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  6. Examiner Chou

Examiner Chou Shien Ming

3667-CHOU-SHIEN-MING

Employment Information

Art Unit:3667 — 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
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
382 — Image analysis
Phone:(571) 272-9354
Email:shienming.chou@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Compr Engrg
Service:6 years
Grade:GS-11

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

83
3-Year Grant rate: 46% over 54 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 83rd

With Examiner Chou, you have a 46% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Chou is a very hard examiner and in the 83rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Chou, 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 3667

Examiner Chou's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3667 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Chou 3.1
Art Unit 3667 1.4

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Chou has granted 7 of 21 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 33%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Chou has granted 18 of 33 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 55%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Chou, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 67%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17521625 Performance Of Autonomous Vehicle Operation In Varying Conditions By Using Imagery Generated With Machine Learning For Simulations Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17977846 Device And Method Of Controlling Remote Parking Assist Function Patented View
18901743 Off-Board Perception Based On Sequence To Sequence Sensor Data Generation Patented View
18050202 Follow Mode In Autonomous Driving System Abandoned View
16987083 Methods And Systems For Managing Demand For Electric Vehicle Charging In A Tenant Environment And Related Applications And Devices Patented View
17928653 Robot Cleaner And Robot Cleaner Control Method Abandoned View
18076259 System And Method For Determining Range And Capacity Of Supercapacitor Battery Storage For Electric Vehicle Abandoned View
17090622 Hybrid Vehicle And Driving Scheduling Method Therefor Abandoned View
18021202 Work Vehicle Apparatus For Loading Efficiency Patented View
17618992 Automatic Sensor Identification System And Identification Method In Construction Machine Patented View
17781320 Systems And Methods For Identifying High Traffic Zones And Suggesting Alternative Destinations To Users Abandoned View
18182169 System And Method For Facilitating Vehicle Inspection Abandoned View
18050483 Moving Vehicle To Vehicle Charging Abandoned View
17310836 Control Apparatus, Control Method, And Program Abandoned View
18078549 System For Enabling A Vehicle To Perform A Circuit Mode Patented View
18044224 Boom Adjustment System Abandoned View
18016455 Action Planning Device And Control Arithmetic Device Abandoned View
17245164 Artificial Intelligence Amphibious Vertical Take-Off And Landing Modular Hybrid Flying Automobile Abandoned View
17971043 Method For Constructing Three-Dimensional Map In High-Definition Map, Device And Storage Medium Abandoned View
17381484 Traveling History Report Of Personal Watercraft Abandoned View
17857269 Control Apparatus For Autonomous Vehicle And Method Thereof Patented View
17730660 Control Device Of Electric Drive System, Electric Drive System And Electric Aircraft Patented View
18077468 Unmanned System Maneuver Controller Systems And Methods Abandoned View
17840732 Steering Control Device And Electric Power Steering Device Patented View
17726785 Autonomous Driving Evaluation System Abandoned View
18082336 Systems And Methods For Controlling Data Transmission From Vehicles Abandoned View
17727852 Vehicle Control Apparatus Abandoned View
17762761 Quantitative Driving Evaluation And Vehicle Safety Restrictions Abandoned View
17531721 Identification Of Safety Equipment In A Vehicle Abandoned View
16893083 Machine Learning System To Generate Output Using First And Second Latent Spaces Patented View
17578579 Pedal With Anti-Collision Detection And Radar Installation Space Abandoned View
17798679 Wheel Position Identifying System And Wheel Position Identifying Device Abandoned View
18054844 Generation And Update Of Hd Maps Using Data From Heterogeneous Sources Patented View
17010721 Collaborative Learning Of Question Generation And Question Answering Abandoned View
17438520 Work Machine Configured To Set A Mask Range In A Field Of Vision Over An Antenna For Which Part Of The Work Machine Can Become An Obstacle When Receiving Positioning Signals From Satellites Patented View
16174050 Apparatus And Methods For Training In Fully Connected Layers Of Convolutional Networks Patented View
16209249 Predictive Data Analytics With Automatic Feature Extraction Patented View
16164672 Automated Hyper-Parameterization For Image-Based Deep Model Learning Abandoned View
17096734 Method And Apparatus For Data-Free Post-Training Network Quantization And Generating Synthetic Data Based On A Pre-Trained Machine Learning Model Patented View
16006099 Method And Electronic Device For Classifying An Input Abandoned View
15812118 Information Estimation Apparatus And Information Estimation Method Patented View
17435907 Method For Controlling A Steer-By-Wire Steering System And Steer-By-Wire Steering System For A Motor Vehicle Abandoned View
17028876 Image Processing Method And Apparatus Based On Super Network, And Computer Storage Medium Patented View
16209363 System And Method For Self Constructing Deep Neural Network Design Through Adversarial Learning Patented View
17025379 Neural Network Selection Abandoned View
16055103 Integrating A Memory Layer In A Neural Network For One-Shot Learning Patented View
16868019 System And Method For Utilizing Grouped Partial Dependence Plots And Shapley Additive Explanations In The Generation Of Adverse Action Reason Codes Patented View
16856565 Hierarchical Attention Time-Series (Hat) Model For Behavior Prediction Patented View
16991120 Non-Iterative Federated Learning Patented View
16270681 System And Method For Pseudo-Task Augmentation In Deep Multitask Learning Patented View

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