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| Art Unit: | 2481 — Pulse or digital communications |
|---|---|
| Group: | 2480 — Recording and Compression |
| Classes: |
375 — Pulse or digital communications 348 — Television 600 — Surgery 382 — Image analysis 345 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence |
| Phone: | (571) 270-7933 |
| Email: | michael.hess@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 15 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 49% over 244 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Very Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 81st
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With Examiner Hess, you have a 49% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Hess is a very hard examiner and in the 81st percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Hess, 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.
Examiner Hess's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2481 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Hess | 1.7 |
| Art Unit 2481 | 1.4 |
Examiner Hess has granted 85 of 158 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 54%.
Examiner Hess has granted 35 of 86 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 41%.
With Examiner Hess, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 24%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18152606 | Method And System For Calibrating Cameras | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Abandoned | View |
| 19349882 | Distributed Camera Control Architectures | Patented | View | |
| 17950037 | Using Neighboring Samples In Cross-Component Video Coding | Abandoned | View | |
| 18829621 | Picture Coding Method, Picture Coding Apparatus, Picture Decoding Method, And Picture Decoding Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18435271 | Method And An Apparatus For Encoding And Decoding Of Digital Image/video Material | Patented | View | |
| 18660356 | Array Based Residual Coding On Non-Dyadic Blocks | Patented | View | |
| 18538846 | Motion Compensation For Video Encoding And Decoding | Patented | View | |
| 17805793 | Method And Apparatus For Coding Video Data In Transform-Skip Mode | Patented | View | |
| 17913074 | High Level Syntax For Video Coding And Decoding | Abandoned | View | |
| 18545036 | Method Of Coding And Decoding Images, Coding And Decoding Device And Computer Programs Corresponding Thereto | Patented | View | |
| 18622202 | Image Component Prediction Method And Device, And Computer Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 17589483 | Size Restriction Based On Color Format | Abandoned | View | |
| 17457364 | Semantic Zone Separation For Map Generation | Abandoned | View | |
| 17800149 | Estimation Device, Estimation Method, And Estimation System | Abandoned | View | |
| 17196205 | Index Signaling For Reference Picture List Structures | Patented | View | |
| 17762372 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, And Endoscope System | Abandoned | View | |
| 17219985 | Apparatus For Encoding And Decoding Image Using Adaptive Dct Coefficient Scanning Based On Pixel Similarity And Method Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 17731077 | Image Encoding/decoding Method And Apparatus For Performing Residual Processing Using Adaptive Transformation, And Method Of Transmitting Bitstream | Abandoned | View | |
| 18562257 | Method, Device, And Medium For Video Processing | Patented | View | |
| 17915579 | Adaptive Loop Filter (Alf) Virtual Boundry Processing | Patented | View | |
| 17377234 | Systems For Encoding/decoding Video Information With Selective Processing Linear Model And Methods Of Operating The Same | Abandoned | View | |
| 17960648 | Independent Construction Method For Block Vector List In Intra Block Copy Mode | Abandoned | View | |
| 18529817 | Transform-Based Image Coding Method And Device Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 17489793 | Chroma Sample Weight Derivation For Geometric Partition Mode | Patented | View | |
| 18497726 | Warp Mode For Intra Prediction | Patented | View | |
| 18383678 | Constructing Motion Vector Candidates List For Video Coding | Patented | View | |
| 18146425 | Bi-Directional Rotation Of An Electronic Device Using Modulated Vibration For Subject Image Tracking | Abandoned | View | |
| 18147442 | Support Device That Provides Bi-Directional Rotating Of An Electronic Device With Image Capturing Component For Subject Image Tracking | Abandoned | View | |
| 18493402 | Encoding Method And Apparatus Therefor, And Decoding Method And Apparatus Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 17207987 | Picture Decoding Device, Picture Decoding Method, And Picture Decoding Program, And Picture Coding Device, Picture Coding Method, And Picture Coding Program | Abandoned | View | |
| 18493359 | Encoding Method And Apparatus Therefor, And Decoding Method And Apparatus Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 17224326 | Intra Prediction Method And Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 16334719 | Method And Apparatus For Encoding And Decoding A Large Field Of View Video | Abandoned | View | |
| 17384137 | Joint Coding Of Palette Mode Usage Indication | Abandoned | View | |
| 17775796 | Transform-Based Image Coding Method And Apparatus For Same | Patented | View | |
| 17709966 | Three-Dimensional Data Encoding Method, Three-Dimensional Data Decoding Method, Three-Dimensional Data Encoding Device, And Three-Dimensional Data Decoding Device | Patented | View | |
| 18083819 | Three-Dimensional Data Encoding Method And Three-Dimensional Data Encoding Device | Patented | View | |
| 17885553 | Imaging Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18360351 | Method For Transform-Based Image Coding And Apparatus Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 17987827 | Dependent Quantization | Patented | View | |
| 17892363 | Combined Motion Vector And Reference Index Prediction For Video Coding | Patented | View | |
| 17270944 | Video Decoding Method And Video Decoding Apparatus For Determining Intra Prediction Direction In Non-Square Block | Abandoned | View | |
| 17346005 | Encoder, Decoder And Corresponding Methods For Intra Prediction | Patented | View | |
| 17493163 | Multi-Depth Plane Display System With Reduced Switching Between Depth Planes | Patented | View | |
| 18150393 | Deblocking Filtering Control | Patented | View | |
| 17913030 | High Level Syntax For Video Coding And Decoding | Patented | View | |
| 17909410 | Camera Apparatus, Windshield, And Image Display Module | Abandoned | View | |
| 18244648 | Video Coding Method On Basis Of Transformation, And Device Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 16871482 | Game And Screen Media Content Streaming Architecture | Abandoned | View | |
| 17207787 | Camera Peek Into Turn | Patented | View |
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