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Brian T. Pendleton

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 19656, Phone: (571)272-7527 , Office: P/2425 )

Most Active Art Unit
2644
Art Unit(s)
2644, 2425, 2615, 2747
Total Applications
536
Issued Applications
347
Pending Applications
50
Abandoned Applications
140

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/986339
HEARING DEVICE AND METHOD OF PROVIDING BROADCASTED AUDIO STREAM Dec 17, 2024 Pending
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18/963995
DETERMINING SPEAKER STATUS USING BACK EMF CHANGES Nov 28, 2024 Pending
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18/930834
DUAL SIMULTANEOUS AUDIO SOURCES Oct 28, 2024 Pending
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18/916334
GENERATIVE AUDIO EXTENSION Oct 14, 2024 Pending
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18/897406
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING AN AUDIO SYSTEM OF A DOMESTIC APPLIANCE Sep 25, 2024 Pending
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18/816219
ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Aug 26, 2024 Pending
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18/805762
METHOD, HEARING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR ASSESSING SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY OF A TEST PARTICIPANT, IN PARTICULAR A WEARER OF A HEARING INSTRUMENT Aug 14, 2024 Pending
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18/800390
GAIN CONTROL OF BEAMS OF MICROPHONE ARRAY AND EXTERNAL MICROPHONE IN A VIDEOCONFERENCE Aug 11, 2024 Pending
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18/791936
Method and device for enhancing sound quality and reducing current consumption Jul 31, 2024 Issued
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18/780990
DEVICE SELECTION BASED ON AUDIO CODEC Jul 22, 2024 Pending
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18/675296
Wearable acoustic device, wearable acoustic system, and acoustic processing method May 27, 2024 Issued
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18/651270
Apparatus, Method or Computer Program for Synthesizing a Spatially Extended Sound Source Using Variance or Covariance Data Apr 29, 2024 Pending
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18/605826
AUDIO PROCESSING SYSTEM AND AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD Mar 14, 2024 Abandoned
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18/439391
Geolocationing system and method for use of same Feb 11, 2024 Issued
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18/411970
Binaural rendering interactions Jan 11, 2024 Issued
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18/378061
Palm recognition device Oct 8, 2023 Issued
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18/867017
SOUND FIELD EQUALIZATION ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Mar 7, 2023 Pending
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18/709710
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING LOUDNESS OF AN ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER Nov 12, 2022 Pending
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18/704012
METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING DOPPLER EFFECT MODELLING Oct 26, 2022 Pending
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18/700214
Method of rendering an audio element having a size, corresponding apparatus and computer program Oct 10, 2022 Issued
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