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Jonathan L. Sample

Examiner (ID: 2260, Phone: (571)270-5925 , Office: P/3664 )

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3664
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3664, 3657
Total Applications
1160
Issued Applications
933
Pending Applications
77
Abandoned Applications
172

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Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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15/673437
Circuit, system and method for suppressing a spurious pulse in a measurement signal Aug 9, 2017 Issued
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15/744635
Light intensity detection circuit, light intensity detector, detection method thereof and display device Aug 1, 2017 Issued
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15/662745
Transparent and/or shiny object detection with spin-modulated light Jul 27, 2017 Issued
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15/663585
Image forming apparatus that obtains variation characteristic of positional deviation amount of light beam Jul 27, 2017 Issued
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15/659583
Photo Sensor Jul 24, 2017 Abandoned
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15/652833
Image pickup apparatus and endoscope comprising a guard ring formed along an outer edge on a wire layer and a through-hole with an electrode pad having outer periphery portion in contact with a silicon layer over a whole periphery Jul 17, 2017 Issued
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15/651574
System and method for calibrating a linear array using a calibration standard and a calibration piece with dark and light response measurements Jul 16, 2017 Issued
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15/646295
Systems and methods for determining ambient illumination having dual sensors controlled by a bypass switch Jul 10, 2017 Issued
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15/646138
Optical deformation detection sensor and system having a material disposed on the inner surface of an elongated hollow housing Jul 10, 2017 Issued
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16/316560
Flame scanner with photodiode coupled to a signal conditioner to generate an output signal emulating an output signal of an ultraviolet tube flame scanner Jul 10, 2017 Issued
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15/645550
Method of evaluating initial parameters and target values for feedback control loop of wavelength tunable system Jul 9, 2017 Issued
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15/640878
Systems and methods for flash localization using at least two photodiodes Jul 2, 2017 Issued
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15/639025
Image sensor including planar boundary between optical black and active pixel sensor areas Jun 29, 2017 Issued
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15/636780
Image sensor including photodiodes having different sizes and are isolated by an isolation region Jun 28, 2017 Issued
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15/637750
Contamination and defect resistant optical encoder configuration for providing displacement signal having a plurality of spatial phase detectors arranged in a spatial phase sequence along a direction transverse to the measuring axis Jun 28, 2017 Issued
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15/629631
Substrates and optical systems having a waveguide, nanometer-scale apertures, a lens array, and sensing regions and methods of use thereof Jun 20, 2017 Issued
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15/627667
Beam phasing method and apparatus for adjusting a timing of beam projections Jun 19, 2017 Issued
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15/626592
Device for rotation about an axis of rotation to drive liquid flow within the device comprising a first element, a second element and the radially outer wall of a cavity define a detection chamber Jun 18, 2017 Issued
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15/614510
Systems and methods for optical proximity detection with multiple field of views Jun 4, 2017 Issued
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16/305870
Light detection device and electronic apparatus comprising a reverse bias voltage adjustment in accordance with a pulse number output by a first SPAD array May 30, 2017 Issued
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