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Keith Ferguson

Examiner (ID: 17424, Phone: (571)272-7865 , Office: P/2647 )

Most Active Art Unit
2648
Art Unit(s)
2683, 2744, 2617, 2608, 2746, 2601, 2647, 2648, 2618
Total Applications
1964
Issued Applications
1663
Pending Applications
124
Abandoned Applications
201

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/013177
Photo-detection device and imaging system Jun 19, 2018 Issued
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16/009117
MULTI-LAYER INTERCONNECTED ELECTRO-THERMAL SYSTEM HAVING A THERMALLY NON-EXPANSIVE SUPPORT FOR MOUNTING POSITIONALLY RELATED SENSOR COMPONENTS Jun 13, 2018 Abandoned
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16/002906
Methodology for in situ characterizing and calibrating an entangled photon distribution system Jun 6, 2018 Issued
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15/995614
Solid-state image-capturing device and method for driving solid-state image-capturing device May 31, 2018 Issued
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15/959384
ISOLATION DEVICE, ISOLATION SENSOR PACKAGE, AND METHOD Apr 22, 2018 Abandoned
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15/936540
Cargo restraint assurance system Mar 26, 2018 Issued
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15/901807
Imaging apparatus, method of driving imaging apparatus, and apparatus using the imaging apparatus Feb 20, 2018 Issued
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15/868577
Photodetector circuit and photodetector device Jan 10, 2018 Issued
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15/867291
OPTOELECTRONIC POSITION DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF POSITION DETERMINATION Jan 9, 2018 Abandoned
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15/863241
Phasing correction Jan 4, 2018 Issued
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15/861639
IMAGE SENSOR, MICRO-LENS ARRAY, AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING MICRO-LENS ARRAY WITH DIFFERENT HEIGHTS IN IMAGE SENSOR Jan 2, 2018 Abandoned
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15/856903
Vehicle sensor assembly for detecting solar radiation and air conditioning system having the same Dec 27, 2017 Issued
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15/854672
Spectrometer and spectrum measurement method thereof Dec 25, 2017 Issued
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15/848179
Lidar sensor for detecting an object Dec 19, 2017 Issued
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15/846204
Confocal measuring apparatus Dec 18, 2017 Issued
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15/839872
Optical measuring apparatus and adapter for optical measuring apparatus Dec 12, 2017 Issued
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15/828573
Photo-detection system comprising photo-detection apparatus including light-shielding film, optically-coupled layer, and photodetector and arithmetic circuit Nov 30, 2017 Issued
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15/821071
Distance measuring device and method of measuring distance by using the same Nov 21, 2017 Issued
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15/813139
Image sensor circuit and image depth sensor system Nov 13, 2017 Issued
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15/804170
Encoder and signal processing circuit Nov 5, 2017 Issued
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