Examiner Frith Sean A

3798-FRITH-SEAN-A

Employment Information

Art Unit:3798 — Surgery
Group:3790 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
Classes: 600 — Surgery
601 — Surgery: kinesitherapy
604 — Surgery
606 — Surgery
433 — Dentistry
Phone:(571) 272-1292
Email:sean.frith@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:8 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

86
3-Year Grant rate: 40% over 164 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 86th

With Examiner Frith, you have a 40% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Frith is a very hard examiner and in the 86th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Frith, 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 3798

Examiner Frith's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3798 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Frith 2.5
Art Unit 3798 1.9

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Frith has granted 36 of 107 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 34%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Frith has granted 30 of 57 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 53%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Frith, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 56%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18886261 Shock Wave Balloon Catheter With Multiple Shock Wave Sources Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17679067 Device For Moving A Medical Object And Method For Providing A Correction Preset Patented View
17742242 Locking And Drive Mechanisms For Positioning And Stabilization Of Catheters And Endoscopic Tools Patented View
18821662 Medical Instrument Guidance With Robotic Systems Patented View
18728135 Magnetic Resonance Guided Selection Of Virtual Reality Motion Patterns For Phantom Limbs Patented View
18143836 Intravascular Imaging Devices Patented View
18009586 Method For Estimating Hemodynamic Parameters Patented View
18789284 Estimating The Endoluminal Path Of An Endoluminal Device Along A Lumen Patented View
17452317 Ultrasound Based Multiple Bone Registration Surgical Systems And Methods Of Use In Computer-Assisted Surgery Patented View
18707414 Method And Analysis Device For Collateral Circulation Assessment Based On Deep Learning Model Using Dynamic Perfusion Mri Image Patented View
18794114 Systems And Methods For Treating Vascular Occlusions With Catheter Based Ultrasound Patented View
18155272 Medical Image Diagnosis Apparatus Patented View
18620964 Control Apparatus, Imaging System, Control Method, And Control Program Patented View
18135151 Respire 1 Abandoned View
18175307 Ultrasound Imaging System And Method For Segmenting An Object From A Volumetric Ultrasound Dataset Patented View
18511742 Instrument Response Function Monitor On An Optical Measurement Device Patented View
18624249 Imaging System, Processing Device, And Method To Be Performed By Computer In Imaging System Abandoned View
18488713 System And Method For Sensitivity-Based Patient Positioning For Emission Tomography Imaging Patented View
18286039 Perfusion Measurement With Low Field Nmr Patented View
17827629 Process For Measuring Efficacy Of Pain Therapy Abandoned View
18317146 Medical Information Processing Apparatus Patented View
16265179 Diagnostic Method, Treatment Method And Medical System Patented View
18177082 Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus And Control Method Of Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus Patented View
17602603 Method Of Sampling Relevant Surface Points Of A Subject Patented View
16962177 System And Method For Detecting And/or Determining Characteristics Of Tissue Abandoned View
18715768 Perfusion Analysis Patented View
18370323 Techniques For Determining A Timing Uncertainty Of A Component Of An Optical Measurement System Patented View
18557403 Vital Sign Detection Apparatus And System And Data Processing Method Patented View
18031031 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Patented View
18083080 Intraluminal Imaging For Reference Image Frame And Target Image Frame Confirmation With Deep Breathing Patented View
17971873 Reference Plane For Medical Device Placement Patented View
16968520 Deep Learning-Based Diagnosis And Referral Of Diseases And Disorders Abandoned View
18015979 Emdr Thrapy Analysis Abandoned View
17725945 Acceleration Based Patient Weight Determination Patented View
17180098 Method And Apparatus For Displaying Medical Images Patented View
16217061 Method For Patient Registration, Calibration, And Real-Time Augmented Reality Image Display During Surgery Abandoned View
16608584 Image Data Adjustment Method And Device Abandoned View
18298413 Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus, Analysis Device, And Analysis Method Patented View
18101979 Reducing Catheter Rotation Motor Pwm Interference With Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging Patented View
17754540 Display Device For Displaying Sub-Surface Structures And Method For Displaying Said Sub-Surface Structures Abandoned View
17865872 Clot Detection And Treatment Methods And Systems Abandoned View
18676319 Determining Subtypes Of Schizophrenia In A Subject, Treatment Of Schizophrenia, Medicament For Treating Schizophrenia And Determining The Efficacy Of Such Medication Abandoned View
17442823 Propeller Echo Planar Time-Resolved Imaging With Dynamic Encoding Patented View
17263850 Method And System For Augmented Imaging In Open Treatment Using Multispectral Information Patented View
16977646 Measurement Elements For Oral Care Devices Abandoned View
17599182 Method And Device For A Non-Invasive Determination And/or Monitoring Of Intracranial Compliance Patented View
17290849 Deep Spectral Bolus Tracking Patented View
18118562 Apparatus For Estimating Bio-Information And Method Of Detecting Abnormal Bio-Signal Patented View
18107166 Apparatus And Method For Estimating Bio-Information Patented View
18012063 Method And System For Data Transfer Reduction In Ultrasound Imaging Abandoned View

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