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Thomas C. Lee

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 8042, Phone: (571)272-3667 , Office: P/2115 )

Most Active Art Unit
2302
Art Unit(s)
2182, 2302, 2307, 2115, 2317, 2782, 2185
Total Applications
699
Issued Applications
429
Pending Applications
25
Abandoned Applications
248

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/826439
Speaker recognition method and apparatus May 26, 2022 Issued
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17/752149
Providing emotional care in a session May 23, 2022 Issued
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17/740642
Communicating apparatus, communication method, and storage medium storing program May 9, 2022 Issued
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17/732243
Multimodality in digital assistant systems Apr 27, 2022 Issued
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17/659823
Syntactic and semantic autocorrect learning Apr 18, 2022 Issued
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17/706155
Chatbot conducting a virtual social dialogue Mar 27, 2022 Issued
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17/654881
Electronic device including personalized text to speech module and method for controlling the same Mar 14, 2022 Issued
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17/653005
Devices and methods for a speech-based user interface Feb 28, 2022 Issued
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17/674677
Speech signal processing method and speech separation method Feb 16, 2022 Issued
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17/577746
Audio classification system Jan 17, 2022 Issued
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17/567120
System and method for lip-syncing a face to target speech using a machine learning model Dec 31, 2021 Issued
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18/253449
Computer implemented method and an apparatus for silence detection in speech recognition Dec 13, 2021 Issued
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17/537273
Schema and cell value aware named entity recognition model for executing natural language queries Nov 28, 2021 Issued
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17/536907
System and method for providing voice assistant service regarding text including anaphora Nov 28, 2021 Issued
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17/536890
Electronic device for correcting speech input of user and operating method thereof Nov 28, 2021 Issued
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17/534919
Computer system for transmitting audio content to realize customized being-there and method thereof Nov 23, 2021 Issued
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17/534919
Computer system for transmitting audio content to realize customized being-there and method thereof Nov 23, 2021 Issued
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17/533918
Electronic apparatus and control method thereof Nov 22, 2021 Issued
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17/534396
Obfuscating audio samples for health privacy contexts Nov 22, 2021 Issued
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17/532986
Dialog-driven applications supporting alternative vocal input styles Nov 21, 2021 Issued
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