Examiner Balseca Franklin D

2688-BALSECA-FRANKLIN-D

Employment Information

Art Unit:2688 — Communications: electrical
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: 340 — Communications: electrical
367 — Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
341 — Coded data generation or conversion
600 — Surgery
702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
370 — Multiplex communications
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
166 — Wells
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
Phone:(571) 270-5966
Email:franklin.balseca@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:16 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

65
3-Year Grant rate: 67% over 339 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 65th

With Examiner Balseca, you have a 67% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Balseca is a harder examiner and in the 65th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Balseca, 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 2688

Examiner Balseca's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2688 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Balseca 1.9
Art Unit 2688 1.1

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Balseca has granted 150 of 232 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 65%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Balseca has granted 77 of 107 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 72%.

Interview Benefit

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

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18660340 Communication Method For Untethered Downhole Systems Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18415543 Utility Restriction Compliance Monitoring And Mitigation Patented View
18588339 Systems And Methods For Determining Downlinks For Transmitting To A Downhole Tool Patented View
17441992 Wireless Communication System For Wearable Medical Sensors Patented View
17606595 Method And Apparatus For Pipeline Monitoring Abandoned View
17505388 Systems And Methods For Touchless Temperature Screening Patented View
18740447 Method For Applying Correction To Smart-Meter Instructions Patented View
18896860 Monitoring And Early Warning Method For Gas Gate Station And Internet Of Things System Thereof Patented View
17916552 Method And Apparatus For Providing Infrastructure Processing And Communications Abandoned View
18929943 Adaptive Chord Typing System Patented View
18244149 Multimodal Spacesuit Smart Glove Abandoned View
18602582 Smart Apparel Patented View
18953610 Keyboard Device And Electronic Device Connected With Keyboard Device Patented View
16638209 Method And Apparatus For Providing Real Time Air Measurement Applications In Wet Concrete Patented View
18623942 Multiple Antenna System And Method For Reception Of Asynchronous Radio Signals Abandoned View
18800053 High Speed Acoustic Communications And Telemetry Via Solid Pieces Abandoned View
18733838 Intelligent Electronic Device And Method Thereof Abandoned View
18524008 Electronic Device And Electronic System With Critical Condition Detection And Control Capability For Power Electronic Devices Patented View
18560735 Control Device And Control Method Patented View
18155434 Building Automation System For Smart Edge Management Abandoned View
18299237 Remote Monitoring Of Analyte Measurements Patented View
18477164 System And Method For Telemetry Streaming As A Service Patented View
18767114 Anti-Ghosting Keyboard Patented View
18530161 Methods And Internet Of Things (Iot) Systems For Gas Meter Management Based On Smart Gas Platforms Patented View
17316512 System For Transmission Of Sensor Data Using Dual Communication Protocol Patented View
18689468 Capacitive Reading Device For A Pointer Instrument Patented View
18252989 A Container Device Abandoned View
18412099 Methods And Systems For Logging While Drilling And Optimized Telemetry Using Artifical Intelligence Patented View
18731240 Wireless Telemetry Using A Pressure Switch And Mechanical Thresholding Of The Signal Patented View
18142300 Systems And Methods For Orphaned Sensor Discovery And Reporting Patented View
18547310 Analysing Structures Within A Borehole Patented View
18493720 Lighting Arrangement For Monitoring Utility Flow And Method For The Same Patented View
18566144 Mud Pressure Wave Signal Modulation Apparatus And Method Patented View
17836653 Methods And Systems For A Reconfigurable Autonomous Telemetry Platform Patented View
18896927 Method Of Encoding And Decoding Downlink Instructions Based On Mud Flow Rate Patented View
18546810 Method For Determining Events In A Network Patented View
18679975 Wireless Telemetry Using A Pressure Switch And Mechanical Thresholding Of The Signal Patented View
18398188 Method And Device For Processing Fused "underground+ground" Data In Deep Formation Exploration Patented View
18122145 Wireless Meat Temperature Probe Patented View
18002657 Apparatus And Method For Signalling Between Downhole And Uphole Locations Patented View
17292146 Communication Systems And Methods Abandoned View
18408718 Oil Field Monitoring Service Providing Method Patented View
17652474 Remote Monitoring Of Analyte Measurements Patented View
17802295 In-Place Supervision Method And Apparatus Suitable For Overhead Transmission Line Maintenance Operation Patented View
18564220 Measurement Device And Method For Transmitting Output Of Sensor In Measurement Device Abandoned View
17480118 Automated Environment Monitoring Systems And Methods Abandoned View
16905735 Human Activity Recognition Using Magnetic Induction-Based Motion Signals And Deep Recurrent Neural Networks Patented View
18613384 Connected Bait Box Patented View
17199150 Internet Of Things (Iot) Enabled Wireless Sensor System Enabling Process Control, Predictive Maintenance Of Electrical Distribution Networks, Liquid And Gas Pipelines And Monitoring Of Air Pollutants Including Nuclear, Chemical, And Biological Agents Using Attached And/or Embedded Passive Electromagnetic Sensors Patented View
16768669 Internet Of Things (Iot) Enabled Wireless Sensor System Enabling Process Control, Predictive Maintenance Of Electrical Distribution Networks, Liquid And Gas Pipelines And Monitoring Of Air Pollutants Including Nuclear, Chemical, And Biological Agents Using Attached And/or Embedded Passive Electromagnetic Sensors Patented View

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