Patents by Inventor Joseph E. Johnson
Joseph E. 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: 11962079Abstract: The embodiments include an array in intimate adjacent contact with a substrate foundation. The array has a plurality of radio frequency (RF) witness films overlain on the substrate foundation. Each RF witness film is a unit cell defined in a three-dimensional coordinate frame of reference, and is centered at an origin of the three-dimensional coordinate frame of reference. Each RF witness film in the plurality of RF witness films is equally-spaced from adjacent RF witness films.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Zachary A. Sechrist, Christopher G. Yelton, Mark B. Moran, Linda F Johnson, Joseph E. Estevez, Gretchen H. Hefley
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Publication number: 20240111392Abstract: A system and method for a procedure that can be performed on an appropriate subject. A procedure may be planned, at least in part, prior to performing the procedure. An image may illustrate at least a portion of the planned procedure for confirmation and/or alteration of the planned procedure prior to performing the procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Matthew W. KOENIG, Michael E. ALLEY, Jennifer L. HALCOME, Joseph S. JOHNSON, III, Lavie P. GOLENBERG
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Publication number: 20240082472Abstract: A blood treatment system with pressure sensors may be configured to control blood flow to and from the patient and use readings of the pressure sensors to determine a change in a pressure drop across a flow restriction in the blood circuit to estimate a condition of the machine or the patient, or outputting data responsive to the estimation. Further embodiments employ measurement of pressure drop to detect abnormal viscosity or viscosity variations in order to detect possible infection.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NxStage Medical, Inc.Inventors: Mark T. WYETH, Robert Paul MCCARTY, Gregory YANTZ, James Ian JOHNSON, Joseph E. TURK, JR., James M. BRUGGER, Jeffrey H. BURBANK
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Publication number: 20230166489Abstract: A transparent or translucent composite material, an architectural apparatus comprising the transparent or translucent composite material, and a method of manufacturing the composite material are described. The transparent or translucent composite material having a core film comprising PET, a first and second ETFE film on the outer portion, adhered via an adhesive layer configured to be fire-retardant and/or light-absorbent. The core film may have on one or both sides a solar control layer configured to block light, provide color, or other properties to the composite material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Martin J. Augustyniak, Tadahiro Tomino, Joseph E. Johnson, Steven Sorrentino
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Patent number: 10543509Abstract: An apparatus having a conductive body defined by a plurality of nanotubes forming a planar structure. The apparatus further includes a plurality of junctions, formed by adjacent nanotubes, and a plurality of conductive deposits positioned at the junctions to electrically join the adjacent nanotubes at the junctions and reduce electrical resistance between the nanotubes, thereby increasing overall conductivity of the body.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David S. Lashmore, Paul Jarosz, Joseph E. Johnson
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Patent number: 9832973Abstract: The automatically attaching collar clasps are installed in an animal bait station. The bait station has an inlet so that when an animal is positioned in the inlet, a male clasp on one side of the inlet automatically converges with a female clasp on the opposite side to the inlet to create a ratcheting connection and thereby secures a collar around the neck of the targeted animal.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Joe M. Pound, Kimberly H. Lohmeyer, Gary R. Earl, Randy W. Ryan, Jr., Joseph E. Johnson, Jr.
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Patent number: 9795114Abstract: The automatically detachable collar pendant system is structured so that when the system receives a signal, one end of the collar is released from the rest of the collar body, thereby unfastening the collar and allowing the collar to fall off of a target animal. The “signal” may comprise a magnetic or induction heat signal. In the preferred embodiment, the signal is received (and the collar is unfastened) when the target animal feeds at a specially-equipped bait station.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Joe M. Pound, Kimberly H. Lohmeyer, Gary R. Earl, Randy W. Ryan, Jr., Joseph E. Johnson, Jr.
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Patent number: 9717292Abstract: A knee protection device includes congruently joined outer and inner cover members having cooperatively disposed arcuate configured portions disposed to minimize engagement between strap portions of the outer and inner cover members with a back portion of a knee portion of a leg of a person using the device. The device further includes an outer pad member fabricated from relatively pliable material and disposed adjacent to the outer cover member, and an inner pad member fabricated from relatively more pliable material than the outer pad member and disposed between the outer pad member and the inner cover member. The positions of the outer and inner pad members, relative to the outer and inner cover members, are maintained by thread inserted through the outer and inner cover members and adjacent to the pad members after the pad members have been centrally disposed between the cover members.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventor: Joseph E. Johnson
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Patent number: 9718691Abstract: Methods and compositions for the formation of dispersions of nanotubes are provided using solution comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon and an electron donor group. Also provided are methods for isolating carbon nanotubes from the composition, and use of carbon nanotube products.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph E. Johnson, Mark A. Banash, Paul R. Jarosz
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Publication number: 20160338324Abstract: The automatically attaching collar clasps are installed in an animal bait station. The bait station has an inlet so that when an animal is positioned in the inlet, a male clasp on one side of the inlet automatically converges with a female clasp on the opposite side to the inlet to create a ratcheting connection and thereby secures a collar around the neck of the targeted animal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Joe M. Pound, Kimberly H. Lohmeyer, Gary R. Earl, Randy W. Ryan, JR., Joseph E. Johnson, JR.
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Publication number: 20160338318Abstract: The automatically detachable collar pendant system is structured so that when the system receives a signal, one end of the collar is released from the rest of the collar body, thereby unfastening the collar and allowing the collar to fall off of a target animal. The “signal” may comprise a magnetic or induction heat signal. In the preferred embodiment, the signal is received (and the collar is unfastened) when the target animal feeds at a specially-equipped bait station.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Joe M. Pound, Kimberly H. Lohmeyer, Gary R. Earl, Randy W. Ryan, JR., Joseph E. Johnson, JR.
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Publication number: 20160278455Abstract: A knee protection device includes congruently joined outer and inner cover members having cooperatively disposed arcuate configured portions disposed to minimize engagement between strap portions of the outer and inner cover members with a back portion of a knee portion of a leg of a person using the device. The device further includes an outer pad member fabricated from relatively pliable material and disposed adjacent to the outer cover member, and an inner pad member fabricated from relatively more pliable material than the outer pad member and disposed between the outer pad member and the inner cover member. The positions of the outer and inner pad members, relative to the outer and inner cover members, are maintained by thread inserted through the outer and inner cover members and adjacent to the pad members after the pad members have been centrally disposed between the cover members.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventor: Joseph E. Johnson
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Publication number: 20150276479Abstract: A method of spectral measurement utilizing sensing devices that employ light or radiation sources. The method provides a uniform spectra or wavelength intensity reading with respect to the temperature or intensity by using an algorithm that incorporates the thermal aspects of the light or radiation source with the spectral, sensing or color attributes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Intellectual Property Transfer, LLCInventors: Joseph E. JOHNSON, Monique T. CLAVERIE, Michael J. JOHNSON, David H. TRACY
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Publication number: 20150276594Abstract: A method of performing analysis of samples having turbidity and the related apparatus is disclosed. The analysis utilizes information from light scattered from a light path with a detector at an angle of approximately ninety degrees from the light path. The apparatus consists of a light source comprising one or more light emitting diodes, a transparent sample chamber, and a detector comprising a linear variable filter and a photoelectric sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Intellectual Property Transfer, LLCInventors: Joseph E. JOHNSON, Monique T. CLAVERIE, Michael J. JOHNSON, Thomas E. DEVLIN
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Publication number: 20140366773Abstract: Methods and compositions for the formation of dispersions of nanotubes are provided using solution comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon and an electron donor group. Also provided are methods for isolating carbon nanotubes from the composition, and use of carbon nanotube products.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph E. Johnson, Mark A. Banash, Paul R. Jarosz
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Publication number: 20140247442Abstract: A light weight, portable spectroradiometer device has an optical system that directs incoming wavelengths of light to impinge upon a three-dimensional sensor comprised of a linear variable filter in direct contact with a photodiode array. The linear variable filter can be a specific band pass filter coating that has been geometrically wedged in one direction. The incoming wavelengths of light are transmitted through the three-dimensional sensor and differentiated into the pixels to be further processed into digital signals. A standard light source, either external or internal to the device, and emitting specified intensities over wavelengths may also be used to calibrate the spectroradiometer device, and samples of light with unknown intensities may be compared to the standard light source. The compact geometry of the optical system and sensor allows the device to be a compact, light weight three-dimensional spectroradiometer containing no moving parts and having a rapid measurement time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2011Publication date: September 4, 2014Inventors: Joseph E. Johnson, David L. Wooton
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Patent number: 8271412Abstract: Methods and systems for network monitoring using network metrics which are generalized entropy functions of the Markov monoid matrix M generated by an altered connection matrix C.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: University of South CarolinaInventor: Joseph E. Johnson
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Patent number: 7649031Abstract: Various modified pigment products are described which are preferably capable of being dispersed in a variety of materials such as coatings, inks, toners, films, plastics, polymers, elastomers, and the like. The modified pigments are pigments having attached groups, such as polymeric groups, onto the pigment by means other than adsorption. A modified pigment product is described comprising a pigment having attached at least one group comprising the formula: —X-[NIon]pR wherein X comprises an aromatic group or an alkyl group, NIon comprises at least one type of non-ionic group, R represents hydrogen or comprises an aromatic group or an alkyl group, and p represents an integer of from 1 to 500. Modified pigment products are also described comprising a pigment having attached at least one alkylene oxide group or at least one polymeric group.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2006Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Joseph E. Johnson, Nanying Bian, Collin P. Galloway
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Publication number: 20090024549Abstract: Methods and systems for network monitoring using network metrics which are generalized entropy functions of the Markov monoid matrix M generated by an altered connection matrix C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventor: Joseph E. Johnson
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Patent number: 7056962Abstract: Various modified pigment products are described which are preferably capable of being dispersed in a variety of materials such as coatings, inks, toners, films, plastics, polymers, elastomers, and the like. The modified pigments are pigments having attached groups, such as polymeric groups, onto the pigment by means other than adsorption. A modified pigment product is described comprising a pigment having attached at least one group comprising the formula: —X—[NIon]pR wherein X comprises an aromatic group or an alkyl group, NIon comprises at least one type of non-ionic group, R represents hydrogen or comprises an aromatic group or an alkyl group, and p represents an integer of from 1 to 500. Modified pigment products are also described comprising a pigment having attached at least one alkylene oxide group or at least one polymeric group.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Joseph E. Johnson, Nanying Bian, Collin P. Galloway