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David C. Payne

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 14380, Phone: (571)272-3024 , Office: P/2637 )

Most Active Art Unit
2613
Art Unit(s)
2611, 2638, 2637, 2613, 2635, 2633
Total Applications
377
Issued Applications
257
Pending Applications
45
Abandoned Applications
75

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/895752
SIGNALING ASSOCIATED WITH CELLULAR POSITIONING PROTOCOL FOR LIGHT-BASED POSITIONING Sep 24, 2024 Pending
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18/889149
ROBUST FLAT-TOP OPTICAL FILTER DESIGN UTILIZING PHASE AND POWER SPLITTING RATIO OF MMI COUPLERS Sep 17, 2024 Pending
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18/883191
OPTICAL SIGNAL RELAY APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SIGNAL RELAY METHOD Sep 11, 2024 Pending
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18/828514
Data Processing Method and Second Communication Apparatus Sep 8, 2024 Pending
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18/821243
TRAJECTORY-BASED LINE OF SIGHT PATH INSTRUCTIONS AND ROUND TRIP TIME CORRECTION Aug 29, 2024 Pending
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18/213458
Apparatus and Method for Simplifying the Implementation and Deployment of Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing Jun 22, 2023 Abandoned
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18/335530
PERFORMANCE MONITORING OF AN OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT Jun 14, 2023 Pending
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18/143138
Method of Improving Extinction Ratio And Bandwidth of Optical Multiplexers/Demultiplexers May 3, 2023 Pending
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18/310090
Apparatus for Fiber Optic Cable Loss Measurement Apr 30, 2023 Abandoned
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18/302360
Photodetector with split inputs Apr 17, 2023 Issued
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18/192851
Determining a light pattern to configure a user device for a virtual meeting Mar 29, 2023 Issued
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18/837860
JOINT CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS Jan 22, 2023 Pending
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17/838632
Tunable orbital angular momentum system Jun 12, 2022 Issued
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17/741439
PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (PON) CHANNEL BONDING PROTOCOL May 9, 2022 Abandoned
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18/847411
Optical Network Nodes Mar 16, 2022 Pending
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18/841918
ALLOCATING UPSTREAM RESOURCES IN AN OPTICAL NETWORK Mar 15, 2022 Pending
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18/837955
OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION METHOD OF OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE Feb 21, 2022 Pending
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17/646307
Configurable non-linear gain amplifier and lidar analog front end Dec 28, 2021 Issued
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17/461406
FREQUENCY CONVERSION OF A WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXED LIGHT SOURCE Aug 29, 2021 Abandoned
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18/285129
OPTICAL ACCESS SYSTEM AND MONITORING METHOD Apr 8, 2021 Pending
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