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Michael A. Lyons

Examiner (ID: 17057, Phone: (571)272-2420 , Office: P/2877 )

Most Active Art Unit
2877
Art Unit(s)
2877
Total Applications
1672
Issued Applications
1391
Pending Applications
124
Abandoned Applications
179

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/284316
Compact optical-fibre Sagnac interferometer Oct 9, 2019 Issued
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17/766365
Enhancing contrast sensitivity and resolution in a grating interferometer by machine learning Oct 7, 2019 Issued
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16/594394
Interferometric distance measurement based on compression of chirped interferogram from cross-chirped interference Oct 6, 2019 Issued
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17/281627
Systems, methods and apparatuses for launching laser beams into multiple fibers and/or combining beams Sep 30, 2019 Issued
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16/575116
Stimulated brillouin scattering gyroscope Sep 17, 2019 Issued
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16/570161
PERIODONTAL POCKET EXAMINATION APPARATUS Sep 12, 2019 Abandoned
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17/256011
Differential sinusoidal phase modulation laser interferometric nanometer displacement measuring apparatus and method Sep 3, 2019 Issued
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17/273424
Inspection system for inspection of a lateral surface of a three-dimensional test object Sep 2, 2019 Issued
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16/557030
Method and device for superresolution optical measurement using singular optics Aug 29, 2019 Issued
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17/272426
Surface shape measurement device and surface shape measurement method Aug 28, 2019 Issued
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15/734902
COMPOUND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM Aug 28, 2019 Abandoned
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16/651973
Optical apparatus, optical system, and method for measuring an amount of strain of an object Aug 21, 2019 Issued
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16/540394
Multi-cavity wavelength tunable laser device Aug 13, 2019 Issued
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16/534848
Vehicle size measurement apparatus and vehicle size measuring method Aug 6, 2019 Abandoned
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16/528735
Spectroscopic measurement apparatus, electronic apparatus, and spectroscopic measurement method Jul 31, 2019 Issued
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16/520668
Deformometer for determining deformation of an optical cavity optic Jul 23, 2019 Issued
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17/263560
Light emitting device, optical detection system, optical detection device and optical detection method Jul 22, 2019 Issued
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16/517721
Illumination apparatus Jul 21, 2019 Issued
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17/262656
Shearing interferometry measurement device for microscopy Jul 21, 2019 Issued
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16/505958
Seismometer Jul 8, 2019 Issued
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