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Donna J. Ricks

Examiner (ID: 14242, Phone: (571)270-7532 , Office: P/2612 )

Most Active Art Unit
2612
Art Unit(s)
2628, 2612, 2679, 2618, 2677
Total Applications
584
Issued Applications
428
Pending Applications
55
Abandoned Applications
116

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/460726
Image Processing Method and Device Aug 29, 2021 Abandoned
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17/412965
Display driving circuit and operating method for performing encoding and decoding Aug 25, 2021 Issued
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18/024021
Text-based virtual object animation generation method, apparatus, storage medium, and terminal Aug 8, 2021 Issued
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18/020168
System and Method for Image-Based Remote Sensing of Crop Plants Aug 5, 2021 Abandoned
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17/379964
Animation file processing method and apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and computer device Jul 18, 2021 Issued
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17/379945
EVALUATION OF DIGITAL TWINS USING SOCIAL AUTOMATONS Jul 18, 2021 Abandoned
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17/378807
Method, system, medium, and device for processing vector graphics primitives to determine path edge order for path filling Jul 18, 2021 Issued
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17/378803
Tessellation data processing method, system, medium and vector graphics processing device Jul 18, 2021 Issued
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17/379998
Animation rendering method and apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and computer device Jul 18, 2021 Issued
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17/305265
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Jul 1, 2021 Abandoned
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17/362791
Display engine initiated prefetch to system cache to tolerate memory long blackout Jun 28, 2021 Issued
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17/357417
SORT MIDDLE ARCHITECTURE FOR MULTIPLE GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS Jun 23, 2021 Abandoned
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18/011161
Target object display method, apparatus and electronic device Jun 17, 2021 Issued
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17/339419
Display screen casting to target device using casting extension Jun 3, 2021 Issued
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17/333695
Task merging May 27, 2021 Issued
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17/331537
Primitive fragment processing in the rasterization phase of a graphics processing system May 25, 2021 Issued
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17/318871
Conversational AI platform with rendered graphical output May 11, 2021 Issued
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17/760076
Oversmoothing progressive images Apr 26, 2021 Issued
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17/234039
Workload scheduling and distribution on a distributed graphics device Apr 18, 2021 Issued
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17/231425
Processing system with selective priority-based two-level binning Apr 14, 2021 Issued
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