USPTO Examiner SHANKAR VIJAY - Art Unit 2624

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18906950HOLOGRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING LIVE SCENES INCLUDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTSOctober 2024January 2025Allow410NoNo
18664962DISTANCE DETERMINATION FOR MIXED REALITY INTERACTIONMay 2024June 2025Allow1310YesNo
18664223EYEPIECES FOR AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY SYSTEMMay 2024April 2025Allow1110NoNo
18618534BENDABLE AND FOLDABLE DISPLAY SCREEN TO PROVIDE CONTINUOUS DISPLAYMarch 2024February 2025Allow1110NoNo
18601261INTEGRATING PREDETERMINED VIRTUAL TOURS FOR REAL-TIME DELIVERY ON THIRD-PARTY RESOURCESMarch 2024February 2025Allow1110YesNo
18589396Synchronizing Augmented or Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Applications with Companion Device InterfacesFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310NoNo
18587799Interactive Path Tracing on the WebFebruary 2024September 2024Allow700YesNo
18419133SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODULATING USER INPUT IMAGE COMMANDS AND/OR POSITIONS ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) BASED ON A USER GUI VIEWING DIRECTION AND/OR FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYING MULTIPLE GUIs VIA THE SAME DISPLAYJanuary 2024March 2025Abandon1410NoNo
18409498IDENTIFYING SIGNAL DISTURBANCEJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1210NoNo
18404648MODIFYING DIGITAL IMAGES UTILIZING INTENT DETERMINISTIC USER INTERFACE TOOLSJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1310YesNo
18398059Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Selecting and Interacting with Different Device ModesDecember 2023January 2025Allow1310NoNo
18486541PREDICTIVE GEOMETRY CODING OF POINT CLOUDOctober 2023June 2025Allow2000YesNo
18476300ELECTRONIC DEVICESeptember 2023September 2024Allow1210NoNo
18368532Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Providing Computer-Generated ExperiencesSeptember 2023April 2024Allow710NoNo
18465091Apparatus for Providing Waveguide Displays with Two-Dimensional Pupil ExpansionSeptember 2023April 2025Allow2020NoNo
18460365MODIFYING DIGITAL IMAGES VIA MULTI-LAYERED SCENE COMPLETION FACILITATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCESeptember 2023February 2025Allow1800YesNo
18236279POINT CLOUD PREDICTION PROCESSING METHODS AND APPARATUSES, COMPUTER, AND STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2023May 2025Allow2000YesNo
18236029FUNCTIONAL PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE, INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE, AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICEAugust 2023September 2024Allow1310NoNo
18231719DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING PLURALITY OF INITIALIZATION POWER SOURCESAugust 2023June 2024Allow1010YesNo
18359115ELECTRONIC APPARATUSJuly 2023June 2024Allow1110NoNo
18226200Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Processing Inputs to a Three-Dimensional EnvironmentJuly 2023July 2025Allow2310YesNo
18223665MULTI-SENSOR DEVICE WITH AN ACCELEROMETER FOR ENABLING USER INTERACTION THROUGH SOUND OR IMAGEJuly 2023September 2024Abandon1410NoNo
18350366Local Active Matrix ArchitectureJuly 2023June 2024Allow1110NoNo
18350733OPTIMAL VIEWING ANGLE ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY SCREENJuly 2023March 2025Allow2010NoNo
18219354SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GUIDING PERSPECTIVES FOR MULTI-PERSPECTIVE CONTENTJuly 2023June 2024Allow1210NoNo
18211280ONLINE INTERACTIVE PLATFORM WITH MOTION DETECTIONJune 2023October 2024Allow1610YesNo
18207836METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF REFERRED OBJECTS FOR EMBODIED AGENTSJune 2023April 2025Allow2200NoNo
18319687COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR 3D MUSCULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AND ELECTROMECHANICS SIMULATIONMay 2023June 2025Allow2510YesNo
18315727DISPLAY MODULE AND SYSTEM APPLICATIONSMay 2023May 2024Allow1210NoNo
18143646TOUCH PANELMay 2023March 2024Allow1010YesNo
18142353METHOD OF OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC WRITING APPARATUS HAVING AN IDENTIFYING TONE AND DATA COMMUNICATIONSMay 2023July 2024Abandon1510NoNo
18308859PORTABLE DEVICE COMPRISING A TOUCH-SCREEN DISPLAY, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAMEApril 2023March 2024Allow1110NoNo
18138628BACKGROUND DISPLAY SYSTEMApril 2023September 2024Allow1700YesNo
18304144GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL HUMAN MODELS REPRESENTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL HUMANS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGESApril 2023June 2025Allow2610YesNo
18296803EYEPIECES FOR AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY SYSTEMApril 2023February 2024Allow1110NoNo
18296302MESH TRANSFORMATION WITH EFFICIENT DEPTH RECONSTRUCTION AND FILTERING IN PASSTHROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) SYSTEMSApril 2023March 2025Allow2310YesNo
18193558Synchronizing Augmented or Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Applications with Companion Device InterfacesMarch 2023November 2023Allow810YesNo
18190500UTILIZING A GENERATIVE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TO CREATE MODIFIED DIGITAL IMAGES FROM AN INFILL SEMANTIC MAPMarch 2023April 2025Allow2510YesNo
18126900COLLISION DETECTION FOR OBJECT REARRANGEMENT USING A 3D SCENE REPRESENTATIONMarch 2023April 2025Allow2410YesNo
18190544GENERATING A MODIFIED DIGITAL IMAGE UTILIZING A HUMAN INPAINTING MODELMarch 2023November 2024Allow2000YesNo
18120989PERFORMING POINT CLOUD TASKS USING MULTI-SCALE FEATURES GENERATED THROUGH SELF-ATTENTIONMarch 2023February 2025Allow2310YesNo
18025866CONSTANT-BASED CALCULATIONS IN SHADER PROLOGUE SHARED FUNCTIONMarch 2023June 2025Allow2810YesNo
18177175USAGE-PATTERN-BASED GENERATION OF DIGITAL PRODUCT MODELMarch 2023May 2025Allow2610YesNo
18175948USING EYE-TRACKING / EYE METRICS TO DETECT VR EYE-STRAIN-LEVELS, THEN USING ADAPTIVE RENDERING TO LOWER LEVELS OF EYE-STRAINFebruary 2023February 2025Allow2310NoNo
18171117Wearable Heads Up DisplaysFebruary 2023November 2024Allow2120NoNo
18021682RENDERING OF TWO DIMENSIONAL DATA SETSFebruary 2023February 2025Allow2410NoNo
18107339NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHODFebruary 2023June 2025Allow2800NoNo
18107369Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Providing Computer-Generated ExperiencesFebruary 2023August 2023Allow610NoNo
18160937Explicit Radiance Field Reconstruction from ScratchJanuary 2023March 2025Allow2600NoNo
18160806BENDABLE AND FOLDABLE DISPLAY SCREEN TO PROVIDE CONTINUOUS DISPLAYJanuary 2023December 2023Allow1120YesNo
18097795COORDINATE GENERATION SYSTEM, COORDINATE GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH STORED PROGRAMJanuary 2023November 2024Allow2210NoNo
18094650MOTION DETECTION METHOD AND STSTEMJanuary 2023September 2023Allow810NoNo
18014307Systems and Methods for Generating Splat-Based Differentiable Two-Dimensional RenderingsJanuary 2023December 2024Allow2310YesNo
18091671Systems and Methods for Optimization of Graphics Processing for Machine Learning InferenceDecember 2022December 2024Allow2310YesNo
18090381EMULATING ORIENTED BOUNDING BOXES IN BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHIESDecember 2022June 2025Allow3010NoNo
18089456VERTEX INDEX ROUTING FOR TWO LEVEL PRIMITIVE BATCH BINNINGDecember 2022May 2025Allow2910YesNo
18012831Method of Aligning Virtual and Real ObjectsDecember 2022October 2024Allow2210NoNo
18145804WORKLOAD PACKING IN GRAPHICS TEXTURE PIPELINEDecember 2022June 2025Abandon3020YesNo
18085703METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVISIONING A COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE BASED ON FOLLOWER STATE DATADecember 2022December 2023Allow1210NoNo
18085691METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVISIONING A COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCEDecember 2022January 2024Allow1210NoNo
18085142SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING POSITION OF A GEOGRAPHICAL DATA POINT IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACEDecember 2022November 2024Allow2310YesNo
18002092METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR COOPERATIVELY CONSTRUCTING POINT CLOUD MAPDecember 2022August 2024Allow2010YesNo
18080592PIPELINE DELAY ELIMINATION WITH PARALLEL TWO LEVEL PRIMITIVE BATCH BINNINGDecember 2022April 2025Allow2810NoNo
18008894A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING VOLUMETRIC VIDEODecember 2022April 2025Allow2830YesNo
18060742DEVICE AND METHOD TO DETERMINE AN ASPECT RATIO AND A FORMAT OF AN IMMERSIVE IMAGEDecember 2022August 2024Allow2110YesNo
18071751A METHOD FOR MODULATING THE POSITION OF A USER COMMAND INPUT IMAGE ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) BASED ON A USER GUI VIEWING DIRECTIONNovember 2022September 2023Allow920YesNo
18072023METHOD OF TRAVERSING A HIERARCHICAL ACCELERATION STRUCTURENovember 2022October 2024Allow2310NoNo
17994492SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SURROGATE GAMEPLAYNovember 2022March 2025Allow2810YesNo
17994696SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HUMAN MODEL RECOVERYNovember 2022September 2024Allow2210YesNo
18058538MODIFYING DIGITAL IMAGES VIA SCENE-BASED EDITING USING IMAGE UNDERSTANDING FACILITATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCENovember 2022January 2025Allow2610YesNo
18055590MODIFYING TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES UTILIZING ITERATIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL MESHES OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGESNovember 2022January 2025Allow2720YesNo
17986841CONTACT INFORMATION PRESENTATIONNovember 2022January 2025Allow2610NoNo
17986364METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING VIRTUAL IMAGE, COMPUTER DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTNovember 2022January 2025Allow2610YesNo
18055111Initial Object Shader Run for Graphics Workload DistributionNovember 2022August 2024Allow2110YesNo
18055259INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2022September 2024Allow2210YesNo
17985901METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING GRAYSCALE DATA, DRIVING CONTROLLER AND DISPLAY APPARATUSNovember 2022October 2024Allow2310NoNo
18054581Resource Allocation for Mesh Shader OutputsNovember 2022August 2024Allow2110YesNo
17984972SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZED STREAMING OF A VIDEO-WALLNovember 2022February 2025Allow2710YesNo
17972651SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTIMEDIA DATAOctober 2022April 2025Allow2920YesNo
17972921DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOFOctober 2022August 2023Allow1010YesNo
17970810THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAPPING USING DISPARATE VISUAL DATASETSOctober 2022October 2024Allow2410YesNo
17965425GENERATION OF REFLECTANCE MAPS FOR RELIGHTABLE 3D MODELSOctober 2022September 2024Allow2310NoNo
17953764COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ABNORMAL STRUCTURESeptember 2022October 2024Allow2410YesNo
17952951DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFSeptember 2022October 2023Allow1310YesNo
17934978APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TILE VISIBILITY INFORMATION CONCURRENTLY BY SHARING GPU HARDWARESeptember 2022August 2024Allow2310NoNo
17951415SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYING MULTIPLE GUIs VIA THE SAME DISPLAYSeptember 2022March 2023Allow610YesNo
17934437Bridge-Type FiltersSeptember 2022May 2024Allow1900YesNo
17934159MESHLET SHADING ATLASSeptember 2022August 2024Allow2310YesNo
17948863METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELS OF OBJECTSSeptember 2022July 2024Allow2210YesNo
17906854MARKERLESS MOTION CAPTURE OF HANDS WITH MULTIPLE POSE ESTIMATION ENGINESSeptember 2022July 2024Allow2110NoNo
17932640METHODS FOR A RASTERIZATION-BASED DIFFERENTIABLE RENDERER FOR TRANSLUCENT OBJECTSSeptember 2022July 2024Allow2210NoNo
17944415DEPTH ANALYZER AND SHADING RATE CONTROLLERSeptember 2022June 2024Allow2110YesNo
17932019REDUNDANT TRACKING SYSTEMSeptember 2022May 2024Allow2010NoNo
17906284ALIGNMENT OF MODIFICATION REGIONS WITH PIXEL REGISTRATIONSeptember 2022July 2023Allow1010NoNo
17909481IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE DATA TRANSFER DEVICE, AND IMAGE GENERATION METHODSeptember 2022April 2024Allow1900YesNo
17897683SURFACE PARTITION WITH PLANE AND LINE CONSTRAINTSAugust 2022May 2024Allow2110YesNo
17896763IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHODAugust 2022June 2024Allow2220YesNo
17892430Method for Displaying Graphical User Interface Based on Gesture and Electronic DeviceAugust 2022April 2023Allow810NoNo
17801418HYBRID SWITCHED CAPACITOR CIRCUIT WITH AUTOMATIC CHARGE BALANCINGAugust 2022February 2023Allow600YesNo
17891082SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL HEALTH SERVICESAugust 2022June 2025Allow3420NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SHANKAR, VIJAY.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
4
Allowed After Appeal Filing
0
(0.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
4
(100.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
3.5%
Lower 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, 0.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.

Strategic Recommendations

Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Examiner SHANKAR, VIJAY - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner SHANKAR, VIJAY works in Art Unit 2624 and has examined 227 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 95.6%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 22 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner SHANKAR, VIJAY's allowance rate of 95.6% places them in the 87% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by SHANKAR, VIJAY receive 1.10 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 16% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by SHANKAR, VIJAY is 22 months. This places the examiner in the 80% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +5.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SHANKAR, VIJAY. This interview benefit is in the 32% 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, 35.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 73% 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 56.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 78% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 89% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 100.0% 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.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 54.2% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 68% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.4% of allowed cases (in the 58% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 22% 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:

  • Consider after-final amendments: This examiner frequently enters after-final amendments. If you can clearly overcome rejections with claim amendments, file an after-final amendment before resorting to an RCE.
  • Appeal filing as negotiation tool: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

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.

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