Patents by Inventor Eric Douglas Johnson

Eric Douglas 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).

  • BRAKE-SYSTEM TEMPERATURE MONITORING WITH WARNING AND VEHICLE CONTROL
    Publication number: 20240317207
    Abstract: A snowmobile warning and control method for a snowmobile having an engine and a brake system, including: sensing a temperature of the brake system of the vehicle; determining that the temperature of the brake system is above a first predetermined temperature threshold; issuing a first brake-system temperature warning in response to the temperature of the brake system exceeding the first predetermined temperature threshold; determining that the temperature of the brake system is above a second predetermined temperature, the second predetermined temperature being greater than the first predetermined temperature; issuing a second brake-system temperature warning in response to the temperature of the brake system exceeding the second predetermined temperature threshold; and modifying an operation of the engine in response to the temperature of the brake system exceeding the second predetermined temperature threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Brandt, Cody Kofstad, Timothy R. Heffron, Eric Borud, Jeffrey Nels Johnson, Luke Guderjohn, Tyler D. Bentow, Dallas Blake, Jeremy Allen Hughes, Ryan Douglas Hayes, Cole Maxwell, James P. Palminteri, Marshall E. Hahn, Joseph D. Tharaldson
  • Incremental encoder and serializer
    Patent number: 8108066
    Abstract: An apparatus and associated method directed to encoding data from an object in order to simultaneously identify a serialization value of the object from the data while incrementally tracking the object's position from the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael William Pfeiffer, Eric Douglas Johnson, Richard Gordon Goodrich
  • INCREMENTAL ENCODER AND SERIALIZER
    Publication number: 20090143893
    Abstract: An apparatus and associated method directed to encoding data from an object in order to simultaneously identify a serialization value of the object from the data while incrementally tracking the object's position from the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael William Pfeiffer, Eric Douglas Johnson, Richard Gordon Goodrich