Examiner Heflin Harrison J

3665-HEFLIN-HARRISON-J

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
340 — Communications: electrical
427 — Coating processes
382 — Image analysis
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
105 — Railway rolling stock
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Phone:(571) 272-5629
Email:harrison.heflin@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:5 years
Grade:GS-12

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

56
3-Year Grant rate: 73% over 66 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 56th

With Examiner Heflin, you have a 73% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Heflin is a medium examiner and in the 56th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Heflin, 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 Heflin's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3665 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Heflin 1.9
Art Unit 3665 1.4

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Heflin has granted 28 of 38 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 74%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Heflin has granted 20 of 28 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 71%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Heflin, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 4%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17678057 Control System, Mobile Object, Control Method, And Storage Medium Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18004033 System And Method For Detecting An Obstacle In An Area Surrounding A Motor Vehicle Abandoned View
18370493 Robot Traveling In Specific Space And Control Method Thereof Patented View
18094041 Systems And Methods To Apply Surface Treatments Patented View
17892368 System And Method For Controlling Vehicle Abandoned View
18184749 Unmanned Vehicle And Information Processing Method Patented View
18055381 High-Precision Map Data Collection Method And Apparatus, Electronic Device, And Storage Medium Abandoned View
18362183 Apparatus For Moving A Payload Patented View
18469163 Determining Ridership Errors By Analyzing Provider-Requestor Consistency Signals Across Ride Stages Patented View
18006481 Method For Determining A Trajectory Of A Motor Vehicle Patented View
17330051 Connected Systems Based On Contextually Aware Dynamic Visual Indicators Abandoned View
18366948 Control Device For Human-Powered Vehicle Patented View
18132288 Using Uav Flight Patterns To Enhance Machine Vision Detection Of Obstacles Patented View
18205773 Method And System For Calibrating An Adas/ads System Of Vehicles In A Vehicle Pool Abandoned View
18092011 Low-Speed Maneuver Assisting System And Method Abandoned View
18485427 Methods For A Marine Vessel With Primary And Auxiliary Propulsion Devices Patented View
18467111 Methods And System For Predicting Trajectories Of Uncertain Road Users By Semantic Segmentation Of Drivable Area Boundaries Patented View
18065366 Vehicle Power Architecture, Trigger, And Method Of Initiating The Wake-Up Of Functional Blocks Abandoned View
17688698 Systems And Methods For Personal Mobile Vehicle Localization In A Fleet Management System Patented View
18454126 Visual Robot Pose Estimation Patented View
18047320 Dynamic Powertrain Control In Coordination With Adaptive Cruise Control Patented View
17099887 Method Of Navigating A Visually Impaired User, A Navigation System For The Same, And A Guiding Robot Abandoned View
18257291 Vehicle Control System And Vehicle Control Method Patented View
18100073 Exit Routes Patented View
17524248 System And Method For Mutual Discovery In Autonomous Rideshare Between Passengers And Vehicles Abandoned View
17840730 Method And Control Unit For Operating A Transverse Stabilization System Of A Vehicle Patented View
17416950 Method For Obtaining The Deformation Of A Tire Under Load When Running Patented View
18142758 Autonomous Mobile Unmanned Sprayer Apparatus, Operating Method Thereof, And Method Of Controlling Autonomous Rail Switching Movement Patented View
18132592 Systems And Methods For Dock Placement For An Autonomous Mobile Robot Patented View
17764494 Airport Vehicle Having An Anti-Collision System And Method For Operating A Vehicle Having An Anti-Collision System Patented View
16479434 Improved Work Scheduling For A Robotic Lawnmower Abandoned View
17949525 Lifting Chart For Tow Vehicle Abandoned View
17695010 Driving Assistance Device, Driving Assistance Method, And Storage Medium Patented View
18077961 Vehicle Control Apparatus, Vehicle, Acceleration-And-Deceleration Control Method, And Vehicle Control Program Patented View
17781248 Information Processing Device, Control Method, Program And Storage Medium Patented View
17570945 Apparatus, Method, And Computer Program For Generating Map Patented View
17687981 Autonomous Path Planning Patented View
17781071 System And Method For Controlling Transport Vehicle Abandoned View
17743083 System, Method And Application For Lead Vehicle To Trailing Vehicle Distance Estimation Abandoned View
17796417 Map Matching Apparatus And Map Matching Method Patented View
17575919 System And Method Of Collaboratively Refining High Definition Maps For Autonomous Parking Of A Vehicle Abandoned View
17960145 Optimizing Resistance Of Boat Using Movable Battery Abandoned View
17872218 Motor Vehicle And Method For Controlling The Aero Balance Of A Motor Vehicle Patented View
17417546 Unmanned Aircraft System, Control Device And Control Method Patented View
16949158 Defining Driving Envelope For Assisted-Driving System Patented View
17679384 Methods And Systems For Dealiasing Radar Range Rate Measurements Using Machine Learning Patented View
18195501 Apparatus For Controlling Autonomous Driving Of A Vehicle, System Having The Same And Method Thereof Patented View
17104914 Structured Field Map Generation For Inventory System Patented View
18230820 Method And System For Mapping A Physical Environment Using An Occupancy Grid Patented View
17536897 Tire Conditioning Optimization For A Collection Of Mining Vehicles Patented View

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