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Examiner Rink Ryan J

3619-RINK-RYAN-J

Employment Information

Art Unit:3619 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Group:3600 Search — Search and Classification
Classes: 701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
Phone:(571) 272-4863
Email:ryan.rink@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr
Service:14 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

32
3-Year Grant rate: 85% over 247 cases
Difficulty: Easier
Difficulty Percentile: 32nd

With Examiner Rink, you have a 85% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Rink is an easier examiner and in the 32nd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Rink, 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 3619

Examiner Rink's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3619 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Rink 1.3
Art Unit 3619 1.5

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Rink has granted 140 of 169 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 83%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Rink has granted 69 of 78 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 88%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Rink, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 6%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17740251 Autonomous Vehicle Validation Using Real-World Adversarial Events Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
19192177 Robotic Floor-Cleaning System Manager Patented View
18544269 User Interfaces For Customized Navigation Routes Abandoned View
18568335 Moving Apparatus And Moving Apparatus Control Method Abandoned View
18709157 Precision Assembly Control Method And System By Robot With Visual-Tactile Fusion Abandoned View
18504334 Control Apparatus, Work Robot, Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium, And Control Method Abandoned View
18679987 Determining Adversarial Cost Based On Generated Deviations Patented View
18241041 Prediction Variance Estimation Patented View
18513354 Interfacing With A Mobile Telepresence Robot Patented View
18283228 Method For Generating Training Data For A Machine Learning (Ml) Model Abandoned View
18134873 Robot Sensing Animal Waste Located Indoors And Controlling Method Thereof Patented View
18302596 Control And Training Of Robots Using Large Language Models Patented View
18470030 Optical Coherence Tomography For Intra-Oral Scanning Patented View
18120545 Method For Safely Determining A Flight Path Of An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, And Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Patented View
18376766 Active Prediction Based On Object Trajectories Patented View
18265768 Robot And Teaching Method Abandoned View
18023430 Method And System For Automatically Determining A Motion Data Sample Of A Given Robot And Its Surrounding Object Set Patented View
17941829 Robot Device And Control Method Therefor Patented View
18424847 Industrial Internet Of Things For Determining Working Parameters Of Collaborative Robot And Control Method, Storage Medium Thereof Patented View
18143475 System And Method For Simulating Autonomous Vehicle Testing Environments Patented View
18259409 Method For Generating Circular Traveling Route Of Vehicle, Device For Generating Circular Traveling Route Of Vehicle, And Recording Medium In Which Program For Executing Method For Generating Circular Traveling Route Of Vehicle Is Recorded Patented View
18483652 Obstacle Map For Autonomous Pile Driving System Patented View
18358440 Efficient Network-Graph Framework And Query System For Cargo Routes Patented View
18237136 Speeding Up Stochastic Routing Of Vehicles Using Tiering Patented View
18220723 Stochastic Route Planning For Electric Vehicles Patented View
18280798 Work Teaching Device And Work Teaching Method For Robot Patented View
18356497 Efficient Method For Robot Skill Learning Patented View
18461337 Methods And Systems For Optimized Assignment Of Traversal Tasks Under Imperfect Sensing Of Autonomous Vehicles Patented View
18143795 Multi-Arm Spacecraft Model Predictive Control Method Based On Mixture Of Gaussian Processes, Equipment, And Medium Patented View
18256218 Method And Apparatus For Generating Travel Route Patented View
18373695 Estimation Of A Position And Orientation Of A Frame Used In Controlling Movement Of A Tool Patented View
18021268 Robot System And Picking Method Patented View
18334959 Method For Controlling A Robot For Manipulating, In Particular Picking Up, An Object Patented View
18241834 Methods And Servers For Generating A Prediction Score By A Machine Learning Algorithm Patented View
18153021 Primary-And-Secondary Robot System Patented View
18330075 Device For Calculating Driving Routes For Use In A Motor Vehicle And Method For Calculating Driving Routes Patented View
18224248 Driving Assistance Apparatus For Vehicle Patented View
18001324 Moving Object And Method Of Controlling Moving Object Abandoned View
18080978 Autonomous Vehicle Control Based On A Probability Of Collision Patented View
18340968 Skill Template Distribution For Robotic Demonstration Learning Patented View
18239134 Robotic Floor-Cleaning System Manager Patented View
18131627 Condition-Based Robot Audio Techniques Abandoned View
18135941 Autonomous And Semi-Autonomous Control Of Aerial Robotic Systems Patented View
18149372 Systems And Methods For Optimal Path Determination Using Contraction Hierarchies With Turn Costs Patented View
17854849 System For Generating Scene Context Data Using A Reference Graph Patented View
17575606 Autonomous Work Machine, Control Device, Autonomous Work Machine Control Method, Control Device Operation Method, And Storage Medium Patented View
18178605 Methods And Systems For Autonomous Vehicle Inference Of Routes For Actors Exhibiting Unrecognized Behavior Patented View
18040997 Robot System And Control Method Patented View
18140358 Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Program Patented View
17717416 Systems And Methods For Maneuvering Vehicles Using Predictive Control And Automated Driving Patented View

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