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Examiner: Snow, Walter E.


Primary examiner statistics: 1211 patents; average approval time: 1210 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 564 patents; average approval time: 937 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6922051 Displacement and/or angle sensor with a meander-shaped measuring ...
6911819 Rotary to linear LVDT system
6867582 Non-contact position sensor having specific configuration of stat...
6795618 Optical fiber coupling system
6765379 Method and device for testing disk drive head while directing gas...
6756781 Sensor for optically measuring magnetic fields
6756784 Orientation sensor arrangement and method for use in a system for...
6750648 Magnetic field detector having a dielectric looped face
6747449 Elongate GMI integrating magnetic sensor
6741073 Bearing provided with rotation sensor and motor employing the sam...
6741082 Distance information obtaining apparatus and distance information...
6734664 Compliant laminar eddy current sensitivity standard
6734665 Inductive sensor having a sensor coil in the form of a structured...
6731857 Photodefinable composition, method of manufacturing an optical wa...
6728463 Optical attenuator using multi-mode interference
6727691 High resolution inductive sensor arrays for material and defect c...
6727692 Magnetic field sensor with enhanced sensitivity, internal biasing...
6724950 Electro-optically tunable filter with mesh structure to filter op...
6724192 Method and apparatus for exploration using GMR sensors
6724183 Method and apparatus for detecting bearing failure
6720763 Compact rotary magnetic position sensor having a sinusoidally var...
6717399 Magnetic sensing device with offset compensation
6714005 Non-contact type displacement sensor apparatus
6714004 Inductive position measuring system
6714014 Apparatus and method for wellbore resistivity imaging using capac...
6714702 Optical demultiplexing system and method
6710600 Drillpipe structures to accommodate downhole testing
6710599 Apparatus for measuring terrain conductivity
6707292 Magnetic circuit for a rotary position sensor
6707290 Magnetostrictive linear displacement transducer for a vehicle str...
6703827 Electronic circuit for automatic DC offset compensation for a lin...
6703838 Method and apparatus for measuring characteristics of geological ...
6700370 Apparatus for measuring the thickness of a thin film having eddy ...
6700367 Bearing equipped with magnetic encoder and sensor including align...
6696840 Device for triggering ignition circuits
6696834 Magnetic field probe having a shielding layer to protect lead wir...
6696827 Magnetic stud locator adapted to provide visual reference point
6693432 Apparatus and method for detection and measurement of environment...
6694079 Disperson-shifted optical fiber employing dual shape core profile
6694076 Method for centering a core of a waveguide amplifier

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
4972145 Speed sensor gap fault-detection arrangement for multiple-axle ra...
4968940 Well logging apparatus and method using two spaced apart transmit...
4965518 Modified viscometer for employment in torque magnetometry
4965519 Suppression of the effect of harmless surface defects in eddy cur...
4958125 Method and apparatus for determining characteristics of the movem...
4952875 Eddy current probe with recesses to hold coils and allow the coil...
4950986 Magnetic proximity sensor for measuring gap between opposed refin...
4950983 Tachometer signal conditioning circuit
4950987 Magneto-inductive sensor for performing tactile and proximity sen...
4950990 Method and apparatus for photoinductive imaging
4949037 System for detecting metal in articles using phase change of dete...
4949036 Disc drive error mapping using threshold comparison methods
4949045 Well logging apparatus having a cylindrical housing with antennas...
4945309 Method of reducing impulsive noise in electromagnetic geophysical...
4945305 Device for quantitatively measuring the relative position and ...
4943772 Hall effect position sensor for a railway vehicle axle
4940938 Method and device for measuring characteristic magnetic distribut...
4940943 Method and apparatus for optimizing the reception pattern of the ...
4939456 Position sensor including a thin film indium arsenide magnetoresi...
4937523 Method and system for exploiting the signals of linear inductive ...
4933636 Self-aligning tachometer and method of manufacturing same
4933629 Method and apparatus for optically measuring electric and magneti...
4933637 Apparatus for detecting a magnetic field having an excitation cur...
4931731 Magnetic particle inspection apparatus with enhanced uniformity o...
4931732 Magnetic flexure system for determining superconductive propertie...
4929897 Method and apparatus for detecting cross sectional area variation...
4929894 Method and apparatus for increasing throughput on disk drive qual...
4929899 Fluxgate magnetometer apparatus and adjustment method to maintain...
4929896 Transient electromagnetic method for detecting irregularies on ...
4926127 Apparatus for the detection of metal objects located within a poo...
4926122 High sensitivity magnetic circuit
4923850 Superconducting DC SQUID magnetometer working in liquid nitrogen
4922198 Displacement sensor including a piezoelectric element and a magne...
4922200 Apparatus for measuring the hysteresis loop of magnetic film
4918371 Fiber optic magnetometers for multiple order gradiometers
4916400 Method for determining characteristics of the interior geometry o...
4916390 Coil spring toothed wheel for use in measuring an angular velocit...
4912409 Actuator displacement transducer having external flux excluding t...
4910453 Multi-probe grouping system with nonlinear error correction
4908577 System for monitoring the gap between, and relative position of, ...
 
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