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Jonathan L. Sample

Examiner (ID: 4333, Phone: (571)270-5925 , Office: P/3664 )

Most Active Art Unit
3664
Art Unit(s)
3664, 3657
Total Applications
1141
Issued Applications
928
Pending Applications
69
Abandoned Applications
169

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/390303
Apparatus control system and method Apr 21, 2019 Issued
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16/386189
Generating and utilizing non-uniform volume measures for voxels in robotics applications Apr 15, 2019 Issued
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16/378734
Cable robot Apr 8, 2019 Issued
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16/376237
Systems and methods for robotic path planning Apr 4, 2019 Issued
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16/375262
Systems and methods for providing remote touch Apr 3, 2019 Issued
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16/370171
Medical devices, systems, and methods using eye gaze tracking Mar 28, 2019 Issued
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16/366700
Hybrid machine learning-based systems and methods for training an object picking robot with real and simulated performance data Mar 26, 2019 Issued
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15/734593
Work machine Mar 26, 2019 Issued
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16/365197
Methods and apparatus for dynamically routing robots based on exploratory on-board mapping Mar 25, 2019 Issued
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16/361676
Creating assembly plans based on triggering events Mar 21, 2019 Issued
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16/361762
Creating assembly plans based on triggering events Mar 21, 2019 Issued
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16/358746
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Mar 19, 2019 Issued
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16/353932
Ratcheting for master alignment of a teleoperated minimally-invasive surgical instrument Mar 13, 2019 Issued
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16/351573
Methods of performing an inventory management related dispatched logistics operation for an inventory item and using a modular autonomous bot apparatus assembly and a dispatch server Mar 12, 2019 Issued
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16/294889
Security sentinel robot Mar 5, 2019 Issued
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16/294507
Vehicular turning control system Mar 5, 2019 Issued
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16/288973
Robot arm apparatus, robot arm control method, and program Feb 27, 2019 Issued
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16/288161
Method for detecting faults in operating states of surgical robots Feb 27, 2019 Issued
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16/289104
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLOUD-BASED PROGRAMMING AND CONTROL OF ROBOTIC PLATFORM Feb 27, 2019 Abandoned
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16/277158
Autonomous ground vehicles receiving items from transportation vehicles for delivery Feb 14, 2019 Issued
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