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| Art Unit: | 3798 — Surgery |
|---|---|
| Group: | 3790 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| Classes: |
600 — Surgery 601 — Surgery: kinesitherapy 604 — Surgery 382 — Image analysis 606 — Surgery 367 — Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices 704 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression |
| Phone: | (571) 272-8569 |
| Email: | adilpartap.virk@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Biomedical Engrg |
| Service: | 7 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 36% over 146 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Very Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 88th
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With Examiner Virk, you have a 36% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Virk is a very hard examiner and in the 88th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Virk, 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 Virk's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3798 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Virk | 2.2 |
| Art Unit 3798 | 1.9 |
Examiner Virk has granted 24 of 78 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 31%.
Examiner Virk has granted 29 of 68 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 43%.
With Examiner Virk, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 39%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18301202 | Photoacoustic Detector System Combined With Transparent Ultrasonic Sensor | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Abandoned | View |
| 18739594 | Optical Coherence Tomography Guided Robotic Ophthalmic Procedures | Patented | View | |
| 18467926 | Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus And Control Method For Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 16548607 | Systems And Methods For Infrared-Enhanced Ultrasound Visualization | Patented | View | |
| 18428395 | Temperature Measurement-Based High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Output Device | Patented | View | |
| 17399225 | Augmented-Reality Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting | Patented | View | |
| 16703360 | System And Methods For Joint Scan Parameter Selection | Patented | View | |
| 18423884 | Ultrasonic Treatment Tip And Ultrasonic Therapeutic Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 17283962 | Medical Observation System Configured To Generate Three-Dimensional Information And To Calculate An Estimated Region And A Corresponding Method | Abandoned | View | |
| 18945460 | Ultrasonic Probe | Patented | View | |
| 18788368 | Monitoring System With A Camera And Non-Metallic Mirror For Magnetic Resonance Examination System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18764231 | System, Method And/or Computer Readable Medium For An Improved Instrument Guidance Approach In Ultrasound Imaging | Patented | View | |
| 18152516 | Elastography Device And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18667469 | Tissue Resection System And Method For Determining Cutting Parameter Thereof, Computer-Readable Storage Medium, And Electronic Device | Patented | View | |
| 18127147 | Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus And Beam Forming Method | Abandoned | View | |
| 18654017 | Medical Apparatus | Abandoned | View | |
| 18122111 | Wearable Ultrasound Apparatus, System, And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18267387 | Ultrasound Probe Holding Devices For Infants | Patented | View | |
| 18344402 | Registration System For Cardiac Ultrasound | Patented | View | |
| 18419483 | Probe Sealing Structure And Ultrasonic Probe | Abandoned | View | |
| 17507451 | System And Method For Displaying Position Of Echogenic Needles | Abandoned | View | |
| 18320686 | Marker Inserter | Patented | View | |
| 17569708 | System And Devices For Multispectral 3d Imaging And Diagnostics Of Tissues, And Methods Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 17161510 | Multi Functional Probe Capable Of Shielding Electromagnetic Wave | Patented | View | |
| 16432559 | Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus And Control Method Of Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus | Abandoned | View | |
| 16061803 | Ultrasound Imaging Apparatus And Ultrasound Imaging Method For Inspecting A Volume Of A Subject | Abandoned | View | |
| 17740191 | Multiscale Ultrasound Tracking And Display | Patented | View | |
| 18374037 | Method Of, And Apparatus For, Non-Invasive Medical Imaging Using Waveform Inversion | Abandoned | View | |
| 18142083 | Ultrasonic Diagnostic Apparatus And Ultrasonic Information Processing Apparatus | Abandoned | View | |
| 18746418 | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Systems And Methods For Noninvasive And In-Vivo Measurements Using A Unilateral Magnet | Patented | View | |
| 17531772 | Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Image Generation Apparatus, Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Image Generation Method, And Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Image Generation Program | Patented | View | |
| 16622744 | Dual Image System Suitable For Oncological Diagnoses And Real Time Guided Biopsies | Abandoned | View | |
| 18353386 | Ultrasonic Probe And Ultrasonic Diagnostic Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18172270 | Breast X-Ray Imaging Apparatus, Method And System For Correcting And Verifying Breast Biopsy Positioning Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 18253666 | Artificial Intelligence-Type Thermal Imaging Ultrasound Scanner Apparatus For Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Smart Mirror, And Breast Cancer Self-Diagnosis Method Using Same | Abandoned | View | |
| 17638579 | Methods, Systems, And Apparatus For Assessing An Effect Of A Medical Treatment On Organ Function | Abandoned | View | |
| 17553395 | Method For Determining An Adaptation Of An Imaging Examination | Abandoned | View | |
| 18248479 | Smartphone-Based Multispectral Dermascope | Patented | View | |
| 17450020 | Methods For Controlling Cooperative Surgical Instruments | Patented | View | |
| 17729139 | Acoustic Coupler, Ultrasound Image Processing Method, And Ultrasound Imaging Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 17111942 | Systems And Methods For Multimodal Neural Sensing | Patented | View | |
| 18653383 | Systems And Methods For Using Tracking In Image-Guided Medical Procedure | Patented | View | |
| 17634752 | Ultrasound-Based Device Localization | Patented | View | |
| 17303082 | Systems For Treating Peyronies Disease | Patented | View | |
| 18026875 | Smart Home Device Using A Single Radar Transmission Mode For Activity Recognition Of Active Users And Vital Sign Monitoring Of Inactive Users | Patented | View | |
| 18219797 | Ultrasound Probe, Ultrasound Transducer Unit, And Ultrasound Endoscope | Patented | View | |
| 17801218 | Assisting Medical Procedures With Luminescence Images Processed In Limited Informative Regions Identified In Corresponding Auxiliary Images | Patented | View | |
| 17546358 | Hot Device Indication Of Video Display | Patented | View | |
| 17613654 | Systems And Methods For Reducing Thermal Skull-Induced Aberrations During Transcranial Ultrasound Therapeutic Procedures | Patented | View | |
| 18279227 | A System For Treating Visual Neglect | Abandoned | View |
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