Patents by Inventor William Johnston

William 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: 11969201
    Abstract: A controller for an electrosurgical generator includes an RF inverter, a signal processor, a software compensator, a hardware compensator, and an RF inverter controller. The RF inverter generates an electrosurgical waveform and the signal processor outputs a measured value of at least one of a voltage, a current, or power of the electrosurgical waveform. The software compensator generates a desired value for at least one of the voltage, the current, or the power of the electrosurgical waveform, and the hardware compensator generates a phase shift based on the measured value and the desired value. The RF inverter controller generates a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal based on the phase shift to control the RF inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Robert H. Wham, Edward L. Brannan, William D. Faulkner, Mark A. Johnston, Aaron G. Mattmiller, Donald L. Tonn
  • Publication number: 20240125579
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are alignment features for scopes, such as alignment rings for telescopic sights. For example, a scope can includes a proximal end having an interior surface. The proximal end is that which a user aligns his or her eye in order to visualize a target. The scope may also include an alignment ring on the interior surface of the proximal end. The alignment ring assists a user in determining whether his or her eye is properly aligned with a longitudinal axis of the scope. With correct eye alignment, the alignment ring is not visible. With incorrect eye alignment, at least a portion of the alignment ring is visible, thus ensuring accurate sighting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Crimson Trace Corporation
    Inventors: William Johnston, Jason Clark, Eric Petterson, Eric David Marvin
  • Patent number: 11949990
    Abstract: This document describes apparatuses and techniques enabling a scale down capture preview for a panorama capture user interface. This scale down preview enables users to more-easily and more-accurately capture images for a panorama.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence Chia-Yu Huang, Carsten Hinz, Chorong Hwang Johnston, Mike Ma, Isaac William Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20240072312
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may provide control and/or sensing circuit configurations for electrochemical energy storage systems, such as metal-air battery systems. Various embodiments may include systems, methods, and devices supporting terminal switching between a charge cathode and a discharge cathode of a metal-air battery, bypass switching for the metal-air battery, and/or electrolyte low level detection for the metal-air battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Tuan Minh Truong, Tyler Grandahl, Keith William Johnston, Jhalak Joshipura Vasavada, Grant Harrison Friesen
  • Publication number: 20240004964
    Abstract: Many areas of investigation require searching through data that may be of interest. In a first method step, a digital content element is provided. The digital content element may have any suitable format or data structure of interest to a searching entity. The digital content element may be a particular data file that is of interest to a searching entity. In a second step, the digital content element is compared with a first set of data provided by a combination of a second set of data and a third set of data. The first set of data is a collection of known digital content elements that are of interest to a searching entity, for example contraband digital content elements or digital content elements owned by or represented by the searching entity. In a third method step, the digital content element is identified as known if the digital content element is detected within the first set of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: William Johnston Buchanan, Owen Chin Wai Lo, Philip Penrose, Richard Macfarlane, Ian Stevenson, Bruce Ramsay
  • Publication number: 20230420957
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may include battery string arrangements for power systems, such as dynamic battery string configurations, inter-module connections, and other configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Tyler GRANDAHL, Amelie Nina KHAREY, Nicholas MCKIBBEN, Keith William JOHNSTON
  • Patent number: 11762959
    Abstract: Many areas of investigation require searching through data that may be of interest. In a first method step, a digital content element is provided. The digital content element may have any suitable format or data structure of interest to a searching entity. The digital content element may be a particular data file that is of interest to a searching entity. In a second step, the digital content element is compared with a first set of data provided by a combination of a second set of data and a third set of data. The first set of data is a collection of known digital content elements that are of interest to a searching entity, for example contraband digital content elements or digital content elements owned by or represented by the searching entity. In a third method step, the digital content element is identified as known if the digital content element is detected within the first set of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CYACOMB LIMITED
    Inventors: William Johnston Buchanan, Owen Chin Wai Lo, Philip Penrose, Richard MacFarlane, Ian Stevenson, Bruce Ramsay
  • Publication number: 20230226748
    Abstract: In an inflatable structure, a plurality of fibers is formed in a cavity of a flexible shell. When structure is inflated, the shell expands and the fibers are tensioned to constrain the flexible shell to have a fiber-constrained shape. When the structure is uninflated, the flexible shell is configured to collapse. The structure is formed by additive manufacturing. The fibers are fused to the shell and can run in various directions in relation to each other and the flexible shell. Fibers can extend obliquely to the shell when tensioned and at crosswise directions in relation to each other to form a nonwoven mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Bhisham Sharma, William Johnston
  • Patent number: 11703305
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are alignment features for scopes, such as alignment rings for telescopic sights. For example, a scope can includes a proximal end having an interior surface. The proximal end is that which a user aligns his or her eye in order to visualize a target. The scope may also include an alignment ring on the interior surface of the proximal end. The alignment ring assists a user in determining whether his or her eye is properly aligned with a longitudinal axis of the scope. With correct eye alignment, the alignment ring is not visible. With incorrect eye alignment, at least a portion of the alignment ring is visible, thus ensuring accurate sighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CRIMSON TRACE CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Johnston, Jason Clark, Eric Petterson, Eric David Marvin
  • Publication number: 20230141615
    Abstract: An optical system employs a method for measuring an acoustic signal in a wellbore. The optical system includes an optical interrogator and an optical fiber. The optical fiber has a plurality of nominal sites uniformly spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber. A plurality of gratings are formed in the optical fiber. Each of the plurality of gratings is associated with a nominal site and is separated from its associated nominal site by an offset distance. The offset distance is selected to reduce a destructive interference between reflections from the plurality of gratings. The optical interrogator transmits a light pulse into the optical fiber to measure the acoustic signal via a reflection of the light pulse from at least one of the plurality of gratings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: William Johnston, Paul Wysocki, Dan Provenzano
  • Patent number: 11601403
    Abstract: A management request is received by a system for carrying out one or more data management operations (including, but not limited to, adding data, merging data or searching for data). The management request is received from a requesting entity. The system comprises a representation database, which comprises at least one secure element. The at least one secure element is a representation of at least one dataset containing confidential data elements stored in at least one database owned or operated by a third party entity. The management request is processed by performing at least one operation, for example by a processing component in the system, on the representation database. In a third step, a processing result is provided, which comprises any suitable information or data content. The processing result is dependent on the contents of the management request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CYACOMB LIMITED
    Inventors: William Johnston Buchanan, Owen Chin Wai Lo, Philip Penrose, Richard Macfarlane, Ian Stevenson, Bruce Ramsay
  • Publication number: 20220349674
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are alignment features for scopes, such as alignment rings for telescopic sights. For example, a scope can includes a proximal end having an interior surface. The proximal end is that which a user aligns his or her eye in order to visualize a target. The scope may also include an alignment ring on the interior surface of the proximal end. The alignment ring assists a user in determining whether his or her eye is properly aligned with a longitudinal axis of the scope. With correct eye alignment, the alignment ring is not visible. With incorrect eye alignment, at least a portion of the alignment ring is visible, thus ensuring accurate sighting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: William Johnston, Jason Clark, Eric Petterson, Eric David Marvin
  • Patent number: 11391543
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are alignment features for scopes, such as alignment rings for telescopic sights. For example, a scope can includes a proximal end having an interior surface. The proximal end is that which a user aligns his or her eye in order to visualize a target. The scope may also include an alignment ring on the interior surface of the proximal end. The alignment ring assists a user in determining whether his or her eye is properly aligned with a longitudinal axis of the scope. With correct eye alignment, the alignment ring is not visible. With incorrect eye alignment, at least a portion of the alignment ring is visible, thus ensuring accurate sighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Crimson Trace Corporation
    Inventors: William Johnston, Jason Clark, Eric Petterson, Eric David Marvin
  • Patent number: 11160754
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treating lung disorders including lung tumors by pulmonary administration of compositions comprising taxane particles such as docetaxel or paclitaxel particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CritiTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Baltezor, Matthew McClorey, William Johnston, Gere S. diZerega, James Verco
  • Publication number: 20210294878
    Abstract: Many areas of investigation require searching through data that may be of interest. In a first method step, a digital content element is provided. The digital content element may have any suitable format or data structure of interest to a searching entity. The digital content element may be a particular data file that is of interest to a searching entity. In a second step, the digital content element is compared with a first set of data provided by a combination of a second set of data and a third set of data. The first set of data is a collection of known digital content elements that are of interest to a searching entity, for example contraband digital content elements or digital content elements owned by or represented by the searching entity. In a third method step, the digital content element is identified as known if the digital content element is detected within the first set of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: William Johnston BUCHANAN, Owen Chin Wai LO, Philip PENROSE, Richard MACFARLANE, Ian STEVENSON, Bruce RAMSAY
  • Publication number: 20210214683
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for the isolation of tumor-specific immune cells from subjects that have a malignant tumor and have received local administration of a composition comprising taxane particles to the malignant tumor, and use of such isolated immune cells in compositions for adoptive cell therapy and cancer vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Gere S. DIZEREGA, Holly MAULHARDT, Michael BALTEZOR, Sam CAMPBELL, Charles J. DECEDUE, William JOHNSTON, Matthew MCCLOREY, James VERCO
  • Publication number: 20210108887
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are alignment features for scopes, such as alignment rings for telescopic sights. For example, a scope can includes a proximal end having an interior surface. The proximal end is that which a user aligns his or her eye in order to visualize a target. The scope may also include an alignment ring on the interior surface of the proximal end. The alignment ring assists a user in determining whether his or her eye is properly aligned with a longitudinal axis of the scope. With correct eye alignment, the alignment ring is not visible. With incorrect eye alignment, at least a portion of the alignment ring is visible, thus ensuring accurate sighting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: William Johnston, Jason Clark, Eric Petterson, Eric David Marvin
  • Patent number: D905193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Crimson Trace Corporation
    Inventor: William Johnston
  • Patent number: D943046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Crimson Trace Corporation
    Inventor: William Johnston
  • Patent number: D956166
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Crimson Trace Corporation
    Inventor: William Johnston