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John B Sotomayor

Examiner (ID: 832, Phone: (571)272-6978 , Office: P/3646 )

Most Active Art Unit
3662
Art Unit(s)
3662, 3642, 2202, 3646, 2201, 3641
Total Applications
2701
Issued Applications
2479
Pending Applications
70
Abandoned Applications
152

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/213908
Decoder for low-density parity-check codes Dec 6, 2018 Issued
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16/199216
QC-LDPC coding methods and apparatus Nov 24, 2018 Issued
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16/193194
Quasi-error notifications in a dispersed storage network Nov 15, 2018 Issued
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16/761833
Bit assignment estimating device, bit assignment estimating method, and program Nov 13, 2018 Issued
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16/190017
Apparatus and method of damage recovery of storage class memory using repair entry in write cache Nov 12, 2018 Issued
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16/190043
Apparatus and method of wear leveling of storage class memory by recording input group to output group address mapping Nov 12, 2018 Issued
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16/181632
Three lane bit-for-bit remote electronic unit Nov 5, 2018 Issued
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16/181026
Optimal construction of regenerating code through rate-matching Nov 4, 2018 Issued
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16/180795
Adjusted fractally enhanced kernel polar codes for achievable signal-to-noise ratio spike mitigation Nov 4, 2018 Issued
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16/178901
Determination and use of byte error position signals Nov 1, 2018 Issued
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16/164136
Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in communication system Oct 17, 2018 Issued
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16/757879
Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method Oct 16, 2018 Issued
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16/162278
Apparatuses and methods for staircase code encoding and decoding for storage devices Oct 15, 2018 Issued
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16/151920
HARQ systems and methods for grant-free uplink transmissions Oct 3, 2018 Issued
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16/758549
Techniques and apparatuses for hybrid automatic repeat request design of polar codes for ultra-reliable low latency communications Oct 1, 2018 Issued
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16/140673
Semiconductor memory devices, memory systems and methods of operating semiconductor memory devices Sep 24, 2018 Issued
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16/137187
Memory device testing Sep 19, 2018 Issued
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16/137258
Methods for data encoding in DNA and genetically modified organism authentication Sep 19, 2018 Issued
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16/136723
Self-test circuit and self-test method for comparator Sep 19, 2018 Issued
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16/137256
Content aware decoding method and system Sep 19, 2018 Issued
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