Patents by Inventor Michael Johns

Michael Johns 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).

  • METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ANTIGEN-BINDING MOLECULES
    Publication number: 20230314445
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for identification of antigen binding molecules such as antibodies from a sample by exposing the antigen binding molecules to an antigen conjugated to an oligonucleotide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Wyatt James MCDONNELL, Michael John Terry STUBBINGTON, Geoffrey P. MCDERMOTT, David Michael PATTERSON
  • Polypeptides that bind to IL-17A, IL-17F and/or IL17-A/F and methods of treatment using same
    Patent number: 11773159
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to amino acid sequences that are directed against (as defined herein) any of IL-17A, IL-17F and/or IL-17A/F including combinations thereof, as well as to compounds or constructs, and in particular proteins and polypeptides, that comprise or essentially consist of one or more such amino acid sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Heidi Rommelaere, Joost Alexander Kolkman, Michael John Scott Saunders, Ann Union, Yolande Chvatchko, Amanda E. I. Proudfoot, Alain Vicari, Denis Bruniquel, Laurent Chevalet, Olivier Leger
  • Cargo bed covering and enclosing assembly
    Patent number: 11772468
    Abstract: A vehicle assembly includes a cargo bed cover that covers a cargo bed of a vehicle when the cargo bed is in a standard bed position. The cargo bed cover is configured to provide an aft wall of the cargo bed when the cargo bed is in an extended bed position. A cargo bed providing method includes transitioning a cargo bed from a standard bed position to an extended bed position, and enclosing an aft end of the cargo bed with a cargo bed cover that covers the cargo bed when the cargo bed is in the standard bed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Harmon, Ryan Mathew Sandor, Amol Borkar, Ronald Meredith, Martyn Swain, Scott Culver Anderson
  • Extendable cargo bed side walls having cargo bed access openings
    Patent number: 11772714
    Abstract: A cargo bed system includes a side wall assembly of a cargo bed. The side wall assembly is configured to transition back-and-forth between a standard wall position and an extended wall position. The side wall assembly includes an extendable wall section and a fixed side wall section. The extendable wall section extends and retracts relative to the fixed side wall section when the side wall assembly transitions back-and-forth between the standard wall position and the extended wall position. The side wall assembly in the extended wall position provides a cargo bed access opening within the side wall assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Harmon, Ryan Mathew Sandor, Dragan B. Stojkovic, Amol Borkar, Christopher Bowser, Sarah Schabel, Dale F. Jordan, III
  • Load transfer device, stator vane assembly, turbine, and gas turbine engine including the same
    Patent number: 11773737
    Abstract: A stator vane assembly for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The stator vane assembly includes an inner carrier including a metallic material and an outer carrier including a metallic material. The stator vane assembly further includes a ceramic-containing airfoil that extends from the inner carrier to the outer carrier and is at least partially received by the inner carrier and the outer carrier. The stator vane assembly further includes a load transfer device disposed between the airfoil and at least one of the inner carrier and the outer carrier. The load transfer device includes a support member fixedly attached to the at least one of the inner carrier and the outer carrier, and a plurality of micropillars coupled to the support member and extending towards the airfoil. Each micropillar is deformable and engages the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventors: Michael John Whittle, Donka Novovic, James William Philip Montgomery
  • System for producing a fully impregnated thermoplastic prepreg
    Patent number: 11772336
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system for manufacturing a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) prepreg includes a mechanism for continuously moving a fabric or mat and a resin application component that applies a methyl methacrylate (MMA) resin to the fabric or mat. The system also includes a press mechanism that presses the fabric or mat during the continuous movement subsequent to the application of the MMA resin to ensure that the MMA resin fully saturates the fabric or mat. The system further includes a curing oven through which the fabric or mat is continuously moved. The curing oven is maintained at a temperature of between 40° C. and 100° C. to polymerize the MMA resin and thereby form PMMA so that upon exiting the curing oven, the fabric or mat is fully impregnated with PMMA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Asheber Yohannes, Michael John Block, Jawed Asrar, Derek Cooper Bristol, Christopher P Sandoval
  • System for administering a qualitative assessment using an automated verbal interface
    Patent number: 11776697
    Abstract: Using artificial intelligence and data observed using sensors or imaging devices to prompt a patient to provide responses or perform actions and then observing the patient's responses to the prompts and performing an assessment resulting in a quantitative result. The quantitative result is then used to complete a clinical qualitative assessment of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: IX INNOVATION LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roh, Justin Esterberg, John Cronin, Seth Cronin, Michael John Baker
  • GH5 and GH30 in Wet Milling
    Publication number: 20230304054
    Abstract: The instant application provides methods to improve the total starch yield and/or gluten yield from corn kernels in a wet milling process, the method comprising admixing corn kernels or a fraction of the corn kernels with an enzyme composition comprising an effective amount of one or more hydrolytic enzymes, wherein at least one of said hydrolytic enzymes is selected from the group consisting of a GH30 polypeptide, a GH5 polypeptide or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Bernardo Vidal, James Lavigne, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yi Cao, Wei Li, Yu Zhang, Soeren Nymand-Grarup, Madelyn Mallison Shoup, Kenneth Jensen, Kristian Bertel Romer M. Krogh, Lorena Gonzalez Palmen
  • UNIFIED NETWORK SERVICE THAT CONNECTS MULTIPLE DISPARATE PRIVATE NETWORKS AND END USER CLIENT DEVICES OPERATING ON SEPARATE NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20230308415
    Abstract: A unified network service that connects multiple disparate private networks and end user client devices operating on separate networks is described. The multiple disparate private networks and end user client devices connect to a distributed cloud computing network that provides routing services, security services, and performance services, and that can be controlled consistently regardless of the connection type. The unified network service provides uniform access control at the L3 layer (e.g., at the IP layer) or at a higher layer using user identity information (e.g., a zero-trust model). The disparate private networks are run on top of the distributed cloud computing network. The virtual routing layer of the distributed cloud computing network allows customers of the service to have private resources visible only to client devices (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Wondra, Igor Postelnik, Michael John Vanderwater, Adam Simon Chalmers, Nuno Miguel Lourenço Diegues, Arég Harutyunyan, Erich Alfred Heine
  • MULTIMATERIAL POWDER BED PATTERNING FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230302727
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for additively manufacturing a part. The method may involve using a reservoir to hold a granular material feedstock, and using a nozzle in communication with the reservoir to release the granular material feedstock in a controlled fashion from the reservoir to form at least one layer of a part. The method may further involve using an excitation source for applying a signal to the nozzle which induces a controlled release of the granular material feedstock from the nozzle as needed to pattern the granular material feedstock as necessary to form a layer of the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Nikola DUDUKOVIC, Roger AINES, Sarah BAKER, Joshua R. DEOTTE, Eric B. DUOSS, Jeremy Taylor FEASTER, Alexandra GOLOBIC, Julie MANCINI, Christopher M. SPADACCINI, Seth Evan WATTS, Michael John TROKSA
  • PROCESS OF EXTRACTING OIL FROM THIN STILLAGE
    Publication number: 20230303986
    Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a phospholipase is present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Michael John Akerman, Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen
  • 5-MEMBERED AZA-HETEROCYCLIC CONTAINING DELTA-OPIOID RECEPTOR MODULATING COMPOUNDS, METHODS OF USING AND MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20230303531
    Abstract: The present embodiments are directed, in part, to compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, or pharmaceutical compositions thereof for modulating the activity of delta opioid receptor, biased and/or unbiased, and/or methods for treating pain, migraines, headaches, depression, Parkinsons Disease, anxiety, and/or overactive bladder, and other disorders and conditions described herein or any combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Aimee Crombie Speerschneider, Dennis Shinji Yamashita, Philip Michael Pitis, Michael John Hawkins, Guodong Liu, Tamara Ann Miskowski Daubert, Catherine C.K. Yuan, Robert Borbo Kargbo, Robert Jason Herr, Donna Romero
  • ROTARY VALVE WITH ENCODER ON ROTOR
    Publication number: 20230304602
    Abstract: A rotary valve comprises a stator member with a stator face, the stator member having at least two stator channels for conducting a fluid and opening into the stator face; a rotor member with a rotor face facing and in contact with the stator face, the rotor member having a rotor channel in the rotor face, wherein the rotor member is rotatable with respect to the stator member about a rotation axis, such that in a conducting position, the rotor channel interconnects the at least two stator channels to be in fluid communication; and a rotary encoder assembly adapted for determining a rotary position of the rotor member, the rotary encoder assembly comprising an encoder member and an encoder module, which is adapted to sense a rotary position of the encoder member. The encoder member is rigidly connected to the rotor member and surrounds the rotor member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: TECAN TRADING AG
    Inventors: John GREENE, Michael John KENNEDY, Torleif Ove BJÖRNSON, Werner HÄLG
  • THERMALLY INKJETTABLE ACRYLIC DIELECTRIC INK FORMULATION AND PROCESS
    Publication number: 20230303867
    Abstract: An aqueous composition for forming a micro-fluid jet printable dielectric film layer, methods for forming dielectric film layers, and dielectric film layers formed by the method. The aqueous composition includes from about 5 to about 20 percent by 65 weight of a polymeric binder emulsion, from about 10 to about 30 percent by weight of a humectant, from about 0 to about 3 percent by weight of a surfactant, and an aqueous carrier fluid. The aqueous composition has a viscosity ranging from about 2 to about 6 centipoise at a temperature of about 23° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaorong Cai, Michael John Dixon, Yimin Guan, Ann P. Holloway, Jeanne Marie Saldanha Singh, Zhigang Xiao
  • ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
    Publication number: 20230302293
    Abstract: Illumination devices for impinging light on tissue, for example within a body cavity of a patient, to induce various biological effects are disclosed. Biological effects may include at least one of inactivating and/or inhibiting growth of one or more pathogens, upregulating a local immune response, increasing endogenous stores of nitric oxide, releasing nitric oxide from endogenous stores, and inducing an antiinflammatory effect. Wavelengths of light are selected based on intended biological effects for one or more of targeted tissue types and targeted pathogens. Light treatments may provide multiple pathogenic biological effects, either with light of a single wavelength or with light having multiple wavelengths. Devices for light treatments are disclosed that provide light doses for inducing biological effects on various targeted pathogens and tissues with increased efficacy and reduced cytotoxicity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: David T. Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, Thomas Matthew Womble, Antony Paul van de Ven, Nathan Stasko, F. Neal Hunter, Adam Cockrell, Rebecca McDonald, James Michael Lay
  • CONFIGURABLE VEHICLE CHASSIS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20230303194
    Abstract: An example vehicle frame subassembly for a vehicle is disclosed herein. The example vehicle frame subassembly includes a first frame portion defining a wheel axle, and a second frame portion extending from the first frame portion at an angle from the wheel axle, the wheel axle at a first height, an end of the second frame portion at a second height different from the first height, the vehicle frame subassembly to configure a vehicle for a selected ride height when the vehicle frame subassembly is implemented in the vehicle, the second height corresponding to the selected ride height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Michael John Harmon, Hussain Z. Tajmahal, Marielle Conrad, Benjamin Jordan Curtis, David Earl Ooms, Yejin Han
  • Account vulnerability alerts
    Patent number: 11769200
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assessing an account takeover risk for one or more accounts of an individual. The account security procedures for each of a number of services with which the user has an account may be analyzed. Publicly accessible information regarding the user may also be collected and analyzed. The collected information and security procedures may be compared in order to determine one or more vulnerabilities to hostile account takeover of one or more of the analyzed accounts. An alert may be generated regarding a determined takeover risk, which may include suggested actions for remedying the risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Kapczynski, Michael John Dean, Herbert Harris Hunt, III
  • Multivalent peptoid oligomers, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using same
    Patent number: 11766480
    Abstract: Novel peptoid oligomers are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following formula Ia or Ib: The peptoid oligomers are prepared as modulators of androgen receptor (AR), and may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions and used for the prevention or treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals, including humans, associated with unwanted or aberrant AR activity. The present peptoid oligomers are particularly valuable for the treatment of subjects with cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kent Kirshenbaum, Paul Michael Levine, Michael John Garabedian, Justin M. Holub
  • Articulated display for a vehicle
    Patent number: 11766939
    Abstract: An articulated display for a vehicle, the articulated display comprises a display housing and a ball joint outwardly extending from a backside of the display housing, wherein the ball joint defines a first locking aperture. The articulated display also comprises a compression module, wherein the compression module defines a second locking aperture and a mounting aperture, and wherein the ball joint is disposed within the mounting aperture. The articulated display further comprises a pedestal sleeve housing, wherein the compression module slidably couples with the pedestal sleeve housing. The articulated display even further comprises a locking pin coupled with the pedestal sleeve housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Harmon, Hussain Z. Tajmahal, Scott Culver Anderson, Leyna Hirsch
  • DISTRIBUTED VISIBILITY STREAM GENERATION FOR COARSE GRAIN BINNING
    Publication number: 20230298261
    Abstract: Techniques for performing rendering operations are disclosed herein. The techniques include performing two-level primitive batch binning in parallel across multiple rendering engines, wherein tiles for subdividing coarse-level work across the rendering engines have the same size as tiles for performing coarse binning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Livesley, Ruijin Wu, Mangesh P. Nijasure