Patents by Inventor Joseph F. Johnson

Joseph F. 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).

  • Patent number: 11962079
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Zachary A. Sechrist, Christopher G. Yelton, Mark B. Moran, Linda F Johnson, Joseph E. Estevez, Gretchen H. Hefley
  • Patent number: 7128227
    Abstract: A dispensing closure, including a horizontal deck, an aperture through the deck, and a collar depending below the aperture in the deck, is snapped over an annular bead on the neck of a molded plastic bottle. A stop wall, comprising a pair of ribs mounted for pivotal movement, is formed in the interior of the body of the closure; a gap is centrally located between the ribs. A radially projecting lug, which is triangular when viewed in side elevation, is formed on the sloping collar of the container; a dovetailed segment is defined at the free end of the lug. The collar on the closure has interrupted beads, so that the dispensing closure is secured to the container by snapping the interrupted beads over the annular bead on the neck of the container. The ribs of the stop wall flex pivotally outwardly when contacting the outer end of the lug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Polytop Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford W. Skillin, Joseph F. Johnson
  • Patent number: 5256963
    Abstract: Methods for testing digital electronic device terminals to identify high-impedance states from voltage-defined logic states driven by the digital device being tested. For example, the methods can be used to test a memory chip having a three-state signal terminal. The methods allow for detection of high-impedance states without analog voltage testing, such as by using merely a two-state logic testing apparatus. The methods include precharging the signal terminal to a precharge logic state voltage which is different from a selected logic state voltage. The device being tested is stimulated to produce a test signal state at the signal terminal. If the test state is variable between the high-impedance and the selected state, then maintaining the precharge voltage indicates that the signal terminal is in a high-impedance state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Micron Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph F. Johnson
  • Patent number: 4151576
    Abstract: An insulative body, affixed to a switchboard, mounts a pair of spring biased, reciprocating, conductive plungers individually wired to each side of a neutral current transformer secondary winding. With a drawout circuit breaker in its engaged position, the plungers retract in response to engagement with breaker mounted conductive pads wired to a breaker static trip unit, thereby completing a circuit between the secondary winding and the breaker trip unit. With the breaker in its disengaged position, the plungers spring to extended positions in disengaging relation with the pads, while plunger mounted switch contacts connect the winding sides together through a shorting bar or a resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1979
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Joseph F. Johnson