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Michael J. Metzger

Examiner (ID: 6091, Phone: (571)272-3105 , Office: P/2182 )

Most Active Art Unit
2182
Art Unit(s)
2182, 2183
Total Applications
567
Issued Applications
474
Pending Applications
58
Abandoned Applications
48

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/532893
System and Method for Disentangling Audio Signal Information Dec 6, 2023 Pending
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18/523067
Harmonic transposition in an audio coding method and system Nov 28, 2023 Issued
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18/521944
THREE-DIMENSIONAL AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Nov 27, 2023 Pending
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18/505970
AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORK-BASED AUDIO ENCODER AND DECODER Nov 8, 2023 Pending
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18/387928
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING AN INPUT CONTENT ITEM BASED ON CONTEXTS Nov 7, 2023 Pending
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18/383594
PERIODIC-COMBINED-ENVELOPE-SEQUENCE GENERATION DEVICE, PERIODIC-COMBINED-ENVELOPE-SEQUENCE GENERATION METHOD, PERIODIC-COMBINED-ENVELOPE-SEQUENCE GENERATION PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM Oct 24, 2023 Pending
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18/377868
Pseudo Real-time Content-Aware Auditory Cleansing Oct 8, 2023 Pending
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18/376725
Systems and methods for filtering unwanted sounds from a conference call Oct 3, 2023 Issued
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18/477859
GENERATING AUDIO FILES FROM TEXT INPUT Sep 28, 2023 Pending
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18/456138
Chatbot providing a defeating reply Aug 24, 2023 Issued
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18/456045
Time-aligned additive recording Aug 24, 2023 Issued
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18/237028
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATION OF REAL-TIME REACTIONARY DEVICE DATA BASED ON LIVE AUDIO DATA Aug 22, 2023 Abandoned
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18/232245
Real time popularity based audible content acquisition Aug 8, 2023 Issued
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18/366184
METHOD FOR OBTAINING DE-IDENTIFIED DATA REPRESENTATIONS OF SPEECH FOR SPEECH ANALYSIS Aug 6, 2023 Pending
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18/363099
Methods and apparatus for supplementing partially readable and/or inaccurate codes in media Jul 31, 2023 Issued
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18/357679
Backward-compatible integration of high frequency reconstruction techniques for audio signals Jul 23, 2023 Issued
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18/353705
Masked language model as a defense against textual adversarial attacks Jul 16, 2023 Issued
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18/350464
Augmentation of Audiographic Images for Improved Machine Learning Jul 10, 2023 Pending
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18/217342
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIRTUAL CONCERT, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT Jun 29, 2023 Pending
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18/214699
IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Jun 26, 2023 Pending
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