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Christopher Upton

Examiner (ID: 2087, Phone: (571)272-1169 , Office: P/1778 )

Most Active Art Unit
1778
Art Unit(s)
1724, 1776, 1306, 1797, 1778, 1308
Total Applications
3146
Issued Applications
2580
Pending Applications
123
Abandoned Applications
451

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/406481
TOUCH SENSOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH SENSOR Jan 7, 2024 Pending
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18/397082
Display device including an electrostatic discharge circuit for discharging static electricity Dec 26, 2023 Issued
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18/542263
Training a gesture recognition model using transformed gesture data Dec 14, 2023 Issued
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18/538736
Aiming Device with a Diffractive Optical Element and Reflective Image Combiner Dec 12, 2023 Issued
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18/538139
Electronic device sharing peripheral device with external electronic device registered to same user account and method thereof Dec 12, 2023 Issued
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18/521364
TOUCH MICROCONTROLLER UNIT AND TOUCH SENSING CIRCUIT FOR CALCULATING TOUCH COORDINATES Nov 27, 2023 Pending
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18/520338
Display device with reduced dead space, photomask, and manufacturing method of display device Nov 26, 2023 Issued
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18/513210
System and method for synchronization of multiple users to interact in a common virtual space Nov 16, 2023 Issued
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18/502981
VIDEO DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, VIDEO DISTRIBUTION METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Nov 5, 2023 Pending
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18/386271
LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY APPARATUS Nov 1, 2023 Pending
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18/384349
Smart switch with functionalities determined based on a grounded conductor connection Oct 25, 2023 Issued
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18/493007
Systems and methods for determining physiological state based on surface biopotentials Oct 23, 2023 Issued
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18/491351
Systems and methods for self-calibrating neural decoding Oct 19, 2023 Issued
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18/489804
Multi-laser eye tracking system that scans light from laser light sources during respective periods of time Oct 17, 2023 Issued
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18/488865
Systems and Methods for Optical Alignment Oct 16, 2023 Pending
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18/486980
TRACKING A HANDHELD DEVICE Oct 12, 2023 Pending
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18/376746
System and method for maintaining cursor speed across a plurality of video display devices with different display resolutions Oct 3, 2023 Issued
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18/369467
Projection Device, Projection Method And Projection Program Sep 17, 2023 Pending
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18/244676
Flexible display panel Sep 10, 2023 Issued
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18/462037
Systems and methods of controlling docking for graphic displays within a multi-display HMI environment for industrial systems Sep 5, 2023 Issued
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