Patents by Inventor Lori Johnston

Lori Johnston 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: 20080268515
    Abstract: A culturing fluid of defined bacterial consortia is placed within a cultivation apparatus to generate growths of either a bioconcretious or biocolloidal form within, or attached to surfaces exposed to, the culturing fluid. Such growths involve the interactive activities between all of the bacterial consortia to generate growths and economically attractive chemical daughter and end products within the fluid environment bounded by the cultivation apparatus. The cultivation apparatus allows the culturing fluid to flow along passageways that have alternating constricted and expanded zones in a manner that creates the growth of bioconcretious or biocolloidal structures within which the bacterial consortia interact to allow maintenance of these growth structures and stimulate the production of the desired chemical products of significance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Roy Cullimore, Charles R. Pellegrino, Lori Johnston, Mark Newman
  • Publication number: 20060172406
    Abstract: A method of producing a rusticle consortia includes the steps of placing one or more samples obtained from a rusticle on a growth substrate, placing the growth substrate with the samples thereon into a tank filled with an aqueous solution, and controlling an environment of the aqueous solution to promote growth of the rusticle on the growth substrate. The growth substrate may comprise an anodically charged metal such as a mild steel plate that has been embrittled or unlike metals such as Fe and Cu. The aqueous solution is preferably water containing an oxygen and nutrients sufficient to promote growth of the rusticles. A charge may be applied to a location near the growth substrate to form a concentration of particles given off by the rusticle. In preferred embodiments, the grown rusticles are used as therapeutic agents such as anti-microbial, anti-biotic, or anti-cancer agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Charles Pellegrino, Lori Johnston, Roy Cullimore, Mark Newman
  • Patent number: D726331
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Inventors: D. Roy Cullimore, Charles Pellegrino, Mark Newman, Lori Johnston