Examiner Zhang Fan

2682-ZHANG-FAN

Employment Information

Art Unit:2682 — Facsimile and static presentation processing
Group:2680 — Facsimile and Static Presentation Processing (e.g., Printer, Scanner); Telemetry and Code Generation; Vehicles and System Alarms; Selective Communication; Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives; Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives
Classes: 358 — Facsimile and static presentation processing
382 — Image analysis
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
707 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Phone:(571) 270-3751
Email:fan.zhang@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Compr Engrg
Service:19 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

69
3-Year Grant rate: 63% over 224 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 69th

With Examiner Zhang, you have a 63% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Zhang is a harder examiner and in the 69th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Zhang, 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 2682

Examiner Zhang's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2682 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Zhang 1.8
Art Unit 2682 1.0

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Zhang has granted 93 of 146 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 64%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Zhang has granted 48 of 78 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 62%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Zhang, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 3%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18358158 Quasi-Newton Mri Deep Learning Reconstruction Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18228196 Computer-Implemented Method For Determination Of A Bone Cement Volume Of A Bone Cement For A Percutaneous Vertebroplasty Patented View
18251683 System And Method For Convolution Of An Image Patented View
18205238 Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Storage Medium Patented View
18184066 Computer Implemented Method For Quantifying And Predicting The Progression Of Interstitial Lung Disease Patented View
18296400 Domain Adaption For Prostate Cancer Detection Patented View
18311640 Effective Leveraging Of Synthetic Data For Depth Estimation Machine Learning Models Patented View
18326548 Eye Tracker With Hardware Filtering And Software Sorting Patented View
18311215 Methods And Apparatuses For Detecting Interproximal Spaces Patented View
18341663 Image Forming Apparatus, Control Method Of The Image Forming Apparatus, And Computer-Readable Storage Medium Patented View
17669760 Method And Apparatus With Calibration Patented View
18251220 Decreased Quantization Latency Abandoned View
18545501 Smooth And Jump-Free Rapid Target Acquisition Patented View
18178120 Systems And Methods For Automated Lesion Detection Using Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting Data Abandoned View
17707149 Personalized Online Learning For Artificial Reality Applications Patented View
17678761 Apparatus, Method And Computer Readable Storage Medium For Classifying Mental Stress Using Convolutional Neural Network And Long-Short Term Memory Network Abandoned View
18173254 Establishing Method Of Meniscus Tear Assisted Determination Program, Meniscus Tear Assisted Determination System, And Method For Meniscus Tear Assisted Determination Abandoned View
17769374 Method And Apparatus For Aquiring Visitor Information Patented View
17527492 Print Control Apparatus, Print Control Method, And Storage Medium Storing Print Control Program Abandoned View
18141469 Method And System For Aggregate Asset Routing Patented View
17126312 Adjusting Vehicle Models Based On Environmental Conditions Patented View
17613458 Method, Device And Computer-Readable Medium For Automatically Detecting Hemodynamically Significant Coronary Stenosis Abandoned View
17521812 Information Processing Apparatus, Image Forming Apparatus, Information Processing System, And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium Storing Information Processing Program Patented View
18506363 Image Forming Apparatus, Control Method Of Image Forming Apparatus, And Storage Medium Patented View
17519794 System And Method For Automated Simulation Of Teeth Transformation Patented View
17708584 Information Processing Apparatus, Control Method Of Information Processing Apparatus, And Printing System Patented View
17559461 Artificial Reality Applications Through Virtual Object Definitions And Invocation Abandoned View
17232890 Sky Replacement Color Harmonization Abandoned View
17681351 Lane Detection System And Method For A Vehicle Patented View
17541264 Information Processing Apparatus And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium Patented View
17384283 Multi-Scale Output Techniques For Generative Adversarial Networks Patented View
17891075 Using A Custom Printer Driver To Automatically Electronically Create, Capture And Manage All Documents Utilized In A Transaction Abandoned View
17538823 Information Processing Apparatus And Method For Controlling Information Processing Apparatus Abandoned View
17210250 Medical Image Processing Method And System And Data Processing Method Patented View
17556157 System For Refining A Six Degrees Of Freedom Pose Estimate Of A Target Object Patented View
17469376 Inventory Management System In A Refrigerator Appliance Patented View
17491794 Historical Crop State Model, Predictive Crop State Map Generation And Control System Patented View
17766688 Grid-Based Enrollment For Face Authentication Patented View
17423157 Method Of Visualizing A Dynamic Anatomical Structure Patented View
17734608 Non-Invasive Method Of Evaluating Blood Cell Measurement And Non-Invasive Blood Cell Measurement Evaluating System Patented View
17737425 Image Transmission Apparatus, Control Method Of Image Transmission Apparatus, And Storage Medium Abandoned View
17374057 Information Processing Apparatus, Control Method Of Information Processing Apparatus, And Storage Medium Patented View
17539247 System And Method For Performing Facial Image Anonymization Patented View
17476247 Tool For Counting And Sizing Plants In A Field Abandoned View
17475630 System, Method And Computer-Accessible Medium For Image Reconstruction Of Non-Cartesian Magnetic Resonance Imaging Information Using Deep Learning Abandoned View
17869276 Image Forming Apparatus, Control Method, And Storage Medium Patented View
17628665 Inspection Method And Apparatus Abandoned View
17871745 Image Forming Apparatus And Control Method Patented View
17418692 Method And Apparatus For Processing Images, Device And Storage Medium Patented View
17157334 Information Processing Apparatus, Printing Apparatus, And Method For Controlling Information Processing Apparatus, And Storage Medium Patented View

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