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Karl D. Frech

Examiner (ID: 16857, Phone: (571)272-2390 , Office: P/2887 )

Most Active Art Unit
2887
Art Unit(s)
2887, 2876, 2505, 2514
Total Applications
2278
Issued Applications
1870
Pending Applications
125
Abandoned Applications
285

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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15/213702
Endoscope apparatus and method for operating endoscope apparatus Jul 18, 2016 Issued
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15/736238
Method and device for performing adaptive filtering according to block boundary Jun 15, 2016 Issued
Array ( [id] => 11392866 [patent_doc_number] => 09554126 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2017-01-24 [patent_title] => 'Non-linear navigation of a three dimensional stereoscopic display' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/172732 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2016-06-03 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 6 [patent_figures_cnt] => 9 [patent_no_of_words] => 10845 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 89 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 15172732 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/172732
Non-linear navigation of a three dimensional stereoscopic display Jun 2, 2016 Issued
Array ( [id] => 12742882 [patent_doc_number] => 20180139461 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2018-05-17 [patent_title] => Method and Apparatus for Using a Current Picture as a Reference Picture [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/574253 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2016-05-26 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 8812 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -7 [patent_words_short_claim] => 117 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 15574253 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/574253
Method and apparatus for using a current picture as a reference picture May 25, 2016 Issued
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16/094655
Apparatus for aligning a solar cell element, system for use in the manufacture of a solar cell arrangement, and method for aligning a solar cell element May 5, 2016 Issued
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15/144830
Endoscopy system and method for processing image of the same May 2, 2016 Issued
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15/143670
Orthoscopic fusion platform May 1, 2016 Issued
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15/143570
THREE-DIMENSIONAL AUTO-FOCUSING DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF Apr 29, 2016 Abandoned
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15/142846
Image mark sensing systems and methods Apr 28, 2016 Issued
Array ( [id] => 11123591 [patent_doc_number] => 20160320565 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2016-11-03 [patent_title] => 'PORTABLE INDUSTRIAL FIBER OPTIC INSPECTION SCOPE' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/143314 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2016-04-29 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 10 [patent_figures_cnt] => 10 [patent_no_of_words] => 4116 [patent_no_of_claims] => 27 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 0 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 15143314 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/143314
Portable industrial fiber optic inspection scope Apr 28, 2016 Issued
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15/138146
Maneuverless passive range estimation using monocular image sequences Apr 24, 2016 Issued
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15/089163
Bit rate stream switching Mar 31, 2016 Issued
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15/074227
Method and apparatus for rate control for constant-bit-rate-finite-buffer-size video encoder Mar 17, 2016 Issued
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15/059502
Arithmetic decoding method and arithmetic coding method Mar 2, 2016 Issued
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15/555047
Content-adaptive perceptual quantizer for high dynamic range images Feb 29, 2016 Issued
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15/011090
Method and device for determining reference unit Jan 28, 2016 Issued
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15/004582
Optimized filter selection for reference picture processing Jan 21, 2016 Issued
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15/525369
Method and apparatus of alternative transform for video coding Nov 25, 2015 Issued
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14/952200
View handling in video surveillance systems Nov 24, 2015 Issued
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14/950889
Media coding for loss recovery with remotely predicted data units Nov 23, 2015 Issued
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