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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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17/980266
Validity indication as a function of confidence level Nov 2, 2022 Issued
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17/979460
Construction site orchestration using dynamic computer vision Nov 1, 2022 Issued
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17/977576
Gaze correction method and apparatus for face image, device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product face image Oct 30, 2022 Issued
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18/048024
Industrial internet of things, control methods and storage medium based on machine visual detection Oct 18, 2022 Issued
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18/047625
COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RELATED DEVICES Oct 17, 2022 Pending
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17/964105
Communication apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium Oct 11, 2022 Issued
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17/957762
ATTAINING RAPID RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) CHANNEL INSPECTION USING INTELLIGENT TRANSCEIVER SCANNING IN WLAN NETWORKS Sep 29, 2022 Pending
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17/953740
Method, system, and computer program product for local approximation of a predictive model Sep 26, 2022 Issued
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17/947816
Efficient convolutional neural networks and techniques to reduce associated computational costs Sep 18, 2022 Issued
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17/941172
Position analysis device and method, and camera system Sep 8, 2022 Issued
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17/903900
Handheld electronic device Sep 5, 2022 Issued
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17/893351
Reading system, reading device, reading method, and storage medium Aug 22, 2022 Issued
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17/821511
SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING FOR MODELING A 3D BRAIN ANATOMICAL REPRESENTATION Aug 22, 2022 Pending
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17/892053
Uninterrupted media play and call management user interface Aug 19, 2022 Issued
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17/891969
Imaging system with unsupervised learning Aug 18, 2022 Issued
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17/820994
People flow analysis apparatus, people flow analysis method, and storage medium Aug 18, 2022 Issued
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17/887871
Defect inspection system having human-machine interaction function Aug 14, 2022 Issued
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17/885357
Image processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium Aug 9, 2022 Issued
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17/882294
Communications method and wearable device, communications system, and related device Aug 4, 2022 Issued
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17/905764
BASE STATION SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD Jun 30, 2022 Pending
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