Patents by Inventor Richard D. Johnson

Richard D. 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: 11859155
    Abstract: Methods employing detergent compositions effective for reducing hard water scale and accumulation on hard surfaces, namely within food, beverage and pharmaceutical applications are disclosed. The detergent compositions employ phosphinosuccinic acid adducts in combination with an alkalinity source and optionally polymers, surfactants and/or oxidizers, providing alkaline compositions having a pH between about 10 and 13.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Carter M. Silvernail, Erik C. Olson, Michel M. Lawrence, Richard D. Johnson, Steven J. Lange
  • Patent number: 11302027
    Abstract: Embodiments for managing virtual reality (VR) sessions by one or more processors are described. A condition associated with a user experiencing a VR session is detected. A severity of the condition is determined. The determining of the severity of the condition is performed using a cognitive analysis of a detected situation associated with the condition that will affect the user, notwithstanding whether the detected situation is currently occurring within a vicinity of the user experiencing the VR session. If the severity is above a predetermined threshold, a signal representative thereof is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin G. Keen, Richard D. Johnson, Adam Smye-Rumsby, Kimberly G. Starks
  • Publication number: 20210363467
    Abstract: Methods employing detergent compositions effective for reducing hard water scale and accumulation on hard surfaces, namely within food, beverage and pharmaceutical applications are disclosed. The detergent compositions employ phosphinosuccinic acid adducts in combination with an alkalinity source and optionally polymers, surfactants and/or oxidizers, providing alkaline compositions having a pH between about 10 and 13.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Carter M. Silvernail, Erik C. Olson, Michel M. Lawrence, Richard D. Johnson, Steven J. Lange
  • Patent number: 11180323
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing gaps in article or package processing. In some embodiments, the system can include a conveying path along which a first advanced article and a second advanced article can be advanced. The system can further include a first stop location and a second stop location. The first stop location can include movable fingers that are configured to raise to stop the advance of the articles and then lower at specific times to allow the articles to advance with specific distances between the articles. Additionally, the system can include a paddle that also raises and lowers. The paddle lowers to stop an advancing article again, and in doing so, front-end registers the article. Then the paddle can raise to allow the package to advance again along the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Bell and Howell, LLC
    Inventors: Neal J. Middelberg, Richard D. Johnson, Taner Lee Howard
  • Patent number: 11153619
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for streaming multimedia data includes receiving a request to stream, by a first computing device, a first multimedia data file stored on a second computing device. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a first recommendation to skip viewing of a first logical segment included in the multimedia data file, wherein the first recommendation is based, at least in part, on analyzing a set of user insight information corresponding to a first classification associated with the first logical segment. The computer-implemented method further includes determining that a first confidence score associated with the first recommendation is below a predetermined threshold level. The computer-implemented method further includes providing, in response to determining that the first confidence score is below the predetermined threshold level, the first recommendation to a user while streaming the first multimedia data file via the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin G. Keen, Hernan A. Cunico, Paul Alexander Raphael Frank, Richard D. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11093594
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for cognitive user identification recommendation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for cognitive user identification recommendation includes monitoring typing patterns of an end user as the end user enters data in different fields of different applications of a computing device having a device type and categorizing each of the fields and applications according to field type and application type. The method further includes generating a data structure mapping the user typing patterns to each type of field and application to model user input behavior of the end user. The method also includes transmitting the data structure to a requesting application for prompting the end user to provide a particular type of password mapped to the modeled user input and consistent with a field type of the password and a type of requesting application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hernan Cunico, Paul Alexander Frank, Martin Keen, Richard D. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11053458
    Abstract: Methods employing detergent compositions effective for reducing hard water scale and accumulation on hard surfaces, namely within food, beverage and pharmaceutical applications are disclosed. The detergent compositions employ phosphinosuccinic acid adducts in combination with an alkalinity source and optionally polymers, surfactants and/or oxidizers, providing alkaline compositions having a pH between about 10 and 13.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Carter M. Silvernail, Erik C. Olson, Michel M. Lawrence, Richard D. Johnson, Steven J. Lange
  • Publication number: 20210079313
    Abstract: The passage of a container along a conveyor is lubricated by applying to the container or conveyor a lubricant composition comprising a water-miscible silicone material having a silicone emulsion wherein the silicone emulsion contains less than 500 ppm of a triethanolamine salts of alkyl benzene sulfonic acid compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Arturo S. Valencia Sil, Lawrence A. Grab, Bruce E. Schmidt, David A. Halsrud, Guang-Jong Jason Wei, Eric D. Morrison, Hector R. Dibenedetto, Jessica L. Anacker, Richard D. Johnson, Megan W. Malvey, Scott P. Bennett, Stefan Seemeyer
  • Patent number: 10831870
    Abstract: Embodiments for implementing intelligent user identification by a processor. A temporary abstraction model may be created. One or more user specific verification queries may be generated according to the temporary abstraction model. A user identify may be asserted for accessing an application upon validating one or more user responses in relation to the one or more user specific verification queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hernan A. Cunico, Martin G. Keen, Richard D. Johnson, Paul A. R. Frank
  • Patent number: 10815448
    Abstract: The passage of a container along a conveyor is lubricated by applying to the container or conveyor a lubricant composition comprising a water-miscible silicone material having a silicone emulsion wherein the silicone emulsion contains less than 500 ppm of a triethanolamine salts of alkyl benzene sulfonic acid compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Arturo S. Valencia Sil, Lawrence A. Grab, Bruce E. Schmidt, David A. Halsrud, Guang-Jong Jason Wei, Eric D. Morrison, Hector R. Dibenedetto, Jessica L. Anacker, Richard D. Johnson, Megan W. Malvey, Scott P. Bennett, Stefan Seemeyer
  • Patent number: 10750005
    Abstract: In an approach to narrating an email message based on the significance of the recipients on the message, identifying an email message; identifying recipients of the email message; identifying a client recipient from the recipients; selecting a first recipient from the recipients; identifying messages in an email repository; determining, from among the identified messages, a first count of messages; identifying an important recipient threshold, wherein the important recipient threshold represents a threshold count of messages; in response to determining the first count of messages exceeds the important recipient threshold, assigning a high importance recipient rating to the first recipient; creating a narration script; and in response to identifying the first recipient as having the high importance recipient rating, populating the narration script with a name of the first recipient such that the name of the first recipient will be read when the narration script is recited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin G. Keen, Richard D. Johnson, Hernan A. Cunico, Paul A. R. Frank
  • Publication number: 20200202552
    Abstract: Embodiments for managing virtual reality (VR) sessions by one or more processors are described. A condition associated with a user experiencing a VR session is detected. A severity of the condition is determined. The determining of the severity of the condition is performed using a cognitive analysis of a detected situation associated with the condition that will affect the user, notwithstanding whether the detected situation is currently occurring within a vicinity of the user experiencing the VR session. If the severity is above a predetermined threshold, a signal representative thereof is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin G. KEEN, Richard D. JOHNSON, Adam SMYE-RUMSBY, Kimberly G. STARKS
  • Publication number: 20200143020
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for cognitive user identification recommendation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for cognitive user identification recommendation includes monitoring typing patterns of an end user as the end user enters data in different fields of different applications of a computing device having a device type and categorizing each of the fields and applications according to field type and application type. The method further includes generating a data structure mapping the user typing patterns to each type of field and application to model user input behavior of the end user. The method also includes transmitting the data structure to a requesting application for prompting the end user to provide a particular type of password mapped to the modeled user input and consistent with a field type of the password and a type of requesting application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Hernan Cunico, Paul Alexander Frank, Martin Keen, Richard D. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20200106876
    Abstract: In an approach to narrating an email message based on the significance of the recipients on the message, identifying an email message; identifying recipients of the email message; identifying a client recipient from the recipients; selecting a first recipient from the recipients; identifying messages in an email repository; determining, from among the identified messages, a first count of messages; identifying an important recipient threshold, wherein the important recipient threshold represents a threshold count of messages; in response to determining the first count of messages exceeds the important recipient threshold, assigning a high importance recipient rating to the first recipient; creating a narration script; and in response to identifying the first recipient as having the high importance recipient rating, populating the narration script with a name of the first recipient such that the name of the first recipient will be read when the narration script is recited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Martin G. Keen, Richard D. Johnson, Hernan A. Cunico, Paul A. R. Frank
  • Patent number: 10607367
    Abstract: Embodiments for managing virtual reality (VR) sessions by one or more processors are described. A condition in a vicinity of a user experiencing a VR session is detected. A severity of the condition is determined. The determining of the severity of the condition is performed using a cognitive analysis. If the severity is above a predetermined threshold, a signal representative thereof is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin G. Keen, Richard D. Johnson, Adam Smye-Rumsby, Kimberly G. Starks
  • Publication number: 20200074052
    Abstract: Embodiments for implementing intelligent user identification by a processor. A temporary abstraction model may be created. One or more user specific verification queries may be generated according to the temporary abstraction model. A user identify may be asserted for accessing an application upon validating one or more user responses in relation to the one or more user specific verification queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hernan A. CUNICO, Martin G. KEEN, Richard D. JOHNSON, Paul A. R. FRANK
  • Publication number: 20200007916
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for streaming multimedia data includes receiving a request to stream, by a first computing device, a first multimedia data file stored on a second computing device. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a first recommendation to skip viewing of a first logical segment included in the multimedia data file, wherein the first recommendation is based, at least in part, on analyzing a set of user insight information corresponding to a first classification associated with the first logical segment. The computer-implemented method further includes determining that a first confidence score associated with the first recommendation is below a predetermined threshold level. The computer-implemented method further includes providing, in response to determining that the first confidence score is below the predetermined threshold level, the first recommendation to a user while streaming the first multimedia data file via the first computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Martin G. Keen, Hernan A. Cunico, Paul Alexander Raphael Frank, Richard D. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20190392604
    Abstract: Embodiments for managing virtual reality (VR) sessions by one or more processors are described. A condition in a vicinity of a user experiencing a VR session is detected. A severity of the condition is determined. The determining of the severity of the condition is performed using a cognitive analysis. If the severity is above a predetermined threshold, a signal representative thereof is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin G. KEEN, Richard D. JOHNSON, Adam SMYE-RUMSBY, Kimberly G. STARKS
  • Publication number: 20190315573
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing gaps in article or package processing. In some embodiments, the system can include a conveying path along which a first advanced article and a second advanced article can be advanced. The system can further include a first stop location and a second stop location. The first stop location can include movable fingers that are configured to raise to stop the advance of the articles and then lower at specific times to allow the articles to advance with specific distances between the articles. Additionally, the system can include a paddle that also raises and lowers. The paddle lowers to stop an advancing article again, and in doing so, front-end registers the article. Then the paddle can raise to allow the package to advance again along the conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Neal J. Middelberg, Richard D. Johnson, Taner Lee Howard
  • Publication number: 20180251708
    Abstract: Methods employing detergent compositions effective for reducing hard water scale and accumulation on hard surfaces, namely within food, beverage and pharmaceutical applications are disclosed. The detergent compositions employ phosphinosuccinic acid adducts in combination with an alkalinity source and optionally polymers, surfactants and/or oxidizers, providing alkaline compositions having a pH between about 10 and 13.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Carter M. Silvernail, Erik C. Olson, Michel M. Lawrence, Richard D. Johnson, Steven J. Lange