Login with your work email address to view charts. No credit card required.
| 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 356 — Optics: measuring and testing 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 280 — Land vehicles 434 — Education and demonstration |
| Phone: | (571) 272-5427 |
| Email: | brandon.willis@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg |
| Service: | 6 years |
| Grade: | GS-13 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 53% over 102 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Harder |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 78th
|
With Examiner Willis, you have a 53% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Willis is a harder examiner and in the 78th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Willis, 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 Willis's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3665 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Willis | 1.8 |
| Art Unit 3665 | 1.4 |
Examiner Willis has granted 21 of 56 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 38%.
Examiner Willis has granted 33 of 46 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 72%.
With Examiner Willis, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 89%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18428037 | Systems And Methods For Generating A Driving Trajectory | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18311180 | Conversion Of Driving Logs To Simulations For Autonomous Vehicle Testing And Validation | Patented | View | |
| 18435207 | Autonomous Vehicle Control Based On Hand Signal Intent Detection | Abandoned | View | |
| 18250290 | Driving Control System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18187509 | Dynamically Weighting Training Data Using Kinematic Comparison | Patented | View | |
| 18416573 | Transport Dangerous Situation Consensus | Patented | View | |
| 18380008 | Method For Controlling Center Following Of Traveling Vehicle By Applying Lane Weight, And Apparatus Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 18351955 | Method, Electronic Device And Medium For Target State Estimation | Patented | View | |
| 18356905 | Sensor Configuration For Autonomous Vehicles | Abandoned | View | |
| 18475694 | System For Reducing Incomplete Diagnostic Test Cycles | Patented | View | |
| 18031182 | Vehicle Control System And Method For Operating A Driving Function According To A Preceding Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18207238 | Adaptive Image Compression For Connected Vehicles | Patented | View | |
| 18334092 | Localization Algorithm | Patented | View | |
| 18060849 | V2x For Sensor Cross Checks And Diagnosis | Patented | View | |
| 18253312 | Control System And Method Adjusted To Perception | Patented | View | |
| 18259663 | Method For Controlling A Driving Behavior Of An Autonomously Driving Vehicle, Processing Device For Performing The Method, Data Storage Medium And Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18500193 | System And Method For Determining A Length Of A Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18509875 | Autonomous Driving Device And Driving Control Method Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 18335322 | Method To Handle Intersections With Heavy Traffic In Autonomous Vehicles | Abandoned | View | |
| 18590988 | Control Device | Patented | View | |
| 18535705 | Autonomous Vehicle Driving Path Selection In The Presence Of Emergency Vehicle Sounds | Patented | View | |
| 18136618 | System For Driver Assistance And Method For Driver Assistance | Patented | View | |
| 18128006 | Vehicle, Method For Vehicle, And System For Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18023455 | Hauling Vehicle And Vehicle Control System | Patented | View | |
| 18355032 | Brake Light Activation Determining Device, Storage Medium Storing Computer Program For Determining Brake Light Activation, And Method For Determining Brake Light Activation | Patented | View | |
| 18545379 | System For Avoiding Blind Spot Of Vehicle Using Accident History Information And Method Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 17708885 | Apparatus For Determining A Traffic Light, System Having The Same And Method Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 17894074 | Assertive Vehicle Detection Model Generation | Patented | View | |
| 18016241 | Systems, Devices And Methods For Operating A Vehicle With Sensors Monitoring Parameters | Abandoned | View | |
| 17853995 | Method And Technology For Detecting And Releasing Iced-Up Brake Linings Of An Electric Parking Brake | Patented | View | |
| 18158183 | Multimodal Trajectory Predictions Based On Geometric Anchoring | Abandoned | View | |
| 17894812 | Motion Planning Constraints For Autonomous Vehicles | Patented | View | |
| 18423136 | Agent Trajectory Prediction Using Target Locations | Patented | View | |
| 18464638 | Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 17962888 | Techniques For Location Access Management In A Movable Object Environment | Patented | View | |
| 18319280 | System For Automatically Operable Vehicles For The Perception Of Road Damages | Abandoned | View | |
| 18319315 | Traveling Support Device | Patented | View | |
| 18081656 | Automatic Run Method, Work Vehicle, And Automatic Run System | Patented | View | |
| 17445198 | Vehicular Control System With Traffic Jam Assist | Patented | View | |
| 18016337 | Predictive Maintenance Method And System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18200493 | Collision Monitoring Using Statistic Models | Patented | View | |
| 18149281 | Vehicle Driving Assist Device | Patented | View | |
| 18076995 | Vehicle Charge Port Defroster | Patented | View | |
| 17948042 | Methods And Systems For Operating A Peripheral Device Of A Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 17892245 | Automotive Propulsion System And Automobile | Abandoned | View | |
| 18085148 | System For Generating Autonomous Driving Path Using Harsh Environment Information Of High Definition Map And Method Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 17920760 | Compensation Method For Shortfall Of Engine Torque | Patented | View | |
| 17449284 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, Recording Medium, And Work Machine | Patented | View | |
| 17982262 | Navigation Processing Method And Apparatus, Service Side Device, Intelligent Terminal, And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18043366 | Controller And Control Method | Patented | View |
Subscribe to Premium Examiner Statistics for unlimited access for your law firm.
Disclaimer: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy of the statistics presented above and under
no circumstances will we be liable for any outcome resulting from your reliance on the above statistics.