Examiner Torrente Richard T

2485-TORRENTE-RICHARD-T

Employment Information

Art Unit:2485 — Pulse or digital communications
Group:2480 — Recording and Compression
Classes: 375 — Pulse or digital communications
348 — Television
370 — Multiplex communications
386 — Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing
382 — Image analysis
345 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems
600 — Surgery
359 — Optical: systems and elements
Phone:(571) 270-3702
Email:richard.torrente@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:19 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

35
3-Year Grant rate: 84% over 334 cases
Difficulty: Easier
Difficulty Percentile: 35th

With Examiner Torrente, you have a 84% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Torrente is an easier examiner and in the 35th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Torrente, 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 2485

Examiner Torrente's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 2485 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Torrente 1.5
Art Unit 2485 1.3

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Torrente has granted 203 of 234 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 87%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Torrente has granted 77 of 100 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 77%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Torrente, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 11%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18765938 Image Encoding And Decoding Method With Merge Flag And Motion Vectors Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18591673 Reference Picture Management In Video Coding Patented View
18658617 Image Encoding And Decoding Of Chroma Block Using Luma Block Patented View
18575706 Intra Prediction Method And Device Using Mpm List Patented View
18671720 Systems And Methods For Data Partitioning In Video Encoding Patented View
18811545 Three-Dimensional Display Device Abandoned View
18532993 Methods And Apparatus For Signaling 2d And 3d Regions In Immersive Media Abandoned View
18410546 Three-Dimensional Encoding/decoding With Distance And Direction Components Patented View
18400318 Supplemental Enhancement Information Including Confidence Level And Mixed Content Information Patented View
18343558 Solar Photovoltaic Measurement, And Related Methods And Computer-Readable Media Patented View
18507657 Affine Transformation For Intra Block Copy Patented View
18451855 Encoding/decoding Method, Apparatus, And System For Video With First And Second Reference Blocks Patented View
17993134 Method, Apparatus, And System For Scalable Video Transmission With Time Interval Abandoned View
18406935 Geometry Partitioning For Affine Motion Compensated Prediction In Video Coding Patented View
18354888 Video Decoding/encoding Of References Lines With Largest Coding Unit Boundary Patented View
17330949 Real Time Correlated Depiction System Of Surgical Tool Patented View
18600758 Transmitter System, Receiver System, And Method For Processing Video Abandoned View
18354850 Video Decoding/encoding Of References Lines With Largest Coding Unit Boundary Patented View
18534932 Multi-View Signal Codec With Reusing Coding Parameters Patented View
17547978 Foldable Screen Shade For A Display Device Abandoned View
18734842 Scalable Per-Title Encoding Patented View
18788536 Device And Method Of Video Encoding With First And Second Encoding Code Patented View
18379450 Method And System For Detecting Blind Spot Of Vehicle Patented View
19000929 Object Positioning System And Method For Near-Eye Display Patented View
17876708 Handling Face Discontinuities In 360-Degree Video Coding Patented View
18636394 Media File Encapsulation Method And Apparatus, Device And Storage Medium Patented View
17940518 Method Of Multiple Image Reconstruction And Registration Patented View
18759550 Predicting Filter Coefficients From Fixed Filters For Video Coding Patented View
17983041 Compound Inter-Intra Prediction Modes Patented View
18663415 Unified Transform Type Signaling And Transform Type Dependent Transform Coefficient Level Coding Patented View
18516679 Tracking-Based Motion Deblurring Via Coded Exposure Patented View
17925669 Store Entry Management System, Store Entry Management Method, And Recording Medium Abandoned View
17874588 Medical Imaging Device For Spatially Resolved Recording Of Multispectral Video Data Patented View
18588871 Image Decoding Method And Image Decoding Apparatus Using Candidate Motion Vectors Patented View
18643099 Picture Decoding Device, Picture Decoding Method, And Picture Decoding Program With History-Based Candidate Selection Patented View
18571622 Method And Device For Designing Low-Frequency Non-Separable Transform Patented View
18399369 Intra Block Copy Vector Difference Wrap Around Patented View
17785509 Decoding Device And Method For Predicting Block Partitioned Into Random Shape Patented View
18385469 Encoder, Decoder, Encoding Method, And Decoding Method Patented View
18325592 Deblocking Signaling In Video Coding Patented View
18544411 Canvas Size Scalable Video Coding Patented View
18911429 Large-Depth Metasurface Polarization Holographic 3d Display Method Patented View
18629567 Signaling Of Output Layer Set For Scalable Video Stream Patented View
18247985 Chroma From Luma Prediction For Video Coding Patented View
18642718 Method And System For Automatic Detection And Recognition Of A Digital Image Patented View
18526683 Encoding And Decoding With Merge Mode And Block Partition Index Patented View
18460383 Method And Apparatus For Processing Intra Prediction Mode Patented View
17916925 Luma Mapping With Chroma Scaling For Gradual Decoding Refresh Patented View
18389248 Video Processing System For Demultiplexing Received Compressed And Non-Compressed Video Signals And Transmitting Demultiplexed Signals Patented View
18354870 Method And Device For Video Decoding, And Method And Device For Video Encoding Patented View

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