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Yvette C. Thornton

Examiner (ID: 15659)

Most Active Art Unit
1752
Art Unit(s)
1752
Total Applications
363
Issued Applications
301
Pending Applications
18
Abandoned Applications
44

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/121637
System and method for providing wide-area imaging and communications capability to a handheld device Dec 13, 2020 Issued
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17/120308
VEHICLE SOUND GENERATION DEVICE Dec 13, 2020 Abandoned
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17/777085
Conference creation method, terminal, server end, and storage medium Dec 9, 2020 Issued
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17/114192
Integrated reconstruction and rendering of audio signals Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/113189
Communication and monitoring system Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/247314
Microphone array onboard aircraft to determine crew/passenger location and to steer a transducer beam pattern to that location Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/111967
Smart speaker power management Dec 3, 2020 Issued
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17/112006
Adaptive howling suppressor Dec 3, 2020 Issued
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17/106295
System and method for embedding additional information in a sound mask noise signal Nov 29, 2020 Issued
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18/038946
Data processing device, data processing method, and data processing program Nov 26, 2020 Issued
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17/781992
Telepresence system Nov 26, 2020 Issued
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16/949951
Playback device calibration Nov 19, 2020 Issued
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16/950954
Imaging apparatus Nov 17, 2020 Issued
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16/951636
Priority-based soundfield coding for virtual reality audio Nov 17, 2020 Issued
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16/950768
Apparatus and method for screen related audio object remapping Nov 16, 2020 Issued
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17/093430
System and method for utilizing customer data in a communication system Nov 8, 2020 Issued
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17/086777
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Nov 1, 2020 Abandoned
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17/615881
Method, apparatus and system for implementing video conference, and storage medium Oct 29, 2020 Issued
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17/081100
Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof Oct 26, 2020 Issued
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17/077971
Monitoring industrial equipment using audio Oct 21, 2020 Issued
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