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Brian E. Glessner

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 155, Phone: (571)272-6754 , Office: P/3633 )

Most Active Art Unit
3635
Art Unit(s)
3676, 3633, 3621, 3635
Total Applications
975
Issued Applications
618
Pending Applications
136
Abandoned Applications
222

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/847175
SINTERED BODY, SPUTTERING TARGET, OXIDE THIN FILM, THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SINTERED BODY Mar 6, 2023 Pending
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18/177244
Magnetic film and perpendicular magnetic recording medium Mar 1, 2023 Issued
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18/838890
VACUUM LAYER DEPOSITION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DEPOSITING A LAYER ON A SUBSTRATE, ESPECIALLY ON A SUBSTRATE COMPRISING INDENTATIONS IN THE SURFACE TO BE COATED Jan 17, 2023 Issued
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18/097152
Organic contamination free surface machining Jan 12, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 19328771 [patent_doc_number] => 12046460 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2024-07-23 [patent_title] => Programmable electrostatic chuck to enhance aluminum film morphology [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/093138 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-01-04 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 2 [patent_figures_cnt] => 5 [patent_no_of_words] => 3466 [patent_no_of_claims] => 14 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 163 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18093138 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/093138
Programmable electrostatic chuck to enhance aluminum film morphology Jan 3, 2023 Issued
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18/093141
Programmable ESC to enhance aluminum film morphology Jan 3, 2023 Issued
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18/722727
Method for producing a substoichiometric layer of titanium, vanadium, tungsten or molybdenum oxide Dec 19, 2022 Issued
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18/074496
Method and apparatus for controlling stress variation in a material layer formed via pulsed DC physical vapor deposition Dec 3, 2022 Issued
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18/058817
Device and method for sputtering and depositing metal on surface of magnetic powder materials Nov 24, 2022 Issued
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18/726026
OXIDE FILM AND OXIDE SPUTTERING TARGET Nov 20, 2022 Pending
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18/712046
Electron-beam-assisted sputtering device and method therefor Nov 18, 2022 Issued
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18/726294
SURFACE TREATMENT APPARATUS Nov 13, 2022 Pending
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18/054562
Magnet system, sputtering device and method Nov 10, 2022 Issued
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17/985175
Magnet system, sputtering device and housing cover Nov 10, 2022 Issued
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18/054171
Erosion resistant coatings applied by variable bias cathodic arc deposition Nov 9, 2022 Issued
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17/975619
PVD APPARATUS Oct 27, 2022 Abandoned
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18/048957
Sputtering system with a plurality of cathode assemblies Oct 23, 2022 Issued
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18/047350
Sputtering-based catalyst deposition on particles for membrane electrode assembly (MEA) catalyst layer Oct 17, 2022 Issued
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17/967556
Physical vapor deposition of piezoelectric films Oct 16, 2022 Issued
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18/698877
METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE MAGNETIZATION IN AT LEAST ONE REGION OF A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Oct 11, 2022 Pending
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