Patents by Inventor James J. Johnson
James J. 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).
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Patent number: 12384615Abstract: A fluid storage system includes a container defining an interior space that lacks an internal valve. A product and a propellant are stored under pressure within the interior space. A container cap includes a membrane that encloses a space defined by a coupling element, which includes a releasable fastener that releasably couples a fluid dispensing apparatus to the container. The container cap also includes a dip tube comprising a proximate end that extends at least partially into the space defined by the coupling element, and a distal end that protrudes from the space in a direction generally away from the container cap, into the interior space defined by the container. The dip tube defines an interior passage extending between the proximate end and the distal end through which the product is to be expelled from the container by the propellant.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: SWIMC LLCInventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Thomas W. Williams
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Patent number: 12330175Abstract: A fluid dispensing apparatus may be used to dispense a fluid from a container that is under pressure and that has a pierceable membrane. The fluid dispensing apparatus may include a valve body having a bore, an adaptor having a bore and a piercing member, and a nozzle having a bore. The fluid dispensing apparatus may be operable to pierce the pierceable membrane to communicate the fluid within the container with the adaptor bore and with the valve body bore. The nozzle may be operable to permit the fluid to flow under the pressure out of the container, through the adaptor bore, through the valve body bore and through the nozzle bore to ambient.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: SWUMC LLCInventor: James J. Johnson
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Publication number: 20230382628Abstract: A paint container for use with a reusable dispensing apparatus, and the reusable dispensing apparatus are provided to dispense paint under pressure. The paint container includes a housing defining an interior space that is devoid of an internal valve, and a combination comprising a propellant combined with paint within the interior space. A container cap is installed on the housing to enclose the propellant combined with the paint within the interior space at an elevated pressure, and defines a channel that cooperates with a portion of the housing. A compressible gasket is disposed within the channel and compressed between the container cap and the portion of the housing to form a seal that interferes with an escape of the propellant combined with the paint between the container cap and the housing. A releasable fastener engages releasably couples the reusable dispensing apparatus to the container cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: James J. Johnson, Richard D. Hudson
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Patent number: 11731829Abstract: A paint container for use with a reusable dispensing apparatus, and the reusable dispensing apparatus are provided to dispense paint under pressure. The paint container includes a housing defining an interior space that is devoid of an internal valve, and a combination comprising a propellant combined with paint within the interior space. A container cap is installed on the housing to enclose the propellant combined with the paint within the interior space at an elevated pressure, and defines a channel that cooperates with a portion of the housing. A compressible gasket is disposed within the channel and compressed between the container cap and the portion of the housing to form a seal that interferes with an escape of the propellant combined with the paint between the container cap and the housing. A releasable fastener engages releasably couples the reusable dispensing apparatus to the container cap.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventors: James J. Johnson, Richard D. Hudson
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Publication number: 20230191434Abstract: A fluid dispensing apparatus may be used to dispense a fluid from a container that is under pressure and that has a pierceable membrane. The fluid dispensing apparatus may include a valve body having a bore, an adaptor having a bore and a piercing member, and a nozzle having a bore. The fluid dispensing apparatus may be operable to pierce the pierceable membrane to communicate the fluid within the container with the adaptor bore and with the valve body bore. The nozzle may be operable to permit the fluid to flow under the pressure out of the container, through the adaptor bore, through the valve body bore and through the nozzle bore to ambient.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventor: James J. Johnson
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Publication number: 20230132918Abstract: A fluid storage system includes a container defining an interior space that lacks an internal valve. A product and a propellant are stored under pressure within the interior space. A container cap includes a membrane that encloses a space defined by a coupling element, which includes a releasable fastener that releasably couples a fluid dispensing apparatus to the container. The container cap also includes a dip tube comprising a proximate end that extends at least partially into the space defined by the coupling element, and a distal end that protrudes from the space in a direction generally away from the container cap, into the interior space defined by the container. The dip tube defines an interior passage extending between the proximate end and the distal end through which the product is to be expelled from the container by the propellant.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Thomas W. Williams
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Patent number: 11600124Abstract: In one aspect, a server computer is configured to facilitate operation of a movable barrier operator using voice commands. The server computer includes a processor configured to receive a request for a first rolling voice identifier from a communication apparatus in response to receipt of a voice command of a user requesting a state change of a movable barrier. The processor is configured to send the first rolling voice identifier to the communication apparatus causing the communication apparatus to provide a first physical stimulus to the user based at least in part on the first rolling voice identifier and user account information. The processor is configured to receive a communication indicative of a user voice response to the first physical stimulus and determine whether to instruct the movable barrier operator to change a state of the movable barrier based on the user voice response to the first physical stimulus.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: The Chamberlain Group LLCInventors: Casparus Cate, James J. Fitzgibbon, Martin B. Heckmann, James J. Johnson, David R. Morris, Cory Jon Sorice
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Patent number: 11583878Abstract: A fluid dispensing apparatus may be used to dispense a paint fluid from a paint container that is under pressure and that has a pierceable membrane. The fluid dispensing apparatus may include a valve body having a bore, an adaptor having a bore and a piercing member, and a nozzle having a bore. The fluid dispensing apparatus may be operable to pierce the pierceable membrane to communicate the paint within the paint container with the adaptor bore and with the valve body bore. The nozzle may be operable to permit the paint to flow under the pressure out of the paint container, through the adaptor bore, through the valve body bore and through the nozzle bore to ambient.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: SWIMC, LLCInventor: James J. Johnson
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Patent number: 11485546Abstract: A storage container with a spout is provided that can store a coating material. The storage container can include a container body having a shape, which may be a circular shape, polygonal shape, or a rounded-polygonal shape. The container body includes a side wall having first and second ends. The storage container with a spout can include a first opening with a corresponding lid and the spout providing a second opening with a corresponding cap. The storage container can further include a handle formed with an aperture through a side of the container body.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams CompanyInventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Gustavo A. Morales, Edward Ray Goodwin, Jr., Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Charles T. Buckel, Jr.
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Publication number: 20220081189Abstract: A paint container for use with a reusable dispensing apparatus, and the reusable dispensing apparatus are provided to dispense paint under pressure. The paint container includes a housing defining an interior space that is devoid of an internal valve, and a combination comprising a propellant combined with paint within the interior space. A container cap is installed on the housing to enclose the propellant combined with the paint within the interior space at an elevated pressure, and defines a channel that cooperates with a portion of the housing. A compressible gasket is disposed within the channel and compressed between the container cap and the portion of the housing to form a seal that interferes with an escape of the propellant combined with the paint between the container cap and the housing. A releasable fastener engages releasably couples the reusable dispensing apparatus to the container cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: James J. JOHNSON, Richard D. Hudson
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Patent number: 11180308Abstract: A paint container for use with a reusable dispensing apparatus, and the reusable dispensing apparatus are provided to dispense paint under pressure. The paint container includes a housing defining an interior space that is devoid of an internal valve, and a combination comprising a propellant combined with paint within the interior space. A container cap is installed on the housing to enclose the propellant combined with the paint within the interior space at an elevated pressure, and defines a channel that cooperates with a portion of the housing. A compressible gasket is disposed within the channel and compressed between the container cap and the portion of the housing to form a seal that interferes with an escape of the propellant combined with the paint between the container cap and the housing. A releasable fastener engages releasably couples the reusable dispensing apparatus to the container cap.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: SWIMC LLCInventors: James J. Johnson, Richard D. Hudson
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Publication number: 20210316903Abstract: A storage container with a spout is provided that can store a coating material. The storage container can include a container body having a shape, which may be a circular shape, polygonal shape, or a rounded-polygonal shape. The container body includes a side wall having first and second ends. The storage container with a spout can include a first opening with a corresponding lid and the spout providing a second opening with a corresponding cap. The storage container can further include a handle formed with an aperture through a side of the container body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Richard D. HUDSON, James J. JOHNSON, Gustavo A. MORALES, Edward Ray GOODWIN, JR., Michael C. LAMBERTSON, JR., Charles T. BUCKEL, JR.
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Publication number: 20210233336Abstract: The systems and methods provided herein use a rolling voice identifier in a multi-factor authentication system to avoid the security problems present in prior voice activated control systems. By implementing a rolling voice identifier in an access control platform, users may no longer need to be concerned with being overheard or recorded when providing voice authentication commands to an access control platform because the rolling voice identifier that the user will be prompted to speak will be specific to the particular instance of control of an access control platform. An access control platform is a platform that controls operation of a movable barrier by, for example, controlling the state of a movable barrier using a remote control. An access control platform may cause a movable barrier to become opened, closed, locked, or unlocked to permit or prevent access to a physical space by a physical object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Casparus Cate, James J. Fitzgibbon, Martin B. Heckmann, James J. Johnson, David R. Morris, Cory Jon Sorice
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Patent number: 11072465Abstract: A storage container with a spout is provided that can store a coating material. The storage container can include a container body having a shape, which may be a circular shape, polygonal shape, or a rounded-polygonal shape. The container body includes a side wall having first and second ends. The storage container with a spout can include a first opening with a corresponding lid and the spout providing a second opening with a corresponding cap. The storage container can further include a handle formed with an aperture through a side of the container body.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams CompanyInventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Gustavo A. Morales, Edward Ray Goodwin, Jr., Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Charles T. Buckel, Jr.
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Patent number: D896074Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams CompanyInventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Gustavo A. Morales
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Patent number: D896655Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: SWIMC LLCInventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Gustavo A. Morales
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Patent number: D901297Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANYInventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Gustavo A. Morales, Edward Ray Goodwin, Jr., Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Charles T. Buckel, Jr.
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Patent number: D914506Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams CompanyInventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Gustavo A. Morales, Edward R. Goodwin, Jr., Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Charles T. Buckel, Jr.
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Patent number: D993021Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: SWIMC LLCInventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Gustavo A. Morales, Edward Ray Goodwin, Jr., Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Charles T. Buckel, Jr.
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Patent number: D1027639Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SWIMC LLCInventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Gustavo A. Morales, Edward Ray Goodwin, Jr., Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Charles T. Buckel, Jr.