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Patrick Dennis Niland

Examiner (ID: 1494, Phone: (571)272-1121 , Office: P/1762 )

Most Active Art Unit
1762
Art Unit(s)
1796, 1509, 1714, 1511, 1762
Total Applications
2822
Issued Applications
1804
Pending Applications
181
Abandoned Applications
837

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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14/199922
Methods and systems for performing signal activity extraction Mar 5, 2014 Issued
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14/197770
Specification of latency in programmable device configuration Mar 4, 2014 Issued
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14/084437
Methods for generating schematic diagrams and apparatuses using the same Nov 18, 2013 Issued
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14/083109
Sequential clock gating using net activity and xor technique on semiconductor designs including already gated pipeline design Nov 17, 2013 Issued
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14/056007
Thermally aware pin assignment and device placement Oct 16, 2013 Issued
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13/954927
Numerical area recovery Jul 29, 2013 Issued
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13/948725
Method and system for forming non-manhattan patterns using variable shaped beam lithography Jul 22, 2013 Issued
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13/946941
Hierarchical feature extraction for electrical interaction calculations Jul 18, 2013 Issued
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13/942177
Method for displaying timing information of an integrated circuit floorplan Jul 14, 2013 Issued
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13/935633
Method and apparatus for performing multiple stage physical synthesis Jul 4, 2013 Issued
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13/931917
Determination of meta-stable latch bias voltages Jun 28, 2013 Issued
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13/930912
COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY IN PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC PROCESS SIMULATION Jun 27, 2013 Abandoned
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13/929007
Method and system of change evaluation of an electronic design for verification confirmation Jun 26, 2013 Issued
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13/924516
Constructing equivalent waveform models for static timing analysis of integrated circuit designs Jun 20, 2013 Issued
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13/921897
Scaled sigma sampling Jun 18, 2013 Issued
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13/909747
Sequential non-deterministic detection in hardware design Jun 3, 2013 Issued
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13/908937
Banded computation architectures Jun 2, 2013 Issued
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13/903967
Equivalence checking using structural analysis on data flow graphs May 27, 2013 Issued
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13/888036
Metastability effects simulation for a circuit description May 5, 2013 Issued
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13/862537
Automation for monolithic 3D devices Apr 14, 2013 Issued
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