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Nathan K. Ford

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

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Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/356229
Fast anomaly detection method and system based on contrastive representation distillation Jul 20, 2023 Issued
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18/223957
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DOMINANT SCENE CLASSIFICATION BY SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION Jul 18, 2023 Pending
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18/354333
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANNEL IMPAIRMENT ESTIMATIONS USING TRANSFORMER-BASED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Jul 17, 2023 Pending
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18/352892
SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR ENHANCED INTEGRATION OF WIRELESS ENVIRONMENTS Jul 13, 2023 Pending
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18/352421
COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS THEREOF Jul 13, 2023 Pending
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18/221310
Method and device for obtaining a second image from a first image when the dynamic range of the luminance of the first image is greater than the dynamic range of the luminance of the second image Jul 11, 2023 Issued
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18/217940
CARRIER AGGREGATION AND DUAL CONNECTIVITY SWITCHING IN A CELLULAR NETWORK Jul 2, 2023 Pending
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18/344048
SIGNAL CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Jun 28, 2023 Pending
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18/336414
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING FEEDBACK RECEIVER (FBRX) GAIN SWITCH POINT Jun 15, 2023 Pending
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18/335694
METHOD FOR ESTIMATING TIME OF ARRIVAL BASED ON NON-CONTIGUOUS SPECTRUMS AND APPARATUS Jun 14, 2023 Pending
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18/334300
SIM Provisioning Via WiFi Jun 12, 2023 Pending
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18/333658
FAST SESSION TRANSFER BETWEEN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND 5G NETWORK Jun 12, 2023 Pending
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18/208085
METHOD AND BASE STATION FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR MOBILITY MANAGEMENT OF USER EQUIPMENT Jun 8, 2023 Pending
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18/270514
SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ASSIGNING CELL IDENTIFICATION May 29, 2023 Pending
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18/321768
Enhanced OpenRAN-MEC Info Exchange Solution May 21, 2023 Pending
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18/198977
USER EQUIPMENT REFRESH HANDLING DURING USER ACTIVITY May 17, 2023 Pending
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18/308188
Method and apparatus for configuring artificial neural network for wireless communication in mobile communication system Apr 26, 2023 Issued
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18/137807
Communication Information Sending Method, Communication Information Receiving Method, and Communication Device Apr 20, 2023 Pending
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18/303514
OPERATION EXPANSION POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR ACCESS POINTS Apr 18, 2023 Pending
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18/131567
Multi-agent reinforcement learning with matchmaking policies Apr 5, 2023 Issued
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