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| Art Unit: | 2691 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems |
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| Group: | 2690 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing |
| Classes: |
381 — Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 600 — Surgery 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location 128 — Surgery 119 — Animal husbandry 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing 704 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression |
| Phone: | (571) 272-7501 |
| Email: | lun-see.lao@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 25 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 85% over 309 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Easier |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 33rd
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With Examiner Lao, you have a 85% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Lao is an easier examiner and in the 33rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Lao, 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 Lao's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2691 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Lao | 1.2 |
| Art Unit 2691 | 1.2 |
Examiner Lao has granted 175 of 212 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 83%.
Examiner Lao has granted 88 of 97 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 91%.
With Examiner Lao, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 10%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18519709 | Audio Rendering Device And Audio Configurator Device For Audio Stream Selection, And Related Methods | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 17743515 | Passive Headset With Dynamically Controlled Leds | Patented | View | |
| 18474526 | Smart Noise Pollution Reduction Of Bluetooth Based Devices | Patented | View | |
| 18066587 | Rotating Mechanism And Housing Case | Abandoned | View | |
| 17546122 | Audio Alerts In A Wireless Device | Patented | View | |
| 17546130 | Audio Alerts In A Hearing Device | Patented | View | |
| 17581107 | Method And Device For Voice Operated Control | Patented | View | |
| 18683037 | Howling Suppression Method And Apparatus, And In-Ear Earphones And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18461069 | Electronic Device For Listening To External Sound And Operating Method Of Electronic Device | Patented | View | |
| 17893745 | Device For Electroinically Connecting And Disconnecting Portions Of An Electrical Line, Public Address System, Method For Detecting A Failure In An Electrical Line | Patented | View | |
| 18696109 | An Ear Model Unit For Electroacoustic Testing And A Method For Performing Electroacoustic Testing Of A Hearing Device | Patented | View | |
| 18776199 | Book With Audio Output And Recording Function | Abandoned | View | |
| 18398821 | Signal Normalization Using Loudness Metadata For Audio Processing | Patented | View | |
| 17939245 | Controlling Slew Rate | Patented | View | |
| 17890249 | Audio Modules With Wire Dampeners | Patented | View | |
| 18124344 | System For Dynamically Forming A Virtual Microphone Coverage Map From A Combined Array To Any Dimension, Size And Shape Based On Individual Microphone Element Locations | Patented | View | |
| 18383319 | In-Sync Digital Waveform Comparison To Determine Pass/fail Results Of A Device Under Test (Dut) | Patented | View | |
| 18411975 | Spatial Audio Head Tracker | Patented | View | |
| 18384856 | Display Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18241900 | Acoustic Ear-Hook | Abandoned | View | |
| 18418377 | Smart Glasses, System And Control Method Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 18331808 | Setup Management For Ear Tip Selection Fitting Process | Patented | View | |
| 18243762 | Wearable Audio Devices With Enhanced Voice Pickup | Patented | View | |
| 18084818 | Equipment Component For A Vehicle | Abandoned | View | |
| 18402225 | Voice Pre-Processing Pipeline For Exterior Communications On Autonomous Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18381587 | Abnormal Sound Detection Device And Abnormal Sound Detection Method | Patented | View | |
| 18506809 | Howling Removal System And Method, And Computer Program Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 17818495 | Vehicular Sound Processing System With Enhanced Recognition Of Audible Alerts From Other Vehicles | Patented | View | |
| 18634688 | Synchronized Controller | Patented | View | |
| 17878353 | System And Method For Controlling The Distribution Of Power Between Active Loudspeaker Assemblies And Passive Loudspeaker Assemblies In An Audio Distribution System | Patented | View | |
| 18379379 | Sound Collection Device, Sound Collection Method, And Storage Medium Storing Sound Collection Program | Patented | View | |
| 17642001 | Display Terminal | Abandoned | View | |
| 17925659 | Smart Headphone System And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18060279 | Linearizer Circuits And Methods For Audio Switches | Patented | View | |
| 18228910 | Method For Processing Audio Data And Electronic Device Supporting Same | Patented | View | |
| 18540840 | Signal Processing Device Having Multiple Acoustic-Electric Transducers | Patented | View | |
| 18206418 | Sensor Management For Wireless Devices | Patented | View | |
| 18082840 | External Member, External Member Molding Method, And Electronic Instrument | Patented | View | |
| 18072827 | Adjustment Of Reverberator Based On Source Directivity | Patented | View | |
| 18335830 | Systems And Methods For Controlling Playback And Other Features Of A Wireless Headphone | Patented | View | |
| 17790016 | Matched And Equalized Microphone Output Of Automotive Microphone Systems | Patented | View | |
| 18470834 | Image Pickup Apparatus Capable Of Efficiently Retrieving Subject Generating Specific Sound From Image, Control Method For Image Pickup Apparatus, And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18003473 | Acoustic Apparatus And Acoustic Control Method | Patented | View | |
| 18015100 | Electrodynamic Transducer | Abandoned | View | |
| 19029119 | Systems And Methods For Equalizing Audio For Playback On An Electronic Device | Patented | View | |
| 18423933 | Audio Encoding With Compressed Ambience | Patented | View | |
| 18065294 | Earbud For Authenticated Sessions In Computing Devices | Patented | View | |
| 18055996 | Second-Order Equalizer For High-Speed Data Lines | Patented | View | |
| 18435204 | Audio Devices And Methods Of Operating An Audio Device | Patented | View | |
| 18097456 | Speaker Box | Patented | View |
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