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Douglas John Suthers

Examiner (ID: 600, Phone: (571)272-0563 , Office: P/2654 )

Most Active Art Unit
2654
Art Unit(s)
2614, 2654, 2615, 2695
Total Applications
944
Issued Applications
671
Pending Applications
82
Abandoned Applications
221

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/347656
Echo cancelation Jun 14, 2021 Issued
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17/345672
Audio system for dynamic determination of personalized acoustic transfer functions Jun 10, 2021 Issued
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17/338883
Quadruple transducer Jun 3, 2021 Issued
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17/928303
Increasing low frequency extension for microspeakers using a volume dependent linkwitz transform and multiband compressor May 20, 2021 Issued
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17/322691
Method and system for adjusting sound playback to account for speech detection May 16, 2021 Issued
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17/927418
Spatial audio representation and rendering May 6, 2021 Issued
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17/313118
Method for feedforward active noise control system May 5, 2021 Issued
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17/243404
Adaptive noise cancelling for conferencing communication systems Apr 27, 2021 Issued
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17/239630
Audio communication in a vehicle Apr 24, 2021 Issued
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17/234438
Cable retraction mechanism for headphone devices Apr 18, 2021 Issued
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17/234501
Systems and methods for communicating information Apr 18, 2021 Issued
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17/234086
Sound processing apparatus, system, and method Apr 18, 2021 Issued
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17/225438
Ear-plug device with in-ear cartilage conduction transducer Apr 7, 2021 Issued
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17/219888
Systems and methods for suppressing sound leakage Mar 31, 2021 Issued
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17/217121
Noise filling in multichannel audio coding Mar 29, 2021 Issued
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17/210172
Mobile terminal with high frequency generator Mar 22, 2021 Issued
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17/207640
Media playback based on sensor data Mar 19, 2021 Issued
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17/912650
Acoustic transducer arrangement and method for operating an acoustic transducer arrangement Mar 18, 2021 Issued
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17/203905
Beamforming techniques for acoustic interference cancellation Mar 16, 2021 Issued
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17/199757
Method and apparatus for performing binaural rendering of audio signal Mar 11, 2021 Issued
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