Examiner Furgason Karen L

3665-FURGASON-KAREN-L

Employment Information

Art Unit:3665 — 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
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
Phone:(571) 272-5619
Email:karen.furgason@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:5 years
Grade:GS-07

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

94
3-Year Grant rate: 17% over 47 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 94th

With Examiner Furgason, you have a 17% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Furgason is an extremely hard examiner and in the 94th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Furgason, 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 3665

Examiner Furgason's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3665 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Furgason 3.0
Art Unit 3665 1.4

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Furgason has granted 1 of 19 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 5%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Furgason has granted 7 of 28 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 25%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Furgason, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 400%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18112199 Vehicle Control Device, Vehicle Control Method, And Storage Medium Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17669598 Method Of Notifying In-Car Air Pollution Patented View
18376857 Obstacle Avoidance System And Method For Unmanned Vehicle Abandoned View
17775903 Method For Controlling A Motor Vehicle Abandoned View
17593611 Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Program Abandoned View
18066994 Systems And Methods For Adapting Autonomous Driving Escalation Strategies Abandoned View
17125484 Autonomous Vehicle Steering Juke Event Detector Abandoned View
17742904 Systems And Methods For Mission Planning Abandoned View
16971837 Control Of Vehicle Traction Motor Torque Before Stall Launch Patented View
17852000 System For Aiding Formation Flying Of Aircraft Patented View
18153531 Axle Torque Estimation In Electric Vehicles With Multi-Speed Drive Unit Abandoned View
17746783 Method And Apparatus For Uav And Uav Controller Group Membership Update Patented View
17385984 Map Positioning Via Indication Of Turn Intention Patented View
17505884 Blind Area Estimation Apparatus, Vehicle Travel System, And Blind Area Estimation Method Abandoned View
17775621 Wireless Control System For Autonomous Vehicles Operating In An Extended Area Patented View
18172427 Endurance Mode For Electric Vehicle Patented View
17659694 Method Of Controlling An Aircraft, Flight Control Device For An Aircraft, And Aircraft With Such Flight Control Device Patented View
18382808 Automated Data Collection Architecture For Use In Vehicle Operations Abandoned View
17172022 Mapping An Environment Around An Autonomous Vacuum Patented View
17746968 Driver Of Automatic Guided Vehicle Patented View
18107732 Information Processing System, Information Terminal, Information Processing Method, And Recording Medium Abandoned View
17174701 Authorization Revocation For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Patented View
18050015 Systems And Methods For Object Detection Using A Geometric Semantic Map Based Robot Navigation Patented View
16636636 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Control System, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Control Method, And Program Patented View
17161283 Air Conditioning Recirculation Mode For Vehicle Abandoned View
17987074 System And Method For Assessing Battery Capacity And Feature Functionality Optimization Abandoned View
17902228 Steer-By-Wire Software End Stop Patented View
17653055 Systems And Methods For Management Of A Robot Fleet Abandoned View
16568849 Driving Analysis Using Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication Patented View
17123035 Methods And Systems For Dynamic Geofencing Abandoned View
16865301 Aircraft Multi-Lift System With Synchronized Maneuvering And Load Feedback Control Patented View
17126724 Systems And Methods For Centralized Control Of A Fleet Of Robotic Devices Abandoned View
17653047 Systems And Methods For Management Of A Robot Fleet Abandoned View
16612406 Control Device, Control Method, And Program Abandoned View
17456610 Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Non-Transitry Storage Medium Abandoned View
16943475 Method Of Controlling Driving Of Vehicle By Estimating Frictional Coefficient Of Road Surface Abandoned View
17103096 Driving Automation Device To Mitigate The Risk Of Other Road Users Patented View
16570347 Apparatus And Method Of Controlling Autonomous Platooning Of Electric Vehicle Abandoned View
17004790 Mode Management For Autonomous Vehicles Abandoned View
17378628 Query And Display Of Navigation Map Data Patented View
17245104 Systems And Methods For Management Of A Robot Fleet Abandoned View
17296616 Route Search Support Apparatus, Route Search Support Method, And Computer-Readable Recording Medium Abandoned View
17124529 Control Device And Control Method Abandoned View
16840237 Intelligent Preparation Of Vehicles For Operations Based On User Recognition From A Distance Abandoned View
16911273 Driving Assist Apparatus, Driving Assist Method And Program Therefor Abandoned View
17155744 Systems And Methods To Regulate Joining And Leaving A Vehicular Micro Cloud Patented View
17008974 Systems And Methods For Improving Path Selection For Automated Driving Patented View
17416059 Vehicle Location Analysis Method And Navigation Device Abandoned View
16893889 Proposing Method And Proposing System Abandoned View
16599225 Data Storage Device Of Vehicle Abandoned View

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