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| Art Unit: | 3661 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location |
|---|---|
| Group: | 3660 — VCaR - Robot Control, Vehicle Navigation and Data Processing: Vehicles and Relative Location |
| Classes: |
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location 382 — Image analysis 180 — Motor vehicles 307 — Electrical transmission or interconnection systems |
| Phone: | (571) 272-8549 |
| Email: | ana.thomas@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 12 years |
| Grade: | GS-12 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 89% over 225 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Easier |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 21st
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With Examiner Thomas, you have a 89% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Thomas is an easier examiner and in the 21st percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Thomas, 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 Thomas's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3661 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Thomas | 1.4 |
| Art Unit 3661 | 1.2 |
Examiner Thomas has granted 141 of 161 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 88%.
Examiner Thomas has granted 60 of 64 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 94%.
With Examiner Thomas, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 7%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18619658 | Obstacle Detection Controller Of Articulated Vehicle, Operation System Of Articulated Vehicle, And Obstacle Detection Method Of Articulated Vehicle | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18124378 | Drive Assist Apparatus For Vehicle And Drive Assist System For Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18523684 | Conditional Object Position Prediction By A Machine Learned Model | Patented | View | |
| 18222686 | System For Evaluating A Lane Change Operation Of An Autonomous Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 17544256 | Propel Limiting System And Method For Rear Collision Avoidance | Patented | View | |
| 18311794 | Method For Controlling Autonomous Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 19061771 | Systems And Methods For Intelligently Transforming Data To Generate Improved Output Data Using A Probabilistic Multi-Application Network | Patented | View | |
| 18547072 | Method For Activating An Obstacle Avoidance System For A Motor Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18547081 | Method For Avoiding Obstacles | Patented | View | |
| 17941225 | Method And System For Dynamically Updating An Environmental Representation Of An Autonomous Agent | Patented | View | |
| 18493258 | Robotic Systems And Methods For Tank Seal Inspection | Patented | View | |
| 17947466 | Devices And Methods Of Detecting Driving Conditions From A Rotating Wheel | Patented | View | |
| 18232359 | Collision Prevention Device, Collision Prevention Method And Collision Prevention Program | Patented | View | |
| 18305500 | Vehicle For Performing Minimum Risk Maneuver And Method Of Operating The Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18199525 | Method Of Controlling Autonomous Vehicle, Electronic Device, And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18124805 | Distribution System | Patented | View | |
| 18451529 | Control Device, Control Method, And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18313486 | Control Of A Hybrid Powertrain System | Patented | View | |
| 18398334 | In-Vehicle Artificial Intelligence Assistant For Agent Misbehavior Accident Prevention And Related Method | Patented | View | |
| 18194243 | Collision Aware Path Planning Systems And Methods | Patented | View | |
| 18096284 | System And Method For Insight-Triggered Opportunistic Imaging In A Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18678079 | Method And A System For An Identity Management | Abandoned | View | |
| 18541067 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Airspace Reservation And Allocation System | Patented | View | |
| 17938065 | Driving Support Device, Method, Storage Medium, And Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 17878357 | Vehicle Control System And Vehicle Driving Method Using The Vehicle Control System | Patented | View | |
| 18105635 | Vehicle Integrated Controller And Vehicle Function Implementation Method Using The Same | Patented | View | |
| 18113630 | Driving Assistance Device, Vehicle Control System, And Driving Assistance Method | Patented | View | |
| 17952942 | Remote Moving Application Software And Remote Moving System | Patented | View | |
| 18168642 | State Estimation Method And State Estimation System | Patented | View | |
| 18049335 | Apparatus For Generating U-Turn Path Of Vehicle And Method Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 18097715 | Using Radar For Vehicle-To-Vehicle (V2v) Communication | Patented | View | |
| 17679344 | Human-Machine Interface Control System | Patented | View | |
| 17959667 | Intelligent Vehicle Systems And Control Logic For Automated Thermal Event Mitigation In Enclosed Areas | Patented | View | |
| 18157338 | Method For Preventing A Collision Of A Vehicle With Another Road User, Collision Warning System, And Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 17667845 | Method Of Damage Prediction For Electric Park Brake And Adaptation Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 17958228 | Virtual Hazard Inference System | Patented | View | |
| 18449683 | System And Method For Centralized Control Of Vehicle Testing | Abandoned | View | |
| 17855175 | Trajectory Planning Method And Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18007074 | Braking Control Device | Patented | View | |
| 17812372 | Clunk And Shuffle Management In Multi-Motor, Multi-Axle Electrified Drivetrains | Patented | View | |
| 18525044 | Mapping Application With Turn-By-Turn Navigation Mode For Output To Vehicle Display | Patented | View | |
| 17431988 | Tank Seal Inspection | Patented | View | |
| 18178458 | Driving Diagnostic Device, Driving Diagnostic Method, And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18439663 | Automated Positive Train Control Event Data Extraction And Analysis Engine And Method Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 18107651 | On-Board Autoencoder For Vehicles | Patented | View | |
| 18178733 | Vehicle With Polarimetric Image Normalization Logic | Patented | View | |
| 17386810 | System And Method For Performing Spraying Operations With An Agricultural Applicator | Patented | View | |
| 17960838 | Vehicle Control Device, Vehicle Control Method, And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 17695080 | Vehicle Controller And Method For Controlling Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18745961 | Systems And Methods For Intelligently Transforming Data To Generate Improved Output Data Using A Probabilistic Multi-Application Network | Patented | View |
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