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William E. Rankins

Examiner (ID: 18716, Phone: (571)270-3465 , Office: P/3694 )

Most Active Art Unit
3694
Art Unit(s)
3696, 3684, 3694
Total Applications
945
Issued Applications
568
Pending Applications
63
Abandoned Applications
325

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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08/824173
Inspection method Mar 25, 1997 Issued
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08/820987
Data conversion system for line-narrowing a pattern Mar 18, 1997 Issued
Array ( [id] => 3967503 [patent_doc_number] => 05978505 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 1999-11-02 [patent_title] => 'System and method for image regularization in inhomogeneous environments using clustering in neural networks' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 8/816544 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1997-03-13 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 8 [patent_figures_cnt] => 11 [patent_no_of_words] => 8493 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 137 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/05/978/05978505.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 816544 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
08/816544
System and method for image regularization in inhomogeneous environments using clustering in neural networks Mar 12, 1997 Issued
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08/810736
Electron beam tester Feb 5, 1997 Issued
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08/783644
Method and apparatus for transforming coordinate systems in a telemanipulation system Jan 13, 1997 Issued
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08/783304
Electron beam tester Jan 9, 1997 Issued
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08/767855
Character pattern generation Dec 16, 1996 Issued
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08/764239
Fingerprint/palmprint image processing apparatus Dec 15, 1996 Issued
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08/764383
Local principal component based method for detecting activation signals in functional MR images Dec 12, 1996 Issued
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08/764754
Fingerprint classification system Dec 11, 1996 Issued
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08/762536
Method for detecting and measuring voids in conductor insulation systems Dec 8, 1996 Issued
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08/762822
Method of reducing document size for digital display Dec 5, 1996 Issued
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08/756712
Method of generating an orthogonal basis function set in an image processing system Nov 25, 1996 Issued
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08/751285
Apparatus and fast method for convex-polygon bounding of closed contours Nov 17, 1996 Issued
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08/749041
Automatic typing of raster images using density slicing Nov 13, 1996 Issued
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08/744372
Integrated circuit failure analysis using color voltage contrast Nov 6, 1996 Issued
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08/746291
Model-based coding/decoding method and system Nov 6, 1996 Issued
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08/743068
Real time tracking of camera pose Nov 3, 1996 Issued
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08/736942
Coding method and apparatus therefor Oct 24, 1996 Issued
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08/728034
Method for generating smooth color corrections in a color space, particularly a CIELAB color space Oct 8, 1996 Issued
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