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Stephen M. Hepperle

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 17055, Phone: (571)272-4913 , Office: P/3700 )

Most Active Art Unit
3407
Art Unit(s)
3407, 3700, 3753
Total Applications
2621
Issued Applications
2150
Pending Applications
140
Abandoned Applications
331

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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19/024907
Regularized interference-plus-noise covariance matrix estimation Jan 15, 2025 Issued
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18/766819
TIME-OF-FLIGHT ESTIMATION USING SAMPLING ERROR VALUES Jul 8, 2024 Pending
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18/761501
Clock syntonization using network effect and/or adaptive stochastic control Jul 1, 2024 Issued
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18/755179
Antenna and environmental conditions monitoring for wireless and telecommunications for private, public, first responders, and emergency responder radio communication system (ERRCS) Jun 25, 2024 Issued
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18/748687
RSTD Measurement Report Mapping for NR Positioning Jun 19, 2024 Pending
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18/739307
Direct compensation of residence times Jun 9, 2024 Issued
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18/674609
Device assisted CDR creation, aggregation, mediation and billing May 23, 2024 Issued
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18/671016
FIELD-ASSEMBLED MODULAR PHASED ARRAY SATCOM TERMINAL May 21, 2024 Pending
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18/655128
TECHNIQUE TO PERFORM DEMODULATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SIGNAL DATA May 2, 2024 Pending
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18/655135
TECHNIQUE TO PERFORM DEMODULATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SIGNAL DATA May 2, 2024 Pending
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18/654725
MEASUREMENT AND PROCEDURES FOR NR POSITIONING May 2, 2024 Pending
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18/629489
Dynamic service discovery and offloading framework for edge computing based cellular network systems Apr 7, 2024 Issued
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18/623428
Entities for providing an external service to a network Mar 31, 2024 Issued
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18/622669
METHOD FOR MANAGING SLICING INFORMATION IN WIRELESS NETWORK Mar 28, 2024 Pending
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18/600940
CONTROL DEVICE FOR TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL IN CELL-FREE MASSIVE MIMO SYSTEM COMPOSED OF MANY ANTENNAS, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Mar 10, 2024 Pending
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18/443113
Device assisted CDR creation, aggregation, mediation and billing Feb 14, 2024 Issued
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18/440469
RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL MESSAGING AND LAYER 1/LAYER 2 TRIGGERED MOBILITY Feb 12, 2024 Pending
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18/438056
ENHANCING VOICEMAIL ACCESSIBILITY FOR MOBILE VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATORS (MVNO) USERS THROUGH A MEDIA STORAGE SYSTEM Feb 8, 2024 Pending
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18/408464
Systems and methods for signal isolation in power converters Jan 8, 2024 Issued
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18/407836
AUDIO SWITCHING DEVICE Jan 8, 2024 Pending
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