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| Art Unit: | 2695 — Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices |
|---|---|
| Group: | 2690 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing |
| Classes: |
381 — Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 704 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 180 — Motor vehicles 340 — Communications: electrical 356 — Optics: measuring and testing 181 — Acoustics 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing |
| Phone: | (571) 272-0563 |
| Email: | douglas.suthers@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 21 years |
| Grade: | GS-13 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 88% over 259 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Easier |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 24th
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With Examiner Suthers, you have a 88% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Suthers is an easier examiner and in the 24th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Suthers, 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 Suthers's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2695 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Suthers | 1.5 |
| Art Unit 2695 | 1.1 |
Examiner Suthers has granted 175 of 200 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 88%.
Examiner Suthers has granted 53 of 59 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 90%.
With Examiner Suthers, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 2%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18199972 | Active Noise Control Circuit With Multiple Filters Connected In Parallel Fashion And Associated Method | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18336173 | Sound Processing System And Sound Processing Method | Patented | View | |
| 18228705 | Sound Monitoring System | Abandoned | View | |
| 17754009 | Signal Processing Apparatus, Signal Processing Method, And Program | Abandoned | View | |
| 18404141 | Audio Data Processing Method, Electronic Device, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18308065 | Media Playback Based On Sensor Data | Patented | View | |
| 18471224 | Method And Apparatus For Occupant-Based Noise Cancellation | Patented | View | |
| 17784466 | Generating An Audio Signal Associated With A Virtual Sound Source | Patented | View | |
| 18228952 | Location-Based Presets For Auditory Devices | Patented | View | |
| 18408839 | Assembled Body | Patented | View | |
| 18346024 | Headphone Speech Listening | Patented | View | |
| 18200912 | Sound System And Method For Implementing Sound Stage Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 18044426 | Generating Audio With Positional Relationship In A Virtual Space | Abandoned | View | |
| 18520808 | Audio Equipment With A Sound Signal Amplification Structure | Patented | View | |
| 18275800 | Echo Reference Generation And Echo Reference Metric Estimation According To Rendering Information | Patented | View | |
| 18255999 | Vibration Signal Generation Device | Patented | View | |
| 18195051 | Electronic Noise Cancellation Techniques For Aircraft Enclosures And/or Other Enclosures | Patented | View | |
| 17912650 | Acoustic Transducer Arrangement And Method For Operating An Acoustic Transducer Arrangement | Patented | View | |
| 18255309 | Frequency Domain Multiplexing Of Spatial Audio For Multiple Listener Sweet Spots | Patented | View | |
| 18092644 | Simplified Meshes For Acoustics | Patented | View | |
| 17876833 | Active Sound Attenuation For Aircraft Electrical System | Patented | View | |
| 18253090 | Information Processing Device And Information Processing Method | Patented | View | |
| 18208584 | Wireless Earphone And A Rotary Earhanger Structure Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 18547297 | Cancellation Of Noise Of A Wiper System In A Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18255251 | Frequency Domain Multiplexing Of Spatial Audio For Multiple Listener Sweet Spots | Patented | View | |
| 18052928 | Acoustic Output Apparatus With Multiple Sound Guide Holes And Bluetooth Low Energy Reciever | Patented | View | |
| 18220968 | Noise Reduction System Having A Nonlinearity Filter Unit, Method Of Operating The System And Use Of The System | Patented | View | |
| 18020793 | Lung Sound Analysis System | Patented | View | |
| 18020362 | Lung Sound Analysis System | Patented | View | |
| 18020390 | Lung Sound Analysis System | Patented | View | |
| 18488960 | Systems And Methods For Suppressing Sound Leakage | Patented | View | |
| 17927418 | Spatial Audio Representation And Rendering | Patented | View | |
| 18476197 | Manifold Learning For Sound Field Estimation | Patented | View | |
| 17908969 | Apparatus, Methods And Computer Programs For Enabling Reproduction Of Spatial Audio Signals | Patented | View | |
| 18105199 | Methods And User Interfaces For Managing Audio Channels | Patented | View | |
| 18054012 | Configurable Audio And Video Sectors | Patented | View | |
| 18014958 | Efficient Head-Related Filter Generation | Patented | View | |
| 18095004 | Method For Determining Sound Channels, Device For Determining Sound Channels, And Storage Medium | Abandoned | View | |
| 18263956 | Echo Reference Prioritization And Selection | Patented | View | |
| 18278732 | Instability Detection And Adaptive-Adjustment For Active Noise Cancellation System | Patented | View | |
| 17841258 | Audio Processing In A Virtual Environment | Abandoned | View | |
| 18636802 | Detection And Mitigation Of A Wind Whistle | Patented | View | |
| 18248018 | Movement Sound Generation System | Patented | View | |
| 17794612 | System And Method Of Active Noise Cancellation In Open Field | Patented | View | |
| 18611407 | Processing Sound In An Enhanced Reality Environment | Patented | View | |
| 17928303 | Increasing Low Frequency Extension For Microspeakers Using A Volume Dependent Linkwitz Transform And Multiband Compressor | Patented | View | |
| 17795182 | Radio Frequency Sensing For Control Of A Media System | Patented | View | |
| 18051243 | Social Audio Streaming | Patented | View | |
| 18148116 | Headset Noise Processing Method, Apparatus, And Headset | Patented | View | |
| 18151346 | System And Method For Automatic Setup Of Audio Coverage Area | Patented | View |
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