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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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18/639468
METHOD FOR MANAGING VEHICLE DATA, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM EMPLOYING METHOD Apr 17, 2024 Abandoned
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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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18/588599
Semiconductor memory device including a cyclic redundancy check engine and memory system including the same Feb 26, 2024 Issued
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18/588475
IMPROVING SOFTWARE COMPRESSION EFFICIENCY FOR MEMORY-RESTRICTED DEVICES USING A SCRATCH BUFFER Feb 26, 2024 Pending
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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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18/418253
Optimizing data storage with access windows Jan 19, 2024 Issued
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18/409357
Temperature dependent operation of memories Jan 9, 2024 Issued
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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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18/545630
Systems and methods for low cost data indexing Dec 18, 2023 Issued
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18/534765
Method for sharing a storage device among multiple processors and associated electronic device Dec 10, 2023 Issued
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18/529868
Managing trim commands in a memory sub-system Dec 4, 2023 Issued
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18/527301
DEFINING STAGED QUANTUM APPLICATIONS COMPOSED OF GRAPH-BASED WORKFLOWS Dec 2, 2023 Abandoned
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19/130210
DATA ORGANIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DISKS, AND SERVER AND MEDIUM Nov 26, 2023 Pending
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