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Mark A. Williams

Examiner (ID: 17185)

Most Active Art Unit
3675
Art Unit(s)
3676, 3209, 3675, 3722, 3673, 3674, 3626
Total Applications
2073
Issued Applications
1525
Pending Applications
104
Abandoned Applications
464

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/977029
Optic power monitoring system Dec 10, 2024 Issued
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18/893993
Control device, compensation device, program, and control method Sep 23, 2024 Issued
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18/800695
Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Node Aug 11, 2024 Pending
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18/796074
Controlling a Multi-Rail Switch in a Space-Division Multiplexing Optical Network Aug 5, 2024 Pending
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18/780764
Methods and apparatus for sequentially transmitting signals of polarization states of light through an optical fiber Jul 22, 2024 Issued
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18/768868
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BLIND LEARNING OF VOLTERRA EQUALIZER PARAMETERS Jul 9, 2024 Pending
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18/757188
OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECT ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE Jun 26, 2024 Pending
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18/754411
HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Jun 25, 2024 Pending
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18/643181
Auto-squelching optical traffic channels in an ASE-loaded system Apr 22, 2024 Issued
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18/639004
Position Modulation to Communicate Information Apr 17, 2024 Pending
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18/632647
FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SENSORS Apr 10, 2024 Pending
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18/592465
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TWO-WAY DELAY ERROR COMPENSATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Feb 28, 2024 Pending
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18/591296
Auto-provisioning optical channels based on spectrum monitoring Feb 28, 2024 Pending
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18/440918
DISTRIBUTION MATRCHING FOR PROBABILISTIC CONSTELLATION SHAPING WITH AN ARBITRARY INPUT/OUPUT ALPHABET Feb 12, 2024 Pending
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18/440228
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CABLE WITH SELECTIVE COMMUNICATION STATES Feb 12, 2024 Pending
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18/425628
Adjustable bandwidth current-to-voltage converter that operates in a dynamic load mode or in an integrate-and-dump mode for use in an optical receiver Jan 28, 2024 Pending
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18/425989
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE, AND INDUSTRIAL OPTICAL NETWORK Jan 28, 2024 Pending
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18/422578
METHOD AND APPARATUS TO INCREASE OPTIC LINE CAPACITY Jan 24, 2024 Pending
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18/417269
DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS SYSTEM AND APPARATUS Jan 18, 2024 Pending
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18/403674
Reconfigurable Software-Defined Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer for Diagnostics and Sensing Jan 2, 2024 Pending
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