Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19285613 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | July 2025 | January 2026 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19075092 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | March 2025 | July 2025 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18993292 | METHOD FOR UPDATING CODE TABLE, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2025 | March 2026 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18925002 | IMAGE PROCESSING FREQUENCY MANAGING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | October 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18916084 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING REFERENCE UNIT | October 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18899289 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD | September 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18812305 | CONTEXT-AWARE ERROR CONCEALMENT TO IMPROVE INFERENCE ACCURACY | August 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18812760 | OFFLOADING VIDEO CODING PROCESSES TO HARDWARE FOR BETTER DENSITY-QUALITY TRADEOFFS | August 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18778196 | METHOD FOR CODING TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT AND DEVICE THEREFOR | July 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18778128 | BI-STABLE SPRING WITH FLEXIBLE DISPLAY | July 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18755255 | MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR ADAPTIVE POST-PROCESSING USING RESULTS OF SCENARIO DETECTION IN CONFERENCING TOOLS | June 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18748771 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD | June 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18745824 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | June 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18662066 | Flexible Tiling Improvements in Video Coding | May 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18646927 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CODING | April 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18647873 | STREAMING CODES FOR VARIABLE SIZE MESSAGES ACCOMMODATING PARTIAL BURST LOSSES | April 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18644829 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING IMAGE DECODING ON BASIS OF INTRA PREDICTION IN IMAGE CODING SYSTEM | April 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18604710 | VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS | March 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18601915 | VIDEO QUALITY ESTIMATION WITH A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AS AN OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICE OR CLOUD SERVICE | March 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18599096 | VIDEO BITSTREAM CODING | March 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18689820 | VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | March 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18596429 | REDUCING OVERHEAD FOR MULTIPLE-HYPOTHESIS TEMPORAL PREDICTION | March 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18443104 | CODED-BLOCK-FLAG CODING AND DERIVATION | February 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18440013 | MULTIVARIATE RATE CONTROL FOR TRANSCODING VIDEO CONTENT | February 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18436213 | METHODS FOR INTRA PREDICTION, AND ENCODER | February 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18424113 | PARAMETER MAP FOR MACHINE-LEARNED VIDEO COMPRESSION | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18394256 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18541838 | SIGNALING FILM GRAIN RESOLUTION | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18532111 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE | December 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18531014 | DECODED PICTURE BUFFER MEMORY ALLOCATION AND PICTURE OUTPUT IN SCALABLE VIDEO CODING | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18522913 | Systems And Methods For Adapting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Video Stream Quality To Wireless Connection Quality With Ground Station | November 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18389483 | ITERATIVELY UPDATING A FILTERING MODEL | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18506109 | INTELLIGENT ENCODING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | November 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18504522 | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 12 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18500777 | Rolling Buffer for Retroactive Capture of Clips | November 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18495551 | INTER-CODING TRANSFORM FOR AUTOENCODERS | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18557174 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING STREAMING MEDIA DATA AND RELATED DEVICE | October 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18286637 | METHOD TO DETERMINE ENCODER PARAMETERS | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18286706 | IMAGE CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | October 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18475817 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING REFERENCE UNIT | September 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18461393 | VEHICLE IN-CABIN LEARNING EXPERIENCE USING AUGMENTED REALITY | September 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18242241 | SUB-PICTURES FOR PIXEL RATE BALANCING | September 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18239597 | OBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS, OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM, OBJECT TRACKING METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | August 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18455624 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18238039 | OBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS, OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM, OBJECT TRACKING METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | August 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18237765 | OBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS, OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM, OBJECT TRACKING METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18237536 | OBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS, OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM, OBJECT TRACKING METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | August 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18237312 | IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | August 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 26 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18236869 | ADAPTIVE UNEQUAL WEIGHT PLANAR PREDICTION | August 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18235960 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18235918 | USING IMPLICIT EVENT GROUND TRUTH FOR VIDEO CAMERAS | August 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18230511 | VIDEO COMPRESSION SYSTEM | August 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18365256 | Wavelet-based encoding of a video sequence and wavelet-based decoding of a bit stream | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18352636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH TARGET OBJECT TRACKING | July 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18220594 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND SIGNAGE APPARATUS | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18260772 | IMAGING CONDITION SETTING SYSTEM, IMAGING CONDITION SETTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | July 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18217796 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING PROTEIN AGGREGATES IN BIOTHERAPEUTICS | July 2023 | September 2025 | Abandon | 27 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18270557 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | June 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18343618 | LEARNED B-FRAME CODING USING P-FRAME CODING SYSTEM | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18215177 | METHOD AND IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE FOR ENCODING IMAGE FRAMES OF AN IMAGE STREAM AND TRANSMITTING ENCODED IMAGE FRAMES ON A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK | June 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18212182 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | June 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18338833 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | June 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18267236 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A MIDDLE BEZEL, BACKLIGHT MODULE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE THEREOF | June 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18256121 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18329261 | PERCEPTUAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT METRIC BASED CONTENT AND VIEWER AWARE ENCODING | June 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199597 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | May 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199591 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | May 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199608 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | May 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199317 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | May 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199323 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | May 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199329 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | May 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199319 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | May 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199325 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | May 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199332 | VIDEO CODING USING A CODED PICTURE BUFFER | May 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18252158 | Encoding a Video Frame Using Different Compression Ratios for Text Blocks and Non-Text Blocks | May 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18144686 | VERTEX POSITION CODING IN MESH COMPRESSION | May 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18313202 | MOTION VECTOR REFINEMENT FOR MULTI-REFERENCE PREDICTION | May 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18312904 | MOTION VECTOR PREDICTION | May 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18310828 | Systems and methods for utilizing remote visualization for performing micro-trenching | May 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 31 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18308014 | PIXEL ARRAY INCLUDING OCTAGON PIXEL SENSORS | April 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18250949 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING AND DCT-BASED VIDEO COMPRESSION | April 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 1 | No | No |
| 18250059 | SENDER-SIDE GEOMETRIC FUSION OF DEPTH DATA | April 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18137681 | SAVING MINIMUM MACROBLOCK DATA FOR SUBSEQUENT ENCODING OF OTHER MACROBLOCKS | April 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18303993 | VIDEO CODING USING SAMPLE STRING VECTOR | April 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18182029 | Rate Controlled Image and Texture Data Compression | March 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18025725 | Display Module Set and Display Screen | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18178370 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18115420 | UNEQUAL WEIGHT PLANAR MOTION VECTOR DERIVATION | February 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171243 | VIDEO CODING AND DECODING | February 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171249 | VIDEO CODING AND DECODING | February 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171181 | VIDEO CODING AND DECODING | February 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171231 | VIDEO CODING AND DECODING | February 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171154 | VIDEO CODING AND DECODING | February 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18150046 | CAMERA MODULE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD | January 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18091933 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING IMAGE DECODING ON BASIS OF INTRA PREDICTION IN IMAGE CODING SYSTEM | December 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18091921 | VIDEO BITSTREAM CODING | December 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18076886 | CONSTRAINTS OF SLICE COUNT IN A CODED VIDEO PICTURE | December 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18071863 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING BLOCKING ARTIFACTS | November 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18072054 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF VIDEO CODING USING A SUBSET OF AVAILABLE INTRA PREDICTION MODES FOR MULTIPLE REFERENCE LINES | November 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17990382 | Frequency Component Selection for Image Compression | November 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner LI, TRACY Y.
With a 31.8% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.
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, 26.8% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner LI, TRACY Y works in Art Unit 2487 and has examined 735 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 81.2%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.
Examiner LI, TRACY Y's allowance rate of 81.2% places them in the 52% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by LI, TRACY Y receive 1.71 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 36% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by LI, TRACY Y is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 60% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +15.3% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by LI, TRACY Y. This interview benefit is in the 55% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 34.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 75% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 24.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 32% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 51.9% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 46% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 66.2% of appeals filed. This is in the 47% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 44.2% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 59.6% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 63% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show above-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Petitionable matters include restriction requirements (MPEP § 1002.02(c)(2)) and various procedural issues.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.1% of allowed cases (in the 50% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 4.0% of allowed cases (in the 77% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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