USPTO Examiner PELLETT DANIEL T - Art Unit 2121

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19324906SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SENSOR DATA FUSIONSeptember 2025February 2026Allow510NoNo
19256894SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SENSOR DATA FUSIONJuly 2025September 2025Allow210NoNo
19184626SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SENSOR DATA FUSIONApril 2025June 2025Allow210NoNo
19032776SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPLAINING AND CONTESTING OUTCOMES OF GENERATIVE AI MODELS WITH DESIRED EXPLANATION PROPERTIESJanuary 2025September 2025Allow810YesNo
19027530METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRAINING AND PREDICTING A CONJUNCTION PARAMETER FROM CONJUNCTION DATA MESSAGESJanuary 2025December 2025Allow1120NoNo
18990145SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SENSOR DATA FUSIONDecember 2024April 2025Allow410YesNo
18807491METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING MACHINE LEARNING OPERATION BY REDUCING MACHINE LEARNING BIASAugust 2024February 2025Allow610YesNo
18726756STROKE PREDICTION MULTI-ARCHITECTURE STACKED ENSEMBLE SUPERMODELJuly 2024March 2025Allow800NoNo
18675062Machine Learning Model Understanding As-A-ServiceMay 2024April 2025Allow1010NoNo
18669419SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING USING A NETWORK OF DECISION-MAKING NODESMay 2024March 2025Allow1010NoNo
18654681BATCH SELECTION POLICIES FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING ACTIVE LEARNINGMay 2024January 2025Allow810YesNo
18442718SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIMICKING A NEURAL NETWORK WITHOUT ACCESS TO THE ORIGINAL TRAINING DATASET OR THE TARGET MODELFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1200NoNo
18514663DYNAMIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / MACHINE LEARNING MODEL UPDATE, OR RETRAIN AND UPDATE, IN DIGITAL PROCESSES AT RUNTIMENovember 2023February 2025Allow1510NoNo
18497031SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SITUATION DETERMINATION BASED ON DISTRIBUTED DEVICE EVENT DATAOctober 2023April 2025Allow1810NoNo
18367330COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS HAVING COMPUTER ENGINES AND DATA STRUCTURES CONFIGURED FOR MACHINE LEARNING DATA INSIGHT PREDICTION AND METHODS OF USE THEREOFSeptember 2023March 2026Allow3020NoNo
18464935ROTATING DATA FOR NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATIONSSeptember 2023September 2024Allow1200NoNo
18450263CLASSIFYING USER BEHAVIOR AS ANOMALOUSAugust 2023March 2025Abandon1910NoNo
18448402Dynamic Subsystem Operational Sequencing to Concurrently Control and Distribute Supervised Learning Processor Training and Provide Predictive Responses to Input DataAugust 2023August 2025Allow2420NoNo
18272747SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE DISCOVERING EFFICIENT RANDOM NEURAL NETWORKSJuly 2023September 2024Allow1400NoNo
18336531HIERARCHICAL TOURNAMENT-BASED MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTIONSJune 2023December 2024Allow1810NoNo
18325744REAL TIME CONTEXT DEPENDENT DEEP LEARNINGMay 2023October 2024Allow1610NoNo
18312797EMPIRICAL MODELING WITH GLOBALLY ENFORCED GENERAL CONSTRAINTSMay 2023July 2024Allow1500NoNo
18136394CLASSIFICATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS VIA MACHINE LEARNINGApril 2023August 2024Allow1600NoNo
18132635MACHINE LEARNING BASED FUNCTION TESTINGApril 2023September 2024Allow1710NoNo
18116487PROSPECTIVE MEDIA CONTENT GENERATION USING NEURAL NETWORK MODELINGMarch 2023July 2024Allow1610NoNo
18112582DEEP LEARNING FOR CREDIT CONTROLSFebruary 2023April 2024Allow1420NoNo
18158166SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING CONTRASTIVE PRE-TRAINING TO GENERATE TEXT AND CODE EMBEDDINGSJanuary 2023April 2024Allow1520NoNo
18068408SCALABLE NEUTRAL ATOM BASED QUANTUM COMPUTINGDecember 2022June 2024Allow1810YesNo
17992769SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING MANUFACTURING FAILURE RATESNovember 2022December 2023Allow1310YesNo
17984754APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS (NFTS) FOR FUTURE USER EXPERIENCESNovember 2022March 2024Allow1620YesNo
17979479HIERARCHICAL TOURNAMENT-BASED MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTIONSNovember 2022March 2023Allow400NoNo
17966288METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXPLORING A PERSONAL INTEREST SPACEOctober 2022January 2024Allow1510NoNo
17887022METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING JOINT TRAINING MODELAugust 2022February 2025Abandon3040YesNo
17870733CLASSIFYING USER BEHAVIOR AS ANOMALOUSJuly 2022March 2023Allow800NoNo
17858070Dynamic Subsystem Operational Sequencing to Concurrently Control and Distribute Supervised Learning Processor Training and Provide Predictive Responses to Input DataJuly 2022April 2023Allow900NoNo
17855323OBTAINING A GENERATED DATASET WITH A PREDETERMINED BIAS FOR EVALUATING ALGORITHMIC FAIRNESS OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODELJune 2022April 2023Allow1010YesNo
17804253Progressive Objective Addition in Multi-objective Heuristic Systems and MethodsMay 2022August 2023Allow1510NoNo
17663663ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A DRUNK PASSENGER BY A CAR HAILING ORDERMay 2022December 2024Abandon3110NoNo
17712380SELF-REGULATING POWER MANAGEMENT FOR A NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEMApril 2022April 2023Allow1310NoNo
17711880ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED USE CASE MODEL RECOMMENDATION METHODS AND SYSTEMSApril 2022March 2023Allow1220YesNo
17689914Machine Learning-Based Media Content PlacementMarch 2022May 2025Allow3810NoNo
17588704Cognitive PersonasJanuary 2022June 2023Allow1610NoNo
17551572NEURAL NETWORK METHOD AND APPARATUSDecember 2021August 2025Allow4450YesNo
17548070Data Drift Impact In A Machine Learning ModelDecember 2021December 2023Allow2440YesNo
17520919ROTATING DATA FOR NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATIONSNovember 2021April 2023Allow1800NoNo
17506294APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORECASTED PERFORMANCE LEVEL ADJUSTMENT AND MODIFICATIONOctober 2021January 2023Allow1510NoNo
17495707PROCESSING AND RE-USING ASSISTED SUPPORT DATA TO INCREASE A SELF-SUPPORT KNOWLEDGE BASEOctober 2021August 2023Allow2210YesNo
17491466SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SITUATION DETERMINATION BASED ON DISTRIBUTED DEVICE EVENT DATASeptember 2021July 2023Allow2230YesNo
17488198MACHINE LEARNING FOR INTELLIGENT RADIOTHERAPY DATA ANALYTICSSeptember 2021November 2025Allow4920YesNo
17481977METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TRAINING A PAIRWISE CLASSIFIER FOR USE IN ENTITY RESOLUTION IN LARGE DATA SETSSeptember 2021June 2022Allow920NoNo
17479180Organizing Neural NetworksSeptember 2021September 2023Allow2410NoNo
17468360BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS USING DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATIONS OF EVENT DATASeptember 2021April 2024Allow3120NoNo
17404153REAL TIME CONTEXT DEPENDENT DEEP LEARNINGAugust 2021February 2023Allow1810NoNo
17402151MANAGEMENT METHOD OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR NETWORK DATA ANALYTICS FUNCTION DEVICEAugust 2021May 2025Allow4510NoNo
17399217PREDICTIVE CLASSIFICATION MODEL FOR AUTO-POPULATION OF TEXT BLOCK TEMPLATES INTO AN APPLICATIONAugust 2021April 2025Allow4410YesNo
17429875MODEL LEARNING APPARATUS, LABEL ESTIMATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOFAugust 2021November 2025Abandon5120NoNo
17427173TASK-AWARE NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCHJuly 2021November 2025Abandon5120NoNo
17381141DECISION-MAKING UNDER SELECTIVE LABELSJuly 2021December 2025Allow5220YesNo
17371721TECHNOLOGY FOR ANALYZING SENSOR DATA TO DETECT CONFIGURATIONS OF VEHICLE OPERATIONJuly 2021September 2024Allow3810NoNo
17367529PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD USING ACCELERATED NETWORK SEARCH ARCHITECTUREJuly 2021February 2026Abandon5520NoNo
17418799DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE DETERMINATIONJune 2021January 2024Abandon3010NoNo
17349957NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAMEJune 2021October 2025Abandon5120NoNo
17339063SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR END-TO-END LEARNING OF OPTIMAL DRIVING POLICYJune 2021December 2025Allow5430YesYes
17337080DUAL CYCLE TENSOR DROPOUT IN A NEURAL NETWORKJune 2021February 2022Allow810YesNo
17332606PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE IN MACHINE LEARNING USING A QUANTUM ORACLEMay 2021March 2025Allow4510NoNo
17319599CONFIGURING AUTOSAVE TRIGGERS BASED ON VALUE METRICSMay 2021September 2024Allow4000NoNo
17314529COURSE CONTENT DATA ANALYSIS AND PREDICTIONMay 2021March 2026Allow5820NoNo
17184371SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKSFebruary 2021May 2025Allow5120YesNo
17183072OPTIMIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH A DEVICE FARMFebruary 2021February 2022Allow1120NoNo
17267916PROACTIVE DEFENSE OF UNTRUSTWORTHY MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMFebruary 2021March 2025Allow4920YesNo
17170343Distributed Adversarial Training for Robust Deep Neural NetworksFebruary 2021October 2025Allow5620YesNo
17169319INFORMATION DELIVERY PLATFORMFebruary 2021January 2023Abandon2300NoNo
17150799Method and System for making Recommendation from Binary Data Using Neighbor-Score Matrix and Latent FactorsJanuary 2021March 2025Abandon5020YesYes
17142117Generation of Secure Synthetic Data Based On True-Source DatasetsJanuary 2021November 2025Allow5910YesNo
17136677METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING A LEARNING MODEL FROM AMONG A PLURALITY OF LEARNING MODELSDecember 2020March 2025Allow5020YesNo
17134481MACHINE LEARNING OF RESPONSE SELECTION TO STRUCTURED DATA INPUT INCLUDING MOMENTUM CLASSIFICATIONDecember 2020October 2024Allow4600NoNo
17133086METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SURVEILLANCE OF ROAD ENVIRONMENTS VIA DEEP LEARNINGDecember 2020December 2024Allow4820NoNo
17131044CALCULATING A SOLUTION FOR AN OBJECTIVE FUNCTION BASED ON TWO OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONSDecember 2020February 2023Allow2610NoNo
17128763COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPRESSING DEEP NEURAL NETWORK MODELS USING ALTERNATING DIRECTION METHOD OF MULTIPLIERS (ADMM)December 2020March 2026Allow6030YesNo
17115094SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTELLIGENT CACHINGDecember 2020August 2025Allow5641NoNo
17112396SELF IMPROVING ANNOTATION QUALITY ON DIVERSE AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CONTENTDecember 2020October 2025Allow5940YesNo
17106488NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMNovember 2020April 2021Allow510NoNo
17058809EXTRACTION OF PREDICTION RULE ASSOCIATED WITH INPUT DATA THAT INDICATES CONDITION SATISFIED BY THE INPUT DATANovember 2020April 2024Abandon4120NoNo
17101184PROBABILISTIC DECISION MAKING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USENovember 2020April 2024Abandon4120NoNo
16951848ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BYPASS COMPILERNovember 2020October 2025Allow5920YesNo
16951799METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE, AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE CODE SEMANTICSNovember 2020March 2026Abandon6040YesNo
17093917DISTRIBUTABLE EVENT PREDICTION AND MACHINE LEARNING RECOGNITION SYSTEMNovember 2020March 2021Allow410YesNo
17093151APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR GROUPING DATA RECORDSNovember 2020January 2025Allow5030NoNo
17092033DISCOVERY OF HARDWARE CHARACTERISTICS OF DEEP LEARNING ACCELERATORS FOR OPTIMIZATION VIA COMPILERNovember 2020June 2024Allow4330YesNo
17069688SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING USING A NETWORK OF DECISION-MAKING NODESOctober 2020February 2024Allow4020YesNo
17067284INTERACTIVE AGENT AND CONTROL USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGOctober 2020May 2025Allow5540YesNo
17063034DISTRIBUTING TENSOR COMPUTATIONS ACROSS COMPUTING DEVICESOctober 2020November 2024Allow5020YesNo
17041533ATTENTION FILTERING FOR MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNINGSeptember 2020February 2025Allow5210NoNo
17029333System and Method for Assessing an Operating Condition of an AssetSeptember 2020November 2024Allow5010NoNo
16982441LOSS-ERROR-AWARE QUANTIZATION OF A LOW-BIT NEURAL NETWORKSeptember 2020May 2024Allow4400NoNo
17002419Quantum Circuit Learning Device, Quantum Circuit Learning Method, and Recording MediumAugust 2020September 2023Allow3600NoNo
16998748SYSTEM-LEVEL CONTROL USING TREE-BASED REGRESSION WITH OUTLIER REMOVALAugust 2020September 2025Allow6040YesNo
16944324System and Method for Ensemble Expert DiversificationJuly 2020October 2023Allow3820NoNo
16942239TRANSLATION OF A QUANTUM DESIGN ACROSS MULTIPLE APPLICATIONSJuly 2020June 2024Allow4610YesNo
16941595SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL EXTERNALLY TO THE MACHINE LEARNING MODELJuly 2020September 2024Allow4910NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner PELLETT, DANIEL T.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
14
Examiner Affirmed
10
(71.4%)
Examiner Reversed
4
(28.6%)
Reversal Percentile
44.5%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 28.6% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
37
Allowed After Appeal Filing
14
(37.8%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
23
(62.2%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
62.5%
Higher than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.

In this dataset, 37.8% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting reconsideration.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Examiner PELLETT, DANIEL T - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner PELLETT, DANIEL T works in Art Unit 2121 and has examined 275 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 81.5%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 46 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner PELLETT, DANIEL T's allowance rate of 81.5% places them in the 53% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by PELLETT, DANIEL T receive 2.56 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 75% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by PELLETT, DANIEL T is 46 months. This places the examiner in the 11% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +8.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by PELLETT, DANIEL T. This interview benefit is in the 39% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 27.6% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 48% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 13.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 14% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 46.2% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 41% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 62.2% of appeals filed. This is in the 40% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 43.5% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 48.6% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 44% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 9% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 10% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • Plan for RCE after final rejection: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments. Budget for an RCE in your prosecution strategy if you receive a final rejection.
  • Plan for extended prosecution: Applications take longer than average with this examiner. Factor this into your continuation strategy and client communications.

Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

  • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
  • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
  • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
  • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
  • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
  • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

Important Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice: The information provided in this report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult with a qualified patent attorney or agent for advice specific to your situation.

No Guarantees: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the statistics presented above. Patent prosecution statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data and are subject to data quality limitations, processing errors, and changes in USPTO practices over time.

Limitation of Liability: Under no circumstances will IronCrow AI be liable for any outcome, decision, or action resulting from your reliance on the statistics, analysis, or recommendations presented in this report. Past prosecution patterns do not guarantee future results.

Use at Your Own Risk: While we strive to provide accurate and useful prosecution statistics, you should independently verify any information that is material to your prosecution strategy and use your professional judgment in all patent prosecution matters.