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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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16/717559
Liquid crystal on silicon element for dual-functionality beam steering in wavelength selective switches Dec 16, 2019 Issued
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17/784831
Access network and wireless device Dec 12, 2019 Issued
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16/712188
Methods and apparatus for improving the skew tolerance of a coherent optical transponder in an optical communication system Dec 11, 2019 Issued
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16/711134
Generative adversarial network with dynamic capacity expansion for continual learning Dec 10, 2019 Issued
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16/708584
Gaze-based control of device operations Dec 9, 2019 Issued
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16/707097
Visualization of inspection results Dec 8, 2019 Issued
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16/707082
Optical networking with hybrid optical vortices Dec 8, 2019 Issued
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16/705912
Photonic antenna array with tapered fiber ends Dec 5, 2019 Issued
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16/706659
Image processing method, terminal, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium Dec 5, 2019 Issued
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16/697285
Communication method and apparatus using hybrid modulation scheme in communication system Nov 26, 2019 Issued
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17/777313
Transceiver, spatial light frequency transmission system and spatial light frequency transmission method Nov 18, 2019 Issued
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16/687353
Ultra-small multi-channel optical module with optical wavelength distribution Nov 17, 2019 Issued
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16/687582
Image identifying method and related monitoring camera and monitoring camera system Nov 17, 2019 Issued
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16/683017
Method and apparatus for optical power controls in optical networks Nov 12, 2019 Issued
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16/618911
Data compression device and compression method configured to gradually adjust a quantization step size to obtain an optimal target quantization step size Nov 11, 2019 Issued
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17/772075
Optical communication device Nov 7, 2019 Issued
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16/676200
Optical communication system and method capable of monitoring underwater information in real time Nov 5, 2019 Issued
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16/669896
Laser marking through the lens of an image scanning system with multiple location image calibration Oct 30, 2019 Issued
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17/771196
Angular prior and direct coding mode for tree representation coding of a point cloud Oct 30, 2019 Issued
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16/668280
Method for inserting domain information, method and apparatus for learning of generative model Oct 29, 2019 Issued
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