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Prema Maria Mertz

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Most Active Art Unit
1646
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1621, 1812, 1646
Total Applications
2513
Issued Applications
1480
Pending Applications
406
Abandoned Applications
627

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17/377439
System and method of measuring surface topography Jul 15, 2021 Issued
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17/351010
Open aperture flow cells for on-line optical analysis of process fluids Jun 16, 2021 Issued
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17/335921
Multichannel angular spectrometer May 31, 2021 Issued
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17/928384
Determination of measurement error in an etalon May 24, 2021 Issued
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17/440279
Sensor for determining liquid types May 10, 2021 Issued
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17/314626
Methods for nucleic acid sequencing May 6, 2021 Issued
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17/238165
MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND MEASUREMENT METHOD Apr 21, 2021 Pending
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17/204059
Pupil ellipsometry measurement apparatus and method and method of fabricating semiconductor device using the pupil ellipsometry measurement method Mar 16, 2021 Issued
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17/203113
UV-VIS spectroscopy instrument and methods for color appearance and difference measurement Mar 15, 2021 Issued
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17/199078
Device for detecting water on a surface and a method for detecting water on a surface Mar 10, 2021 Issued
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17/197814
Optical device Mar 9, 2021 Issued
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17/184704
Microorganism detection apparatus Feb 24, 2021 Issued
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17/174223
Structure of optical sensor having light-emitting element and light-receiving element Feb 10, 2021 Issued
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17/173332
Spectroscopic analysis apparatus Feb 10, 2021 Issued
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17/140362
Spectrometer module Jan 3, 2021 Issued
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17/140969
Systems and methods for characterizing spectral reflectance of real world objects Jan 3, 2021 Issued
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17/137654
Spectrometer module Dec 29, 2020 Issued
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17/137700
Spectrometer module Dec 29, 2020 Issued
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17/134798
Measurement device and measurement method Dec 27, 2020 Issued
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17/116100
Sensing arrangement for monitoring contamination of cover slide on laser processing head Dec 8, 2020 Issued
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