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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.

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Examiner: Chow, Van N


Primary examiner statistics: 77 patents; average approval time: N/A
Assistant examiner statistics: 53 patents; average approval time: 69 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8036091 Optical pick-up and optical information recording and reproducing...
8018824 Optical disc recording apparatus
8014255 Holographic recording apparatus, holographic reproducing apparatu...
8014256 Optical pickup and information device
8009524 Optical pickup unit, apparatus for recording/reproducing data, me...
8004954 Optical pickup, optical disk device, computer and optical disk re...
7983121 Optical axis shift correcting device and method, and computer pro...
7969855 Read-only optical disc medium and method of fabricating the same
7969851 Laser converging apparatus, optical pickup device, and optical di...
7965602 Information recording apparatus and information recording method
7965591 Information recording medium, integrated circuit, recording/playb...
7965592 Information recording medium, integrated circuit, recording/playb...
7965604 Method of, and apparatus for, recording address information to di...
7965593 Information recording medium, integrated circuit, recording/playb...
7961581 Method and apparatus for writing data on storage medium
7961566 Optical disc playback device
7952977 Optical pickup apparatus
7952967 Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and r...
7948846 Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary DFL...
7948841 Diffraction grating, optical pickup device and optical disc appar...
7948838 Disc discrimination method and apparatus
7944783 Write-once optical disc and method for managing spare area thereo...
7940629 Information recording apparatus and information reproducing appar...
7940634 Multilayer optical recording medium and recording method on multi...
7936645 Optical disc device
7929386 Optical disc device
7929385 Optical pickup apparatus
7916607 Optical disc drive
7916597 Method for writing optical disc
RE42235 Compensation method and device for tracking operation of optical ...
7907483 Recording medium having a substrate containing microscopic patter...
7903521 Write splice for optical recording channels
7903514 Information reproduction device
7903509 Recording medium having a substrate containing microscopic patter...
7898921 Optical disc, optical disc recording apparatus, and optical disc ...
7885164 Optical information recording method and optical information reco...
7881168 Optical pick-up apparatus for multi recording/reproducing
7881166 Optical pickup device
7881173 Optical information recording method, optical information recordi...
7881169 Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and r...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7751295 Optical disk device
7746756 Optical disc recording apparatus
7746749 Look-ahead maximum-likelihood data detector for optical disk driv...
7746737 Information recording medium, apparatus for recording and/or repr...
7724628 Method and apparatus for recording data on optical recording medi...
7719943 Information recording device and information recording method
7706224 Information recording medium, information reading apparatus and i...
7697397 Laser converging apparatus, optical pickup device and optical dis...
7693013 Optical disc for storing both data requiring defect management an...
7668053 Processing an information carrying signal
7664002 Laminated wave plate and optical pickup using the same
7656774 Objective lens, optical head, and optical pickup apparatus
7649827 High capacity digital data storage by transmission of radiant ene...
7649814 Optical pickup
7646696 Objective optical element and optical pickup apparatus
7639589 Optical pickup apparatus for recording or reproducing information...
7636290 Optical element, optical objective element, and optical pickup ap...
7633846 Multi-level information reproducing method, multi-level informati...
7626907 Method and apparatus for determining type of digital versatile di...
7626900 Optical pickup and disk drive apparatus
7623428 Multi-layer optical disc and method for managing layer formatting...
7623436 High capacity digital data storage by transmission of radiant ene...
7623430 High-density multi-layer optical disc and method for managing lay...
7616550 Optical pickup unit
7609605 Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical...
7596063 Defect management method, reproduction method, recording medium, ...
7586824 Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical...
7572075 Shutter apparatus
7573799 Information recording method, information recording apparatus, pr...
7573798 Multi-level information reproducing method
7551530 Optical disc recording system
7545707 Optical disc drive
7539106 Data processing device and data copying method
7539113 Information recording apparatus and computer program
7535814 Optical pickup device
7529163 Information recording apparatus and method, and computer program
7525885 Information reproduction and recording apparatus and information ...
7525892 Method of erasing an erasable disc
7522493 Recording method and apparatus for optical disk drive
7515522 Lensless optical servo system for an optically assisted disk driv...
 
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