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Matthew E. Zimmerman

Examiner (ID: 2856, Phone: (571)270-5278 , Office: P/3684 )

Most Active Art Unit
3684
Art Unit(s)
3625, 3683, 3688, 3684
Total Applications
743
Issued Applications
442
Pending Applications
33
Abandoned Applications
280

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/782209
Surgical robot, surgical system, and control method Dec 3, 2020 Issued
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16/953526
Parking assist system Nov 19, 2020 Issued
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16/952006
Vehicle control system Nov 17, 2020 Issued
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17/096895
POSITION ESTIMATING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DETERMINING POSITION OF MOVABLE APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Nov 11, 2020 Abandoned
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17/036926
Planning for occlusions with surfel maps Sep 28, 2020 Issued
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17/027940
Remote parking system Sep 21, 2020 Issued
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17/001029
Connected automation controls using robotic devices Aug 23, 2020 Issued
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16/994702
Autonomous exploration framework for indoor mobile robotics using reduced approximated generalized Voronoi graph Aug 16, 2020 Issued
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17/616929
Vehicle controller Jul 16, 2020 Issued
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16/910109
Systems and methods for selecting improved routes for fulfilling transportation requests Jun 23, 2020 Issued
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16/904957
Automatic driving vehicle Jun 17, 2020 Issued
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16/904957
Automatic driving vehicle Jun 17, 2020 Issued
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16/904957
Automatic driving vehicle Jun 17, 2020 Issued
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16/904957
Automatic driving vehicle Jun 17, 2020 Issued
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17/610376
Systems and methods for bifurcated navigation control of a manipulator cart included within a computer-assisted medical system May 28, 2020 Issued
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17/926364
In-network control of actuators for robotic arms May 26, 2020 Issued
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16/872480
Information display device, control method, and storage medium May 11, 2020 Issued
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16/871549
Walkway Detection for Autonomous Light Electric Vehicle May 10, 2020 Abandoned
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16/845765
Peer-to-peer occupancy estimation Apr 9, 2020 Issued
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16/831841
Estimating a movement of a hybrid-behavior vehicle Mar 26, 2020 Issued
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