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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 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 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 73% over 66 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 56th
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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).
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.
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 |
Examiner Heflin has granted 28 of 38 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 74%.
Examiner Heflin has granted 20 of 28 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 71%.
With Examiner Heflin, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 4%.
| 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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