Examiner Cain Aaron G

3656-CAIN-AARON-G

Employment Information

Art Unit:3656 — Bearings
Group:3660 — VCaR - Robot Control, Vehicle Navigation and Data Processing: Vehicles and Relative Location
Classes: 701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
901 — Robots
Phone:(571) 272-7009
Email:aaron.cain@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr(Biomedical Engrg)
Service:5 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

91
3-Year Grant rate: 27% over 79 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 91st

With Examiner Cain, you have a 27% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Cain is an extremely hard examiner and in the 91st percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Cain, 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 3656

Examiner Cain's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3656 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Cain 2.3
Art Unit 3656 1.3

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Cain has granted 11 of 49 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 22%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Cain has granted 10 of 30 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 33%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Cain, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 50%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18307590 Robotic Tool With Boundary Wire Sensors Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
18272797 Work Plan Creation Apparatus And Work Plan Creation Method Abandoned View
18157979 Method For Infrastructure-Supported Assisting Of A Motor Vehicle Patented View
18037241 Assistance Control Device, Assistance Device, Robot Control System, Assistance Control Method, And Storage Medium Abandoned View
17733079 Method And Computing Systems For Performing Object Detection Patented View
17995673 Machine Learning Method And Robot System Patented View
17378194 Dental Robot And Oral Navigation Method Patented View
18514574 Robotic Demonstration Learning Patented View
18030783 Movement Control Support Device And Method Patented View
17227505 On-Board Unit, Method For Cooperative Driving, Model Determination Unit, Method For Determining A Machine-Learning Communication Model, System, Method, Vehicle, And User Equipment Abandoned View
18234712 Small Robot Capable Of Running And Control Method Thereof Patented View
16962533 Localising A Vehicle Patented View
18009929 Sensor Device For A Gripping System, Method For Generating Optimal Gripping Poses For Controlling A Gripping Device, And Associated Gripping System Abandoned View
17598172 Using Vector Chart Data With Display Lifecycles To Visualize Autonomous Vehicle Processess Patented View
16244423 Robotic System For Demiliterizing Munitions Patented View
18101825 System And Method For Reprogramming Trajectory Of Robotic Arm Based On Human Interaction Abandoned View
16749341 Method For Generating A Representation And System For Teaching An Autonomous Device Operating Based On Such Representation Abandoned View
18215723 Triaging Of Robots In An Industrial Facility Patented View
18027471 Underground Vehicle Monitoring System Field Patented View
18075620 Pick-Up And Drop-Off Signals For Managing Double Parking Obstruction Patented View
16940786 Control Method Of A Motorcycle, A Control Device Of A Motorcycle And A Motorcycle Abandoned View
18167851 Robot System With Object Detecting Sensors Patented View
18096195 Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method, And Non-Transitory Storage Medium Abandoned View
18441840 Use Of Artificial Intelligence Models To Identify Fasteners And Perform Related Operations Patented View
18451309 Vehicle Management System And Vehicle Patented View
17326921 Work Machine, Control Method Of Work Machine, And Storage Medium Abandoned View
18006067 Robot Control System Abandoned View
18239226 Appropriately Gripping Objects By Robots Patented View
18080702 Recharge Control Method, Robot And Computer-Readable Storage Medium Patented View
17271886 Indoor Navigation Method And Parking Management System Abandoned View
18098758 Displaying A Dynamically Changing Wet Clean Path Of An Autonomous Floor Cleaner Patented View
17792553 Systems And Methods For Detecting A Vehicle Type In Order To Adapt Directions And Navigation Instructions Abandoned View
18799657 Information Display Device And Control Method Patented View
17190815 Ranging Device Patented View
17782074 Information Processing Device, Information Output Method, Program, And Storage Medium Patented View
17245684 Internet Of Vehicles Communication Method And Positioning Method, And Internet Of Vehicles Communications Apparatus Abandoned View
17668877 Apparatus For Predicting Traffic Information And Method Thereof Abandoned View
18160663 Robotic System And Robot Control Method Abandoned View
17694898 Autonomous Work Device Abandoned View
17811942 Systems And Methods For Autonomous Suturing Abandoned View
17636202 Electronic Control Device Abandoned View
17809762 Object Detection Device Patented View
16581628 Cognitive Robotic Systems And Methods With Fear Based Action/reaction Abandoned View
17400321 Minimizing Airborne Objects In A Collision Patented View
17291764 Big Data-Based Autonomous Flight Drone System And Autonomous Flight Method Therefor Abandoned View
16631420 Virtual Robot Base Patented View
16658876 Autonomous Mobile Vehicle Patented View
17739772 Auto-Reverse Control With Network Patented View
17469947 System And Method Of Preventing And Remedying Restricted Area Intrusions By Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Abandoned View
17483338 Vehicular Traffic Flow Optimization Patented View

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