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This Patent Application has received a final rejection by the US Patent Office.

An applicant has several ways to keep an application in this state alive. They include a request for continuing examination, which involves paying more fees and responding to the rejection. Appealing the rejection is another avenue. If nothing is done it will go abandoned six months from the final rejection.

In 2013, this Patent Application has received a final rejection by the US Patent Office.

An applicant has several ways to keep an application in this state alive. They include a request for continuing examination (RCE), which involves paying more fees and responding to the rejection. Appealing the rejection is another avenue. If nothing is done it will go abandoned six months from the final rejection.

In this application, applicant requested RCE and proposed amendments to the claims. The application received another non-final rejection to which applicant responded with another amendment narrowing the claims further. According to the examiner this placed the application in condition for allowance.

Accordingly, the office issued a notice of allowance and on 01/13/2015 the application was granted US Patent No. 8,933,971.