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Christopher D. Birkhimer

Examiner (ID: 7970, Phone: (571)270-1178 , Office: P/2136 )

Most Active Art Unit
2136
Art Unit(s)
2136, 2138, 2186
Total Applications
643
Issued Applications
463
Pending Applications
58
Abandoned Applications
137

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/528232
Virtual one-time programmable memory management Jul 30, 2019 Issued
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16/450294
Information processing device and control method determining valid data in multiple memory areas based on multiple valid flags Jun 23, 2019 Issued
Array ( [id] => 16574203 [patent_doc_number] => 10896126 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2021-01-19 [patent_title] => Storage device, method and non-volatile memory device performing garbage collection using estimated number of valid pages [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/445491 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2019-06-19 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 17 [patent_figures_cnt] => 20 [patent_no_of_words] => 10369 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 61 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16445491 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/445491
Storage device, method and non-volatile memory device performing garbage collection using estimated number of valid pages Jun 18, 2019 Issued
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16/436080
NAND raid controller Jun 9, 2019 Issued
Array ( [id] => 15215009 [patent_doc_number] => 20190370191 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2019-12-05 [patent_title] => NON-VOLATILE MEMORY FOR SECURE STORAGE OF AUTHENTICATION DATA [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/420629 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2019-05-23 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 6815 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 2 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16420629 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/420629
Non-volatile memory for secure storage of authentication data May 22, 2019 Issued
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16/395194
Migrating data to disk without interrupting running operations Apr 24, 2019 Issued
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16/385698
Controller and operating method thereof Apr 15, 2019 Issued
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16/383776
Queuing read requests based on write requests Apr 14, 2019 Issued
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16/384282
Memory controller and operating method thereof Apr 14, 2019 Issued
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16/383490
Apparatus, system and method for offloading data transfer operations between source and destination storage devices to a hardware accelerator Apr 11, 2019 Issued
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16/376489
Data Architecture Based on Sub-allocation and References from Fragmented Data Blocks Apr 4, 2019 Abandoned
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16/370013
Technologies for efficient exit from hyper dimensional space in the presence of errors Mar 28, 2019 Issued
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16/358615
Methods, apparatuses, system and computer program products for reclaiming storage units Mar 18, 2019 Issued
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16/291402
Storage device providing a virtual memory region, electronic system including the same, and method of operating the same Mar 3, 2019 Issued
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16/289340
STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM Feb 27, 2019 Abandoned
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16/281468
Method and system for sharing driver pages Feb 20, 2019 Issued
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16/279494
Memory devices and methods for operating the same Feb 18, 2019 Issued
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16/261174
Sub-lun non-deduplicated tier in a CAS storage to reduce mapping information and improve memory efficiency Jan 28, 2019 Issued
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16/256020
Balancing the block wearing leveling for optimum SSD endurance Jan 23, 2019 Issued
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16/248640
Distributed dataset modification, retention, and replication Jan 14, 2019 Issued
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