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| 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 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 81% over 234 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 42nd
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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).
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.
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 |
Examiner Patton has granted 132 of 171 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 77%.
Examiner Patton has granted 57 of 63 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 90%.
With Examiner Patton, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 17%.
| 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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