a processor which controls movement of the robot, via the drive system, relative to grain in a bulk store. During a load-in the robot traverses a landing zone portion, where the grain lands during load-in, of a surface of a pile of the grain to disperse broken grain and foreign material away from the landing zone portion. The dispersal is effected in part by rotation of augers of the drive system. The robot additionally traverses a sloped portion of the pile of grain to incite sediment gravity flow by rotation of the augers. The sediment gravity flow reduces a slope of the sloped portion and further disperses the broken grain and foreign material away from the landing zone portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Grain Weevil Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Johnson, Chad E. Johnson, Zane Zents
  • Publication number: 20230292032
    Abstract: An output device that includes a housing, a first speaker driver that is integrated within the housing at a first location and is arranged to project sound into an ambient environment in a first direction, and a second speaker driver that is integrated within the housing at a second location that is different than the first location and is arranged to project sound into the ambient environment, where the first and second speaker drivers are integrated within the housing and share a common back volume within the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel K. BOOTHE, Martin E. JOHNSON, David SUMBERG, David A. KALINOWSKI, Peter V. JUPIN
  • Publication number: 20230277759
    Abstract: A medical agent administration device may comprise a main body including a central region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region may have a plurality of petal members extending outwardly from the central region. The device may further comprise at least one coupling on a first face of the central region. The device may further comprise at least one sharp bearing body on an opposing face of the central region. Each of the at least one sharp bearing body may be in fluid communication with a respective one of the at least one coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Dean Kamen, Richard J. Lanigan, Eitan C. Zeira, Lee A. Batchelder, Hans E. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20230277990
    Abstract: A robot comprises an auger-based drive system, a memory, and a processor coupled with the memory and configured to control movement of the robot, via the auger-based drive system, relative to grain in a grain bin. The processor is further configured to direct traversal, by the robot, of a landing zone portion of a surface of a pile of the grain during load-in of the grain to disperse broken grain and foreign material away from the landing zone portion. The landing zone portion is located in a center of the grain bin where the grain lands as it is augured into the grain bin during load-in. The dispersal is affected in part by rotation of augers of the auger-based drive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Grain Weevil Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Johnson, Chad E. Johnson, Zane Zents
  • Publication number: 20230278215
    Abstract: A robot comprises an auger-based drive system, a memory, and a processor coupled with the memory and configured to control movement of the robot, via the auger-based drive system, relative to grain in a flat storage bulk store. The processor is further configured to direct traversal, by the robot, of a portion of a pile of the grain in the flat storage bulk store. The traversal is performed to incite sediment gravity flow in the portion of pile of grain system to walk-down the grain in the portion. The sediment gravity flow is incited by disruption of viscosity of the portion of the pile of grain through agitation of the portion of the pile of grain by auger rotation of the auger-based drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Grain Weevil Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Johnson, Chad E. Johnson, Zane Zents
  • Publication number: 20230276739
    Abstract: A robot comprises an auger-based drive system, a memory, and a processor coupled with the memory and configured to control movement of the robot, via the auger-based drive system, relative to grain in a grain bin. The processor is further configured to direct performance of a maintenance traversal, by the robot, of a surface of a pile of the grain during a storage period of the grain. The maintenance traversal disperses a layer of the grain on and near the surface and thus hinders crust formation on the surface during the storage period. The dispersal is effected by rotation of augers of the auger-based drive system during the maintenance traversal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Grain Weevil Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Johnson, Chad E. Johnson, Zane Zents
  • Publication number: 20230264006
    Abstract: A delivery device for delivery of medical agent to a barrier may comprise a main body including a central region defining a receptacle, a peripheral region defined by a number of petal members, and a set of retention tabs extending into the receptacle. The delivery device may further comprise a reservoir including at least one delivery sharp, a main interior volume, and at least one septum in fluid communication with the main interior volume. The reservoir may be coupled to the main body via the retention tabs. The delivery device may further comprise an adhesive coupled to the main body. The delivery device may further comprise at least one bias member positioned within the receptacle between the reservoir and a wall of the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Dean Kamen, Lee A. Batchelder, Eitan C. Zeira, Linda R. Rios Guevara, Joshua A. Frye, Hans E. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11726161
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for a multimedia device with audio and video capturing capability to identify an audio device based on acoustic playback signal if the audio device cannot be identified from captured video. The multimedia device may assemble a list of candidate audio devices that are a possible match for the observed audio device from a database of previously recognized audio devices and may transmit commands to the candidate audio devices to play acoustic identification signals. The acoustic identification signals may be audible sound or ultrasonic tone sequences with embedded identification information unique to each audio device. The multimedia device may record and analyze the acoustic identification signals received from any of the candidate audio devices to construct metrics to select the most likely candidate for the observed audio device. The metrics may include time of flight, direction of arrival, received amplitude, direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR) of the acoustic identification signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Eubank, Martin E. Johnson, Daniel K. Boothe, Jonathan D. Sheaffer
  • Patent number: 11725353
    Abstract: A highway work basket apparatus includes a vertically movable lift platform that can be selectively mounted on either side of the work basket. The frame of the work basket supports a pair of lift mechanisms mounted on opposing sides at the forward end of the work basket. A detachable lift platform is provided for selective attachment to one of the opposing lift mechanism to enable movement of highway markers between the levels of the truck bed and the surface of the highway. The floor of the lift platform has conveyors embedded therein and powered by the hydraulics of the highway truck on which the work basket is mounted to facilitate the movement of the highway markers onto or off of the surface of the highway. The frame of the work basket also supports a hitch receiver to permit a trailing attachment of a directional sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Betts Platinum Group, LLC
    Inventors: Richard S. Johnson, Collin E. Johnson, Jason M. Rohrer
  • Patent number: 11727120
    Abstract: Technology related to blockchain cybersecurity solutions and a blockchain applicability framework is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a system is configured to store, in a database, a plurality of cryptographically-signed records of data transmitted between an asset and a utility historian, and store, in a distributed ledger, a respective hash value corresponding to each record of the database. The system can be further configured to verify a selected record by recomputing a hash value corresponding to the selected record and comparing the recomputed hash value to the respective hash value stored in the distributed ledger in correspondence with the selected record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Sri Nikhil Gupta Gourisetti, Michael E. Mylrea, Craig H. Allwardt, Beverly E. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20230251817
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing spatial audio. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for transitioning between visual elements. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for previewing audio. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for discovering music. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for managing headphone transparency. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for manipulating multiple audio streams of an audio source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Stuart John WOOD, Martin E. JOHNSON, Darius A. SATONGAR
  • Publication number: 20230247070
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments facilitating a holistic engagement with a user across multiple communication channels of an organization or an enterprise based at least in part on a determined user intent. As users interact with various services associated with the organization through one or more communication channels, interaction data can be captured and stored. In various examples, the interaction data that is stored by the various services can be obtained and organized according to a predefined schema. The organized interaction data can be applied to a trained intent model that outputs a user intent based at least in part on observations of other users with similar histories. The predicted intent can be provided to the different services such that subsequent interactions between the user and the organization can be based at least in part on the intent in a consistent manner, regardless of the communication channel associated with the interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Bashetty, Swetha Gayam, Mark E. Johnson, Deepak Kumar, Mazhar Ladji, Cong Liu, Zeyu Liu, David Keith Love, Amarnath E. Mahendran, Matthew K. Meyer, Emery Schoenly, Jeremy D. Seideman, Govind Sharma
  • Publication number: 20230217202
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide for audio integration of portable electronic devices into enclosed environments. A portable electronic device may be carried, by a user, into an enclosed environment, such as into an enclosure of a building, a room, or other apparatus. One or more remote speakers may be disposed in the enclosed environment. The remote speaker(s) may be operated in cooperation with the portable electronic device to spatially coordinate audio output from the remote speaker(s) with video content displayed by the portable electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel K. BOOTHE, Onur I. ILKORUR, Marty E. JOHNSON, Chris WILK, Jonathan P. MOORE
  • Publication number: 20230217159
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide a access-feature-mounted external speaker. The access-feature-mounted external speaker may be disposed within an internal cavity in the door, and acoustically coupled to a slot in an edge of the door by an acoustic duct. In a closed position of the door, sound from the access-feature-mounted external speaker may be projected into a gap between the door and a structural interface of an enclosure, and redirected in part by the structural interface to a location external to the enclosure. In an open position of the door, sound from the speaker may be projected into an opening in the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel K. BOOTHE, Onur I. ILKORUR, Marty E. JOHNSON, Chris WILK, Jason T. PARKER
  • Publication number: 20230217172
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide for sound stage reversal for enclosed environments. For example, various occupants within an enclosed environment and listening to the same spatially-oriented audio content may be facing in various different respective directions. Speakers within the enclosed environment may be operated to generate the spatially-oriented audio content for the various occupants, with various respective sound stage orientations corresponding to the various different respective directions in which the occupants face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel K. BOOTHE, Onur I. ILKORUR, Marty E. JOHNSON, Chris WILK, Andrea Baldioceda OREAMUNO, Dan W. MAIER
  • Publication number: 20230210318
    Abstract: A product dispenser holder comprises a dispenser holder body configured to receive a product dispenser that stores a supply of a product to be dispensed, an actuation sensor that senses actuations of the product dispenser, and an actuation button, such that when an actuation force is applied to a pump of the product dispenser, a substantially downward force is applied to the actuation button causing the actuation button to rotate substantially downwardly and actuate the actuation sensor to generate a dispenser actuation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Steinmetz, Jeffrey Rospierski, Sarah E. Johnson, Viktor Slobodyan
  • Publication number: 20230217144
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide occupant-based audio for enclosed environments. For example, an apparatus having an enclosure and one or more speakers may determine a location and/or an identity of an occupant within an enclosed environment defined by the enclosure, and operate the one or more speakers to provide audio output to the location of the occupant. The apparatus may also operate the one or more speakers to reduce the audio output to one or more other locations within the enclosure, such as to one or more non-occupant locations and/or to one or more locations of one or more other occupants. The audio output may be occupant-specific audio output, such as a personalized notifications, in one or more implementations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel K. BOOTHE, Onur I. ILKORUR, Marty E. JOHNSON, Chris WILK, Andrea BALDIOCEDA OREAMUNO, Dan W. MAIER