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  6. Examiner Hanks

Examiner Hanks Benjamin L

3684-HANKS-BENJAMIN-L

Employment Information

Art Unit:3684 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Group:3680 — Business Methods - Electronic Shopping and Health Care
Classes: 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
601 — Surgery: kinesitherapy
Phone:(571) 270-5080
Email:benjamin.hanks@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr(Biomedical Engrg)
Service:6 years
Grade:GS-12

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

93
3-Year Grant rate: 21% over 87 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 93rd

With Examiner Hanks, you have a 21% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Hanks is an extremely hard examiner and in the 93rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Hanks, 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 3684

Examiner Hanks's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3684 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Hanks 3.0
Art Unit 3684 1.9

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Hanks has granted 6 of 53 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 11%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Hanks has granted 12 of 34 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 35%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Hanks, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 218%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18483390 Systems And Methods For Identifying Depression In A Dialysis Patient Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
17617293 Incidence Rate Monitoring Method, Apparatus And Device, And Storage Medium Abandoned View
18770649 System And Method For Improving A Cognitive State Of A Patient Through Customized Music Therapy Abandoned View
18287509 System And Method For Early Detection Of A Psychotherapeutic Treatment Response Abandoned View
17777839 Information Acquisition Method, Information Providing Method, Information Interaction Method And Apparatus Thereof Abandoned View
17677884 Optimal Stimulation Position Calculation Method, Server And Computer Program Using Ai Model Abandoned View
17635788 Universal Tinnitus Management System (Utms) Abandoned View
17363687 Predictive Data Analysis Techniques For Cross-Trend Disease Transmission Detection Abandoned View
18597656 Well-Being Platform Utilizing Machine Learning Abandoned View
17567135 Diagnosing Skin Conditions Using Machine-Learned Models Abandoned View
18552790 Systems And Methods For Increasing Thermometric Reliability Abandoned View
18301697 Systems And Methods For Identifying Relevant Studies Abandoned View
18061154 Systems And Methods For Verification Of The Application Of Therapeutic Energy Pulses Abandoned View
17973779 Cloud Server, Computer Readable Medium, And Cloud System Abandoned View
17677918 Medical Care Support Device Abandoned View
17487341 Storage Medium And Patient Information Management Device Abandoned View
17200446 Systems And Methods For Medical Concept Mapping Abandoned View
16598793 Platform For Perpetual Clinical Collaboration And Innovation With Patient Communication Using Anonymized Electronic Health Record Data, Clinical, And Patient Reported Outcomes And Data Patented View
17033667 Secure Scalable Real-Time Machine Learning Platform For Healthcare Abandoned View
16314132 System And Architecture For Seamless Workflow Integration And Orchestration Of Clinical Intelligence Abandoned View
18111555 Methods And Systems For Detecting Environment Features In Images To Predict Location-Based Health Metrics Patented View
18236789 Systems And Methods For Organ Shape Analysis For Disease Diagnosis And Risk Assessment Abandoned View
17487479 Split Vision Visual Test Patented View
17932501 Systems, Methods, And Devices For Remotely Deployed Diagnostic Testing Abandoned View
18179572 Techniques For Facilitating Veterinary Services Abandoned View
17709209 System, Method, And Computer Program For Streamlining Authorization For Medical Payment Adjudication Abandoned View
17211349 Systems And Methods For Identifying And Isolating Persons Suspected Of Having An Infectious Disease Abandoned View
18499979 Virtual Reality Enabled Neurotherapy For Improving Spatial-Temporal Neurocognitive Processing Abandoned View
18094436 Method And System For Predicting Neurological Treatment Abandoned View
17241892 Secure Remote Health Data Patented View
17221329 Contact Tracing Of Epidemic-Infected And Identification Of Asymptomatic Carriers Abandoned View
18119654 Systems And Methods For Excluded Risk Factor Predictive Modeling Patented View
17497501 Methods And Systems For Treating Gastrointestinal And Inflammatory Health Conditions Using Prescription Digital Therapeutics Abandoned View
17497499 Methods And Systems For Treating Health Conditions Using Prescription Digital Therapeutics Abandoned View
17709838 Real-Time System For Monitoring And Analyzing Volume Of Substance Introduced Into The Body And Volume Of Metabolic Waste Expelled From The Body Abandoned View
17599898 Non-Face-To-Face Ai Occupational Therapy Assistance System And Operating Method Using Blockchain Abandoned View
17518443 Communication System And Method Abandoned View
16962088 Detecting Recurrence Of A Medical Condition Patented View
17487612 Patient Monitoring, Reporting And Tracking System Abandoned View
18377905 Systems And Methods For Regulating Provision Of Messages With Content From Disparate Sources Based On Risk And Feedback Data Patented View
16235857 Customizing Healthcare App Offerings Based On Clinical Records Patented View
16503074 Drug Interaction Checking Tool Abandoned View
17162627 Scalable Dynamic Data Transmission Patented View
16950925 Regenerative Medicine Support System, Regenerative Medicine Support Method, And Regenerative Medicine Support Program Abandoned View
16463396 Contextual List Viewing With Sparse Feedback Abandoned View
17545279 Artificial Intelligence Orchestration Engine For Medical Studies Abandoned View
17333123 Object-Based Contact Tracing Abandoned View
16930525 System And Method For Fulfilling Prescriptions Patented View
17248724 Use Of Audio Data For Matching Patients With Healthcare Providers Patented View
17228465 Machine Learning Post-Treatment Survey Data Organizing Abandoned View

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