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Frank D. Mills

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Most Active Art Unit
2176
Art Unit(s)
2176, 2194
Total Applications
646
Issued Applications
433
Pending Applications
43
Abandoned Applications
184

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/716755
METHOD FOR SECURELY EXECUTING A WORKFLOW IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM Apr 7, 2022 Pending
Array ( [id] => 19213482 [patent_doc_number] => 12002554 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2024-06-04 [patent_title] => Management and tracking solution for specific patient consent attributes and permissions [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/710090 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2022-03-31 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 4 [patent_figures_cnt] => 4 [patent_no_of_words] => 4265 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 189 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17710090 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/710090
Management and tracking solution for specific patient consent attributes and permissions Mar 30, 2022 Issued
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17/705898
Machine based expansion of contractions in text in digital media Mar 27, 2022 Issued
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18/555041
TECHNIQUE FOR HANDLING REQUEST TRANSFERS FROM A PERIPHERAL DEVICE IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK Mar 23, 2022 Pending
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18/554959
A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED TASK GROUPING Mar 22, 2022 Pending
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17/700994
Transitioning between prior dialog contexts with automated assistants Mar 21, 2022 Issued
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17/694395
SELECTIVELY REPLACING DISPLAYED CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON USER INTERACTION Mar 13, 2022 Abandoned
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17/678103
Method for optimizing resource allocation based on prediction with reinforcement learning Feb 22, 2022 Issued
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17/673884
REALTIME APPLICATION RECONCILIATION WITHIN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS Feb 16, 2022 Abandoned
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17/671347
Runtime customization of nodes for network function deployment Feb 13, 2022 Issued
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17/666908
Virtual machine migration method and device Feb 7, 2022 Issued
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17/583711
Quantum computing system heat orchestration Jan 24, 2022 Issued
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17/575390
Snapshot based pool of virtual resources for efficient development and test of hyper-converged infrastructure environments Jan 12, 2022 Issued
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17/569243
Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, information processing system, and data processing method Jan 4, 2022 Issued
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17/646733
System and method for modernization of legacy batch based on functional context Jan 2, 2022 Issued
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17/644844
Architecture swapping for workspaces Dec 16, 2021 Issued
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17/644272
AUTOMATED SCHEDULING OF SOFTWARE DEFINED DATA CENTER (SDDC) UPGRADES AT SCALE Dec 13, 2021 Abandoned
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17/643864
Clustered container protection Dec 12, 2021 Issued
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17/644079
Graph execution engine Dec 12, 2021 Issued
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17/644081
Delivering auto-play media content element from cross origin resources Dec 12, 2021 Issued
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