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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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16/530832
Tracking device location detection using access point collections Aug 1, 2019 Issued
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16/529703
Dual network geographical radio configuration Jul 31, 2019 Issued
Array ( [id] => 16037553 [patent_doc_number] => 10681221 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2020-06-09 [patent_title] => Method and a system for detecting telephone numbers used by SIM boxes for soliciting telephone calls [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/527464 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2019-07-31 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 2 [patent_figures_cnt] => 2 [patent_no_of_words] => 3291 [patent_no_of_claims] => 12 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 1 [patent_words_short_claim] => 171 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16527464 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/527464
Method and a system for detecting telephone numbers used by SIM boxes for soliciting telephone calls Jul 30, 2019 Issued
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16/523465
Utilizing a neural network having a two-stream encoder architecture to generate composite digital images Jul 25, 2019 Issued
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16/520833
Message protection method, user equipment, and core network device Jul 23, 2019 Issued
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16/511121
System and method for providing information on terminal devices Jul 14, 2019 Issued
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17/267421
PUPIL FEATURE EXTRACTION APPARATUS, PUPIL FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Jul 9, 2019 Abandoned
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16/502546
METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SETTING MOBILE DEVICE PROPERTIES VIA WIRELESS SIGNALING AND PROXIMITY Jul 2, 2019 Abandoned
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16/650279
Battery detection method and device Jun 26, 2019 Issued
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16/451610
Method and system of performing medical treatment outcome assessment or medical condition diagnostic Jun 24, 2019 Issued
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16/452052
System and method for providing dominant scene classification by semantic segmentation Jun 24, 2019 Issued
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16/445689
Communication apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium Jun 18, 2019 Issued
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17/252396
Methods and systems for recognizing geometric units in a computer image Jun 16, 2019 Issued
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16/442362
Method and system for sensing-data collection and transport from minimization-of-drive-tests device Jun 13, 2019 Issued
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16/422424
Sensitive area management May 23, 2019 Issued
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16/412110
Exchanging location information of a base station that is associated with a plurality of different transmission point locations May 13, 2019 Issued
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16/409507
Active case apparatus providing local off-device resources May 9, 2019 Issued
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17/052267
Method for detecting beacons May 7, 2019 Issued
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16/404916
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for on-street parking localization May 6, 2019 Issued
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16/404982
SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR FAIL-SAFE TISSUE REMOVAL May 6, 2019 Abandoned
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