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Robert J. Hance

Examiner (ID: 5851, Phone: (571)270-5319 , Office: P/2421 )

Most Active Art Unit
2423
Art Unit(s)
2421, 3992, 2422, 2423, 2623
Total Applications
865
Issued Applications
552
Pending Applications
73
Abandoned Applications
251

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/082357
Generating neural network outputs using insertion operations Dec 14, 2022 Issued
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18/065692
Training a language model of an end-to-end automatic speech recognition model using random encoder features Dec 13, 2022 Issued
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18/081569
ENABLING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-BASED SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING (SLU) SYSTEMS TO LEVERAGE BOTH AUDIO DATA AND TEXTUAL DATA IN PROCESSING SPOKEN UTTERANCES Dec 13, 2022 Issued
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18/065297
Systems and methods for screenless computerized social-media access Dec 12, 2022 Issued
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18/078476
Text independent speaker recognition Dec 8, 2022 Issued
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18/077227
Natural language processing system for context-specific applier interface Dec 6, 2022 Issued
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18/076047
Speech enhancement method and apparatus, device, and storage medium Dec 5, 2022 Issued
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18/072954
Systems and methods for interpreting natural language search queries Nov 30, 2022 Issued
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18/070248
Survey system with mixed response medium Nov 27, 2022 Issued
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17/994968
Speech signal processing method and related device thereof Nov 27, 2022 Issued
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17/990388
Psychoacoustics-based audio encoding method and apparatus Nov 17, 2022 Issued
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17/982662
Automatic generation of narratives from data using communication goals and narrative analytics Nov 7, 2022 Issued
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17/977555
Systems and methods for automatic speech translation Oct 30, 2022 Issued
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17/976167
System and/or method for semantic parsing of air traffic control audio Oct 27, 2022 Issued
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17/971626
Low power voice activity detector Oct 22, 2022 Issued
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17/971626
Low power voice activity detector Oct 22, 2022 Issued
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17/969977
Artificial intelligence-based audio processing method, apparatus, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product Oct 19, 2022 Issued
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17/968140
Apparatus and method for processing natural language Oct 17, 2022 Issued
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17/954920
Authenticating a call recording using audio watermarks Sep 27, 2022 Issued
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17/951715
Voice assistant error detection system Sep 22, 2022 Issued
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