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| Art Unit: | 3665 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location |
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| 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 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 17% over 47 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Extremely Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 94th
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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).
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.
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 |
Examiner Furgason has granted 1 of 19 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 5%.
Examiner Furgason has granted 7 of 28 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 25%.
With Examiner Furgason, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 400%.
| 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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