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Frank D. Mills

Examiner (ID: 35, Phone: (571)270-3172 , Office: P/2176 )

Most Active Art Unit
2176
Art Unit(s)
2176, 2194
Total Applications
642
Issued Applications
430
Pending Applications
44
Abandoned Applications
184

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/238312
MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING BLOCK REQUEST Aug 24, 2023 Pending
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18/455555
Storage device, operating method thereof, and electronic device Aug 23, 2023 Issued
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18/237064
Low Overhead Observability in Cloud Native Environments Aug 22, 2023 Pending
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18/236045
MEMORY CONTROLLER, MEMORY SYSTEM FOR DATASET MANAGEMENT HANDLING, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF Aug 20, 2023 Pending
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18/447981
CHIPLET-BASED STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CONTROL CODES TO CHIPLET Aug 9, 2023 Pending
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18/447556
Translation and data management in storage devices Aug 9, 2023 Issued
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18/365817
Method and system of using HMB as a cache of physical address mapping table Aug 3, 2023 Issued
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18/363215
Method and a host device for accessing data from a data storage device Jul 31, 2023 Issued
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18/359159
CMB caching using hybrid SRAM/DRAM data path Jul 25, 2023 Issued
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18/358418
Transparent host memory buffer Jul 24, 2023 Issued
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18/220108
Making more active use of a secondary storage system Jul 9, 2023 Issued
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18/346203
Storage device and method of operating the same Jun 30, 2023 Issued
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18/206564
Multi-host memory sharing Jun 5, 2023 Issued
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18/200975
Managing power loss recovery using an oldest section write policy for an address mapping table in a memory sub-system May 22, 2023 Issued
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18/141870
Namespace management for memory sub-systems Apr 30, 2023 Issued
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18/307465
System and method for scheduling resources of distributed systems to perform workloads Apr 25, 2023 Issued
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18/190135
Memory system and host device Mar 26, 2023 Issued
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18/126229
Method and apparatus for verifying integrity in memory-disaggregated environment Mar 23, 2023 Issued
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18/184738
Host apparatus and memory system Mar 15, 2023 Issued
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18/184658
Apparatus and Method for Address Generation, Data Buffer, and Artificial Intelligence Chip Mar 15, 2023 Pending
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