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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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16/828455
Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium Mar 23, 2020 Issued
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16/820725
Self-position estimation method Mar 16, 2020 Issued
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16/820114
Vehicle system Mar 15, 2020 Issued
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16/794822
Remote monitoring device for a fleet of autonomous motor vehicles, transport system and limiting method therefor Feb 18, 2020 Issued
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17/432564
Conveying system having vertically traveling driverless transport vehicles Jan 27, 2020 Issued
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17/758791
Method and electronic device, system and computer readable medium for calibration Jan 21, 2020 Issued
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16/744699
Path providing device and control method thereof Jan 15, 2020 Issued
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16/732231
Path planning method, system and device for autonomous driving Dec 30, 2019 Issued
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16/702950
Vehicle driving control apparatus including sound sensor and vehicle driving control method using the vehicle driving control apparatus Dec 3, 2019 Issued
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16/698657
Altitude estimation using differential pressure sensors in ground effect Nov 26, 2019 Issued
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16/695433
Portable lane departure detection Nov 25, 2019 Issued
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16/694977
System and Method for Assisting a Visually Impaired Individual Nov 24, 2019 Abandoned
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16/679548
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTION CONTROL OF ROBOTS Nov 10, 2019 Abandoned
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16/674679
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS OF USERS LOCATED WITHIN A SPECIFIC SPACE Nov 4, 2019 Abandoned
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17/290709
Tool-positioning system and method, rotary milking platform, computer program and non-volatile data carrier Oct 27, 2019 Issued
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16/666263
Directed audio-encoded data emission systems and methods for vehicles and devices Oct 27, 2019 Issued
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16/595747
Collision avoidance apparatus and collision avoidance method Oct 7, 2019 Issued
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17/281605
Exploitation of automotive automated driving systems to cause motor vehicles to perform follow-me low-speed manoeuvres controllable from the outside of the motor vehicles by user terminals Sep 26, 2019 Issued
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16/544278
Processing a request signal regarding operation of an autonomous vehicle Aug 18, 2019 Issued
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16/541755
Semantic navigation of autonomous ground vehicles Aug 14, 2019 Issued
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