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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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17/017852
Deposit detection device and deposit detection method Sep 10, 2020 Issued
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18/024926
COMMUNICATION MONITORING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION MONITORING SYSTEM Sep 10, 2020 Pending
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18/024853
Optical transmitter and frequency control method in optical transmission Sep 8, 2020 Issued
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17/011941
Networking switching devices and methods thereof Sep 2, 2020 Issued
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17/010896
Spectrum coordination in optical line protection to minimize optical transceiver retuning Sep 2, 2020 Issued
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17/007917
Electronically steered inter-satellite optical communication system with micro-electromechanical (MEM) micromirror array (MMA) Aug 30, 2020 Issued
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17/005873
Bisection searching algorithm to derive optimum baud rate with maximum spectral efficiency exploiting Q-margin-to-SNR-margin conversion Aug 27, 2020 Issued
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17/002835
Per-band fault signaling in a multi-band optical transmission system Aug 25, 2020 Issued
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18/022196
Spatial optical communication system Aug 24, 2020 Issued
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16/988874
Rapid polarization tracking in an optical channel Aug 9, 2020 Issued
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16/988183
System and method for measuring image on paper registration using customer source images Aug 6, 2020 Issued
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16/983007
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND MAINTENANCE TERMINAL Aug 2, 2020 Abandoned
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16/944471
Method and an apparatus for transitioning between optical networks Jul 30, 2020 Issued
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16/932934
Method of creating a template of original video content Jul 19, 2020 Issued
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18/015403
Communication device, communication method, communication system and communication program Jul 14, 2020 Issued
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16/928370
Remote data multicasting and remote direct memory access over optical fabrics Jul 13, 2020 Issued
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16/927245
Method and apparatus for laser frequency control Jul 12, 2020 Issued
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16/924215
Method and system for image scaling and enhancement Jul 8, 2020 Issued
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16/918154
Logical cut of an optical fiber due to fiber events Jun 30, 2020 Issued
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16/914411
Interference suppression with mitigation of intermodulation distortion Jun 27, 2020 Issued
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