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Darrell Christopher Ford

Examiner (ID: 11166, Phone: (313)446-6515 , Office: P/3726 )

Most Active Art Unit
3726
Art Unit(s)
3726
Total Applications
669
Issued Applications
441
Pending Applications
78
Abandoned Applications
159

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/898206
SELECTIVE ANONYMIZATION FOR USER DATA Sep 25, 2024 Pending
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18/898173
Communications system with low-bandwidth messaging Sep 25, 2024 Issued
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18/807621
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC PARCEL LOCKERS Aug 15, 2024 Pending
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18/778802
LEVERAGING A TRUSTED PARTY THIRD-PARTY HSM AND DATABASE TO SECURELY SHARE A KEY Jul 18, 2024 Pending
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18/758091
Deriving identity and root keys for embedded systems Jun 27, 2024 Issued
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18/735777
Policy engine for governing cloud environments Jun 5, 2024 Issued
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18/736142
Systems and methods for hardware security module communication management Jun 5, 2024 Issued
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18/734629
SEARCHABLE ENCRYPTION SYSTEM, DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SEARCHABLE ENCRYPTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Jun 4, 2024 Pending
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18/662760
CRYPTOGRAPHIC CIPHER FOR HEALTHCARE COMPLIANT DATA TRANSACTIONS May 12, 2024 Pending
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18/644509
Authentication of medical device computing systems by using metadata signature Apr 23, 2024 Issued
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18/608681
Public key service for message authentication Mar 17, 2024 Issued
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18/582931
Electronic device Feb 20, 2024 Issued
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18/427160
SCALAR MASKING COUNTERMEASURE Jan 29, 2024 Pending
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18/418900
History access for end-to-end (E2E) secure content Jan 21, 2024 Issued
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18/418080
CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY EXCHANGE Jan 18, 2024 Abandoned
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18/536072
Techniques for efficient encryption and decryption during file system cross-region replication Dec 10, 2023 Issued
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18/532971
METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR ADDING DEVICES TO A WIRELESS NETWORK Dec 6, 2023 Pending
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18/531278
SEARCH EXECUTION DEVICE, SEARCH EXECUTION METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND SEARCHABLE ENCRYPTION SYSTEM Dec 5, 2023 Pending
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18/520295
BROADCAST AND/OR GROUPCAST SECURITY FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE POSITIONING Nov 26, 2023 Pending
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18/515782
Scalable key state for network encryption Nov 20, 2023 Issued
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