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Pet Toilet-Like Water Disk and Food Storage

One pet-friendly inventor patented "a device for watering pets, e.g., a dog or cat." The device, he helpfully noted, "has the general shape of a toilet."

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Examiner: Leung, Christina Y


Primary examiner statistics: 183 patents; average approval time: 184 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 153 patents; average approval time: 1273 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7672592 Optical transmitter system
7660526 Through channel loss prevention at a WDM node
7653312 Multiple bit rate optical communication method, optical network u...
RE41063 Optical layer multicasting using a multiple sub-carrier header an...
7639954 Driver for an optical transmitter
7639946 Distribution node for an optical network
7623787 Wavelength division multiplexing transmission apparatus using a m...
7613391 Optical signal switching device for use in an optical protection ...
7609976 Method and system for ultra-high bit rate fiber-optic communicati...
7609979 Coherent optical detection and signal processing method and syste...
7606500 Scalable transceiver based repeater
7603040 Chip to chip optic alleys and method
7599618 Method and apparatus for self-testing of test equipment
7599630 Coherent optical detection and signal processing method and syste...
7599626 Communication systems incorporating control meshes
7596320 Preemphasis of an optical wavelength multiplex signal
7596321 Time division multiplexing of inter-system channel data streams f...
7596318 Addressing method of quanta network and quanta network router
7596319 Wavelength division multiplexing-passive optical network system
7596324 Apparatus for extracting optical clock using filters and amplifie...
7593643 Method and apparatus for femtosecond communication
7580643 Communications systems and methods
7580634 Transmission method, transmitter-receiver, and transmitting-recei...
7580638 Optical transceiver module with multipurpose internal serial bus
7577358 Apparatus, system and method for optical packet switching using f...
7577357 Optical switch
7574134 Method of determining at least one variable of a WDM optical netw...
7570889 Common electronic dispersion compensation arrangement for use wit...
7567757 Generating of high rate modulated pulse streams
7565081 Optical/radio local access network
7561798 Testing a fiber link in a communication system without interrupti...
7558483 Optical communication method, optical linking device and optical ...
7558487 Multilevel amplitude and phase encoded signal generation
7548698 Light communication system and illumination apparatus therefor
7546034 Circuit arrangement for line protection of optical data transmiss...
7536101 Communication system with cost based protection
7529488 Optical transceiver module with onboard diagnostics accessible vi...
7522848 Receiver with dynamically adjustable decision threshold voltage b...
7519300 Optical output control method for use in optical transmission nod...
7515835 System, method and apparatus for clockless PPM optical communicat...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7085500 Programmable optical vector modulator and method for use in coher...
7079775 Integrated memory mapped controller circuit for fiber optics tran...
7058310 System and method for protecting eye safety during operation of a...
7058303 Optical cross-connecting device
7046935 System for reducing the influence of polarization mode dispersion...
7024123 Optical data transmitting apparatus and method
7010231 System and method of high-speed transmission and appropriate tran...
6999681 Method of seamless migration from static to agile optical network...
6990295 Method and apparatus for monitoring WDM optical signal
6990296 Optical phase modulation
6970655 Method and circuit for generating single-sideband optical signal
6957021 Optical transceiver with memory mapped locations
6952531 System and method for protecting eye safety during operation of a...
6944401 Gain equalization in DWDM networks
6941075 Wavelength division multiplexing optical transmission method and ...
6941077 Memory mapped monitoring circuitry for optoelectronic device
6937820 Optical level control method
6937821 Optical power transient monitor
6934470 Measurement of optical power in optical fiber networks
6934475 Free-space optical communications using holographic conjugation
6925262 Method and system for compensating chromatic dispersion
6925265 System and method of high-speed transmission and appropriate tran...
6917759 Shared mesh signaling algorithm and apparatus
6917760 Wide passband optical interleaver
6915082 Optical data transmitting apparatus and method
6912361 Optical transceiver module with multipurpose internal serial bus
6909855 FM modulator
6909853 Apparatus for transferring monitor signals in photo-transfer syst...
6901222 Optical transmission system and terminal device applicable to the...
6895184 Interconnected broadcast and select optical networks with shared ...
6895188 Optical signal reshaping to mitigate polarization mode dispersion
6889011 Integrated adaptive chromatic dispersion/polarization mode disper...
6885827 High sensitivity, high resolution detection of signals
6882801 Wavelength division multiplex optical star coupler, communication...
6882798 Optical transmission apparatus with an optimal routing and data t...
6882802 Modulator and method of modulating optical carrier with clock sig...
6862413 Compensation for polarization mode dispersion in single mode fibe...
6859623 Wavelength allocation scheme and WDM equipment
6847787 WDM network node module
6842587 Use of amplified spontaneous emission from a semiconductor optica...
 
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