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Eric M. Thomas

Examiner (ID: 671, Phone: (571)272-1699 , Office: P/3714 )

Most Active Art Unit
3715
Art Unit(s)
3715, 3714
Total Applications
877
Issued Applications
545
Pending Applications
93
Abandoned Applications
248

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/201797
Gateway device determining whether or not received frame is appropriate Mar 14, 2021 Issued
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18/277479
Communication apparatus and communication method Mar 4, 2021 Issued
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17/190771
UE capability signaling for supporting reference signal based measurements in 5G new radio unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) Mar 2, 2021 Issued
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17/187052
Method of and apparatus for transmitting data based on channel state in device-to-device communication Feb 25, 2021 Issued
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17/184043
Transmission configuration indicator (TCI) acquisition mechanism for secondary cell activation of a frequency range 2 (FR2) unknown cell Feb 23, 2021 Issued
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17/799136
Methods, apparatus and systems using vehicle-to-everything (V2X) enhancements to support vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication Feb 11, 2021 Issued
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17/801460
TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND BASE STATION Feb 7, 2021 Abandoned
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17/167855
Facilitating selection of demodulation reference signal ports in advanced networks Feb 3, 2021 Issued
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17/159964
Receiver, transmitter, system and method employing space-delay precoding Jan 26, 2021 Issued
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18/273858
TERMINAL, BASE STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD Jan 25, 2021 Pending
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18/273869
Overhead reduction of pilot reference signals Jan 25, 2021 Issued
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17/791926
Methods and communications devices for transmission of uplink signals according to priorities Jan 25, 2021 Issued
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17/149556
UE beam reselection procedure with CSI reporting and beam switch indication Jan 13, 2021 Issued
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17/149599
Non-personal basic service point / access point (PCP/AP) communication device, non-PCP/AP communication method, PCP/AP communication device and PCP/AP communication method Jan 13, 2021 Issued
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17/143180
Method and device for multi-antenna transmission in user equipment (UE) and base station Jan 6, 2021 Issued
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17/593281
Layer 1 and layer 3 measurement coordination Jan 5, 2021 Issued
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17/139478
Multi-user multiplexing of orthogonal time frequency space signals Dec 30, 2020 Issued
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18/269442
Beam selection method and network element Dec 27, 2020 Issued
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17/132417
Dynamic transmission bandwidth selection Dec 22, 2020 Issued
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17/125182
Discontinuous reception procedures with enhanced component carriers Dec 16, 2020 Issued
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