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Michael R. Neff

Examiner (ID: 10461, Phone: (571)270-1848 , Office: P/2631 )

Most Active Art Unit
2631
Art Unit(s)
2631, 2611, 2609
Total Applications
1103
Issued Applications
921
Pending Applications
75
Abandoned Applications
136

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/161665
External light interference removal method Jan 28, 2021 Issued
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17/160502
Crowdsourced building structure detection with synthetic data generation Jan 27, 2021 Issued
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17/145041
Detecting one or more objects in an image, or sequence of images, and determining a category and one or more descriptors for each of the one or more objects, generating synthetic training data, and training a neural network with the synthetic training data Jan 7, 2021 Issued
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17/143093
Fakecatcher: detection of synthetic portrait videos using biological signals Jan 5, 2021 Issued
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17/133792
Facial verification method and apparatus Dec 23, 2020 Issued
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17/133921
Systems and methods for utilizing dynamic codes with neural networks Dec 23, 2020 Issued
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17/789054
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium Dec 23, 2020 Issued
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17/132357
Object aware local tone mapping Dec 22, 2020 Issued
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17/126793
Machine-learned tillage sweep malfunction in an autonomous farming vehicle Dec 17, 2020 Issued
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17/125889
Contrast enhanced images composited with artificial colorization Dec 16, 2020 Issued
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17/122998
Perception error modeling Dec 14, 2020 Issued
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17/119975
Method and device for detecting hand gesture key points Dec 10, 2020 Issued
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17/117408
Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method, machine learning system, and program Dec 9, 2020 Issued
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17/116597
Method for detecting surface defect, method for training model, apparatus, device, and media Dec 8, 2020 Issued
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17/110141
Generation of synthetic high-elevation digital images from temporal sequences of high-elevation digital images Dec 1, 2020 Issued
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17/105027
Data processing method, data processing apparatus, electronic device and storage medium Nov 24, 2020 Issued
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17/757690
User equipment signaling to support bias detection Nov 23, 2020 Issued
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16/953782
Methods for extracting point cloud feature Nov 19, 2020 Issued
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17/098193
Generation of stereo-spatio-temporal crop condition measurements based on human observations and height measurements Nov 12, 2020 Issued
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17/094380
Entity identification using machine learning Nov 9, 2020 Issued
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