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Alexander S Thomas

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1783
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1508, 2899, 1794, 1783, 1315, 1772, 1504, 1721, 1773, 1506
Total Applications
3955
Issued Applications
2968
Pending Applications
161
Abandoned Applications
826

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/174084
Block-Chain Ledger Based Tracking of Generated Music Content Feb 10, 2021 Pending
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17/146921
APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AUDIO AND/OR PERFORMANCE SYNCHRONIZED OPTICAL OUTPUT, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND SYSTEMS THEREFOR Jan 11, 2021 Pending
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17/129462
Adjusting a playback device Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/129475
Playback device control Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/124628
Multisignal Audio Coding Using Signal Whitening As Processing Dec 16, 2020 Pending
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17/102873
Adjusting volume levels Nov 23, 2020 Issued
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17/103093
Adjusting volume levels Nov 23, 2020 Issued
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17/101549
Media Item Context in Social Media Posts Nov 22, 2020 Pending
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17/099952
GENERATION AND OPERATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED CONVERSATION SYSTEMS Nov 16, 2020 Pending
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17/092190
Method for real-time processing and presentation of audio signals for reducing sound hypersensitivity. Nov 5, 2020 Pending
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17/091865
Methods and apparatus to reduce audio streaming latency between audio and gigabit ethernet subsystems Nov 5, 2020 Issued
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17/079793
Associating playback devices with playback queues Oct 25, 2020 Issued
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17/078545
Networked playback device Oct 22, 2020 Issued
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17/074328
Device grouping Oct 18, 2020 Issued
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17/026780
Contrastive pre-training for language tasks Sep 20, 2020 Issued
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17/011769
Detecting media watermarks in magnetic field data Sep 2, 2020 Issued
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16/983787
Modifying playback of content using pre-processed profile information Aug 2, 2020 Issued
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16/930128
System, apparatus and method for generating sound Jul 14, 2020 Issued
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16/926286
Audio fingerprinting Jul 9, 2020 Issued
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16/924868
MULTITRACK CONTAINER FOR SOUND EFFECT RENDERING Jul 8, 2020 Pending
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