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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Hamamatsu Photonics K K

74 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

74
Total Pending OAs
20
Final Rejections
54
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
19106776 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD TRAN, TRANG U 2422 Non-Final OA Feb 26, 2025
19104769 OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT METHOD SHIBRU, HELEN 2484 Non-Final OA Feb 19, 2025
19037938 LIGHT SOURCE UNIT DUNAY, CHRISTOPHER E 2875 Non-Final OA Jan 27, 2025
18863040 SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS DEVICE LEE, HWA S 2877 Non-Final OA Nov 05, 2024
18855082 SPECTROMETRY DEVICE XING, CHRISTINA ILONA 2877 Non-Final OA Oct 08, 2024
18853862 OPTICAL DETECTOR AND SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT DEVICE AKANBI, ISIAKA O 2877 Non-Final OA Oct 03, 2024
18850278 REFRACTIVE INDEX DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT DEVICE, FILM THICKNESS DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT DEVICE, REFRACTIVE INDEX DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND FILM THICKNESS DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT METHOD YAZBACK, MAHER 2877 Non-Final OA Sep 24, 2024
18848216 OPTICAL MODULE FOR ENCODER, ENCODER, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL MODULE FOR ENCODER LUU, THANH X 2878 Non-Final OA Sep 18, 2024
18841829 ENERGY BEAM DETECTING SYSTEM KO, TONY 2878 Non-Final OA Aug 27, 2024
18840598 COOLING UNIT, OBJECTIVE LENS MODULE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTION APPARATUS NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU 2877 Non-Final OA Aug 22, 2024
18785239 OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND OBSERVATION METHOD KIM, KIHO 2884 Non-Final OA Jul 26, 2024
18766095 INSPECTION APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD HO, ALLEN C 2884 Non-Final OA Jul 08, 2024
18725840 RADIATION DETECTOR AND RADIATION DETECTOR ARRAY TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO 2884 Non-Final OA Jul 01, 2024
18725845 OPTICAL MEMBER, OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL MEMBER YUN, JURIE 2884 Non-Final OA Jul 01, 2024
18716232 CRYSTAL GROWTH METHOD, AND CRYSTAL GROWTH DEVICE MALEVIC, DJURA 2884 Non-Final OA Jun 04, 2024
18711929 METHOD FOR PRODUCING BANDPASS FILTER, AND BANDPASS FILTER GLENN, KIMBERLY E 2843 Non-Final OA May 21, 2024
18706789 WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT METHOD AMARA, MOHAMED K 2877 Non-Final OA May 02, 2024
18644329 DATA GENERATION METHOD, DATA GENERATION PROGRAM, AND DATA GENERATION DEVICE KRETZER, CASEY L 2635 Non-Final OA Apr 24, 2024
18703413 CRYSTAL FORM DETERMINATION METHOD TAYLOR, WILLIAM LAURENCE 2884 Non-Final OA Apr 22, 2024
18701976 TEST OBJECT ANALYSIS METHOD SMITH, MAURICE C 2877 Non-Final OA Apr 17, 2024
18698876 AUTOFOCUS ASSISTANCE METHOD, AUTOFOCUS ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND AUTOFOCUS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM TON, TRI T 2877 Non-Final OA Apr 05, 2024
18683279 TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE CREATION DEVICE, TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE CREATION METHOD, AND TOF-PET DEVICE BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY 2884 Non-Final OA Feb 13, 2024
18439947 ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD AND ACTUATOR DEVICE VU, PHU 2871 Non-Final OA Feb 13, 2024
18432299 MIRROR DEVICE DUNNING, RYAN S 2872 Non-Final OA Feb 05, 2024
18432346 MIRROR DEVICE NIGAM, NATASHA 2872 Non-Final OA Feb 05, 2024
18579917 LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE PETKOVSEK, DANIEL 2874 Non-Final OA Jan 17, 2024
18408737 FOCAL POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD, FOCAL POSITION ESTIMATION SYSTEM, MODEL GENERATION METHOD, MODEL GENERATION SYSTEM, FOCAL POSITION ESTIMATION MODEL, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM LI, RUIPING 2676 Non-Final OA Jan 10, 2024
18576210 RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ACQUIRING DEVICE, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ACQUIRING SYSTEM, AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD KUDO, KEN 2671 Non-Final OA Jan 03, 2024
18576150 ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION MEASURING DEVICE AND ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION MEASURING METHOD RIDDICK, BLAKE CUTLER 2884 Non-Final OA Jan 03, 2024
18397004 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RESIN MEMBER, AND RESIN MEMBER EMPIE, NATHAN H 1712 Non-Final OA Dec 27, 2023
18572420 X-RAY GENERATION DEVICE GAWORECKI, MARK R 2884 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2023
18390460 OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T 2893 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2023
18515398 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI 2899 Non-Final OA Nov 21, 2023
18285967 LIGHT CORRECTION COEFFICIENT PREDICTION METHOD, LIGHT CORRECTION COEFFICIENT PREDICTION DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, PRE-PROCESSING METHOD IN MACHINE LEARNING, AND TRAINED LEARNING MODEL LAU, TUNG S 2857 Non-Final OA Oct 06, 2023
18285292 MEASURING DEVICE OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 2881 Non-Final OA Oct 02, 2023
18371606 PHOTODETECTION ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTODETECTION ELEMENT STARK, JARRETT J 2898 Non-Final OA Sep 22, 2023
18281649 CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE UNIT, CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE UNIT BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 2872 Final Rejection Sep 12, 2023
18279270 SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING DEVICE SMITH JR., JIMMY R 1745 Final Rejection Aug 29, 2023
18279080 SAMPLE OBSERVATION DEVICE AND SAMPLE OBSERVATION METHOD DOUMBIA, MOHAMED 2877 Final Rejection Aug 28, 2023
18277643 MASS SPECTROMETRY DEVICE AND MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD NGUYEN, KIET TUAN 2881 Non-Final OA Aug 17, 2023
18275680 LASER MEDIUM UNIT AND LASER DEVICE MANNO, JESSICA S 2898 Non-Final OA Aug 03, 2023
18224090 OPTICAL MODULE LIU, SHAN 2871 Final Rejection Jul 20, 2023
18272611 DISTANCE IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE AND DISTANCE IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD QI, ZHENGQING J 3645 Non-Final OA Jul 17, 2023
18269641 METHOD FOR ASSESSING MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION IN TISSUE OR ORGAN OTHER THAN KIDNEY IN TEST SUBJECT LIMBAUGH, KATHRYN ELIZABETH 1797 Non-Final OA Jun 26, 2023
18267940 ION SENSOR AND ION SENSOR MANUFACTURING METHOD SALERNO, SARAH KATE 2814 Final Rejection Jun 16, 2023
18039797 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE ANDERSON, ERIK ARTHUR 2812 Final Rejection Jun 01, 2023
18037346 SAMPLE SUPPORT, IONIZATION METHOD, AND MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD TANDY, LAURA ELOISE 2881 Final Rejection May 17, 2023
18033623 SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE FORDE, DELMA ROSA 2828 Non-Final OA Apr 25, 2023
18032412 LIGHT DETECTOR, RADIATION DETECTOR, AND PET DEVICE LEE, SHUN K 2884 Non-Final OA Apr 18, 2023
18032407 IMAGING UNIT AND IMAGING SYSTEM MALEVIC, DJURA 2884 Non-Final OA Apr 18, 2023
18027730 OPTICAL SENSOR CUTLER, ALBERT H 2637 Final Rejection Mar 22, 2023
18027388 LASER PROCESSING METHOD AND LASER PROCESSING DEVICE LIU, CHRIS Q 3761 Non-Final OA Mar 21, 2023
18027440 LASER MACHINING METHOD AND LASER MACHINING DEVICE HUNTER, JOHN S 3761 Non-Final OA Mar 21, 2023
18026173 DISPERSION MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND DISPERSION MEASUREMENT METHOD MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 2877 Final Rejection Mar 14, 2023
18025709 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT EMITTER, LIGHT EMITTER AND ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SOURCE HOBAN, MATTHEW E 1734 Non-Final OA Mar 10, 2023
18023773 EXTERNAL RESONANCE TYPE LASER MODULE NELSON, HUNTER JARED 2828 Non-Final OA Feb 28, 2023
18023145 DISTANCE IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE AND DISTANCE IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C 3645 Non-Final OA Feb 24, 2023
18108177 QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ELEMENT AND QUANTUM CASCADE LASER DEVICE VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS 2828 Final Rejection Feb 10, 2023
18104340 LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID 3645 Non-Final OA Feb 01, 2023
18018314 SAMPLE SUPPORT, IONIZATION METHOD, AND MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 Final Rejection Jan 27, 2023
18014363 DIAGNOSTIC AGENT FOR PANCREATIC FUNCTION LIU, TRACY 1614 Final Rejection Jan 04, 2023
18077355 QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ELEMENT, QUANTUM CASCADE LASER DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ELEMENT VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS 2828 Final Rejection Dec 08, 2022
18008498 DEFIBRILLATION DEVICE AND METHOD FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR 3796 Non-Final OA Dec 06, 2022
18007808 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PROCESSED ARTICLE, PROCESSED PRODUCT AND PROCESSING DEVICE ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T 3761 Non-Final OA Dec 02, 2022
17925409 SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT DETECTION ELEMENT SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE 2813 Final Rejection Nov 15, 2022
17917060 LASER MACHINING DEVICE AND LASER MACHINING METHOD BURNS, KRISTINA BABINSKI 3761 Non-Final OA Oct 05, 2022
17916824 LASER MACHINING DEVICE AND LASER MACHINING METHOD OLIVA, STEPHANIE RENEE 3761 Non-Final OA Oct 04, 2022
17914863 LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA 3761 Final Rejection Sep 27, 2022
17908303 INSPECTION DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 2877 Final Rejection Aug 31, 2022
17795309 LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD BURNS, KRISTINA BABINSKI 3761 Final Rejection Jul 26, 2022
17777306 MIRROR UNIT GROSS, ALEXANDER P 2871 Non-Final OA May 17, 2022
17701899 QUANTUM CASCADE LASER NELSON, HUNTER JARED 2828 Final Rejection Mar 23, 2022
17559040 OPTICAL APPARATUS AND SOLID IMMERSION LENS HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL 2872 Final Rejection Dec 22, 2021
17423133 METHOD FOR SELECTING CELLS HIGHLY RESPONSIVE TO TARGET SUBSTANCE, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONCENTRATION OF TARGET SUBSTANCE WITH UNKNOWN CONCENTRATION IN SPECIMEN GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN 1678 Final Rejection Jul 15, 2021

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