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Examiner Sass Kimberly A

3686-SASS-KIMBERLY-A

Employment Information

Art Unit:3686 — 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
710 — Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output
600 — Surgery
702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
382 — Image analysis
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
424 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
345 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems
Phone:(571) 272-4774
Email:kimberly.sass1@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:8 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

84
3-Year Grant rate: 44% over 140 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 84th

With Examiner Sass, you have a 44% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Sass is a very hard examiner and in the 84th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Sass, 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 3686

Examiner Sass's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3686 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Sass 3.0
Art Unit 3686 2.0

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Sass has granted 19 of 75 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 25%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Sass has granted 43 of 65 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 66%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Sass, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 164%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17961898 Personalised Medicine Treatment Program Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
17671215 Individually Customized Allergy Cream For Individual Patient Profile Abandoned View
18696720 Method And System For Collecting, Recording, And Transmitting Clinical Information With Usefulness-Driven Prompts Abandoned View
17937874 Healthcare Information Processing Apparatus And Healthcare Information Server Abandoned View
18054732 Monitoring Assistance Device, Monitoring Assistance System, Monitoring Assistance Method, And Storage Medium Abandoned View
17535555 Setting An Automatic Window Of Interest Based On A Learning Data Analysis Abandoned View
17738869 Iv Compounding Systems And Methods Patented View
17019056 Intelligent Processing Of Bulk Historic Patient Data Abandoned View
17163893 Patient Management Based On Anatomic Measurements Abandoned View
17457913 Information Processing Apparatus, Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium, And Information Processing Method Abandoned View
17666817 Medical Intelligence System And Method Patented View
18599934 Blood Donation Collection System Patented View
18553314 Artificial Intelligence For Determining A Patient's Disease Progression Level To Generate A Treatment Plan Abandoned View
17787589 Smart Diagnosis System And Method Patented View
18639124 Evaluation Of Ingredients For Toxicity With Machine Learning Abandoned View
18624949 Diagnostic Imaging Deep Learning System And Method Abandoned View
17739277 Computerized Method For Determining Nutritional Supplement Delivery Abandoned View
18342155 Systems And Methods For A Comprehensive Online Health Care Platform Patented View
16807946 Communication Mode Selection Based Upon User Context For Prescription Processes Patented View
15420187 Method And System For Entry, Transfer, Storage, Transmission And Retrieval Of Medical, Health And Healthcare Related Data Patented View
18391300 Prescriptive Nutrition-Based Iv And Im Infusion Treatment Formula Creation Systems And Methods Patented View
18219963 Outcomes And Response Times For Patients In Critical Care Settings Abandoned View
17923795 System For Tracking The State Of A Hospital Resource Abandoned View
17971428 System And Method For Point Of Care Based On Real-Time Prediction Of Addiction Triggers Abandoned View
18421946 Health Testing And Diagnostics Platform Abandoned View
16588881 Tracking The Probability For Imminent Hypoglycemia In Diabetes From Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose (Smbg) Data Abandoned View
18325812 Systems, Methods, And Devices For Virtually Supervised Medical Weight Loss Treatment Program Administered Via On-Demand Telehealth Proctor-Observed Platform Patented View
17200839 User Interface For Navigating Through Physiological Data Abandoned View
17901880 Circuit System Which Executes A Method For Predicting Sleep Apnea From Neural Networks Abandoned View
17518006 Database And Machine Learning In Response To Parallel Serial Dual Microfluidic Chip Abandoned View
17109458 Medical Care Support Apparatus Abandoned View
17702325 Generation Of A Transaction Set Patented View
18626099 Intelligent Decision Reasoning Method For Type-Based Diagnosis And Treatment Of Cardiovascular Disease, Device, And Product Patented View
17724472 Cerebral Hemorrhage Analysis In Ct Images Abandoned View
18602776 Apparatus And Method For Identifying Regions Of Interest During Slide Digitization Patented View
18367281 Method For Repurposing Ndc Codes In A Pharmaceutical Database For Allergens Abandoned View
17966766 Evaluation Of Comprehensive Clinical Risk Profiles Of Infectious Disease In Real-Time Abandoned View
17102595 Algorithm Orchestration Of Workflows To Facilitate Healthcare Imaging Diagnostics Patented View
17566289 Patient Post-Operation Improvement Prediction Using Machine Learning Abandoned View
17365142 Systems And Methods For Patient Record Matching Abandoned View
16832142 Method And System For Providing Interpretation Information On Pathomics Data Abandoned View
17528089 Criteria Based Alarms Coordination Between A Network Of Medical Devices Patented View
18315008 Method For Operating A System And A System Patented View
17886957 System And Method For Patient Data Processing During Diagnosis And Therapy Patented View
17188200 Transfer Of Breathing Assistance Apparatus Data Patented View
16840624 System, Method And Apparatus For Performing Real-Time Virtual Medical Examinations Patented View
17977711 Systems And Methods For Managing Diabetes Care Data Patented View
18103146 Predicting Response To Immunotherapy Treatment Using Deep Learning Analysis Of Imaging And Clinical Data Patented View
18165306 Diabetes Management Therapy Advisor Patented View
17174743 Systems And Methods For Patient Record Matching Abandoned View

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