Patents by Inventor John Langlois

John Langlois 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: 20220097344
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a plaster board comprising a first layer of hardened plaster material comprising a first surface and an opposed second surface, a second layer of hardened plaster material comprising a first surface and an opposed second surface, wherein the first surface of the second layer faces the first surface of the first layer, and a viscoelastic interlayer disposed between the first surface of the first layer and the first surface of the second layer, wherein the interlayer includes a score-and-snap element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Aldo Glean, Zhiqiang Shi, Xuejuan Xu, Ying Wang, Choung-Houng Lai, James Dimitrakopoulos, Jia Liu, John Langlois, Eric Dong, Gabriel Guyard, Mithun N. Kamath, Phillip Evans, Donald J. Beaudry
  • Patent number: 4757533
    Abstract: A security system for a personal computer, in which hardware and software are combined to provide a tamper-proof manner of protecting user-access and file-access. The hardware component of the system is an expansion board for insertion into an expansion slot of the PC, and has a first EPROM chip containing four portions of machine code for initializing system function calls and for establishing the proper boot-processing of the PC; a second RAM chip serving as scratch pad memory; a third EEPROM chip storing passwords, audit trail log, protection and encryption system flags, and user-access rights; a fourth automatic encryption and decryption chip for files of the PC; and a fifth clock chip for the audit trail. The software component includes a batch file that runs a program in conjunction with the machine code on the EPROM of the expansion board ensuring access is gained only for valid users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Assignee: Computer Security Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Allen, John Langlois