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Timothy D Collins

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 13162, Phone: (571)272-6886 , Office: P/3644 )

Most Active Art Unit
3643
Art Unit(s)
3644, 3643
Total Applications
816
Issued Applications
532
Pending Applications
129
Abandoned Applications
155

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/130274
MAP-BASED STOP POINT CONTROL Dec 21, 2020 Pending
Array ( [id] => 18717414 [patent_doc_number] => 11794742 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2023-10-24 [patent_title] => Dynamic vehicle suspension and steering adjustment [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/126761 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2020-12-18 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 10 [patent_figures_cnt] => 10 [patent_no_of_words] => 25686 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 147 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17126761 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/126761
Dynamic vehicle suspension and steering adjustment Dec 17, 2020 Issued
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17/125519
System and method for force compensation in a robotic driving system Dec 16, 2020 Issued
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17/116295
Automated system and method for parking a commercial vehicle Dec 8, 2020 Issued
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17/115151
Systems and methods to protect the health of occupants of a vehicle Dec 7, 2020 Issued
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17/113200
Parking assist system Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/641562
Vehicle Control Device, Vehicle Control Method, and Vehicle Control System Nov 23, 2020 Pending
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16/950088
Method and device for controlling autonomous driving Nov 16, 2020 Issued
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17/099886
Travel support system and control method thereof Nov 16, 2020 Issued
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17/086756
TOPOGRAPHIC CONFIDENCE AND CONTROL Nov 1, 2020 Pending
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17/083897
Digital copilot Oct 28, 2020 Issued
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17/081524
Vehicle control device Oct 26, 2020 Issued
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17/081246
Vehicle control device Oct 26, 2020 Issued
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17/079054
Method and system for compensating excessive NVH in a vehicle front suspension Oct 22, 2020 Issued
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17/067865
Method for classifying an underlying surface Oct 11, 2020 Issued
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17/066983
Optics based detection of hands on-off and hand gesture based function selection for human driver Oct 8, 2020 Issued
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17/769754
Obstacle Detection System Oct 5, 2020 Pending
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17/039685
Automatic parameter tuning framework for controllers used in autonomous driving vehicles Sep 29, 2020 Issued
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17/019993
Vehicle control system Sep 13, 2020 Issued
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17/016420
Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium Sep 9, 2020 Issued
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