Patents by Inventor Paul A. Johnston

Paul A. 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: 20240091571
    Abstract: A respirator comprising: an air supply unit arranged to deliver air at its output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: Michael Fraser, Paul Douglas, Alexander Grint, Anna Welch, Alan Felstead, Neville Clokey, Julie Johnston
  • Patent number: 11776260
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes an illumination indicator, a thermal grid array sensor, and an electronic controller. The thermal grid array sensor is configured to sense an outside region, an entryway region, and an inside region associated with a facility subsystem. The electronic controller is configured to determine the current availability status as unavailable responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting a heat signature in the outside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the inside region. The electronic controller is also configured to determine the current availability status as available responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting the heat signature in the inside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the outside region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: WHIFFAWAY LTD, ZURN INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Feil, Anthony G. Wilcox, Arindam Chakraborty, Glen Trickle, James McLean, Sebastian Marshall, Paul Johnston
  • Publication number: 20220191984
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes an illumination indicator, a thermal grid array sensor, and an electronic controller. The thermal grid array sensor is configured to sense an outside region, an entryway region, and an inside region associated with a facility subsystem. The electronic controller is configured to determine the current availability status as unavailable responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting a heat signature in the outside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the inside region. The electronic controller is also configured to determine the current availability status as available responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting the heat signature in the inside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the outside region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Brandon Feil, Anthony G. Wilcox, Arindam Chakraborty, Glen Trickle, James McLean, Sebastian Marshall, Paul Johnston
  • Patent number: 11153945
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes an illumination indicator, a thermal grid array sensor, and an electronic controller. The thermal grid array sensor is configured to sense an outside region, an entryway region, and an inside region associated with a facility subsystem. The electronic controller is configured to determine the current availability status as unavailable responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting a heat signature in the outside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the inside region. The electronic controller is also configured to determine the current availability status as available responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting the heat signature in the inside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the outside region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: ZURN INDUSTRIES, LLC, WHIFFAWAY LTD
    Inventors: Brandon Feil, Anthony G. Wilcox, Arindam Chakraborty, Glen Trickle, James McLean, Sebastian Marshall, Paul Johnston
  • Patent number: 11111253
    Abstract: Compounds that selectivity inhibit the STAT3 pathway and not the STAT1 pathway and exhibit anti-proliferative activity are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of treatment of cancers that are characterized by overexpression of STAT3, which are safer that other therapies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Donna M. Huryn, Peter Wipf, Jennifer Rubin Grandis, Matthew G. LaPorte, Paul A. Johnston, Mark E. Schurdak, Raffaele Colombo
  • Publication number: 20200339602
    Abstract: Compounds that selectivity inhibit the STAT3 pathway and not the STAT1 pathway and exhibit anti-proliferative activity are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of treatment of cancers that are characterized by overexpression of STAT3, which are safer that other therapies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Donna M. Huryn, Peter Wipf, Jennifer Rubin Grandis, Matthew G. LaPorte, Paul A. Johnston, Mark E. Schurdak, Raffaele Colombo
  • Patent number: 10618914
    Abstract: Compounds that selectivity inhibit the STAT3 pathway and not the STAT1 pathway and exhibit anti-proliferative activity are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of treatment of cancers that are characterized by overexpression of STAT3, which are safer that other therapies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Donna M. Huryn, Peter Wipf, Jennifer Rubin Grandis, Matthew G. LaPorte, Paul A. Johnston, Mark E. Schurdak, Raffaele Colombo
  • Patent number: 10521757
    Abstract: A system and method of hotel tray and trolley retrieval including a notification device and a computing system wirelessly connected by a network. When in use, the notification device is assigned to a room number of a hotel room via software running on the computing system. A tray and/or a trolley is delivered to the hotel room with the notification device. The hotel patron may then activate the activation device of the notification device. The notification device then sends a wireless communication to the computing system over the network indicating that the tray and/or trolley is ready for pickup from the hotel room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: BETTER NOW LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Paul Johnston, William Bret Lovett, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20190251647
    Abstract: A system and method for providing real-time database driven e-flyers to real estate agents. An e-flyer distribution server generates an e-flyer based on listing details provided by a real estate agent. The e-flyer distribution server utilizes a real-estate-agent database to distribute the e-flyer to real estate agents that are identified based on their target region. Real estate agents utilize an e-flyer presentation module on a mobile computing device to receive and view the e-flyers that are provided to that real estate agent. The real estate agent can interact with the e-flyer to perform additional actions associated with the e-flyer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Caitlin Sarah Thornburg, Kristen Thornburg, Neil Paul Johnston
  • Publication number: 20190100535
    Abstract: Compounds that selectivity inhibit the STAT3 pathway and not the STAT1 pathway and exhibit anti-proliferative activity are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of treatment of cancers that are characterized by overexpression of STAT3, which are safer that other therapies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCTION
    Inventors: Donna M. Huryn, Peter Wipf, Jennifer Rubin Grandis, Matthew G. LaPorte, Paul A. Johnston, Mark E. Schurdak, Raffaele Colombo
  • Publication number: 20190026694
    Abstract: A system and method of hotel tray and trolley retrieval including a notification device and a computing system wirelessly connected by a network. When in use, the notification device is assigned to a room number of a hotel room via software running on the computing system. A tray and/or a trolley is delivered to the hotel room with the notification device. The hotel patron may then activate the activation device of the notification device. The notification device then sends a wireless communication to the computing system over the network indicating that the tray and/or trolley is ready for pickup from the hotel room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Joshua Paul Johnston, William Bret Lovett, JR.
  • Patent number: 10004730
    Abstract: A method for treating prostate cancer in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one agent to the subject, wherein the agent is selected from: (a) a phenyl-substituted imidazole, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; or (b) a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a formula I of: ?wherein R20 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing group, a boryl-containing group, a phosphine-containing group, amino, a thio-containing group, a seleno-containing group, halide, or a nitro-containing group; R21 is an alkanediyl or a substituted alkanediyl; a is 0 or 1; c is 0 or 1; X is C or S; R22 is a moiety that includes at least one divalent amino radical; and R23 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Zhou Wang, Joel Byron Nelson, Minh Bao Nguyen, John S. Lazo, Paul A. Johnston, Peter Wipf
  • Patent number: 9981974
    Abstract: A method for treating prostate cancer in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one agent to the subject, wherein the agent is selected from: (a) a phenyl-substituted imidazole, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; or (b) a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a formula I of: wherein R20 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing group, a boryl-containing group, a phosphine-containing group, amino, a thio-containing group, a seleno-containing group, halide, or a nitro-containing group; R21 is an alkanediyl or a substituted alkanediyl; a is 0 or 1; c is 0 or 1; X is C or S; R22 is a moiety that includes at least one divalent amino radical; and R23 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Zhou Wang, Joel Byron Nelson, Minh Bao Nguyen, John S. Lazo, Paul A. Johnston, Peter Wipf
  • Publication number: 20170247382
    Abstract: A method for treating prostate cancer in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one agent to the subject, wherein the agent is selected from: (a) a phenyl-substituted imidazole, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; or (b) a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a formula I of: wherein R20 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing group, a boryl-containing group, a phosphine-containing group, amino, a thio-containing group, a seleno-containing group, halide, or a nitro-containing group; R21 is an alkanediyl or a substituted alkanediyl; a is 0 or 1; c is 0 or 1; X is C or S; R22 is a moiety that includes at least one divalent amino radical; and R23 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Zhou Wang, Joel Byron Nelson, Minh Bao Nguyen, John S. Lazo, Paul A. Johnston, Peter Wipf
  • Publication number: 20170246164
    Abstract: A method for treating prostate cancer in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one agent to the subject, wherein the agent is selected from: (a) a phenyl-substituted imidazole, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; or (b) a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a formula I of: wherein R20 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing group, a boryl-containing group, a phosphine-containing group, amino, a thio-containing group, a seleno-containing group, halide, or a nitro-containing group; R21 is an alkanediyl or a substituted alkanediyl; a is 0 or 1; c is 0 or 1; X is C or S; R22 is a moiety that includes at least one divalent amino radical; and R23 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Zhou Wang, Joel Byron Nelson, Minh Bao Nguyen, John S. Lazo, Paul A. Johnston, Peter Wipf
  • Patent number: 9708276
    Abstract: A method for treating prostate cancer in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one agent to the subject, wherein the agent is selected from: (a) a phenyl-substituted imidazole, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; or (b) a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a formula I of: wherein R20 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing group, a boryl-containing group, a phosphine-containing group, amino, a thio-containing group, a seleno-containing group, halide, or a nitro-containing group; R21 is an alkanediyl or a substituted alkanediyl; a is 0 or 1; c is 0 or 1; X is C or S; R22 is a moiety that includes at least one divalent amino radical; and R23 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Zhou Wang, Joel Byron Nelson, Minh Mindy Bao Nguyen, John S. Lazo, Paul A. Johnston, Peter Wipf
  • Patent number: 9303437
    Abstract: A closure assembly is provided including a closure having a closure hinge, a closure hinge cover and a linkage between the closure and the cover. When the closure is in a closed position, the cover extends in a plane overlying the closure hinge. When the closure is an opened position the cover is displaced to an open position to allow the closure hinge to pass through the plane that the cover assumes when the closure is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: George Holmes, Paul Johnston
  • Publication number: 20160076286
    Abstract: A closure assembly is provided including a closure having a closure hinge, a closure hinge cover and a linkage between the closure and the cover. When the closure is in a closed position, the cover extends in a plane overlying the closure hinge. When the closure is an opened position the cover is displaced to an open position to allow the closure hinge to pass through the plane that the cover assumes when the closure is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: George Holmes, Paul Johnston
  • Publication number: 20140371235
    Abstract: A method for treating prostate cancer in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one agent to the subject, wherein the agent is selected from: (a) a phenyl-substituted imidazole, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; or (b) a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a formula I of: wherein R20 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing group, a boryl-containing group, a phosphine-containing group, amino, a thio-containing group, a seleno-containing group, halide, or a nitro-containing group; R21 is an alkanediyl or a substituted alkanediyl; a is 0 or 1; c is 0 or 1; X is C or S; R22 is a moiety that includes at least one divalent amino radical; and R23 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonweath System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Zhou Wang, Joel Byron Nelson, Minh Mindy Bao Nguyen, John S. Lazo, Paul A. Johnston, Peter Wipf
  • Patent number: D887929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Piaskowski, Gordon Platto, Doyle Letson, Paul Johnston, Andy Thomas, Jim Smithbauer, Rachael Robinson, Josh Greiner