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Examiner Lerner Martin

2658-LERNER-MARTIN

Employment Information

Art Unit:2658 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression
Group:2650 — Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, and Audio Compression/Decompression
Classes: 704 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
707 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
386 — Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing
375 — Pulse or digital communications
340 — Communications: electrical
726 — Information security
713 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
379 — Telephonic communications
Phone:(571) 272-7608
Email:martin.lerner@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:28 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

43
3-Year Grant rate: 81% over 349 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 43rd

With Examiner Lerner, you have a 81% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Lerner is a medium examiner and in the 43rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Lerner, 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 2658

Examiner Lerner's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 2658 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Lerner 1.7
Art Unit 2658 1.6

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Lerner has granted 167 of 215 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 78%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Lerner has granted 115 of 134 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 86%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Lerner, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 10%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18365535 Determining Causality Between Factors For Target Object By Analyzing Text Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18336831 Contextual Titles Based On Temporal Proximity And Shared Topics Of Related Communication Items With Sensitivity Policy Patented View
17882447 Methods And Apparatus For Generating Audio Fingerprints For Calls Using Power Spectral Density Values Patented View
18532969 Natural Language Processing With Contextual Data Associated With Content Displayed By A Computing Device Patented View
17432681 Methods For Frequency Domain Packet Loss Concealment And Related Decoder Patented View
18451067 Low Bitrate Audio Encoding/decoding Scheme Having Cascaded Switches Patented View
18310363 Systems, Methods, And Storage Media For Providing An Interface For Textual Editing Through Speech Patented View
18934967 Deterministically Defined, Differentiable, Neuromorphically-Informed I/o-Mapped Neural Network Patented View
18286287 Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method, And Recording Medium Patented View
18394140 Next Ast Branch Prediction And Next Token Prediction Joint Pre-Training Task For Code Generative Models Patented View
18289903 Synonym Determination System And Synonym Determination Method Abandoned View
19040351 Foundation Ai Model For Improving Audio Quality And Enhancing Audio Characteristics Patented View
18219338 Method And System For Implementing A Tool For Detecting Bad Actors That Unfairly Profit From Confidential Information Patented View
18332279 Device And Method For Reviewing Literature By Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation Patented View
18218385 Techniques For Augmenting Training Data For Aggregation And Sorting Database Operations In A Natural Language To Database Query System Patented View
18076039 Method For Determining Classification Of A Vehicle Domain Or An External Domain Based On User Speech And A Speech Recognition System For A Vehicle Patented View
18471538 Method Of Domain-Adapting Large-Capacity Pre-Trained Language Model Using Semantic Chunk Dynamic Weight Masking Patented View
18132661 Method And System For Maintaining Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model Accuracy Patented View
17805191 Method Of Generating Conversation Information Using Examplar-Based Generation Model And Apparatus For The Same Patented View
17804143 Domain-Agnostic Natural Language Processing Using Explainable Interpretation Feedback Models Abandoned View
18480166 Deep Learning For Multimedia Classification Patented View
17908826 Notification Text As Voice Output To A Driver With Intent And Aiming Information Abandoned View
17916842 Voice Command System For Managing Telecommunications Connections Among Telecommunications Equipment Abandoned View
18026087 Data Structure Of Language Resource And Device, Method And Program For Supporting Speech Understanding Using The Same Abandoned View
18935013 Bayesian Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation With Synthetic Feedback Loop (Bg-Rag-Sfl) Patented View
18080872 Generating Semantic Triplets From Unstructured Text Using Named Entities Patented View
17804544 Pre-Wakeword Speech Processing With Reverse Automatic Speech Recognition Patented View
17723969 Variational Graph Autoencoding For Abstract Meaning Representation Coreference Resolution Patented View
17296821 Training Recommendation Model Based On Topic Model And Word Importance Patented View
18940575 Low Bitrate Audio Encoding/decoding Scheme Having Cascaded Switches Patented View
18940483 Low Bitrate Audio Encoding/decoding Scheme Having Cascaded Switches Patented View
17664260 Increased Accessibility Of Synthesized Speech By Replacement Of Difficulty To Understand Words Patented View
18334853 Methods, Encoder And Decoder For Linear Predictive Encoding And Decoding Of Sound Signals Upon Transition Between Frames Having Different Sampling Rates Patented View
18089684 Modeling Ambiguity In Neural Machine Translation Patented View
18934983 Audio Compression With Generative Adversarial Networks Patented View
18935039 Advanced Maximal Entropy Media Compression Processing Patented View
17987567 Automated Therapy And Bioactive Discovery And Delivery From Semantic Network With Taste Quality Patented View
17413405 Method And System For Identifying And Visualizing Data Differences Between Data Sets Patented View
17738742 Natural Language Processing And Machine-Learning For Event Impact Analysis Patented View
18539604 Determining A Current System Utterance With Connective And Content Portions From A User Utterance Patented View
17925732 Conversation Intention Real-Time Analysis Method Patented View
18940536 Low Bitrate Audio Encoding/decoding Scheme Having Cascaded Switches Patented View
18117562 Dynamic Text Message Processing Implementing Endpoint Communication Channel Selection Patented View
17954900 Extracting Triplets From Text With Relationship Prediction Matrix, Entity Prediction Matrix, And Alignment Matrix Patented View
18045893 Systems And Methods For Reconstructing Voice Packets Using Natural Language Generation During Signal Loss Patented View
17848831 Text-To-Speech Processing Using Input Voice Characteristic Data Abandoned View
17795217 Audio Compensation With Sound Effect Characteristic Curve To Adjust Abnormal Frequency Points Patented View
17788052 Text Processing Method And Apparatus For Error Correction Of A Plurality Of Types Of Non-Words And Real Words Patented View
18656714 Question Answering With First And Second Artificial Intelligence Models Based On Document With Updated Question Patented View
17837475 Cross-Attention Between Sparse External Features And Contextual Word Embeddings To Improve Text Classification Patented View

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