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Gerard T. Higgins

Examiner (ID: 18488, Phone: (571)270-3467 , Office: P/1785 )

Most Active Art Unit
1785
Art Unit(s)
1785, 1759, 4174, 1794, 1796
Total Applications
1010
Issued Applications
548
Pending Applications
96
Abandoned Applications
379

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/564718
ADHESIVE TAPE JACKETED COMMUNICATION CABLE Dec 28, 2021 Pending
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17/563180
Optical delay line structure Dec 27, 2021 Issued
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17/645212
Eye glow suppression in waveguide based displays Dec 19, 2021 Issued
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17/556033
Error correction for programmable photonics Dec 19, 2021 Issued
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17/553995
Interposer interconnects and enclosure for silicon photonics LIDAR module Dec 16, 2021 Issued
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17/554467
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING ENDS OF OPTICAL FIBERS FOR USE IN AN ENDOSCOPE Dec 16, 2021 Abandoned
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17/552721
Spatial variance along waveguide incoupler Dec 15, 2021 Issued
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17/553510
ULTRA-LOW LOSS OPTICAL FIBER Dec 15, 2021 Abandoned
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17/553554
METHOD FOR DRAWING AN OPTICAL FIBER USING ROD-IN CYLINDER TECHNIQUE Dec 15, 2021 Abandoned
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18/261651
OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Dec 15, 2021 Abandoned
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17/457893
Waveguide grating device Dec 5, 2021 Issued
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17/535502
LIGHT GUIDE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INCREASED PIXEL DENSITY Nov 23, 2021 Abandoned
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17/531082
2D-pupil expansion light guide assembly Nov 18, 2021 Issued
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17/524697
Mitigation of polarization impairments in optical fiber link Nov 10, 2021 Issued
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17/510944
Asymmetric adiabatic polarization beam splitter and integrated optical waveguide filtering chip Oct 25, 2021 Issued
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17/498759
Waveguide combiner with light beam processing area Oct 11, 2021 Issued
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17/492695
Optical expander device Oct 3, 2021 Issued
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18/245977
OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, OPTICAL MODULATOR, OPTICAL MODULATION MODULE, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE Sep 23, 2021 Pending
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17/478391
LiDAR APPARATUS COMPRISING PLURALITY OF SWITCHES Sep 16, 2021 Pending
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18/250176
IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD Sep 14, 2021 Pending
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