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William P. Watkins Iii

Examiner (ID: 14834, Phone: (571)272-1503 , Office: P/1783 )

Most Active Art Unit
1783
Art Unit(s)
1783, 1508, 1794, 1751, 1754, 1315, 1773, 1772, 1723
Total Applications
2063
Issued Applications
1212
Pending Applications
106
Abandoned Applications
752

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/575432
System and method for obfuscating location of a mobile device Jan 12, 2022 Issued
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18/270863
METHODS, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT FOR A NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK Jan 6, 2022 Pending
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18/036406
BLOCKCHAIN NODES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING SPECTRUM SHARING Dec 22, 2021 Abandoned
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17/552026
Terrestrial based air-to-ground communications system and related methods Dec 14, 2021 Issued
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18/266531
NEIGHBORING CELL MOBILITY INFORMATION FOR VEHICLE-MOUNTED RELAYS Dec 13, 2021 Pending
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17/546699
Locationing system that utilizes read data of a reader of a device Dec 8, 2021 Issued
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18/257172
TRAJECTORY PREDICTION WITH DATA NORMALIZATION Dec 6, 2021 Pending
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17/532297
Method and a system to automatically start and stop a monitoring device Nov 21, 2021 Issued
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18/267562
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSET TRACKING Nov 17, 2021 Abandoned
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17/512446
Method and apparatus for in-house RF-based collaborative localization with automated data collection Oct 26, 2021 Issued
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17/490803
Implementing confidence metrics in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications Sep 29, 2021 Issued
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17/488603
Systems and methods for analyzing and adjusting antenna pairs in a multiple-input multiple-output ("MIMO") system using image scoring techniques Sep 28, 2021 Issued
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17/448346
Distributed intelligent software for industrial IOT Sep 20, 2021 Issued
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17/475533
Trajectory masking by injecting maps using virtual network functions Sep 14, 2021 Issued
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17/474478
PROVIDING NOTICE THAT A NETWORK DEVICE IS IDENTIFIED BY MORE THAN ONE NETWORK IDENTIFIER Sep 13, 2021 Abandoned
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17/473563
Detection of mobile device location within vehicle using vehicle based data and mobile device based data Sep 12, 2021 Issued
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17/469957
Method and system to adaptively localize a radio device Sep 8, 2021 Issued
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18/250127
Positioning method and electronic device Sep 8, 2021 Issued
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17/469718
Integration of digital history with visits to physical venues Sep 7, 2021 Issued
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17/462168
Barrier detection to aid contact tracing Aug 30, 2021 Issued
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