Examiner Patton Spencer D

3656-PATTON-SPENCER-D

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
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Phone:(571) 270-5771
Email:spencer.patton@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:18 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

42
3-Year Grant rate: 81% over 234 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 42nd

With Examiner Patton, you have a 81% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Patton is a medium examiner and in the 42nd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

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

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Patton 1.6
Art Unit 3656 1.3

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Patton has granted 132 of 171 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 77%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Patton has granted 57 of 63 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 90%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Patton, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 17%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18484480 Motion Planning Technique For Robotic Systems Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18077953 Manual And Robotic End Effector Movement Coordination Patented View
18501303 Variable Payload Robot Patented View
18226927 Apparatus, Method, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium For Generating Operation Path Of Robot Abandoned View
19254134 Robotic Arm Obstacle Avoiding Path Planning Method Patented View
17744345 Force Estimation And Visual Feedback In Surgical Robotics Patented View
18506672 Apparatus And Method For Controlling Robotic Manipulators Patented View
19075819 Automatic End Effector Tip Position Initialization Mechanism For Micromanipulation System Patented View
18754599 Apparatus And Method For Automatic Calibration Of A Robotic Arm In A Modular System Patented View
18235675 Hierarchical Polytope Workspace Mapping For Human-Robot Collaboration Patented View
18760751 Spinning Workshop Inspection Method, Electronic Device And Storage Medium Patented View
18117093 System And Method Of Activating Manual Manipulation Using Linkage Interaction Sensing Patented View
18197251 Mobile Robot Providing Environmental Mapping For Household Environmental Control Patented View
18212415 Cooperative High-Capacity And High-Dexterity Manipulators Patented View
18447082 Intelligent Electronic Footwear And Control Logic For Automated Pedestrian Collision Avoidance Patented View
18123704 Monitoring Method And System Patented View
18017936 Processing System Patented View
18855651 Robot With Changeable Position Of Body With Respect To A Vehicle Portion Patented View
18202413 Robot Localization And Mapping Accommodating Non-Unique Landmarks Patented View
19181861 Posture Optimization And Following Control Method And System For Robot Used In Freeform Surface Repair Patented View
16851529 Providing Navigational Data To A Driver Computing Device To Direct The Driver Computing Device To A Geographic Region In View Of A Location Specified By The Driver Computing Device Patented View
17959515 Apparatus And Method For Inferring Driving Characteristics Of A Vehicle Patented View
17199174 Object Rearrangement Using Learned Implicit Collision Functions Patented View
19192418 Path Tracking Method And Device For In-Oil Inspection Robot For Storage Tank Bottom Plate In Invisible Environment Patented View
17917206 Method For Generating A Lateral Offset Trajectory Patented View
17436727 Method And System For Performing Automatic Camera Calibration For Robot Control Patented View
17897316 Automatic Removal System For Reservoir Cap Patented View
17791173 Control System Patented View
17891325 Simulation Learning-Based Drowsy Driving Simulation Platform System And Method For Detecting Careless Driving In Conjunction With Deep Learning Patented View
19064661 Methods For Improved Hand-Eye Calibration Based On Structured Light Cameras Patented View
18884894 Method, Computer System, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Record Medium For Learning Robot Skill Patented View
17990037 Deterministic Robot Path Planning Method For Obstacle Avoidance Patented View
18377042 Firefighter Robotic System Patented View
18784896 Methods And Systems For Safe Maintenance Of Underground Pipeline Corridor Based On Smart Gas Regulatory Internet Of Things Patented View
18138927 Robot Device Controller For Controlling Position Of Robot Patented View
18751244 Control Method And Equipment For Livestock And Poultry Health Inspection Robot For Multi-Index Collection Patented View
16639493 Interaction System Configuration Abandoned View
17810408 Driving Handover System, Driving Handover Method Abandoned View
17856196 Method Of Setting Control Parameter Of Robot, Robot System, And Computer Program Patented View
18827912 Data-Driven Bipartite Consensus Control Method For Multi-Robot Collaborative Rotation Of Large Workpiece Patented View
17677521 Controlling Seed Placement Based On Prior Material Placement Patented View
17146004 Work Apparatus Having Under-Table Robot Patented View
17690865 Perception-Based Parking Assistance For Autonomous Machine Systems And Applications Patented View
17528873 Elevator Interactions By Mobile Robot Abandoned View
18799439 System And Method For Mounting Objects Across A Non-Uniform Outdoor Terrain Patented View
17934782 Control Of Autonomous Mobile Robots Patented View
17810653 Substrate Transfer Method And Substrate Transfer System Patented View
17784366 Calibrating A Virtual Force Sensor Of A Robot Manipulator Abandoned View
17748672 Charging Port Alignment Methods And Apparatus For Robotic Car Chargers Abandoned View
17832377 System And Method For Wafer Manufacturing Process Management Patented View

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