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Examiner: Hendricks, Keith


Primary examiner statistics: 742 patents; average approval time: 742 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 107 patents; average approval time: 897 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8110078 Substrate supporting device and sputtering apparatus including th...
8105474 Photo-electro-refining of bio-oil to biofuel and hydrogen
8097137 Gas sensor element and gas sensor
8097133 Evacuable magnetron chamber
8093177 Metal oxides having molecular and/or biomolecular functionalizati...
8092660 Methods and equipment for depositing hydrophilic coatings, and de...
8092658 Method and apparatus of distributed plasma processing system for ...
8088260 Puck for cathodic arc coating with continuous groove to control a...
8083906 Processing biomass
8083911 Apparatus for treating a substrate
8075759 Procedure for the determination of the Lambda values with a broad...
8075758 Electrolytic method to make alkali alcoholates using ion conducti...
8070925 Physical vapor deposition reactor with circularly symmetric RF fe...
8066854 Antimicrobial coating methods
8062487 Wafer supporting device of a sputtering apparatus
8062484 Method for plasma-enhanced physical vapor deposition of copper wi...
8057648 Deposition system using noise canceller and its method of control
8052852 Magnetron sputtering cathode mechanism
8052850 Sputtering apparatus, method of operating the same, and method of...
8052848 Ultrasonic and microwave methods for enhancing the rate of a chem...
8048275 Method of solubilizing carbon nanomaterial
8049101 Photovoltaic device
8043485 Multi-pulse protocol for use with a dual voltage electrolysis app...
8038867 Electrodialysis device and process
8038849 Process for producing a carbon-particle structure
8034218 Low temperature growth of oriented carbon nanotubes
8021522 Reverse piezoelectric method for production of silane
8021529 Ion measurement/calibration cell
8012325 Plural-cell gas sensor with heater
8012316 FCC-like trilayer AP2 structure for CPP GMR EM improvement
7781009 Sugar-free hard coatings prepared from liquid maltitol comprising...
7744942 Thickening composition having improved viscosity-emerging propert...
7462382 Optical compensating sheet, production method thereof, optical fi...
7462306 Cellulose acylate film, process for producing cellulose acylate f...
7459219 Items made of wear resistant materials
7459198 Stress relief for electroplated films
7455790 Emission spectroscopic processing apparatus and plasma processing...
7456103 Etch-resistant film, forming method thereof, surface-modified res...
7455886 Nanocomposite materials and an in-situ method of making such mate...
7455788 Nanoscale electric lithography

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
5891840 Stabilization of somatotropins by modification of cysteine residu...
5691181 DNA encoding lipase from human gastric mucosal tissue
5639651 Gap-related gene, human IQGAP1
5631151 Melanin production by transformed organisms
5616482 Chimeric toxins
5610063 cDNA for ଱-N-acetyl-galactosaminidase from Gallus domesticu...
5607850 Enzyme from microbial source: phthalyl amidase
5595903 Genetically engineered human acetylcholinesterase
5580757 Cloning and expression of biologically active ଱-galactosida...
5578481 Cloning and characterization of a cardiac adenylyl cyclase
5554523 Nucleic acid sequences encoding human leucine-zipper protein-kina...
5552299 Plasmids and process for producing recombinant desulphatohirudin ...
5547871 Heterologous signal sequences for secretion of insect controlling...
5545548 Thermally stable cytosine deaminase from saccharomyces
5543497 Genes encoding and method of expressing a novel enzyme: phthalyl ...
5538876 Stabilization of carboxyl esterase
5529909 Tyrosinase-activator protein fusion enzyme
5529925 Nucleic acid sequences and fusion proteins present in human t(2;5...
5523393 BCL-2 proteins
5514779 Biocidal proteins from plants
5506139 Analog of haemophilus Hin47 with reduced protease activity
5501975 DNA molecules encoding an ER-located endoprotease
5500365 Synthetic plant genes
5500370 Thermostable ribonuclease H and genetic constructs therefore
5498830 Decreased oil content in plant seeds
5492890 Polypeptides for promoting cell attachment
5491075 Cloning and expression of biologically active ଱-N-acet...
5475086 Cloned glutamic acid decarboxylase peptides
5474917 Modified cyclodextrin glycosyltransferases for producing γ-...
5474928 Arginine deiminase from a Mycoplasma arginini strain
5474920 Modified thermo-resistant DNA polymerases
5466598 Deacetylcephalosporin C acetyltransferase from Acremonium chrysog...
5466591 5' to 3' exonuclease mutations of thermostable DNA polymerases
5459063 Plasmodium falciparum ribonucleotide reductase DNA
5459251 DNA molecules having human bcl-2 gene sequences
5457048 Eph-related tyrosine kinases, nucleotide sequences and methods of...
5455170 Mutated thermostable nucleic acid polymerase enzyme from Thermus ...
5451522 Genes encoding and method of expressing an enzyme: phthalyl amida...
5445959 Enzyme from microbial source: phthalyl amidase
5439881 Gene encoding nematode-active toxin PS63B cloned from Bacillus ...
 
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