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Christopher D. Birkhimer

Examiner (ID: 11144, Phone: (571)270-1178 , Office: P/2136 )

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2136
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Total Applications
631
Issued Applications
455
Pending Applications
65
Abandoned Applications
136

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Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/649906
Zero-copy volume move within a distributed storage system Apr 28, 2024 Issued
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18/646447
OPERATING METHOD OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE Apr 24, 2024 Pending
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18/644641
METHOD FOR DATA DEDUPLICATION OF STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE APPARATUS Apr 23, 2024 Pending
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18/644641
METHOD FOR DATA DEDUPLICATION OF STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE APPARATUS Apr 23, 2024 Pending
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18/639468
METHOD FOR MANAGING VEHICLE DATA, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM EMPLOYING METHOD Apr 17, 2024 Pending
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18/607651
Garbage collection and bin synchronization for distributed storage architecture Mar 17, 2024 Issued
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18/595769
MEMORY DEVICE, OPERATING METHOD OF MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM Mar 4, 2024 Pending
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18/591777
Controlling variation of valid data counts in garbage collection source blocks Feb 28, 2024 Issued
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18/588475
IMPROVING SOFTWARE COMPRESSION EFFICIENCY FOR MEMORY-RESTRICTED DEVICES USING A SCRATCH BUFFER Feb 26, 2024 Pending
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18/588599
Semiconductor memory device including a cyclic redundancy check engine and memory system including the same Feb 26, 2024 Issued
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18/584779
Selecting garbage collection processes Feb 21, 2024 Issued
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18/444977
TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT MEMORY SYSTEM PROGRAMMING Feb 18, 2024 Pending
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18/422393
Storage space accounting techniques allowing storage object identifier reuse and reassignment Jan 24, 2024 Issued
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18/421818
Data maintenance and deletion with trustworthy energy awareness Jan 23, 2024 Issued
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18/421818
Data maintenance and deletion with trustworthy energy awareness Jan 23, 2024 Issued
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18/418253
Optimizing data storage with access windows Jan 19, 2024 Issued
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18/409357
MEMORY SYSTEMS AND OPERATING METHODS THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMS Jan 9, 2024 Pending
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18/403465
Cooperative storage device for managing logical subdivisions Jan 2, 2024 Issued
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18/402350
ELECTRIC VEHICLE DATA BASED STORAGE CONTROL Jan 1, 2024 Pending
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18/399349
DATA COMPRESSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DATA DECOMPRESSION METHOD AND APPARATUS Dec 27, 2023 Pending
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