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Jonathan L. Sample

Examiner (ID: 16439, Phone: (571)270-5925 , Office: P/3664 )

Most Active Art Unit
3664
Art Unit(s)
3664, 3657
Total Applications
1129
Issued Applications
918
Pending Applications
68
Abandoned Applications
169

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/514559
Method of controlling mobile robot, apparatus for supporting the method, and delivery system using mobile robot Oct 28, 2021 Issued
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17/496279
Controller for vehicle, computer-readable medium storing control program for vehicle, and control method for vehicle Oct 6, 2021 Issued
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17/494300
Base positioning system for a controllable arm and related methods Oct 4, 2021 Issued
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17/481932
Medical devices, systems, and methods using eye gaze tracking Sep 21, 2021 Issued
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18/025063
Control device and control method Sep 21, 2021 Issued
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17/405925
Determining orientation of a mower using horizon mapping Aug 17, 2021 Issued
Array ( [id] => 19971054 [patent_doc_number] => 12339664 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2025-06-24 [patent_title] => Methods and systems for robotic surface coverage [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/401159 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2021-08-12 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 28 [patent_figures_cnt] => 42 [patent_no_of_words] => 28161 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 248 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17401159 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/401159
Methods and systems for robotic surface coverage Aug 11, 2021 Issued
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18/042051
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING A LOAD ARRANGEMENT WITH A ROBOT GRIPPER Aug 11, 2021 Pending
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18/561397
Robot system, control device, diagnosis method, and diagnosis program Aug 2, 2021 Issued
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18/291468
AN ADAPTIVELY CONTROLLABLE VEHICLE INVERTER SYSTEM AND METHOD Jul 27, 2021 Pending
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18/007021
Systems and methods for selecting assignments for components of computer-assisted devices Jul 26, 2021 Issued
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18/004787
CALIBRATING AN INSTRUMENT INTERFACE Jul 12, 2021 Abandoned
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17/340226
Robotic visualization and collision avoidance Jun 6, 2021 Issued
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17/329257
Utilizing optical data to control operation of a snake-arm robot May 24, 2021 Issued
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17/321045
Vehicle sensor calibration system May 13, 2021 Issued
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17/234838
ROBOTIC OPERATING TABLE, AND ROBOTIC OPERATING TABLE OPERATION DEVICE Apr 19, 2021 Abandoned
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18/263408
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROBOT SYSTEM MANAGEMENT Apr 12, 2021 Pending
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17/996078
Control device and control method of robot, robot system, and device and method of generating operation program of robot Apr 8, 2021 Issued
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17/222263
Multimodal object identification Apr 4, 2021 Issued
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17/215749
ROBOTICALLY CONTROLLING REMOTE CENTER OF MOTION WITH SOFTWARE AND GUIDE TUBE Mar 28, 2021 Abandoned
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