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| Art Unit: | 2695 — Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices |
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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 330 — Amplifiers 463 — Amusement devices: games 239 — Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 379 — Telephonic communications 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence 600 — Surgery 340 — Communications: electrical 244 — Aeronautics and astronautics |
| Phone: | (571) 270-7697 |
| Email: | paul.kim1@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 17 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 95% over 376 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Extremely Easy |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 6th
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With Examiner Kim, you have a 95% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Kim is an extremely easy examiner and in the 6th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Kim, 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 Kim's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 2695 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Kim | 0.5 |
| Art Unit 2695 | 1.1 |
Examiner Kim has granted 339 of 353 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 96%.
Examiner Kim has granted 20 of 23 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 87%.
With Examiner Kim, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 9%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18433061 | Systems For Using An Auricular Device Configured With An Indicator And Beamformer Filter Unit | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18378398 | Facilitating Hearing Device Fitting | Patented | View | |
| 18243199 | Information Processing Method, Information Processing Device, And Recording Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18399148 | Deep Learning Based Voice Extraction And Primary-Ambience Decomposition For Stereo To Surround Upmixing With Dialog-Enhanced Center Channel | Patented | View | |
| 17856277 | Technologies For Wireless Audio Device Selection | Patented | View | |
| 18642625 | System And Method For Audio Signal Placement And Projection | Patented | View | |
| 18664636 | Mono Interaural Time Delay (Itd) Rendering | Patented | View | |
| 18529078 | Method And System For Generating A Personalised Head-Related Transfer Function | Patented | View | |
| 18618283 | Preamplifier System | Patented | View | |
| 18355674 | Earphone Modes Of Operation | Patented | View | |
| 18614817 | Automatic Volume Control For A Hearing Device | Patented | View | |
| 18257543 | Interactive Mixed Reality Audio Technology | Abandoned | View | |
| 18422189 | Apparatus, Methods And Computer Programs For Processing Audio Signals | Patented | View | |
| 18487199 | Output Of Stereo Or Spatial Audio | Patented | View | |
| 18290825 | Determining Virtual Audio Source Positions | Patented | View | |
| 18056076 | Body Microphone And Transmitter Rig | Patented | View | |
| 18318868 | Method For Determining A Sound Field | Patented | View | |
| 18259930 | Method And System For Generating A Personalized Free Field Audio Signal Transfer Function Based On Free-Field Audio Signal Transfer Function Data | Patented | View | |
| 18390899 | Information Processing Apparatus And Control Method | Patented | View | |
| 18440210 | Method For Determining Audio Coding/decoding Mode And Related Product | Patented | View | |
| 18523644 | Spatial Sound Improvement For Seat Audio Using Spatial Sound Zones | Patented | View | |
| 18517412 | Sound Processing Apparatus, Sound Processing Apparatus Main Body And Holder | Patented | View | |
| 18536169 | Micro-Speaker For Ear-Worn Hearing Device | Patented | View | |
| 18401278 | Audio Processing Method And System, And Electronic Device | Patented | View | |
| 18128542 | Systems And Methods For Pre-Generated Inverse Audio Canceling | Patented | View | |
| 18038768 | Audio Signal Processing Method And Electronic Device | Patented | View | |
| 18353092 | Impedance Tracking For Connector Between Source And Load | Patented | View | |
| 18468160 | Audio Filter System | Patented | View | |
| 19248353 | Magnetic Audio Distortion Device | Patented | View | |
| 18611743 | Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium Having Computer-Readable Instructions And System | Patented | View | |
| 18218775 | Amplifier System | Patented | View | |
| 18329525 | Delivering Additional Information To Receiving Parties For Text Messaging Based Caller Id | Patented | View | |
| 17961329 | Apparatus And Method For Automatic Adaption Of A Loudspeaker To A Listening Environment | Patented | View | |
| 18770016 | Electronic Apparatus And Controlling Method Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 18258041 | Binaural Signal Post-Processing | Patented | View | |
| 18202090 | Refrigerator | Patented | View | |
| 18811903 | Noise Processing Method, Electronic Device And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18269892 | A Method And Apparatus For Fusion Of Virtual Scene Description And Listener Space Description | Patented | View | |
| 17705231 | Hearing Device System And Tool | Patented | View | |
| 18233491 | Protective Element For An Electroacoustic Transducer Of A Hearing Device Or For A Sound Tube Included In A Hearing Device | Patented | View | |
| 18203561 | Signal Processing Method | Patented | View | |
| 18169759 | Efficient Multi-Emitter Soundfield Reverberation | Patented | View | |
| 17967368 | Refuse Vehicle With Sound Management | Patented | View | |
| 18425311 | Unmanned Aircraft | Patented | View | |
| 18195768 | Method And Device For Processing Hrtf Filters | Patented | View | |
| 17906290 | Multi-Channel Audio System, Multi-Channel Audio Device, Program, And Multi-Channel Audio Playback Method | Patented | View | |
| 17788452 | System And Method For Virtual Sound Effect With Invisible Loudspeaker(S) | Patented | View | |
| 18313111 | Method And Apparatus For A Binaural Hearing Assistance System Using Monaural Audio Signals | Abandoned | View | |
| 18186672 | A Smart Pendant Device, System, And Method For Multimedia Communications | Abandoned | View | |
| 18024577 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Terminal, Information Processing Method, And Program | Patented | View |
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