Examiner Holwerda Stephen

3656-HOLWERDA-STEPHEN

Employment Information

Art Unit:3656 — Bearings
Group:3660 — VCaR - Robot Control, Vehicle Navigation and Data Processing: Vehicles and Relative Location
Classes: 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
606 — Surgery
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
601 — Surgery: kinesitherapy
Phone:(571) 270-5747
Email:stephen.holwerda@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:17 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

48
3-Year Grant rate: 78% over 240 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 48th

With Examiner Holwerda, you have a 78% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Holwerda is a medium examiner and in the 48th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Holwerda, 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 Holwerda's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3656 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Holwerda 2.0
Art Unit 3656 1.3

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Holwerda has granted 94 of 132 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 71%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Holwerda has granted 92 of 108 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 85%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Holwerda, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 20%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18360979 Data Interface Device For Transmitting Tool Data, Manufacturing System And Numerically Controlled Machine Tool Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18260281 Robot Programming Device Patented View
18542931 Positioning Device, Moving Object, Positioning Method And Storage Medium Patented View
17960537 System And Method For An Agricultural Harvester Patented View
18612270 Communication System For An Interaction System Patented View
18517360 Watercraft Troubleshooting Support System, And Server, Communication Terminal And Client Terminal For The Watercraft Troubleshooting Support System Patented View
18508728 Control System Patented View
17784120 Master-Slave System And Controlling Method Patented View
17951224 Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Method Of Manufacturing Products Abandoned View
18551753 Surgical System And Surgical Support Method Abandoned View
18213312 Robotic Systems And Methods For Mitigating Undesired Orientational Motion Of Kinematic Components Patented View
17905087 Watchdog Circuitry Of A Surgical Robot Arm Patented View
18002194 Handling Device For A Manufacturing Environment Patented View
18352843 Multiple Object Grasping Using Robotics Patented View
18633478 Systems And Methods For Suggesting Mode Of Transport In A Geographic Application Abandoned View
18239462 Computer-Readable Medium, Information Display Device, And Information Display Method Abandoned View
18074113 Braking Apparatus For Vehicle Patented View
18306352 Coordinated Motion Of A Robot And Vehicle In An Independent Cart System Patented View
18490292 Restarting Operations For Recovery Processes In Autonomous Systems Patented View
17972550 Method And System For Health Monitoring Of Collaborative Robot Patented View
18217662 Dynamic Target Tracking Method, Robot And Computer-Readable Storage Medium Patented View
17689550 Integrated Electronic Brake System And Control Method Thereof Patented View
17886661 Driving Control Device And Hmi Control Device Patented View
17821254 Ground Compaction Sensing System And Method For A Work Machine Patented View
17779495 Electric Drive Vehicle With Anti-Rollback Control Patented View
18148548 Simulating Physical Interactions For Automated Systems Patented View
18419622 Systems And Methods For Establishing Virtual Constraint Boundaries Patented View
17835955 Work Machine Patented View
18345405 Generalized Coordinate Surrogates For Integrated Estimation And Control Patented View
18298210 System And Method For Patient-Side Instrument Control Patented View
17832169 Surgical Robotic Systems Patented View
18002052 Robot Control Apparatus, Robot Control Method, And Program Patented View
18537554 Method, System And Apparatus For Spacecraft Attitude Control Error Reduction In Trajectory Interpolation Patented View
18070628 Mobile Object Control Device, Mobile Object Control Method, And Storage Medium Patented View
17716412 Robotic Arms Of A Surgical Robotic System Patented View
18079285 Tether Usage For Robotic Package Delivery Or Item Handling Patented View
17967167 System And Method For Optimized Perception Sensing In A Work Area Using Virtual Perimeters Patented View
18130565 Method, System And Apparatus For Spacecraft Attitude Control Using B-Spline Interpolation Patented View
17813390 State Estimation And Response To Active School Vehicles In A Self-Driving System Patented View
17869421 Use Of Triangular Numbers In Calculation Of Jerk Limited Speed Profile For Determination Of Target Speeds And Feed-Forward Torque For Speed Controller Patented View
17642883 Map Data Generation Device Patented View
17956418 Device And Method Of Protecting Item Based On Serving Order Patented View
17402804 Transport Onboard Security Check Abandoned View
17853133 Driving Assistance Device For Vehicle Patented View
16756880 Admittance Mode Control System And Method For Robotic Arm Patented View
17638293 Work Vehicle Patented View
17837251 Working Machine Patented View
17784429 Robot, Method Of Capture Image, Electronic Device, And Computer-Readable Storage Medium Patented View
17422322 Vehicle Steering Device Abandoned View
17260295 Stable Orientation Cues For Augmented Reality (Ar) Patented View

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