Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18882690 | CONTENT SYNTHESIS USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL | September 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18767924 | IMAGE STITCHING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE BASED ON REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18761812 | DIGITAL DENTURE DESIGN AND REPLACEMENT | July 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18670573 | POSE QUANTIZATION-BASED KEYFRAME PRUNING FOR SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING | May 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18666374 | VIRTUAL CONTENT GENERATION | May 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18664596 | NEURAL RENDERING USING TRAINED ALBEDO TEXTURES | May 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18651960 | POINT CLOUD FILTERING | May 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18640447 | FACIAL SYNTHESIS IN OVERLAID AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT | April 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18631382 | LEARNED IMAGE TRANSFORMATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS IN GRAPHICS RENDERING | April 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18696149 | VIRTUAL SPACE PRESENTATION DEVICE | March 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18610869 | Rendering of Enrolled User's Face for External Display | March 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18609826 | PORTAL VIEW FOR CONTENT ITEMS | March 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18602433 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATION OF A MODEL FOR USE IN A VIRTUAL EXTRACTION PROCEDURE OF A TARGETED EXTRACTION OBJECT IN A PATIENT | March 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18602003 | Using Optical Codes with Augmented Reality Displays | March 2024 | May 2025 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18597470 | DYNAMIC CONTENT RENDERING BASED ON CONTEXT FOR AR AND ASSISTANT SYSTEMS | March 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18587634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY VIDEO GENERATION | February 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18683952 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | February 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18441528 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING HEAD AVATAR USING SHOT VIDEO | February 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18440609 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SERVICING EQUIPMENT | February 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18440667 | GENERATIVE MULTI-LAYERED IMAGE RENDERING BASED ON DATA PROMPTS | February 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18439116 | WALLPAPER DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | February 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18434997 | INTRAORAL IMAGING BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT | February 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18435008 | FACTCHECK STREAMING IN VR COLLABORATION | February 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18427974 | OPTIMIZATION OF OVERALL EDITING VECTOR TO ACHIEVE TARGET EXPRESSION PHOTO EDITING EFFECT | January 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18420582 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR 3D HAIR VIRTUAL TRY ON | January 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18417198 | SELECTING INITIAL CORRESPONDENCES USED IN CO-REGISTRATION OF FACE IMAGES | January 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18415039 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING CONSTRUCTION PRECISION BASED ON XR | January 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18411089 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, POINT SELECTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | January 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18406256 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM | January 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18397998 | Display System for a Head Mounted Device | December 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18397000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A 3D MODEL FOR VISUALIZATION OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN | December 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18574701 | HEAD MOTION DEPENDENT VIEWPORT REGION MODIFICATION FOR OMNIDIRECTIONAL CONVERSATIONAL VDD | December 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18573746 | EMOTION INDUCTION APPARATUS, EMOTION INDUCTION METHOD AND PROGRAM | December 2023 | February 2026 | Abandon | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18573668 | MODELING METHOD, RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18393579 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18573319 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18544512 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18539240 | ENABLE INTERACTION BETWEEN A USER AND AN AGENT OF A 5G WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK USING AUGMENTED REALITY GLASSES | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18537762 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, AND OPERATION METHOD OF MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE | December 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18537478 | MODIFYING USER REPRESENTATIONS | December 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18535399 | Artificial Reality Weight Simulation for a Virtual Object | December 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18534212 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT IN VIRTUAL SCENE | December 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18567790 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSING BACKGROUND AND FACE BY USING DEEP LEARNING NETWORK | December 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18532834 | HAIR COLOR SIMULATION USING A HAIR COLOR CLASSIFICATION GUIDED NETWORK | December 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18567587 | MR SERVICE PLATFORM PROVIDING MIXED REALITY AUTOMOTIVE META SERVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME | December 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18525167 | ENDOSCOPIC EXAMINATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, ENDOSCOPIC EXAMINATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18516214 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING TO ENHANCE TEXTUAL FEATURES IN OUTPUT IMAGE | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18514570 | Artificial intelligence machine learning system for classifying images and producing a predetermined visual output | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18562016 | PRIORITIZING RENDERING BY EXTENDED REALITY RENDERING DEVICE RESPONSIVE TO RENDERING PRIORITIZATION RULES | November 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18562204 | A METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A 3D FACE COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE DEFORMED REGION | November 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18511566 | LATE-TO-EARLY TEMPORAL FUSION FOR POINT CLOUDS | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18511820 | MULTI-VIEW VISUAL DATA DAMAGE DETECTION | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18509113 | PLANAR MESH RECONSTRUCTION USING IMAGES FROM MULTIPLE CAMERA POSES | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18502778 | GENERATING GRAPHIC DESIGNS BY EXPLOITING CONTRAST THROUGH GENERATIVE EDITING | November 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18386474 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18287662 | EXTENDED REALITY SERVERS PREFORMING ACTIONS DIRECTED TO VIRTUAL OBJECTS BASED ON OVERLAPPING FIELD OF VIEWS OF PARTICIPANTS | October 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18381640 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING OVERALL STYLE OF PUBLIC AREA BASED ON VIRTUAL SCENE | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18490385 | Enhanced Edge Neighborhood for Coding Vertex Information | October 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18488039 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING BASED ON OCCLUSION CULLING | October 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18286636 | ENDOSCOPIC EXAMINATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, ENDOSCOPIC EXAMINATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | October 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18376607 | AR BODY PART TRACKING SYSTEM | October 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18376098 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUANTIZED CONVERGENT DIRECTION-BASED RAY SORTING | October 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18283705 | POINT CLOUD MODEL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18370344 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING EXPRESSION MODEL, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18470046 | Dynamic PIFu Enrollment | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18469025 | VIRTUAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR BAGGAGE MANAGEMENT | September 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18468063 | DISPLAY METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR A VIRTUAL INPUT DEVICE | September 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18459893 | AR ENHANCED STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION ESTIMATOR AND MODELING ENGINE | September 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18458924 | PROVIDING AWARENESS OF PRIVACY-RELATED ACTIVITIES IN VIRTUAL AND REAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENTS | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18458174 | Model Reconstruction Method, Model Processing Method and Apparatus, Device, System, and Medium | August 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18239224 | EDGE TEST AND DEPTH CALCULATION IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING HARDWARE | August 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18449586 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING AUGMENTED REALITY IN A DISPLAY OF A TELEOPERATIONAL SYSTEM | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18263706 | MOVING MEDIA IN EXTENDED REALITY | July 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18226664 | VISUAL GUIDED MESH REPAIR | July 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18262731 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | July 2023 | January 2026 | Abandon | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18224801 | Depth-Aware Photo Editing | July 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18354567 | PRECISION PLACEMENT OF PERSISTENT VIRTUAL CONTENT | July 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18222981 | IDENTIFYING DEVICES IN A MIXED-REALITY ENVIRONMENT | July 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18222969 | ADAPTIVE VIRTUAL OBJECTS IN AUGMENTED REALITY | July 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18222505 | REGISTRATION OF 3D AUGMENTED SCENE TO STRUCTURAL FLOOR PLANS | July 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18221812 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MAIN CONTROL OBJECT PROJECTION, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18339146 | USING INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS FOR SHADOW DENOISING IN RAY TRACING APPLICATIONS | June 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18332899 | OBJECT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF INTERIOR DESIGN SERVICE THROUGH BIG DATA-BASED USER GROUP ANALYSIS | June 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18331539 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOMMENDING OBJECT FEATURE VIA EXISTING OBJECT ANALYSIS BASED ON BIG DATA OF INTERIOR DESIGN SERVICE | June 2023 | November 2025 | Abandon | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18205883 | VIRTUAL OBJECT KIT | June 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18327604 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL CONCERT ENVIRONMENT IN METAVERSE | June 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18308761 | Image Quality Adjustment Method and Apparatus | April 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18138523 | SMART PLACEMENT OF INFORMATION BASED ON DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS | April 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18304078 | EMBEDDINGS REPRESENTING VISUAL AUGMENTATIONS | April 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18137290 | PRODUCT PLACEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR 3D PRODUCTIONS | April 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18125301 | AUGMENTED REALITY VIRTUAL MAKEUP TRY-ON | March 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18022627 | VOLUMETRIC IMMERSION SYSTEM & METHOD | February 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18112352 | Presenting Building Information Using Video And Building Models | February 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18020903 | METHOD OF GENERATING IMAGE SAMPLE, METHOD OF RECOGNIZING TEXT, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | February 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18161435 | VIRTUAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE | January 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18159651 | DATA-DRIVEN PHYSICS-BASED MODELS WITH IMPLICIT ACTUATIONS | January 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18099148 | MESSAGING SYSTEM WITH AUGMENTED REALITY MAKEUP | January 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18155618 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS | January 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18096158 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WIREFRAMES OF A STRUCTURE OR ELEMENT OF INTEREST AND WIREFRAMES GENERATED THEREFROM | January 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18094359 | Advanced Networking, Detection, and Data Visualization Techniques In Multiple Networked Devices | January 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MUSHAMBO, MARTIN.
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, 33.3% 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.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner MUSHAMBO, MARTIN works in Art Unit 2615 and has examined 100 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 99.0%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 25 months.
Examiner MUSHAMBO, MARTIN's allowance rate of 99.0% places them in the 93% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by MUSHAMBO, MARTIN receive 2.11 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 56% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by MUSHAMBO, MARTIN is 25 months. This places the examiner in the 79% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +1.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MUSHAMBO, MARTIN. This interview benefit is in the 20% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 32.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 68% 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 36.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 56% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 90% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 50.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 66.7% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 72% 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 1.0% of allowed cases (in the 67% 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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