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James M. Pontius

Examiner (ID: 12691)

Most Active Art Unit
2488
Art Unit(s)
2485, 2621, 2488, 2483, 2615
Total Applications
720
Issued Applications
570
Pending Applications
40
Abandoned Applications
119

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/248736
Vehicular vision system with center stack display and mirror display for surround view and CMS cameras Feb 4, 2021 Issued
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17/161852
Receiving method, receiving device, and transmission and reception system Jan 28, 2021 Issued
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17/162111
Device Mount Jan 28, 2021 Abandoned
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17/141849
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method Jan 4, 2021 Issued
Array ( [id] => 16847763 [patent_doc_number] => 20210148508 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2021-05-20 [patent_title] => Camera System Using Stabilizing Gimbal [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/140826 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2021-01-04 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 27769 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 73 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17140826 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/140826
Camera system using stabilizing gimbal Jan 3, 2021 Issued
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17/137255
Making object-level predictions of the future state of a physical system Dec 28, 2020 Issued
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17/121973
Method for determining a camera parameter for a camera of a pickup vehicle by a regression-analysis algorithm, computer program product, electronic computing device as well as camera system Dec 14, 2020 Issued
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17/118713
Vehicle surrounding area monitoring device, vehicle surrounding area monitoring method, vehicle, and storage medium storing program for the vehicle surrounding area monitoring device Dec 10, 2020 Issued
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17/114371
Control device Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/097433
Flow meter and related method Nov 12, 2020 Issued
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17/773909
Method and apparatus of signaling adaptive motion vector difference resolution in video coding Nov 9, 2020 Issued
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17/092866
Video image output apparatus, video image output method, and medium Nov 8, 2020 Issued
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17/084737
Rotatable outside mirror with imager assembly Oct 29, 2020 Issued
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17/080366
Display system Oct 25, 2020 Issued
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17/074496
THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING DEVICE AND METHODS Oct 18, 2020 Abandoned
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17/073247
Iris liveness detection for mobile devices Oct 15, 2020 Issued
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17/028678
Method and device for encoding and decoding image Sep 21, 2020 Issued
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17/023908
Vehicle inspection device and vehicle inspection system Sep 16, 2020 Issued
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17/012658
Picture prediction method and picture prediction apparatus Sep 3, 2020 Issued
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17/010973
Aesthetic display unit for a vehicle Sep 2, 2020 Issued
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