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Kenneth B. Wells

Examiner (ID: 1681, Phone: (571)272-1757 , Office: P/2842 )

Most Active Art Unit
2842
Art Unit(s)
2836, 2504, 2816, 2842, 3621
Total Applications
3183
Issued Applications
2697
Pending Applications
173
Abandoned Applications
342

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/326151
Illumination arrangement with an illumination module and a peripheral module connected to the same May 30, 2023 Issued
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18/874526
METAL-OXIDE VARISTOR (MOV) BASED SURGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT FOR PLASMA PROCESSING CHAMBER May 30, 2023 Pending
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18/879156
VEHICLE LAMP SYSTEM May 30, 2023 Pending
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18/325875
RF switch with switching time acceleration May 29, 2023 Issued
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18/324707
Minimum on-time circuit, controller, circuit system and current detection method May 25, 2023 Issued
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18/202555
RF power generator with analogue and digital detectors May 25, 2023 Issued
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18/863403
STREETLIGHT LAMP POST, STREET LIGHTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A STREET LIGHTING SYSTEM May 7, 2023 Pending
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18/311505
Systems and methods for selecting light emitters for emitting light May 2, 2023 Issued
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18/310699
Level shifter May 1, 2023 Issued
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18/141945
Management of multiple switching-synchronized measurements using combined prioritized measurement and round-robin sequence measurement Apr 30, 2023 Issued
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18/138730
MULTI-ELECTRODE SOURCE ASSEMBLY FOR PLASMA PROCESSING Apr 23, 2023 Pending
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18/300075
Inductive power transfer Apr 12, 2023 Issued
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18/298925
Magnetic confinement of arc discharge migration in spark OES systems Apr 10, 2023 Issued
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18/194626
User equipment device integrity protection in a data communication network Mar 31, 2023 Issued
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18/128664
Circuit and method Mar 29, 2023 Issued
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18/857256
Method for detecting and processing photometric parameters of lighting devices, and corresponding computer program product and controller Mar 26, 2023 Pending
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18/126080
Wide voltage gate driver using low gate oxide transistors Mar 23, 2023 Issued
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18/187903
Beamforming optimization to adapt to environmental changes and RF consumption patterns Mar 21, 2023 Issued
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18/187944
Pattern learning to eliminate repetitive compute operations in a data communication network Mar 21, 2023 Issued
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18/183806
Gate resistive ladder bypass for RF FET switch stack Mar 13, 2023 Issued
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