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Michael J. Felton

Examiner (ID: 9408, Phone: (571)272-4805 , Office: P/1747 )

Most Active Art Unit
1747
Art Unit(s)
1747, 1731, 1791
Total Applications
756
Issued Applications
403
Pending Applications
86
Abandoned Applications
283

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/146407
System and Method for Optical Layer Management in Optical Modules and Remote Control of Optical Modules Jan 10, 2021 Abandoned
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17/145862
Protection switching based on exchange of protection information Jan 10, 2021 Issued
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17/142050
Semiconductor optical amplifier with asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometers Jan 4, 2021 Issued
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17/140836
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WAVELENGTH IDENTIFICATION IN OPTICAL FIBERS Jan 3, 2021 Abandoned
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17/758500
Information processing to appropriately interpret a recognition result of an object recognition model Jan 3, 2021 Issued
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17/138794
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN OPTICAL LOCAL AREA NETWORK Dec 29, 2020 Pending
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17/790819
Microwave photon control device, microwave photon transmitter, microwave photon receiver, microwave photon repeater, and quantum computer Dec 27, 2020 Issued
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17/134141
Data synchronization in optical networks and devices Dec 23, 2020 Issued
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17/133262
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer-readable medium for performing image processing using reduced image Dec 22, 2020 Issued
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17/130522
Method and apparatus for vehicle interior evaluation and situational servicing Dec 21, 2020 Issued
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18/015071
Signal demodulation method and apparatus, computer storage medium and device Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/124804
Autonomous system terminus assistance techniques Dec 16, 2020 Issued
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17/123981
Radiometric correction in image mosaicing Dec 15, 2020 Issued
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18/265589
Optical power supply system, sleep control method and power receiving optical communication apparatus Dec 14, 2020 Issued
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17/120331
Difference-guided video analysis Dec 13, 2020 Issued
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17/116252
Method of providing image storage service, recording medium and computing device Dec 8, 2020 Issued
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17/783510
Computing device Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/106973
Electronic device for video editing with dynamic tone metadata and operation method thereof Nov 29, 2020 Issued
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17/756592
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL PULSE SEQUENCE GENERATION Nov 25, 2020 Abandoned
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18/037072
COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM Nov 24, 2020 Abandoned
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