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Nicole F Johnson

Examiner (ID: 15113, Phone: (571)270-5040 , Office: P/3762 )

Most Active Art Unit
3762
Art Unit(s)
3796, 3762, 3792
Total Applications
1441
Issued Applications
1169
Pending Applications
99
Abandoned Applications
172

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/066250
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for providing three-dimensional stereo sound Oct 7, 2020 Issued
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17/062220
Method and system for audio sharing Oct 1, 2020 Issued
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17/030303
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATION IN A SHARED ENVIRONMENT Sep 22, 2020 Abandoned
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17/028821
Accelerometer echo suppression and echo gating during a voice communication session on a headphone device Sep 21, 2020 Issued
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17/018904
Methods and apparatus to inspect characteristics of multichannel audio Sep 10, 2020 Issued
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17/014110
Communication device and echo cancellation method Sep 7, 2020 Issued
Array ( [id] => 17669683 [patent_doc_number] => 11363399 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2022-06-14 [patent_title] => System and method for complementary audio output [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/002849 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2020-08-26 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 10 [patent_figures_cnt] => 14 [patent_no_of_words] => 6691 [patent_no_of_claims] => 19 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 178 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17002849 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/002849
System and method for complementary audio output Aug 25, 2020 Issued
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16/983817
Spectrally orthogonal audio component processing Aug 2, 2020 Issued
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16/931377
Audio upmixer operable in prediction or non-prediction mode Jul 15, 2020 Issued
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16/914614
Electronic device Jun 28, 2020 Issued
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17/282234
Smart background noise estimator Jun 22, 2020 Issued
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17/617283
ARRANGEMENT OF AUDIO DEVICES, CONFIGURATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM May 24, 2020 Pending
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15/931404
Apparatus, method or computer program for generating a sound field description May 12, 2020 Issued
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16/870373
Portable listening device with sensors May 7, 2020 Issued
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16/865185
Coordinated tracking for binaural audio rendering Apr 30, 2020 Issued
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16/856350
SPEAKER EXCURSION PROTECTION Apr 22, 2020 Abandoned
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17/602870
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and program Apr 13, 2020 Issued
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16/842065
Method and system for audio sharing Apr 6, 2020 Issued
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16/839449
INPUT DEVICE Apr 2, 2020 Abandoned
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16/833453
Orientation based microphone selection apparatus Mar 26, 2020 Issued
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