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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 348 — Television 714 — Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 181 — Acoustics 600 — Surgery 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location 715 — Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 713 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support 706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence |
| Phone: | (571) 270-7839 |
| Email: | david.ton2@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 15 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 92% over 387 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Very Easy |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 13th
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With Examiner Ton, you have a 92% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Ton is a very easy examiner and in the 13th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Ton, 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 Ton's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 2695 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Ton | 0.7 |
| Art Unit 2695 | 1.1 |
Examiner Ton has granted 310 of 339 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 91%.
Examiner Ton has granted 47 of 48 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 98%.
With Examiner Ton, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 8%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18540554 | Mechanical Slider For Headphones | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18590280 | Pop-Click-Noise (Pcn) Reduction In Audio Driver | Patented | View | |
| 18641561 | Awakening Support System, Awakening Support Method, And Recording Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18764396 | Mems Speaker | Patented | View | |
| 18635390 | Virtual Bass Enhancement Based On Source Separation | Patented | View | |
| 18611113 | Active Noise Control Method And System For Vehicles | Patented | View | |
| 18526387 | Acoustic Transducer Unit | Patented | View | |
| 18656181 | Device, System And Method For Retraining A Microphonic Noise Compensation Model | Patented | View | |
| 18039517 | Method For Generating A Conversion Filter For Converting A Multidimensional Output Audio Signal Into A Two-Dimensional Audio Signal For Listening | Patented | View | |
| 18303664 | Earphone Control Method, Computer Program And Computer Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 18635035 | Noise Cancellation Apparatus And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18544174 | Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Of Mems Sensor Via Printed Circuit Board | Patented | View | |
| 18385695 | Sound System For Vehicle And Method For Implementing Sound Of The Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18463768 | Devices, Methods, Systems, And Media For Spatial Perception Assisted Noise Identification And Cancellation | Patented | View | |
| 18287804 | Error Correction Of Head-Related Filters | Patented | View | |
| 18524239 | Boost Converter With Frequency Scaling | Patented | View | |
| 18266067 | System For Mounting A Transducer On An Interior Trim Panel Of A Motor Vehicle | Abandoned | View | |
| 18058502 | Smart Glasses To Assist Those Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing | Abandoned | View | |
| 18605701 | Extracting Ambience From A Stereo Input | Patented | View | |
| 18412878 | Codec Bitrate Selection In Audio Object Coding | Patented | View | |
| 18337987 | Electronic Device For Processing Audio Data And Operation Method Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 18566905 | Anti-Snoring Device Based On Expansion Type Silencer | Patented | View | |
| 16743164 | Determining The Inter-Channel Time Difference Of A Multi-Channel Audio Signal | Patented | View | |
| 18295902 | Apparatus And Method For Encoding A Plurality Of Audio Objects Using Direction Information During A Downmixing Or Apparatus And Method For Decoding Using An Optimized Covariance Synthesis | Patented | View | |
| 18569981 | Earphone Coupler | Patented | View | |
| 18277850 | Improvements In Or Relating To Ultrasound Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18157158 | Echo Filtering Method, Electronic Device, And Computer-Readable Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18237549 | Wireless Automobile Audio System | Patented | View | |
| 18359824 | Directing A Drivers Gaze Based On Directional Audio | Patented | View | |
| 18471796 | Method And System For Efficiently Encoding Scene Positions | Patented | View | |
| 18448514 | Audio Device With Distractor Suppression | Patented | View | |
| 18512523 | Noise Emission Reduction System | Patented | View | |
| 18465712 | Wireless Earbud Assembly | Patented | View | |
| 17959337 | Wireless Stereo Headset Group Communications | Patented | View | |
| 18372793 | Information Processing Method, Information Processing Device, And Recording Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18253875 | Sonic Wave Generator | Abandoned | View | |
| 18220749 | Display Card With Noise Reduction Mechanism | Patented | View | |
| 18232579 | Microphone State Display Method And Microphone State Display Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18322784 | Ambient Sound Level Control | Patented | View | |
| 18333306 | Earphone, Earphone Control Method, And Program | Patented | View | |
| 18020087 | Anti-Wind Noise Earphone Device | Patented | View | |
| 18285900 | Audio Apparatus And Method Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 18513796 | Device, Method And System For Detecting Objects Of Interest Using Soundscaped Signatures | Patented | View | |
| 18347567 | Audio Parameter Optimizing Method And Computing Apparatus Related To Audio Parameters | Patented | View | |
| 18023183 | Signal Processing Device And Method, Learning Device And Method, And Program | Abandoned | View | |
| 18335730 | Three-Dimensional (3d) Sound Rendering With Multi-Channel Audio Based On Mono Audio Input | Patented | View | |
| 18004736 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Terminal Device | Patented | View | |
| 18368675 | Non-Linear Distortion Compensation Circuit, Apparatus, Method, And Electronic Device | Patented | View | |
| 17956805 | Enhanced Resolution Stethoscope | Patented | View | |
| 18003374 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Sound Output Apparatus | Patented | View |
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