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Phillip A. Johnson

Examiner (ID: 452, Phone: (571)270-5216 , Office: P/3656 )

Most Active Art Unit
3656
Art Unit(s)
3617, 3682, 3656
Total Applications
1920
Issued Applications
1589
Pending Applications
95
Abandoned Applications
270

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/053207
SECURING CRITICAL AUDIO PATHS Nov 6, 2022 Abandoned
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17/938288
Method and system for obtaining acoustical measurements Oct 4, 2022 Issued
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17/955509
Environment aware voice-assistant devices, and related systems and methods Sep 27, 2022 Issued
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17/946180
Encrypted 1-bit audio distribution system Sep 15, 2022 Issued
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17/931222
Device group identification Sep 11, 2022 Issued
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17/891295
Enhancing audio using multiple recording devices Aug 18, 2022 Issued
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17/818054
Prioritizing media content requests Aug 7, 2022 Issued
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17/883385
Systems and methods for audio adjustment Aug 7, 2022 Issued
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17/853763
Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for selecting audio output modes of wearable audio output devices Jun 28, 2022 Issued
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17/808148
Playback of media content according to media preferences Jun 21, 2022 Issued
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17/838827
Social playback queues Jun 12, 2022 Issued
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17/742801
Electronic device charging via an audio jack May 11, 2022 Issued
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17/737184
Metadata-preserved audio object clustering May 4, 2022 Issued
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17/736962
Orientation-aware surround sound playback May 3, 2022 Issued
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17/734150
Systems and methods leveraging audio sensors to facilitate surgical procedures May 1, 2022 Issued
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17/661051
Automatically creating task content Apr 27, 2022 Issued
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17/727732
Methods, apparatus and systems for encoding and decoding of directional sound sources Apr 22, 2022 Issued
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17/719170
Translation method and apparatus based on multimodal machine learning, device, and storage medium Apr 11, 2022 Issued
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17/657281
Contextual indexing of media items Mar 29, 2022 Issued
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17/652497
EXPLOITING VISUAL INFORMATION FOR ENHANCING AUDIO SIGNALS VIA SOURCE SEPARATION AND BEAMFORMING Feb 24, 2022 Abandoned
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