My First Patent!

After working at the PTO for a year and a half, the first patent I allowed has finally issued! Here is the first page, you can find my name listed as the "assistant examiner". Although it says assistant examiner, I actually am the one who does all the examining for the case, but my boss is listed as the primary examiner because I don't have the authority to allow anything without his approval (and I won't for about 5 more years...).

Click here if you want to see the whole patent

Sorry I didn't post for all of December, it was an extremely busy month, I'll post Christmas pictures soon