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Christopher Wait

Examiner (ID: 18469, Phone: (571)270-5976 , Office: P/2672 )

Most Active Art Unit
2672
Art Unit(s)
2681, 2683, 2682, 2672, 2625
Total Applications
696
Issued Applications
580
Pending Applications
47
Abandoned Applications
97

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/404330
Image pixel color cast correction Aug 16, 2021 Issued
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17/403127
Method for marking visuals of information for subsequent identification or authentication Aug 15, 2021 Issued
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18/250453
CLINICAL MONITORING DEVICE Aug 5, 2021 Pending
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17/391190
Methods and systems for automatically identifying IR security marks in a document based on halftone frequency information Aug 1, 2021 Issued
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17/390551
Machine learning technologies for assessing text legibility in electronic documents Jul 29, 2021 Issued
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17/389147
Systems and methods for the application of adaptive video watermarks Jul 28, 2021 Issued
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18/018204
Methods, systems, and devices for tomographic rhizosphere imager Jul 27, 2021 Issued
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17/366570
Method and apparatus for preventing forgery of data, method and apparatus for detecting forgery of data Jul 1, 2021 Issued
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17/305120
Color adjustments of highlighted areas Jun 29, 2021 Issued
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17/361389
Apparatus for detecting a transient thermal gradient in a substrate Jun 28, 2021 Issued
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17/360961
Vision sensor dynamic watermarking via noise characterization Jun 27, 2021 Issued
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17/358873
Utilizing dependency between watermark visibility and location of image sample in color space for embedded signal color direction Jun 24, 2021 Issued
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17/926213
Item validation based on visually imperceptible waterpark decoding Jun 20, 2021 Issued
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18/008544
Zoom agnostic watermark extraction Jun 20, 2021 Issued
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17/346033
Inspection system, information processing apparatus, and control method thereof Jun 10, 2021 Issued
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17/342720
Control apparatus, color adjustment method, and storage medium Jun 8, 2021 Issued
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17/342614
Apparatus, method, and computer program for image conversion Jun 8, 2021 Issued
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17/343272
Reading apparatus and method Jun 8, 2021 Issued
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17/303340
COLOR PROFILE AND SUBSTRATE MISMATCH DETERMINATIONS May 26, 2021 Abandoned
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18/000573
IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD May 12, 2021 Pending
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