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James D. Ponton

Examiner (ID: 2684, Phone: (571)272-1001 , Office: P/3763 )

Most Active Art Unit
3783
Art Unit(s)
3783, 3763
Total Applications
608
Issued Applications
438
Pending Applications
82
Abandoned Applications
112

Applications

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18/124576
Semiconductor die having on-die power switch for selecting target operation voltage from operation voltages provided by different power sources Mar 21, 2023 Issued
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18/182382
LOW POWER MEMORY DEVICE WITH COLUMN AND ROW LINE SWITCHES FOR SPECIFIC MEMORY CELLS Mar 12, 2023 Pending
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18/181851
Chip bonded semiconductor memory device with different charge storage films Mar 9, 2023 Issued
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18/117108
Ferroelectric-based synaptic device and method of operating the synaptic device, and 3D synaptic device stack using the synaptic devices Mar 2, 2023 Issued
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18/167819
Signal control circuit, signal control method for blocking activation operations and semiconductor memory Feb 9, 2023 Issued
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18/164657
In-dynamic memory search device and operation method thereof Feb 5, 2023 Issued
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18/105935
Phase-change material-based XOR logic gates Feb 5, 2023 Issued
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18/161915
Two transistor memory cell using stacked thin-film transistors Jan 30, 2023 Issued
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18/100615
Semiconductor memory device with a plurality of sense ampilifers overlapping a plurality of metal joints Jan 23, 2023 Issued
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18/832322
Storage Device Jan 15, 2023 Pending
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18/092115
Method for locating boundary page line in memory device, memory device, and memory system thereof Dec 29, 2022 Issued
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18/081265
Semiconductor storage device Dec 13, 2022 Issued
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18/077572
Semiconductor memory device with voltages applied to global drain select lines and method of operating the semiconductor memory device Dec 7, 2022 Issued
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18/076060
Voltage supply circuit with a voltage regulator Dec 5, 2022 Issued
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18/059124
Memory device and test method of memory device Nov 27, 2022 Issued
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18/055588
Apparatuses and methods for input buffer data feedback equalization circuits Nov 14, 2022 Issued
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17/986628
Memory device and operating method of the memory device for controlling a channel voltage Nov 13, 2022 Issued
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17/978144
Memory circuit, system and method for rapid retrieval of data sets Oct 30, 2022 Issued
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17/968082
Vertical memory device with a double word line structure Oct 17, 2022 Issued
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18/045881
SRAM with reconfigurable setting Oct 11, 2022 Issued
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