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Nathan K. Ford

Examiner (ID: 5844, Phone: (571)270-1880 , Office: P/1716 )

Most Active Art Unit
1716
Art Unit(s)
1712, 1792, 1716
Total Applications
758
Issued Applications
215
Pending Applications
97
Abandoned Applications
458

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/153439
Method and apparatus for image processing Jan 19, 2021 Issued
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17/138737
Crop boundary detection in images Dec 29, 2020 Issued
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17/136796
Method and device for image processing Dec 28, 2020 Issued
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17/137178
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUGMENTING TRAINING DATA BY COMBINING OBJECT AND BACKGROUND Dec 28, 2020 Abandoned
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17/136739
Method and device for image processing Dec 28, 2020 Issued
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18/267545
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Dec 24, 2020 Pending
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17/788561
METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE NSSAA PROCEDURE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Dec 23, 2020 Pending
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17/129659
Sensitive area management Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/345388
Method and system for performing characterization of one or more materials Dec 17, 2020 Issued
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17/125705
High dynamic range support for legacy applications Dec 16, 2020 Issued
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17/121902
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING FACIAL EXPRESSION Dec 14, 2020 Abandoned
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18/030261
Gradient dataset aware configuration for over-the-air (OTA) model aggregation in federated learning Dec 13, 2020 Issued
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17/757420
DISCOVERY AND SELECTION OF A STANDALONE NON-PUBLIC NETWORK (SNPN) BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON AN SNPN ROAMING GROUP Dec 7, 2020 Pending
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17/113401
Method for inspecting pillar-shaped honeycomb formed body before firing or after firing Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/756869
CLEANING AREA ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CLEANING AREA Dec 3, 2020 Abandoned
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17/105186
Method for processing images and electronic device Nov 24, 2020 Issued
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17/298710
Message-based image processing method and electronic device implementing same Nov 9, 2020 Issued
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17/090106
System and methods for the measurement of drilling mud flow in real-time Nov 4, 2020 Issued
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17/089435
Feature point positioning method, storage medium, and computer device Nov 3, 2020 Issued
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17/087912
Systems and methods for dynamic camera filtering Nov 2, 2020 Issued
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