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Rodney Glenn Mcdonald

Examiner (ID: 15349, Phone: (571)272-1340 , Office: P/1756 )

Most Active Art Unit
1753
Art Unit(s)
1794, 1753, 1756, 1795, 1724, 1109
Total Applications
2632
Issued Applications
1551
Pending Applications
299
Abandoned Applications
782

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/429336
Systems and methods for fleet management of robotic surgical systems Jun 2, 2019 Issued
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16/424025
Methods and apparatus for complex assembly via autonomous robots using reinforcement learning action primitives May 27, 2019 Issued
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16/422489
ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, MACHINE CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM May 23, 2019 Abandoned
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16/420852
Robot and method of controlling thereof May 22, 2019 Issued
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16/418471
Seat control apparatus May 20, 2019 Issued
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16/418605
Social behavior rules for a medical telepresence robot May 20, 2019 Issued
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16/408560
Holding apparatus, container provided with tag, object holding program and object holding method May 9, 2019 Issued
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16/408403
Social robot with environmental control feature May 8, 2019 Issued
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16/652401
Robot of estimating direction based on vanishing point of low luminance image and method estimating thereof May 7, 2019 Issued
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17/059571
Control device and method for controlling an actuator for actuating braking means of a vehicle, more particularly of a rail vehicle May 5, 2019 Issued
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16/402758
Apparatus and methods for control of robot actions based on corrective user inputs May 2, 2019 Issued
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16/398741
SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DATA SIGNAL FOR THE REGISTRATION, MONITORING AND CONTROL OF MACHINES AND DEVICES Apr 29, 2019 Pending
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16/395418
Systems and methods autonomously performing instructed operations using a robotic device Apr 25, 2019 Issued
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16/392159
Method and device for identifying a road condition Apr 22, 2019 Issued
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16/390303
Apparatus control system and method Apr 21, 2019 Issued
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16/386189
Generating and utilizing non-uniform volume measures for voxels in robotics applications Apr 15, 2019 Issued
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16/378734
Cable robot Apr 8, 2019 Issued
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16/376237
Systems and methods for robotic path planning Apr 4, 2019 Issued
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16/375262
Systems and methods for providing remote touch Apr 3, 2019 Issued
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16/370171
Medical devices, systems, and methods using eye gaze tracking Mar 28, 2019 Issued
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