Examiner Lanier Benjamin E

2437-LANIER-BENJAMIN-E

Employment Information

Art Unit:2437 — Information security
Group:2400a-2430-2490 — Cryptography and Security
Classes: 726 — Information security
713 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
380 — Cryptography
707 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
709 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring
257 — Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
343 — Communications: radio wave antennas
Phone:(571) 272-3805
Email:benjamin.lanier@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Compr Science
Service:24 years
Grade:GS-15

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

42
3-Year Grant rate: 81% over 328 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 42nd

With Examiner Lanier, you have a 81% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Lanier is a medium examiner and in the 42nd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Lanier, where the timeline is relative to the date of the first office action. The three-year grant rate is the percentage of applications granted at three years after the first office action.

Comparison with Art Unit 2437

Examiner Lanier's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2437 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Lanier 1.6
Art Unit 2437 1.3

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Lanier has granted 161 of 193 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 83%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Lanier has granted 106 of 135 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 79%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Lanier, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 5%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18697315 Digital Signatures With Key-Derivation Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18508345 Secure Connection Broker For Swarm Communications Patented View
18135048 Content Management Systems And Methods Abandoned View
19214617 Multimodal Fingerprinting Of Digital Assets Patented View
18608599 Turing Machine Agent For Behavioral Threat Detection Patented View
18600086 Systems And Methods For Authentication Using Relativistic Zero Knowledge Proofs Patented View
18763675 Post-Quantum Cryptography For Secure Boot Patented View
18649560 Digital Identity Proxy Patented View
18184186 Compounded Intrinsic Identities For Information Handling Systems (Ihss) Patented View
18555610 Key Exchange System, Terminal, Server, Key Exchange Method, And Program Abandoned View
18007148 Proof-Of-Work Techniques For Validating Online Activities Patented View
17548431 Key Revocation For Edge Devices Patented View
18660513 Secure Permissioning Of Access To User Accounts, Including Secure Deauthorization Of Access To User Accounts Patented View
18410231 Issuing Surrogate Credentials For Accessing Target Resources Patented View
17870523 Suspicious Workspace Instantiation Detection Abandoned View
17483663 Data Services With Privacy Preservation And Repeatability Patented View
18557672 Systems And Methods For Entangled Authentication Of Biosensors And Biosensor Outputs Patented View
18158657 Homomorphic Encryption Offload For Lightweight Devices Patented View
18269653 Identity Authentication Method And Apparatus Patented View
18602218 Web Page Risk Analysis Using Machine Learning Patented View
17509566 Systems And Methods For Preventing Denial Of Service Attacks Utilizing A Proxy Server Abandoned View
17983716 Encryption Device And Encryption Method With Clock Gating Unit And Random-Number Generator Patented View
18031096 Comparison System, Comparison Method And Computer Readable Medium Abandoned View
18195624 Anti-Cloning Architecture For Device Identity Provisioning Patented View
18358799 Tokenized Hardware Security Modules Patented View
16638862 Method For Securely Replacing A First Manufacturer Certificate Already Introduced Into A Device Patented View
18203244 Security Rule Matching Over Structurally Deduplicated Network Data Patented View
18075738 Data Encryption And Decryption Using Object-Based Screens And Logic Blocks Patented View
17406602 Secure Erase Of User Data Using Storage Regions Patented View
17824117 Device Certificate Management For Zero Touch Deployment In An Enterprise Network Abandoned View
18250851 Systems And Methods For Demonstrating Identity To A Trusted Platform Module Patented View
16944722 Method For Registering A Device With A Computing Facility, Communication System And Energy Supply Network Patented View
17987829 Method For Applying Integrity Protection To Control Information Subfield Or Operating Mode Field And Associated Wireless Communciation Apparatus Abandoned View
18157667 Use Of Multifactor Authentication In Assessing Suspicious Activity Patented View
18498395 Managing Entitlements Using Ownership Vouchers Patented View
18079542 System And Methods For Interactive Document Sharing And Authentication With Privacy Guarantee Patented View
17516592 Layer 7 Network Attack Detection Using Machine Learning Feature Contribution Patented View
16629109 Nfc-Chip Reader Patented View
18416171 Public Wireless Network Performance Management System With Mobile Device Data Collection Agents Patented View
18049236 Generating Electronic Signatures Patented View
17948377 Communication Apparatus, Control Method, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Storing Program Patented View
18040902 Encrypted Response Timing For Presence Detection Patented View
18139494 System And Method For Pre-Shared Key (Psk) Based Document Security Patented View
18192758 Method And System For User Authentication During Data Migration Patented View
18096209 Method Of Digitization And Acquisition Of Sensitive Data On Mobile Devices That Ensures The Safety And Integrity Of The Data Abandoned View
16964594 Information Processing Apparatus And Information Processing Method Patented View
18201346 Dynamic Enrollment Using Biometric Tokenization Abandoned View
17922401 Method For Unlocking Terminal Device By Wearable Device And Communication System Patented View
18047891 System And Method For Detecting A Malicious Command And Control Channel Using A Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Patented View
18186726 Secondary Device Enrollment Validation Patented View

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