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| Art Unit: | 3645 — Optics: measuring and testing |
|---|---|
| Group: | 3640 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| Classes: |
367 — Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices 356 — Optics: measuring and testing 600 — Surgery 382 — Image analysis 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing 345 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location 370 — Multiplex communications 175 — Boring or penetrating the earth 342 — Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) |
| Phone: | (571) 272-6977 |
| Email: | dan.pihulic@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 41 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 91% over 456 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Very Easy |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 16th
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With Examiner Pihulic, you have a 91% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Pihulic is a very easy examiner and in the 16th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Pihulic, 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 Pihulic's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3645 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Pihulic | 0.6 |
| Art Unit 3645 | 1.3 |
Examiner Pihulic has granted 400 of 437 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 92%.
Examiner Pihulic has granted 13 of 19 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 68%.
With Examiner Pihulic, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 26%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721475 | Robust Virtual Sensor | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18350825 | Altering And Enhancing Resonator Performances Using Free To Fixed Boundary Ratio (Ffbr) Topology | Patented | View | |
| 18006376 | Apparatuses, Methods And Computer Programs For Locating Mobile Devices By Using Photoacoustically-Generated Audio Signals | Patented | View | |
| 18086133 | Subsea Survey Methods And Related Systems | Abandoned | View | |
| 18400342 | Interference Deterrent Systems And Methods | Patented | View | |
| 18641019 | Multi-Mode Surface-Wave Free-Field Inversion Method Based On Dispersion Properties Of Layered Media | Patented | View | |
| 18290300 | Sonar Method For Detecting And/or Determining The Position And/or Speed Of Objects Underwater In A Specified Region, Sonar Assembly, And Receiving Unit | Patented | View | |
| 18424033 | Van Atta Acoustic Networks For Long-Range Underwater Backscatter | Patented | View | |
| 18100608 | Single Unit Outdoor Gunshot Detection | Patented | View | |
| 18456834 | Auditory-Based Environment Monitoring | Patented | View | |
| 18119581 | Identifying Geological Structural Style In Seismic Reflections | Patented | View | |
| 29953307 | Solar Dragon Statue | Patented | View | |
| 18613606 | System And Method For Generating Source Activation Times Or Locations In Blended Marine Seismic Acquisitions | Patented | View | |
| 18608487 | Acoustic Sensing And Communication Using A Metasurface | Patented | View | |
| 17823720 | Systems, Apparatus, And Methods For Algae Control System Using A Carbon Nanotube Sonic Generator | Patented | View | |
| 18424656 | Ultrasonic Probe And Flexible Printed Circuit Board | Patented | View | |
| 18532942 | Architecture For Distributed Acoustic Sensing Interrogation For Sensor Deployment | Patented | View | |
| 17703342 | Longitudinally Leaky Surface Acoustic Wave Device With Double Side Acoustic Mirror | Patented | View | |
| 18416911 | Sound Receiving Processing Method And Sound Signal Processing Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18355408 | Signal Processing Methods And Systems | Patented | View | |
| 18031693 | Method For Three-Dimensional Velocity Geological Modeling With Structures And Velocities Randomly Arranged | Patented | View | |
| 18467912 | Information Exchange On Mobile Devices Using Audio | Patented | View | |
| 18142081 | Portable Hand-Held Device Utilized To Deter A Canine Attack | Patented | View | |
| 18135430 | Ultrasonic Imaging And Energy Delivery Device And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18548218 | Distance Measurement System | Patented | View | |
| 17893086 | Cartridge And Applicator For Drug Delivery And Microneedle Patch Used Therefor | Abandoned | View | |
| 18656820 | Position Determination System Having A Deconvolution Decoder | Patented | View | |
| 18551216 | Automatic Salt Geometry Detection In A Subsurface Volume | Patented | View | |
| 17983068 | Prediction Of Permeability Distribution Of Deep Buried Sandstones Using Machine Learning | Patented | View | |
| 18554894 | Methods And Systems For Determining Attenuated Traveltime Using Parallel Processing | Patented | View | |
| 18288365 | Acquisition And Processing Of V-Wave Ultrasound Data Using A Linear Or Curved Array Transducer | Patented | View | |
| 18562802 | Method And System For Mapping A Region | Patented | View | |
| 18337107 | Wide Sweep Cane | Patented | View | |
| 18044975 | Device For Audio Signal Control Through Effects Units | Abandoned | View | |
| 18256856 | Systems And Methods For Calibrating A Distance Model Using Acoustic Data | Abandoned | View | |
| 18649885 | Imaging Devices With Selectively Alterable Characteristics | Patented | View | |
| 18328802 | Automated Bird Detection And Targeted Activation Of Ultrasonic Bird Repeller For Wind Turbines | Patented | View | |
| 17555552 | Localization System And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18397243 | Method For Measuring Vibration Of Mechanical Wave Transducers Using Laser Doppler Method | Patented | View | |
| 18289808 | Optical Fiber-Based Hydrophone | Patented | View | |
| 18360987 | Angle Determining Method, Electronic Device, And Chip System | Patented | View | |
| 18367266 | Sound Image Localization Device, Sound Image Localization Method, And Program | Abandoned | View | |
| 18496002 | Features Of Airborne Ultrasonic Fields | Patented | View | |
| 18740270 | Methods And Apparatus To Improve Detection Of Audio Signatures | Patented | View | |
| 18481562 | System And Method For Determining A Distance Between Networked Electronic Devices Each Comprising A Loudspeaker And A Microphone | Patented | View | |
| 17703367 | Acoustic Wave Device With Double Side Acoustic Mirror | Abandoned | View | |
| 18588466 | Transmitting Device For Use In Location Determination Systems | Patented | View | |
| 18203943 | Device For Acoustic Source Localization | Patented | View | |
| 18023544 | Device For Transmitting Authentication Information | Patented | View | |
| 17881474 | Sparse Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound Methods And Systems | Patented | View |
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