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Shaun A. Roberts

Examiner (ID: 5918, Phone: (571)270-7541 , Office: P/2657 )

Most Active Art Unit
2657
Art Unit(s)
RD00, 2626, 2655, 2657
Total Applications
815
Issued Applications
620
Pending Applications
67
Abandoned Applications
156

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/349680
Apparatus for encoding and decoding audio signal and method of operation thereof Jul 9, 2023 Issued
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18/334641
Context-data based speech enhancement Jun 13, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 18882561 [patent_doc_number] => 20240005930 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2024-01-04 [patent_title] => PERSONALIZED BANDWIDTH EXTENSION [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/334067 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-06-13 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 9590 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -6 [patent_words_short_claim] => 103 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18334067 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/334067
Personalized bandwidth extension Jun 12, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 20203900 [patent_doc_number] => 12406683 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2025-09-02 [patent_title] => Kalmannet: a learnable Kalman filter for acoustic echo cancellation [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/327447 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-06-01 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 12 [patent_figures_cnt] => 12 [patent_no_of_words] => 5549 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 121 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18327447 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/327447
Kalmannet: a learnable Kalman filter for acoustic echo cancellation May 31, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 19213406 [patent_doc_number] => 12002477 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2024-06-04 [patent_title] => Methods for phase ECU F0 interpolation split and related controller [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/203280 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-05-30 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 10 [patent_figures_cnt] => 15 [patent_no_of_words] => 9102 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 94 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18203280 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/203280
Methods for phase ECU F0 interpolation split and related controller May 29, 2023 Issued
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18/325879
Procedural pattern matching in audio and audiovisual files using voice prints May 29, 2023 Issued
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18/312688
Audio signal processing method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium with machine learning and for microphone mute state features in a multi person voice call May 4, 2023 Issued
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18/311964
Contextual Biasing for Speech Recognition May 3, 2023 Pending
Array ( [id] => 20146535 [patent_doc_number] => 12380880 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2025-08-05 [patent_title] => End-to-end automatic speech recognition with transformer [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/129996 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-04-03 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 7 [patent_figures_cnt] => 8 [patent_no_of_words] => 4959 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 106 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18129996 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/129996
End-to-end automatic speech recognition with transformer Apr 2, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 18532942 [patent_doc_number] => 20230238017 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2023-07-27 [patent_title] => SUBBAND BLOCK BASED HARMONIC TRANSPOSITION [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/192982 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-03-30 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 13672 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 273 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18192982 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/192982
Subband block based harmonic transposition Mar 29, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 19016005 [patent_doc_number] => 11922945 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2024-03-05 [patent_title] => Voice to text conversion based on third-party agent content [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/125606 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-03-23 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 7 [patent_figures_cnt] => 7 [patent_no_of_words] => 12584 [patent_no_of_claims] => 17 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 186 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18125606 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/125606
Voice to text conversion based on third-party agent content Mar 22, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 19414444 [patent_doc_number] => 12080276 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2024-09-03 [patent_title] => Adapting automated speech recognition parameters based on hotword properties [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/188238 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-03-22 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 4 [patent_figures_cnt] => 4 [patent_no_of_words] => 8685 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 137 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18188238 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/188238
Adapting automated speech recognition parameters based on hotword properties Mar 21, 2023 Issued
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18/850247
Local Voice Recognition and Processing Within a Head Worn Device Mar 16, 2023 Pending
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18/183695
Machine learning system for customer utterance intent prediction Mar 13, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 20581122 [patent_doc_number] => 12573376 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2026-03-10 [patent_title] => Dynamic language and command recognition [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/179756 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-03-07 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 8 [patent_figures_cnt] => 8 [patent_no_of_words] => 14378 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 86 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18179756 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/179756
Dynamic language and command recognition Mar 6, 2023 Issued
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18/103324
Voice shortcut detection with speaker verification Jan 29, 2023 Issued
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18/100275
System and method for processing audio data into a plurality of frequency components Jan 22, 2023 Issued
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18/093978
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF ACTIVATING SPEECH RECOGNITION SERVICE Jan 5, 2023 Abandoned
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18/146151
Selection of quantization schemes for spatial audio parameter encoding Dec 22, 2022 Issued
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18/085378
Generating topic-specific language models Dec 19, 2022 Issued
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