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Christopher Wait

Examiner (ID: 19505, Phone: (571)270-5976 , Office: P/2672 )

Most Active Art Unit
2672
Art Unit(s)
2682, 2683, 2672, 2625, 2681
Total Applications
732
Issued Applications
602
Pending Applications
56
Abandoned Applications
97

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/993841
Systems and methods for sensor-independent illuminant determination Aug 13, 2020 Issued
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16/994251
Methods and arrangements for enhanced digital signal detection Aug 13, 2020 Issued
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16/992221
Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium Aug 12, 2020 Issued
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16/989128
Generating signal bearing art using stipple, Voronoi and Delaunay methods and reading same Aug 9, 2020 Issued
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16/986948
System, method and apparatus for digital watermarking Aug 5, 2020 Issued
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16/941299
System and method for converting image data into a natural language description Jul 27, 2020 Issued
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16/933336
Method, image processor and device for observing an object containing a bolus of a fluorophore Jul 19, 2020 Issued
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16/929511
Image processing system Jul 14, 2020 Issued
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16/924379
Image processing reducing processing time of tone correction calibration with fluorescent or special colors by selection of color combinations Jul 8, 2020 Issued
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16/922082
Reducing nonvisual noise byte codes in machine readable format documents Jul 6, 2020 Issued
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16/913360
Color prediction using machine learning Jun 25, 2020 Issued
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16/904697
Method for building image determination model, image determination model, and image determination method Jun 17, 2020 Issued
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17/298012
Image watermarked with a string associated with image metadata associated with the image Jun 17, 2020 Issued
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16/904402
Method which a user possessing a sample performs color adjustment when a sample color is outside the color reproduction range Jun 16, 2020 Issued
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16/900221
Printing apparatus and control method Jun 11, 2020 Issued
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17/617559
Light-field messaging to embed a hidden message into a carrier Jun 9, 2020 Issued
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17/798369
Biological sample image collection device and gene sequencer Jun 9, 2020 Issued
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16/892892
Method for marking visuals of information for subsequent identification or authentication Jun 3, 2020 Issued
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16/883708
Image processing performing edge enhancement based on pixel isolation May 25, 2020 Issued
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16/865524
Image forming apparatus May 3, 2020 Issued
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