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Timothy M. Speer

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 18715, Phone: (571)272-8385 , Office: P/3992 )

Most Active Art Unit
1775
Art Unit(s)
1508, 1774, 1773, 1772, 1784, 1775, 1315, 3992, 3991, 1794
Total Applications
1105
Issued Applications
820
Pending Applications
100
Abandoned Applications
193

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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15/505256
Parallel MR imaging with Nyquist ghost correction for EPI Aug 17, 2015 Issued
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14/823354
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE Aug 10, 2015 Abandoned
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14/802818
Systems and methods for low power magnetic field generation for atomic sensors using electro-permanent magnets Jul 16, 2015 Issued
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14/799836
RF coil storage device with magnetic field generator and RF coil device Jul 14, 2015 Issued
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14/738276
MRI apparatus and method using direct A/D of MR signals without frequency down conversion Jun 11, 2015 Issued
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14/715789
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus extracting an intervertebral disk region based on sagittalimages of a subject May 18, 2015 Issued
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15/305708
Systems and methods for multiband sweep imaging with fourier transformation Apr 23, 2015 Issued
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14/694232
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method with curve fitting expression providing compensation for inversion recovery, or with curve fitting expression providing compensation for saturation Apr 22, 2015 Issued
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14/694621
Systems and methods for efficiently generating magnetic resonance images from incomplete data Apr 22, 2015 Issued
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14/694220
3D printed physical phantom utilized in measuring 3D geometric distortion occurring in MRI and CT images Apr 22, 2015 Issued
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14/638237
Method and apparatus for EPI magnetic resonance with slew rate controlled and kspace entry optimized Mar 3, 2015 Issued
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14/637710
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus with eddy current correction using magnetic resonance signals in which influence of metabolite is suppressed Mar 3, 2015 Issued
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14/636345
Magnetic resonance imaging system and method for generating conductivity distribution image using magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography Mar 2, 2015 Issued
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14/632154
Transmitting and/or receiving MRI signals for a MRI examination Feb 25, 2015 Issued
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14/631264
MRI gradient coil having non-uniform coolant passageway within gradient coil conductor Feb 24, 2015 Issued
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14/588741
Automated tuning and frequency matching with motor movement of RF coil in a magnetic resonance laboratory animal handling system Jan 1, 2015 Issued
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14/566796
Accuracy and off-resonance performance in quantitative magnetization prepared magnetic resonance imaging Dec 10, 2014 Issued
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14/565625
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus with a connector shape defined by a superposition of an H and an X Dec 9, 2014 Issued
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14/560959
Signal selection of received signals in MRI local reception antennas utilizing metadata and analog-digital (A/D) converter chips Dec 3, 2014 Issued
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14/481619
Method and apparatus for shielding a linear accelerator and a magnetic resonance imaging device from each other Sep 8, 2014 Issued
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