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James R. Hulka

Examiner (ID: 5339)

Most Active Art Unit
3645
Art Unit(s)
4132, 3645, 3662
Total Applications
1182
Issued Applications
889
Pending Applications
86
Abandoned Applications
225

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/193285
Method and system for examining the interior material of an object, such as a pipeline or a human body, from a surface of the object using ultrasound Nov 15, 2018 Issued
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16/193879
Ultrasonic probe, and ultrasonic image display apparatus Nov 15, 2018 Issued
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16/179516
PHOTOACOUSTIC APPARATUS Nov 1, 2018 Abandoned
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16/158551
Multimission and multispectral sonar Oct 11, 2018 Issued
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16/157995
Distance measurement device Oct 10, 2018 Issued
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16/157142
Low profile transducer module Oct 10, 2018 Issued
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16/155337
Interlaced scan patterns for lidar system Oct 8, 2018 Issued
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16/147870
Methods and apparatus for gigahertz time-of-flight imaging Sep 29, 2018 Issued
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16/143758
Vehicle LIDAR sensor calibration system Sep 26, 2018 Issued
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16/135866
Automatic gain control for laser detector Sep 18, 2018 Issued
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16/644473
DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD AND DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE Sep 9, 2018 Abandoned
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16/645021
Optical sensing, non-tethered location monitoring systems and methods of use Sep 9, 2018 Issued
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16/123706
Lidar system and method Sep 5, 2018 Issued
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16/119544
Accurate photo detector measurements for LIDAR Aug 30, 2018 Issued
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16/118327
Hyperspectral sonar Aug 29, 2018 Issued
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16/114139
Fast scanning with dynamic voxel probing Aug 26, 2018 Issued
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16/107521
EFFICIENT ORIENTATION OF A LIDAR SYSTEM IN A VEHICLE Aug 20, 2018 Abandoned
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16/105135
Scanning lidar system and method with spatial filtering for reduction of ambient light Aug 19, 2018 Issued
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16/105487
Multi frequency 2D phased array transducer Aug 19, 2018 Issued
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15/998512
System and method for determination of origin displacement for a laser rangefinding instrument Aug 15, 2018 Issued
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