Examiner Hess Michael J

2481-HESS-MICHAEL-J

Employment Information

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

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

81
3-Year Grant rate: 49% over 244 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 81st

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).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

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.

Comparison with Art Unit 2481

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

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Hess has granted 85 of 158 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 54%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Hess has granted 35 of 86 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 41%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Hess, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 24%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

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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