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Christopher D. Birkhimer

Examiner (ID: 17609, Phone: (571)270-1178 , Office: P/2136 )

Most Active Art Unit
2136
Art Unit(s)
2136, 2138, 2186
Total Applications
656
Issued Applications
473
Pending Applications
53
Abandoned Applications
140

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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19/208545
EXTENDED STORAGE FOR ZONE METADATA WITH USER DATA IN A MEMORY SYSTEM WITH A CACHE May 13, 2025 Pending
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19/197643
MANAGING COMMAND COMPLETION NOTIFICATION PACING IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM May 1, 2025 Pending
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19/178372
Selecting Garbage Collection Processes Apr 13, 2025 Pending
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19/071937
DECODING DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM Mar 5, 2025 Pending
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19/057409
MANAGING TRIM COMMANDS IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM Feb 18, 2025 Pending
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19/027436
ZERO-COPY VOLUME MOVE WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM Jan 16, 2025 Pending
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18/965499
NAND RAID CONTROLLER INCLUDING BUFFER AND METHOD PERFORMED BY THE NAND RAID CONTROLLER Dec 1, 2024 Pending
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18/960829
CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM Nov 25, 2024 Pending
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18/959168
THREAD STORAGE ACCESS Nov 24, 2024 Pending
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18/955746
CACHING FOR MULTIPLE-LEVEL MEMORY DEVICE Nov 20, 2024 Pending
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18/945338
STORAGE DEVICE FOR DETERMINING MEMORY CELL TYPE AFTER DATA INPUT DURING PROGRAM OPERATION AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Nov 11, 2024 Pending
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18/926235
EVALUATING PERFORMANCE OF A DROOP MITIGATION SCHEME Oct 23, 2024 Pending
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18/913445
Reducing phase error associated with physical layer clock switchover Oct 10, 2024 Issued
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18/902045
Multi-cloud primary node election Sep 29, 2024 Issued
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18/890570
OPTIMIZING DATA SEGMENT STORAGE USING DIFFERENT PROGRAMMING MODES Sep 18, 2024 Pending
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18/820137
MEMORY SYSTEM Aug 28, 2024 Pending
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18/814996
MEMORY SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEMORY DEVICE WITH OFFLOADING Aug 25, 2024 Pending
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18/800719
POWER CYCLING CONTROL FOR SERVER TRAY SYSTEMS AND CIRCUITRY Aug 11, 2024 Pending
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18/796328
LINK STATE CONTROL METHOD AND DATA STORAGE SYSTEM Aug 6, 2024 Pending
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18/791179
HIGH RELIABILITY MEDIA MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS Jul 30, 2024 Pending
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