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| Art Unit: | 3666 — 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 441 — Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices 180 — Motor vehicles 303 — Fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems |
| Phone: | (313) 446-6513 |
| Email: | rodney.butler@uspto.gov |
| Location: | MI 48207 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg |
| Service: | 13 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 90% over 584 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Very Easy |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 20th
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With Examiner Butler, you have a 90% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Butler is a very easy examiner and in the 20th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Butler, 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 Butler's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3666 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Butler | 1.2 |
| Art Unit 3666 | 1.6 |
Examiner Butler has granted 396 of 448 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 88%.
Examiner Butler has granted 129 of 136 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 95%.
With Examiner Butler, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 8%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18032873 | Evaluation System, Evaluation Method, And Evaluation Program | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Abandoned | View |
| 18390810 | Battery Management System And Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18236445 | Electric Work Vehicle And Power Take-Off Control Method | Patented | View | |
| 17787375 | Coasting Operation For A Vehicle With A Hybrid Drive | Patented | View | |
| 18401992 | Simplification Of Cloud Resource Provisioning Using Default Wrappers | Patented | View | |
| 18703259 | Display Control Device, Head-Up Display Device, And Display Control Method | Patented | View | |
| 17969840 | Method For Operating A Soil Processing Machine | Patented | View | |
| 18438890 | Navigation System For Underwater Vehicles | Patented | View | |
| 18337595 | Warehousing Robot Control Method, Apparatus, Device, And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18761185 | Systems And Methods For Charging Multiple Electric Vehicles | Patented | View | |
| 18747274 | Control System, And Control Method | Patented | View | |
| 18338120 | Smart Lawnmower With Development Of Mowing Policy And System And Method For Use Of Same | Patented | View | |
| 18611200 | System And Server | Patented | View | |
| 18783635 | Apparatus And Method For A Virtual Visual Experience In Electric Vehicles | Patented | View | |
| 18268541 | Mobile Body Control System, Mobile Body, And Mobile Body Control Method | Abandoned | View | |
| 18737620 | Straddle Vehicle And Vehicle Control Method | Patented | View | |
| 18351611 | Method And System For Providing Traffic Accident Information | Patented | View | |
| 18455100 | Platform Apparatuses | Patented | View | |
| 18657324 | Automatic Robotically Steered Sensor For Targeted High Performance Perception And Vehicle Control | Patented | View | |
| 18335834 | Autonomous Replenishment Of Resources | Patented | View | |
| 18561272 | Driver Assistance System, Vehicle, And Recording Medium Recording Computer Program | Patented | View | |
| 18008905 | Method And Device For Displaying Screen Depending Upon Indoor Positioning | Patented | View | |
| 18473444 | Attention Calling System And Attention Calling Method | Patented | View | |
| 18541232 | Method And System For Navigation Of A Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18536507 | Road Hazard Relaying System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18238399 | Incident Data Determination Based On Sensor Data | Patented | View | |
| 18498174 | Method And System For Energy Distribution In A Vehicle | Abandoned | View | |
| 18531353 | Information Verification For Location Mapping | Abandoned | View | |
| 18490890 | Network System, A User Device And Methods Therein For Enabling Management Of A Mass Excavation Project | Patented | View | |
| 17976008 | Visibility Of Work Implement Using Augmented Reality | Patented | View | |
| 18418896 | Control Apparatus And Program | Abandoned | View | |
| 18696260 | Mining Automation System Operation Zone Control | Patented | View | |
| 18222075 | Vehicle Thermal Runaway Warning Method, Device, Electronic Equipment, And Readable Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 18405541 | Systems And Methods For Identifying Map Geospatial Features | Patented | View | |
| 18247208 | Computer Program, Determination Device, And Determination Method | Patented | View | |
| 18325115 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18284620 | Image Irradiation Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 18520049 | Marine Navigation Systems, Methods, And User Interfaces | Patented | View | |
| 18337185 | Method And Device For Controlling A Battery Used In Electric Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18579933 | Failure Prediction System, Failure Prediction Method, And Failure Prediction Program | Patented | View | |
| 17226855 | Vehicle Control Device And Vehicle Control Method | Patented | View | |
| 17449317 | Shovel And Construction System | Patented | View | |
| 18427040 | System And Method For Energy-Aware Flight Mission Planning And Control | Abandoned | View | |
| 18592960 | Vehicle System | Patented | View | |
| 18072117 | Local Vector Map | Patented | View | |
| 18631397 | Driver Guidance For Guided Maneuvering | Patented | View | |
| 18453273 | System And Method For Aligning And Pairing A Charging Station To An Electric Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 18496285 | Autonomous Transport Vehicle And Health Assessment Method Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 18275927 | Battery Management System, Battery Management Method, And Terminal Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 18466758 | Dynamic Path Routing Using Aerial Images | Patented | View |
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