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David L. Ton

Examiner (ID: 9130, Phone: (571)270-7839 , Office: P/2654 )

Most Active Art Unit
2654
Art Unit(s)
2614, 2654, 2695
Total Applications
940
Issued Applications
804
Pending Applications
49
Abandoned Applications
100

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/915670
Binaural dialogue enhancement Jun 28, 2020 Issued
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16/912823
Mobile system with wireless earbud Jun 25, 2020 Issued
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16/910765
Selecting a primary source of text to speech based on posture Jun 23, 2020 Issued
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17/621101
Method, device, and computer program for controlling and managing state of peripheral device in wireless communication system, and recording medium therefor Jun 22, 2020 Issued
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16/901073
Wear detection Jun 14, 2020 Issued
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16/896417
Method and apparatus for controlling sound signal output Jun 8, 2020 Issued
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16/946100
Power amplifier and overcurrent protection circuit Jun 4, 2020 Issued
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16/894608
Acoustic transducers for microphone assemblies having non-circular apertures Jun 4, 2020 Issued
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17/928556
Call environment generation method, call environment generation apparatus, and program Jun 3, 2020 Issued
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17/635057
Acoustic processing apparatus and acoustic processing method Jun 1, 2020 Issued
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16/887849
Mixing apparatus and mixing method May 28, 2020 Issued
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16/887419
Apparatuses and methods for creating noise environment noisy data and eliminating noise May 28, 2020 Issued
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16/884712
Audio control to mask vehicle component noise May 26, 2020 Issued
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16/880623
Virtual simulation of spatial audio characteristics May 20, 2020 Issued
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16/880187
Adjusting acoustic parameters based on headset position May 20, 2020 Issued
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17/596540
Sound output device May 13, 2020 Issued
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16/872414
Audio processing circuit supporting multi-channel audio input function May 11, 2020 Issued
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16/847403
Downmixer and method for downmixing at least two channels and multichannel encoder and multichannel decoder Apr 12, 2020 Issued
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16/833986
Active distributed mode actuator Mar 29, 2020 Issued
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17/914378
Sound system Mar 29, 2020 Issued
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