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Michael A. Lyons

Examiner (ID: 9966, Phone: (571)272-2420 , Office: P/2877 )

Most Active Art Unit
2877
Art Unit(s)
2877
Total Applications
1651
Issued Applications
1383
Pending Applications
121
Abandoned Applications
177

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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15/524630
Optical measurement method and system Nov 3, 2015 Abandoned
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14/877882
Line scan spectroscopic white light interferometry for semiconductor inspection and metrology Oct 6, 2015 Issued
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15/517925
Optical response measuring device and optical response measuring method Oct 4, 2015 Issued
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14/865081
Method for detecting focal plane based on grating talbot effect Sep 24, 2015 Issued
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14/850425
Optical measurement system and method for measuring critical dimension of nanostructure Sep 9, 2015 Issued
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15/747063
Component mounter, nozzle imaging method Aug 30, 2015 Issued
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14/839553
OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME Aug 27, 2015 Abandoned
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15/505726
Method and apparatus for multiple localized interferometric measurements Aug 20, 2015 Issued
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15/505420
Three-dimensional interferometer, method for calibrating such an interferometer and method for reconstructing an image Aug 18, 2015 Issued
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15/743151
Far-infrared spectroscopy device Jul 21, 2015 Issued
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15/323223
TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS BASED ON LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETER Jul 2, 2015 Abandoned
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14/750780
Multiple reference OCT system Jun 24, 2015 Issued
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15/322017
Dual laser frequency sweep interferometry system and method Jun 23, 2015 Issued
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15/318234
Dispersion compensation Jun 10, 2015 Issued
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14/734895
Cavity enhanced laser based isotopic gas analyzer Jun 8, 2015 Issued
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15/315022
System and method associated with a photonic integrated circuit Jun 2, 2015 Issued
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14/708928
Systems and methods for resonance switching resonator fiber optic gyroscopes (RFOGs) with feed-forward processing May 10, 2015 Issued
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15/304816
Method for analyzing an object using a combination of long and short coherence interferometry Apr 28, 2015 Issued
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14/693542
Chip-scale star tracker Apr 21, 2015 Issued
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14/686616
Broadband, common-path, interferometric wavefront sensor Apr 13, 2015 Issued
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