DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 6/17/2024 was filed. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 10 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 10 recites the limitation “said programmable digital processing unit” in line 13 . There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-19 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: With regards to claims 1-9, the prior art does not disclose or fairly teach the specific circuit configuration with emphasis on said target negative group propagation time value being controlled by said programmable digital processing unit so as to be less than or equal to a quarter of a time of current variation in rise or fall of said input signal when said input signal is non-deterministic, or to a quarter of a period of said input signal when said input signal is periodic; determine a set of coefficients of a difference equation as a function of said sampling frequency and said target negative group propagation time value, said difference equation defining a relationship between a value of said output signal, a value of said input signal and at least one previous value of said input signal and/or said output signal; calculate, on acquisition of a current value of said digital signal, a corresponding current value of said output signal, by means of using said difference equation.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Straeussnigg et al US 2024/0322833 titled “Efficient filtering architecture with reduced group delay for decompression using predictor”.
Straeussnigg et al US 10, 034,089 titled “ Sensor arrangement having an optimized group delay and signal processing method.
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February 4, 2026
/K.E.G/Examiner, Art Unit 2843
/ANDREA LINDGREN BALTZELL/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2843