Patents by Inventor Michael Johnston

Michael 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).

  • Patent number: 12265648
    Abstract: The present invention allows a CEC system to automatedly track the use, storage, access, and modification of sensitive information/data in the system through desktop monitoring. Further, through desktop, video, and audio monitoring of CSRs the system can automatedly determine the improper use, access, storage, and modification of sensitive information by implementing sensitive data use rules that allow a system to be specialized for the user. Finally, the system can automatedly determine and implement violation actions for the improper use, storage, access, and manipulation of sensitive information. This provides an intelligent system capable of locating all sensitive data in the system and regulating the use, access, and storage of sensitive data in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Verint Americas, Inc
    Inventors: Michael Johnston, Neil Eades, Ashish Sood
  • Patent number: 12260479
    Abstract: A system comprising a shape element library and a set of tools and scripts enabling, via manipulation of shape element parameters in a primarily graphical setting, the graphical attachment and multiplication of shapes elements to form shape element clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventors: Louis Anthony Romero, Julian Neukom Romero, Alexander Charles Romero, Aaron Michael Johnston
  • Publication number: 20250060064
    Abstract: Embodiments of a pipeline pig (10) of this disclosure and method of its use include a pressure-equalizing transmitter cavity system. Excluding sensors(S) and other electronic circuitry, the pipeline pig may be an all polyurethane pig. A plug (15) located at the rearward end (41) of the transmitter cavity (13) includes a passageway (25) that permits pipeline product to flow into the transmitter cavity. The plug is received by a flange (17) which may have a different harness than that of the plug. When in an intended use, the pipeline pig is inserted into the pipeline at one end and retrieved from the pipeline at another end. As the pipeline pig traverses the pipeline under differential pressure, pipeline pressure and temperature data may be collected and the location of the pipeline pig may be tracked. Pressure within the transmitter cavity is equalized with that of the pipeline product flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Charles G. Boellstorff, William C. Keenan, Michael Johnston, Joshua D. Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20250025379
    Abstract: Individually packaged topical formulations comprising about 0.25 to about 6% w/w of glycopyrrolate for the treatment of hyperhidrosis, wherein said wipe is contained within a pouch resistant to leakage. The formulations may further comprise ethanol, a buffering agent and water. In addition, the formulations may further comprise a polymer system comprising a hydrophobic polymer in combination with a hydrophilic polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Michael JOHNSTON, Robert James HOULDEN
  • Patent number: 12192222
    Abstract: A method described herein involves various operations directed toward network security. The operations include accessing transaction data describing network traffic associated with a web server during an interval. Based on a count of new transactions involving an online entity during the interval according to the transaction data, a short-term trend is determined for the online entity. The operations further include applying exponential smoothing to a history of transactions of the online entity to compute a long-term trend for the online entity. Based on a comparison between the short-term trend and the long-term trend for the online entity, an anomaly is detected with respect to the online entity in the network traffic associated with the web server. Responsive to detecting the anomaly, an access control is implemented between the online entity and the web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Kount Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Michael Johnston, Matthew Lewis Jones, Nathan Daniel Monnig, Divyanshu Rohit Murli
  • Patent number: 12165092
    Abstract: In an approach for transforming workflows based on goals and constraints, a processor receives a workflow definition and one or more events for a workflow output by a workflow orchestrator, wherein the one or more events are at least one of a parsing event and a scheduling event. A processor determines, using one or more transformers, one or more transformations to the workflow based on a set of goals and constraints, wherein the one or more transformations is at least one of addition of a new node, addition of a new graph, modification of at least one existing node, modification of at least one existing graph, removal of at least one existing node, and removal of at least one existing graph. A processor dynamically applies, using one or more enforcers, the one or more transformations to the workflow based on the set of goals and constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vasileios Vasileiadis, Marco Simioni, Stefano Braghin, Michael Johnston, Yiannis Gkoufas
  • Publication number: 20240324708
    Abstract: A headband with one or more protective inserts. The inserts may be strategically positioned to provide protection for specific areas of a person's head that are most vulnerable to impact, depending on the sport or other activity. The inserts may be directly attached to the headband, or may be enclosed in pouches which are directly attached to the headband. The headband may be worn with or without additional headgear, and may be configured to cooperate with the additional headgear as to form, fit, and functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Shane Michael Johnston
  • Patent number: 12087287
    Abstract: Structure of conversations between users and agents and/or systems is discovered and interactively displayed to analysts, thereby better supporting development of automated conversation handling systems for different domains. A corpus of prior dialogs of users with agents (without preexisting semantic labels indicating purposes for different parts of the dialogs) is taken as input, and embeddings are generated for textual units (e.g., rounds) of the dialogs. The embeddings are used to cluster the textual units, and the clusters and their relationships are visualized within a user interface that analysts may use to explore and fine-tune the structure of the conversations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Interactions LLC
    Inventors: Michael Johnston, Minhua Chen, Seyed Eman Mahmoodi, Badrinath Jayakumar
  • Publication number: 20240277839
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to high concentration protein formulations and uses thereof. In particular, it is based on the identification of a pharmaceutical formulation for a protein comprising an antigen binding domain that binds to or specifically binds to Factor XII and/or FXIIa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Michael JOHNSTON, Dianna Grace GOODALL, Nathan Aaron EDWARDS
  • Publication number: 20240249023
    Abstract: The present invention allows a CEC system to automatedly track the use, storage, access, and modification of sensitive information/data in the system through desktop monitoring. Further, through desktop, video, and audio monitoring of CSRs the system can automatedly determine the improper use, access, storage, and modification of sensitive information by implementing sensitive data use rules that allow a system to be specialized for the user. Finally, the system can automatedly determine and implement violation actions for the improper use, storage, access, and manipulation of sensitive information. This provides an intelligent system capable of locating all sensitive data in the system and regulating the use, access, and storage of sensitive data in the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Verint Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Johnston, Neil Eades, Ashish Sood
  • Publication number: 20240212241
    Abstract: A system comprising a shape element library and a set of tools and scripts enabling, via manipulation of shape element parameters in a primarily graphical setting, the graphical attachment and multiplication of shapes elements to form shape element clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Louis Anthony Romero, Julian Neukom Romero, Alexander Charles Romero, Aaron Michael Johnston
  • Patent number: 12016408
    Abstract: A headband with one or more protective inserts. The inserts may be strategically positioned to provide protection for specific areas of a person's head that are most vulnerable to impact, depending on the sport or other activity. The inserts may be directly attached to the headband, or may be enclosed in pouches which are directly attached to the headband. The headband may be worn with or without additional headgear, and may be configured to cooperate with the additional headgear as to form, fit, and functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Shane Michael Johnston
  • Patent number: 12003668
    Abstract: A virtual assistant system for communicating with customers uses human intelligence to correct any errors in the system AI, while collecting data for machine learning and future improvements for more automation. The system may use a modular design, with separate components for carrying out different system functions and sub-functions, and with frameworks for selecting the component best able to respond to a given customer conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Interactions LLC
    Inventors: Yoryos Yeracaris, Michael Johnston, Ethan Selfridge, Phillip Gray, Patrick Haffner
  • Patent number: 11972017
    Abstract: The present invention allows a CEC system to automatedly track the use, storage, access, and modification of sensitive information/data in the system through desktop monitoring. Further, through desktop, video, and audio monitoring of CSRs the system can automatedly determine the improper use, access, storage, and modification of sensitive information by implementing sensitive data use rules that allow a system to be specialized for the user. Finally, the system can automatedly determine and implement violation actions for the improper use, storage, access, and manipulation of sensitive information. This provides an intelligent system capable of locating all sensitive data in the system and regulating the use, access, and storage of sensitive data in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VERINT AMERICAS INC.
    Inventors: Michael Johnston, Neil Eades, Ashish Sood
  • Patent number: 11886867
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for patching of workflows in a computing environment by one or more processors in a computing system. One or more patches may be extracted from a source workflow. The target workflow in a plurality of nodes may be statically or dynamically modified by applying the one or more patches to the target workflow. The one or more of the plurality of nodes may be added, removed, or modified in the target workflow while the target workflow is active according to applying the one or more patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Johnston, Vasileiadis Vasileios
  • Patent number: 11839884
    Abstract: A vortex breaker for a particulate separator has a first set of vanes spaced along a perimeter of a first shape and a second set of vanes spaced along a perimeter of a second shape, where the second shape resides within the first shape. Each of the vanes has a top edge, a bottom edge, an inside edge, and an outside edge. The vanes in the first and second sets of vanes intersect the first and second shapes, respectively. The vanes in the first set are oriented in a first rotational direction, and the vanes in the second set are oriented in a second rotational direction that is opposite the first rotational direction. The first set of vanes and the second set of vanes define fluid flow paths between the outside edges and the inside edges of the sets of vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sand Separation Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Michael Johnston, Dustin Mackenzie Wohlgemuth, Mohsen Bayati
  • Publication number: 20230381689
    Abstract: A particulate separator having a top baffle extends radially from an outer edge toward a vertical axis. The top baffle is positioned between an inlet port and a fluid outlet port. A radial flow channel extends below the top baffle from the outer edge toward the fluid outlet port. A series of baffles are positioned concentrically about the fluid outlet port and within the radial flow channel. The series of baffles include a first set of baffles having a top edge connected to a bottom surface of the top baffle and a bottom edge spaced below the top edge. A second set of baffles have a top edge spaced from a bottom surface of the top baffle. The first set of baffles are interleaved with the second set of baffles to define an alternating flow path along the radial flow channel from the outer edge to the fluid outlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Chris Michael Johnston, Ryan Shawn Van Drecht, Dakota Anthony Bieleski, Ahmed Tashmid
  • Publication number: 20230315535
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for dynamically factoring and composing workflows in a computing environment by one or more processors in a computing system. Subgraphs (e.g., blocks) of workflows stored in a workflow library may be identified. The subgraphs may be functional blocks such as, for example, the functional blocks may perform a logical task. Similarities and relationships may be identified between one or more of the blocks of one or more workflows. One or more blocks may be suggested for use in workflow opportunities of target workflows based on the identified associated similarities and relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael JOHNSTON, Vasileios VASILEIADIS
  • Publication number: 20230316188
    Abstract: In an approach for transforming workflows based on goals and constraints, a processor receives a workflow definition and one or more events for a workflow output by a workflow orchestrator, wherein the one or more events are at least one of a parsing event and a scheduling event. A processor determines, using one or more transformers, one or more transformations to the workflow based on a set of goals and constraints, wherein the one or more transformations is at least one of addition of a new node, addition of a new graph, modification of at least one existing node, modification of at least one existing graph, removal of at least one existing node, and removal of at least one existing graph. A processor dynamically applies, using one or more enforcers, the one or more transformations to the workflow based on the set of goals and constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Vasileios Vasileiadis, Marco Simioni, Stefano Braghin, Michael Johnston, Yiannis Gkoufas
  • Publication number: 20230306481
    Abstract: In an approach for storage, search, acquisition, and composition of a digital artifact, a processor obtains the digital artifact in a digital marketplace platform. The digital artifact is a collection of digital data with automatically generated and verifiable provenance and usage data. A processor transforms the digital artifact to define an access privilege. A processor shares the digital artifact in the digital marketplace platform by providing a view of a catalogue including the digital artifact. A processor authorizes a usage request based on the access privilege. A processor rewards a source of the digital artifact based on the usage of the digital artifact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Vasileios Vasileiadis, Srikumar Venugopal, Stefano Braghin, Christian Pinto, Michael Johnston, Yiannis Gkoufas