Examiner Hymel Abigail R

3611-HYMEL-ABIGAIL-R

Employment Information

Art Unit:3611 — Land vehicles
Group:3610 — Surface Transportation
Classes: 180 — Motor vehicles
280 — Land vehicles
305 — Wheel substitutes for land vehicles
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Phone:(571) 272-0389
Email:abigail.hymel1@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr(Biomedical Engrg)
Service:5 years
Grade:GS-12

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

20
3-Year Grant rate: 89% over 71 cases
Difficulty: Very Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 20th

With Examiner Hymel, you have a 89% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Hymel is a very easy examiner and in the 20th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Hymel, 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 3611

Examiner Hymel's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3611 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Hymel 1.5
Art Unit 3611 1.1

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Hymel has granted 46 of 53 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 87%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Hymel has granted 17 of 18 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 94%.

Interview Benefit

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

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17551373 Assembly For Converting A Wheel Drive Harvester To Track Drive Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
17761082 Steer-By-Wire Steering Apparatus Patented View
19097783 Device For Moving A Hitch On A Pickup Bed Of A Vehicle Patented View
17718831 Devices And Methods For Controlling The Power Of A Vehicle Motor Patented View
17339765 Torque-Limiting End Effector Patented View
17646407 Independent Wheel Shiftable Wheel Drives Abandoned View
19231053 Wheelchair With Emergency Brake System Patented View
17561771 Manual Wheelchair Propulsion Aid Device Using Mechanical Self-Energizing Action Patented View
17559784 Steering Mechanism, Vehicle, And Apparatus And Method For Producing Steering Mechanism Patented View
17669284 Hand Truck Automated Load Unload Patented View
17547130 Shock Absorber And Saddle-Type Vehicle Patented View
17155451 Drive Axle For A Motor Vehicle Patented View
17818335 Bicycle Suspension Abandoned View
17622098 Crawler-Type Work Machine Patented View
17984883 Brake Assembly For A Tracked Vehicle Patented View
17540746 Electric Mobility Vehicle System In A Facility Patented View
17455962 Method And Apparatus For Stabilizing Front Fork Suspension Of A Bike Patented View
17962911 Gangway With Crimping Element Attachment For A Multi-Car Vehicle Patented View
17702851 Undercarriage Assembly For A Work Machine And Method Of Use Patented View
17617684 Supply Tanker Abandoned View
17209187 Mobile Assistive Device And Related Barrier Overcoming Method Abandoned View
17247455 Suspension And Drive System For A Machine Abandoned View
17611049 Chassis Of Automated Guided Vehicle And Automated Guided Vehicle Patented View
17610543 Intelligent Electric Bicycle Control System Abandoned View
17831452 Track Kit Patented View
17425259 Steering System Patented View
17215903 Decoupled Fifth Wheel And Gooseneck Subframes Patented View
17348826 Stowable Stacked Hitch Receiver Patented View
17413366 Continuous Track Drive For Vehicles Abandoned View
17217783 Wheeled Vehicle Having Retractable Driven Tracks Patented View
17139878 Coupleable, Unmanned Ground Vehicles With Coordinated Control Abandoned View
16978930 Robot With Magnetic Wheels For Cleaning Ship Hulls Patented View
17195290 Motorized Wheelbarrow Abandoned View
17187440 Leaning-Vehicle-Steering-Actuator Controller And Leaning Vehicle Patented View
17156917 Crawler Type Traveling Body And Traveling Apparatus Patented View
16632525 Standard Component Of A Vehicle With A Connector Dedicated To Connecting A Track System To The Vehicle Patented View
16983732 Magnetic Apparatus For Centering Caster Wheels Patented View
16106659 Tractor-Mount Tank Apparatuses, Systems And Methods Patented View
17166720 Dual Rack Electric Power Steering System For Vehicle Patented View
17056223 Tandem Walking Beam Suspension System For A Track-Mounted Vehicle Patented View
17152608 Vehicle Body Structure Patented View
16713836 Track Joint Assembly For Ground-Engaging Track Having Track Pin With Enlarged Center Section Patented View
16310051 Gas Tank Arrangement Patented View
17135977 Mechanism For Adjusting Misalignment In A Continuous Belted Machine Abandoned View
17155654 Trailer Hitch System Including Actuatable Multi-Directional Trailer Hitch And Method Patented View
17258687 Deflector Arrangement For A Tracked Vehicle Patented View
17126554 Utilizing A Suspension Protector To Deflect Debris Away From A Set Of Suspension Components Of A Tracked Vehicle Patented View
16933216 Human-Powered Vehicle Control Device Patented View
17096153 Towing Hook Attachment Structure Patented View
17255513 Improved Track Driven Work Machine Patented View

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