Patents by Inventor Mark Johnson

Mark 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: 12138004
    Abstract: A method for engaging and disengaging a surgical instrument of a surgical robotic system including receiving a sequence of user inputs from one or more user interface devices of the surgical robotic system; determining, by one or more processors communicatively coupled to the user interface devices and the surgical instrument, whether the sequence of user inputs indicates an intentional engagement or disengagement of a teleoperation mode in which the surgical instrument is controlled by user inputs received from the user interface devices; in response to determining of engagement, transition the surgical robotic system into the teleoperation mode; and in response to determining of disengagement, transition the surgical robotic system out of the teleoperation mode such that the user interface devices are prevented from controlling the surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Joseph Cone, Joan Savall, Anette Lia Freiin von Kapri, Eric Mark Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240350392
    Abstract: Compositions, and methods and uses thereof are provided, wherein the compositions comprise a biologically active agent and one or more solvents that dissolve the biologically active agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Johnson, Beverley Jane Elms, Paul James Tomlinson
  • Publication number: 20240338395
    Abstract: Techniques for multi-layer training of a machine learning model are disclosed. A system pre-trains a machine learning model on training data obtained from unlabeled document graph data by executing unsupervised pre-training tasks on the unlabeled document graph data to generate a labeled pre-training data set. The system modifies document graphs to change attributes of nodes in the document graphs. The system pre-trains the machine learning model with a data set including the modified document graphs and un-modified document graphs to generate prediction associated with the modifications to the document graphs. Subsequent to pre-training, the system fine-tunes the machine learning model with a set of labeled training data to generate predictions associated with a specific attribute of a document graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Xu Zhong, Don Dharmasiri, Thanh Long Duong, Mark Johnson, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Vishal Vishnoi
  • Patent number: 12110124
    Abstract: A vertical takeoff and landing vehicle which includes an allocation block that receives a set of desired forces or desired moments and a health metric associated with at least one of: (1) a motor controller or (2) a rotor that operates in a vertical takeoff and landing mode at least some of the time. A command signal is determined per a first manner that attempts to satisfy both the set of desired forces or desired moments and the health metric. If the command signal is unable to be determined in the first manner, a second manner is used that prioritizes flight control associated with one or more of a roll axis or a pitch axis over flight control associated with a yaw axis where the axes are mutually orthogonal. The command signal is output to the motor controller that controls the rotor using the command signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Kitty Hawk Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Scott Saunders, Mark Johnson Cutler
  • Publication number: 20240319746
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide docking assist for mobile structures. A docking assist system includes a logic device, one or more sensors, one or more actuators/controllers, and modules to interface with users, sensors, actuators, and/or other modules of a mobile structure. The logic device is adapted to receive docking assist parameters from a user interface for the mobile structure and perimeter sensor data from a perimeter ranging system mounted to the mobile structure. The logic device determines docking assist control signals based, at least in part, on the docking assist parameters and perimeter sensor data, and it then provides the docking assist control signals to a navigation control system for the mobile structure. Control signals may be displayed to a user and/or used to adjust a steering actuator, a propulsion system thrust, and/or other operational systems of the mobile structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Johnson, Oliver Hawker, Richard Jales, Christopher Yeomans, Marcelo Rull, Mark Rivers
  • Publication number: 20240315790
    Abstract: Robotic medical systems may use real-time three-dimensional (3-D) images to convey information to assist a physician or physician assistant. A robotic medical system can include one or more robotic arms. The robotic medical system can include one or more robotic displays. The robotic medical system can be configured to display a 3-D rendering that includes a graphical representation of the one or more robotic arms. The robotic medical system can be configured to update the 3-D rendering in accordance with a pre-programmed workflow corresponding to a procedure, to guide a user through the procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Melissa STACHULSKI, Fabien Y. SCHMITT, Eric Mark JOHNSON
  • Patent number: 12097198
    Abstract: Methods for treating prostate cancer, including advanced prostate cancer, in a subject in need thereof, include administering once-daily to the subject, at least 80 mg of N-(4-(1-(2,6-difluorobenzyl)-5-((dimethylamino)methyl)-3-(6-methoxy-3-pyridazinyl)-2,4-dioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrothieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-6-yl)phenyl)-N?-methoxyurea, or a corresponding amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: Sumitomo Pharma Switzerland GmbH, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Vijaykumar Reddy Rajasekhar, Brendan Mark Johnson, David B. Maclean, Lynn Seely, Paul N. Mudd, Jr., Hélène M. Faessel
  • Publication number: 20240307358
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents to Schlemm's canal (SC) endothelial cells. Also provided are methods for using the systems to treat glaucoma or reduce intraocular pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Johnson, Amir Vahabikashi, Trevor Stack, Michael Patrick Vincent, Evan Alexander Scott
  • Patent number: 12084155
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide graphical user interfaces for assisted and/or autonomous navigation for mobile structures. A navigation assist system includes a user interface for a mobile structure comprising a display and a logic device configured to communicate with the user interface and render a docking user interface on the display. The logic device is configured to monitor control signals for a navigation control system for the mobile structure and render the docking user interface based, at least in part, on the monitored control signals. The docking user interface includes a maneuvering guide with a mobile structure perimeter indicator, an obstruction map, and a translational thrust indicator configured to indicate a translational maneuvering thrust magnitude and direction relative to an orientation of the mobile structure perimeter indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: FLIR Belgium BVBA
    Inventors: Mark Rivers, Natalie Holder, Oliver Hawker, Richard Jales, Christopher Yeomans, Marcelo Rull, Mark Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240290513
    Abstract: A method of radionuclide waste extraction includes directing a waste stream from an upstream segment of a main waste pathway into a waste stream input of an anion exchange column, wherein the waste stream comprises uranium and a target radionuclide, the anion exchange column houses an anion exchange resin, a cation exchange column housing a cation exchange resin is fluidly coupled to the anion exchange column downstream the anion exchange column, and a sluicing preparation tank is fluidly coupled to the anion exchange column. The method further includes adsorbing uranium from the waste stream onto an anion exchange resin, directing the waste stream from the anion exchange column into the cation exchange column, adsorbing the radionuclide onto the cation exchange resin, removing spent anion exchange resin from the anion exchange column, and directing fresh anion exchange resin from the sluicing preparation tank into the anion exchange column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Johnson, Abdul Momen, Marek Piechowicz, Riley McSweeny
  • Publication number: 20240271943
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide assisted navigation based on surrounding threats. In one example, an assisted navigation system receives data from a plurality of sensors associated with a mobile structure. The assisted navigation system determines a plurality of navigational hazards disposed within a monitored area associated with the mobile structure. The assisted navigation system processes the data and/or the navigational hazards to determine an operational context of the mobile structure. The assisted navigation system generates a context-dependent navigational chart for the mobile structure, wherein the navigational chart comprises greater or fewer of the navigational hazards in response to the determined operational context. The assisted navigation system updates the navigational chart in response to changes in the data. Additional systems and methods are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Johnson, Mark C. Rivers, Weronika Nowicka
  • Publication number: 20240268900
    Abstract: A method of determining a location of a user input device of a surgical robotic system within a surgical workspace using a virtual workspace including determining, by one or more processors communicatively coupled to a user input device, that a user is engaging with the user input device within a surgical workspace; in response to determining the user is engaging with the user input device, displaying a virtual user input device within a first virtual workspace boundary, wherein at least a portion of the first virtual workspace boundary is operable to move in response to a movement of the user input device; displaying a second virtual workspace boundary that represents a second workspace limit beyond which the user input device is inoperable to control the surgical robotic instrument in the teleoperation mode; and determining a location of the user input device within the surgical workspace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Anette Lia Freiin von Kapri, Eric Mark Johnson, Joan Savall
  • Patent number: 12056434
    Abstract: Techniques for generating formatting tags for textual content obtained from a source electronic document are disclosed. A system parses a digital file to obtain information about characters in an electronic document. The system applies tags to text generated based on the textual content of the electronic document by creating segments of textually-consecutive characters and applying corresponding text formatting style tags to the segments. The system further identifies segments of text overlapping bounding boxes in the electronic document. The system generates textual content including a segment of text and a corresponding hyperlink associated with the segment of text. The system further generates textual content by selectively applying line breaks from the source electronic document in the textual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Vishank Bhatia, Xu Zhong, Thanh Long Duong, Mark Johnson, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Vishal Vishnoi, King-Hwa Lee, Christopher Kennewick
  • Publication number: 20240256357
    Abstract: Methods, system, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to provide high availability to a cluster of nodes. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to identify member nodes of a cluster, determine whether an instance of an infrastructure supervisor is operating on any of the nodes, when an infrastructure supervisor is determined to not be operating, instantiate an infrastructure supervisor, and broadcast a discovery message to other nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: George Hicken, Brian Masao Oki, Abhishek Srivastava, Mark Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240256771
    Abstract: Techniques for identifying content in key-value pairs of documents using a graph neural network (GNN) are disclosed. A system trains a GNN to identify key-value pair groupings in documents. The GNN classifies nodes in document graphs as key-type nodes and answer-type nodes. The GNN also classifies edges connecting nodes in the document graphs for keeping in the document graph or removing from the document graph. The resulting document graph includes key-value groupings in the document. Upon identifying content matching a query, a system returns as a query response content from among the key-value groupings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Xu Zhong, Thanh Long Duong, Mark Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240246663
    Abstract: An aircraft includes a ground maneuver control system that automatically steers a nose landing gear wheel to compensate for asymmetrical braking of the wheels of the aircraft resulting from a failure on one side in comparison to the other. A control system detects such a failure in order to be able to effect such automatic steering. The system may be retrofitted by the installation of software on an existing aircraft, having a braking and steering computer system with a pre-existing steering control functional block and a pre-existing braking control functional block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ashley BIDMEAD, Mark JOHNSON
  • Publication number: 20240227751
    Abstract: A control device for an aircraft is disclosed including a push-button switch that is configured to be held in a depressed position by a pilot during taxiing of the aircraft. The push-button switch is configured to return automatically to a released position if it is not held in the depressed position by the pilot. The control device is configured to output a command for braking to a braking system of the aircraft, if the push-button switch moves to the released position during taxiing of the aircraft and does not return to the depressed position within a set time. The button may be provided on a tiller. A method of detecting on-board pilot incapacitation during an aircraft taxi phase is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ashley BIDMEAD, Mark JOHNSON
  • Publication number: 20240235613
    Abstract: A method and device for boosting variable voltages are provided. The method for boosting a plant voltage using a variable boost device located at a bottom of a tower that supplies power through a transmission line to a radio device located at a top of the tower includes (1) comparing an output current of the variable boost device against a set of one or more current values, wherein the set of one or more current values represents a range of currents; (2) selecting a voltage value that corresponds to a current value of the set of one or more current values; (3) setting an output voltage of the variable boost device to match the selected voltage value; and repeating the steps (1)-(3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Mark A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 12035640
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods enable active compensation for unwanted discrepancies in the superconducting elements of a quantum processor. A qubit may include a primary compound Josephson junction (CJJ) structure, which may include at least a first secondary CJJ structure to enable compensation for Josephson junction asymmetry in the primary CJJ structure. A qubit may include a series LC-circuit coupled in parallel with a first CJJ structure to provide a tunable capacitance. A qubit control system may include means for tuning inductance of a qubit loop, for instance a tunable coupler inductively coupled to the qubit loop and controlled by a programming interface, or a CJJ structure coupled in series with the qubit loop and controlled by a programming interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: 1372934 B. C. LTD.
    Inventors: Richard G. Harris, Andrew J. Berkley, Jan Johansson, Mark Johnson, Mohammad Amin, Paul I. Bunyk
  • Publication number: 20240207001
    Abstract: A virtual reality system providing a virtual robotic surgical environment, and methods for using the virtual reality system, are described herein. Within the virtual reality system, various user modes enable different kinds of interactions between a user and the virtual robotic surgical environment. For example, one variation of a method for facilitating navigation of a virtual robotic surgical environment includes displaying a first-person perspective view of the virtual robotic surgical environment from a first vantage point, displaying a first window view of the virtual robotic surgical environment from a second vantage point and displaying a second window view of the virtual robotic surgical environment from a third vantage point. Additionally, in response to a user input associating the first and second window views, a trajectory between the second and third vantage points can be generated sequentially linking the first and second window views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Haoran Yu, Pablo Eduardo Garcia Kilroy, Bernard Fai Kin Siu, Eric Mark Johnson