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Christopher D. Birkhimer

Examiner (ID: 2273, Phone: (571)270-1178 , Office: P/2136 )

Most Active Art Unit
2136
Art Unit(s)
2186, 2136, 2138
Total Applications
640
Issued Applications
463
Pending Applications
57
Abandoned Applications
137

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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19/057409
MANAGING TRIM COMMANDS IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM Feb 18, 2025 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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18/890570
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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18/796328
LINK STATE CONTROL METHOD AND DATA STORAGE SYSTEM Aug 6, 2024 Pending
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18/786812
ADDRESS INVALIDATION REPORTING PRIOR TO TRIM COMMAND Jul 28, 2024 Pending
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18/785672
COALESCING MULTIPLE SMALL WRITES TO LARGE FILES OR MULTIPLE WRITES TO A NUMBER OF SMALL FILES TO GENERATE LARGER COMPRESSIBLE CHUNKS FOR INLINE COMPRESSION Jul 25, 2024 Pending
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18/781102
TRACKING LATCH UPSET EVENTS USING BLOCK STATUS DATA Jul 22, 2024 Pending
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18/771247
Storage system improving encryption integrity of data and operating method thereof Jul 11, 2024 Issued
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18/758537
Method and Apparatus for Generating Chunk Group and Device Jun 27, 2024 Pending
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18/751685
IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Jun 23, 2024 Pending
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18/751088
Intelligent, Predictive Memory Management System and Method Jun 20, 2024 Pending
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18/731676
In-memory computation device for performing a signed MAC operation Jun 2, 2024 Issued
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18/731019
ADAPTIVE SEGMENT HEIGHT CALCULATION TO MINIMIZE PINNED SPACE May 30, 2024 Pending
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18/677790
HOST CONTROLLED ENABLEMENT OF AUTOMATIC BACKGROUND OPERATIONS IN A MEMORY DEVICE, AND ASSOCIATED MEMORY DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS May 28, 2024 Pending
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18/674776
System and method using metadata to directly read target data in storage nodes May 23, 2024 Issued
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18/671846
CONCURRENT PAGE CACHE RESOURCE ACCESS IN A MULTI-PLANE MEMORY DEVICE May 21, 2024 Pending
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18/657448
COMPRESSED MEMORY DUMPS May 6, 2024 Pending
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