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William M Pierce

Examiner (ID: 10512, Phone: (571)272-4414 , Office: P/3711 )

Most Active Art Unit
3711
Art Unit(s)
3711, 3304
Total Applications
2343
Issued Applications
1366
Pending Applications
134
Abandoned Applications
843

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/083181
METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A GATE TERMINAL OF A HEMT DEVICE, AND HEMT DEVICE Oct 27, 2020 Pending
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16/949394
CHARGE BALANCED RECTIFIER WITH SHIELDING Oct 27, 2020 Abandoned
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16/949395
SiC MOSFET with built-in Schottky diode Oct 27, 2020 Issued
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17/080055
Embedded ball land substrate, semiconductor package, and manufacturing methods Oct 25, 2020 Issued
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17/077854
Power semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof Oct 21, 2020 Issued
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17/076713
Methods and systems for pattern-based identification of a driver of a vehicle Oct 20, 2020 Issued
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17/073063
Moisture and hydrogen adsorption getter and method of fabricating the same Oct 15, 2020 Issued
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17/067988
MODIFICATION OF ELECTRIC FIELDS OF COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES Oct 11, 2020 Pending
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17/067874
Heterogeneous structures comprising III-V semiconductors and metal oxide dielectrics, and a method of fabrication thereof Oct 11, 2020 Issued
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17/063145
High voltage field effect transistor with vertical current paths and method of making the same Oct 4, 2020 Issued
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17/060179
Semiconductor device including dummy patterns and peripheral interconnection patterns at the same level Sep 30, 2020 Issued
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17/060142
Semiconductor device including dummy patterns and peripheral interconnection patterns at the same level Sep 30, 2020 Issued
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16/948788
Lateral transistor with extended source finger contact Sep 30, 2020 Issued
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17/039128
Photodetector Sep 29, 2020 Issued
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17/032977
Semiconductor device Sep 24, 2020 Issued
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17/026849
Nitride semiconductor device Sep 20, 2020 Issued
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17/022521
Laterally-gated transistors and lateral Schottky diodes with integrated lateral field plate structures Sep 15, 2020 Issued
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17/017777
Semiconductor device Sep 10, 2020 Issued
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17/017119
Epitaxial structure of Ga-face group III nitride, active device, and gate protection device thereof Sep 9, 2020 Issued
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17/014272
Method for manufacturing substrate, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate, and semiconductor device Sep 7, 2020 Issued
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