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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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16/813957
Calibrating reliability of multi-label classification neural networks Mar 9, 2020 Issued
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16/811927
Method for enhancing the visibility of blood vessels in color images and visualization systems implementing the method Mar 5, 2020 Issued
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17/284394
Multispectral camera dynamic stereo calibration algorithm based on saliency features Mar 4, 2020 Issued
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17/438361
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Mar 3, 2020 Abandoned
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16/808377
Systems and methods for polarization control using blind source separation Mar 3, 2020 Issued
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17/908527
Optical communication system and optical communication method Mar 3, 2020 Issued
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17/908416
Optical communication system, optical communication apparatus and optical communication method Mar 1, 2020 Issued
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16/804135
Optical transceiver and method of controlling optical powers of optical channels Feb 27, 2020 Issued
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16/803062
Video super resolution method Feb 26, 2020 Issued
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16/795017
Image segmentation of a video stream Feb 18, 2020 Issued
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17/797743
Optical communication network management apparatus Feb 16, 2020 Issued
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16/790463
Circuit for multi-path interference mitigation in an optical communication system Feb 12, 2020 Issued
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17/797266
Wavelength dispersion compensation apparatus and wavelength dispersion compensation method Feb 11, 2020 Issued
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16/785872
Automated vending machine with customer and identification authentication Feb 9, 2020 Issued
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16/783934
Systems and methods for keypoint detection Feb 5, 2020 Issued
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16/782362
Medical image registration guided by target lesion Feb 4, 2020 Issued
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16/780922
ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD Feb 3, 2020 Abandoned
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16/778257
Ophthalmologic image processing device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions Jan 30, 2020 Issued
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16/777074
Camera motion aware local tone mapping Jan 29, 2020 Issued
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16/776471
Image inspecting apparatus and image forming system Jan 28, 2020 Issued
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