Examiner Ton David L

2695-TON-DAVID-L

Employment Information

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
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

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

13
3-Year Grant rate: 92% over 387 cases
Difficulty: Very Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 13th

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).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

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.

Comparison with Art Unit 2695

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

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Ton has granted 310 of 339 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 91%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Ton has granted 47 of 48 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 98%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Ton, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 8%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

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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