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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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16/913792
High power and data delivery in a communications network with safety and fault protection Jun 25, 2020 Issued
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16/907314
Power over fiber system and power-supplying-side data communication device of power over fiber system Jun 21, 2020 Issued
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16/907611
Automated vending machine with customer and identification authentication Jun 21, 2020 Issued
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16/906248
Retail checkout terminal fresh produce identification system Jun 18, 2020 Issued
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16/904666
Visualization of subimage classifications Jun 17, 2020 Issued
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16/903691
Optical network system, optical node device, and optical network control method Jun 16, 2020 Issued
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16/902654
Optical branching/coupling device and optical branching/coupling method Jun 15, 2020 Issued
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16/902330
Medical imaging method and system Jun 15, 2020 Issued
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16/899162
Electronic device for performing video HDR processing based on image data obtained by plurality of image sensors Jun 10, 2020 Issued
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16/898058
Video condensation and recognition method and system thereof Jun 9, 2020 Issued
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16/896517
Image processing method and image processing system for generating a corrected image Jun 8, 2020 Issued
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16/888501
Image-based feature detection using edge vectors May 28, 2020 Issued
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17/271598
Power over fiber system and data communication devices May 24, 2020 Issued
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16/882089
Method and apparatus for image preprocessing May 21, 2020 Issued
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16/875782
Task-aware recommendation of hyperparameter configurations May 14, 2020 Issued
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16/872573
Electronic device and method of training a learning model for contrast ratio of an image May 11, 2020 Issued
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16/868797
Communication device May 6, 2020 Issued
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16/867205
Method and apparatus for transmitting optical transport unit signal May 4, 2020 Issued
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16/866479
Communication system and method for an optical local area network May 3, 2020 Issued
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16/865414
Failure prediction method of optical transceiver and related optical transceiver and fiber-optic communication system May 2, 2020 Issued
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