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| Art Unit: | 3796 — Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application |
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| Group: | 3790 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| Classes: |
600 — Surgery 607 — Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application 606 — Surgery 601 — Surgery: kinesitherapy 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 361 — Electricity: electrical systems and devices 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing 706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence |
| Phone: | (571) 270-7902 |
| Email: | jessandra.hough@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg |
| Service: | 10 years |
| Grade: | GS-13 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 34% over 164 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Very Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 89th
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With Examiner Hough, you have a 34% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Hough is a very hard examiner and in the 89th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Hough, 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 Hough's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3796 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Hough | 3.0 |
| Art Unit 3796 | 1.9 |
Examiner Hough has granted 26 of 103 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 25%.
Examiner Hough has granted 29 of 61 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 48%.
With Examiner Hough, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 92%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19008644 | Method And System For Mental State Perception, Readable Storage Medium | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Abandoned | View |
| 17785374 | Stent-Electrode Intravascular Neuromodulator And Associated Methods For Activation Of A Nerve | Abandoned | View | |
| 17428440 | Image-Guided Surgery System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18315819 | Phototherapy Devices For Treatment Of Dermatological Disorders Of The Scalp | Patented | View | |
| 17383915 | Stimulation Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18073722 | Scale-Based User-Physiological Heuristic Systems | Abandoned | View | |
| 16481296 | Apparatus And Method For Cold Plasma Skin Resurfacing | Patented | View | |
| 16893345 | System And Methods For Lesion Characterization In Blood Vessels | Patented | View | |
| 18168718 | Wearable Activity Tracking And Biometric Monitoring Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 16755116 | Bending Structure And Flexible Tube For Medical Manipulator | Abandoned | View | |
| 17288393 | Method And Apparatus For Analyzing Electrocardio Signal, And Signal Recorder And Three-Dimensional Mapping System | Abandoned | View | |
| 16186244 | Continuous Monitoring Of A User's Health With A Mobile Device | Patented | View | |
| 17973369 | System And Method For Wearable Device Contact Force Estimation And Adjustment Feedback | Abandoned | View | |
| 17723150 | Curved Tube For A Ventricular Assist Device | Patented | View | |
| 18315795 | Phototherapy Devices For Treatment Of Dermatological Disorders Of The Scalp | Patented | View | |
| 16550087 | Systems And Methods For Using Characteristics Of Photoplethysmography (Ppg) Data To Detect Cardiac Conditions | Abandoned | View | |
| 16943697 | Sensor And Transmitter Product | Patented | View | |
| 16960770 | Biological Information Obtaining Device, Biological Information Obtaining Method, And Wearable Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 18656345 | Shock Wave Vessel Catheter System & Method | Abandoned | View | |
| 17928238 | Apparatus For Measuring Biometric Information Of Pet | Abandoned | View | |
| 18918026 | Blood Vessel Shock Wave Treatment Catheter | Patented | View | |
| 17575331 | System And Method Of Monitoring Association Between Wireless Sensors And A Monitored Patient | Abandoned | View | |
| 18918030 | Shock Wave Treatment Apparatus For Blood Vessel Targets | Abandoned | View | |
| 17463284 | Optimizing Sensor Pressure In Blood Pressure Measurements Using A Wearable Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 17483772 | Port Assembly For Use With Robotic Devices And Systems To Perform Single Incision Procedures And Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgical Procedures | Abandoned | View | |
| 17493914 | Surgical Devices, Systems, And Methods Using Fiducial Identification And Tracking | Patented | View | |
| 18918037 | Shock Wave Treatment Balloon Catheter | Abandoned | View | |
| 15698798 | Electrostimulative Graft Products, And Related Methods Of Manufacture And Use | Abandoned | View | |
| 18798522 | Shock Wave Vessel Catheter System & Method | Patented | View | |
| 16968843 | Portable Hydration Monitoring Device And Methods | Abandoned | View | |
| 18438555 | System And Method For Non-Invasive Health Monitoring | Abandoned | View | |
| 18140531 | An Integrated Artificial Intelligence Based System For Monitoring And Remediating Withdrawal Symptoms | Patented | View | |
| 17306279 | Apparatus And Method For Estimating Bio-Information | Abandoned | View | |
| 18108959 | Lighting System For Protecting Circadian Neuroendocrine Function | Patented | View | |
| 17478641 | Systems, Devices, And Methods For Performing Surgical Actions Via Externally Driven Driving Assemblies | Abandoned | View | |
| 17518273 | Surgical Tool End Effectors With Distal Wedge Slot Constraint | Patented | View | |
| 17116590 | Contactless And Minimal-Contact Monitoring Of Quality Of Life Parameters For Assessment And Intervention | Abandoned | View | |
| 16946718 | Method And System For Screening And Monitoring Of Cardiac Diseases | Patented | View | |
| 17697913 | Light Based Therapy Devices And Methods | Patented | View | |
| 17209298 | Topographical Geometrical Matrices And Uses Thereof | Abandoned | View | |
| 17416312 | System And Method For Determining A Level Of Alertness | Abandoned | View | |
| 16953881 | Electronic Device Including Biometric Sensor And Electrode For Acquiring Biometric Signal | Abandoned | View | |
| 17436519 | Methods And Apparatus For Synchronizing Cardiovascular And Respiratory Systems With Stress And Exertion Analysis | Abandoned | View | |
| 18462603 | Opaque Splits Embedded In Transparent Media For Optical Emitter/detector Isolation | Patented | View | |
| 17148986 | System And Method For Monitoring Cardiorespiratory Parameters | Patented | View | |
| 16968235 | Electronic Device, Estimation System, Estimation Method And Estimation Program | Abandoned | View | |
| 17603852 | Light Guide Type Led Mask Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 18217220 | Nanopulse Light Therapy | Patented | View | |
| 15470865 | Method And Device For Biological Tissue Regeneration (Embodiments) | Abandoned | View | |
| 18353782 | Surgical System And Method Of Use | Patented | View |
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