USPTO Examiner GUARINO RAHEL - Art Unit 2631

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18772560EFFICIENT BEAMSPACE IMAGING IN WIRELESS NETWORKSJuly 2024January 2025Allow610NoNo
18751270Efficient AI Methods for Localization of Faulted Message Elements in 5G/6GJune 2024August 2024Allow210NoNo
18655034DEMODULATOR FOR AN ISOLATION COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FOR DUAL COMMUNICATIONMay 2024May 2025Allow1210NoNo
18581034MULTI-BAND MIMO REPEATER SYSTEM WITH CARRIER AGGREGATION CAPABILITYFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1400NoNo
18408621METHOD FOR PROCESSING AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AIS) BASEBAND SIGNAL BASED ON FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA)January 2024April 2024Allow310YesNo
18544802IMBALANCE COMPENSATION FOR UPLINK (UL) � MULTIPLE-INPUT AND MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) TRANSMISSIONSDecember 2023October 2024Allow1010NoNo
18536849TRANSMITTER FOR DUAL COMMUNICATION OVER AN ISOLATION CHANNELDecember 2023November 2024Allow1110NoNo
18517125In-Vehicle TransmissionsNovember 2023May 2025Abandon1820NoNo
18511227APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN TIME DOMAINNovember 2023April 2025Allow1710NoNo
18387430WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORK RADIO FOR A NEXT GENERATION MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION CELLULAR NETWORKNovember 2023September 2024Allow1110YesNo
18558404MULTIPATH CHANNEL BASED RADIO FREQUENCY BASED SENSINGNovember 2023May 2025Allow1810NoNo
18378180SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE FILTERINGOctober 2023January 2025Allow1520NoNo
18376752Dynamic Selection and Usage of MIMO Antenna Elements in an Electronic Device as a Function of Correlation PatternsOctober 2023August 2024Allow1010NoNo
18553498CONTROLLING PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO REDUCTIONSeptember 2023December 2024Allow1400NoNo
18472201CODING ENHANCEMENT USING SPINAL CODESSeptember 2023February 2025Allow1700NoNo
18470221COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR MULTI-AP JOINT TRANSMISSIONSeptember 2023April 2024Allow700NoNo
18456395RECEIVER-SIDE NOISE STATISTICS AND LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO SCALING FOR PRE-EQUALIZATION-BASED COMMUNICATION SCHEMESAugust 2023October 2024Allow1400NoNo
18455264MULTI-WAVEFORM STEERING VECTOR COMPUTATION ENGINEAugust 2023April 2025Allow2020NoNo
18449504POWER LINE DATA TRANSCEIVERAugust 2023February 2025Allow1810NoNo
18275088ENCODING METHOD AND DECODING METHOD FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION DEVICEJuly 2023January 2025Allow1710NoNo
18359065METHOD FOR MONITORING A RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVER AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICEJuly 2023January 2025Allow1710NoNo
18223365AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION OF A RING PHASE LOCKED LOOPJuly 2023February 2025Allow1910NoNo
18354363USB over HDBaseT transmission using varying HDBaseT packet sizesJuly 2023March 2025Allow2020NoNo
18222013SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFERENCE CANCELLATIONJuly 2023November 2024Allow1620YesNo
18260565METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ARRAY SIZE INVARIANT BEAMFORMINGJuly 2023February 2025Allow2010YesNo
18260043MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT RECEIVER FOR WIRELESS FIDELITY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEJune 2023January 2025Allow1910NoNo
18343373COMMON MODE NOISE MEASUREMENT IN A DATA COMMUNICATION INTERFACE RECEIVERJune 2023February 2025Allow1910NoNo
18257992INTELLIGENT PANEL REGULATION AND CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM, INTELLIGENT PANEL, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2023April 2025Allow2200NoNo
18268747REALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKJune 2023October 2024Allow1600NoNo
18258177METHOD OF CONTROLLING A RADIO ACCESS POINTJune 2023November 2024Allow1710NoNo
18267558METHOD AND TRANSCEIVER OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR HANDLING REFERENCE SIGNALSJune 2023November 2024Allow1710NoNo
18330922DMRS PORT INDICATION METHOD AND APPARATUSJune 2023April 2024Allow1110NoNo
18328811ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2023January 2025Allow2010YesNo
18199399AI-Based Correction of Corrupted 5G/6G MessagesMay 2023April 2024Allow1010YesNo
18253161A RECEIVER SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO ALTERNATE BETWEEN DIFFERENT BEAMFORMING TYPESMay 2023November 2023Allow600YesNo
18316050FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT IQ MISMATCH CALIBRATION FOR RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) TRANSMITTERSMay 2023October 2024Allow1810NoNo
18141733METHOD FOR IMPROVING AUDIO ACQUISITION TIME BY NASCENT SIGNAL CACHINGMay 2023September 2024Allow1710NoNo
18251193UPLINK MODE SWITCHINGApril 2023October 2024Allow1810YesNo
18306728WIRELESS RELIABILITY FOR DEVICES IN MOTIONApril 2023January 2024Allow800NoNo
18303038Signal Processing Method and Related ApparatusApril 2023November 2024Allow1900NoNo
18132908DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT WITH PHASE-PRESERVING CLIPPING TECHNIQUE FOR DIGITAL TRANSMITTERS AND POWER AMPLIFIERSApril 2023June 2024Allow1500NoNo
18192032COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUSMarch 2023August 2024Allow1610NoNo
18192596TWO STAGE CODEBOOK BEAMFORMING FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN PASSIVE DEVICESMarch 2023June 2024Allow1400NoNo
18026387METHOD AND DEVICE(S) FOR PERFORMING DIGITAL PREDISTORTION ON SIGNALS FOR MULTIBAND TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKMarch 2023August 2024Allow1710NoNo
18176642Satellite Communication Method and ApparatusMarch 2023August 2024Allow1700NoNo
18176655Spatial Multiplexing Via Twisted PairsMarch 2023September 2023Allow600NoNo
18023585Digitally Augmented Analog Phase Locked Loop with Accurate BandwidthFebruary 2023October 2024Allow1910YesNo
18171819Synchronizing Communication in a Backhaul NetworkFebruary 2023December 2024Allow2220YesNo
18170021HIGH-FREQUENCY FRONT END MODULE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICEFebruary 2023September 2023Allow710NoNo
18162141USING PREAMBLE PORTION HAVING IRREGULAR CARRIER SPACING FOR FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATIONJanuary 2023September 2023Allow710NoNo
18102491WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORK RADIO FOR A NEXT GENERATION MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION CELLULAR NETWORKJanuary 2023December 2023Allow1010YesNo
18157732METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PRECONDITIONING TRANSMITTED SIGNALSJanuary 2023March 2024Allow1410NoNo
18156757DATA SENDING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMJanuary 2023April 2024Allow1500NoNo
18156690TECHNIQUES FOR ESTIMATING MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN ANTENNA ARRAYSJanuary 2023April 2024Allow1500NoNo
18154789NON-COHERENT LONG-RANGE (LORA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) TECHNOLOGYJanuary 2023August 2023Allow710NoNo
18152492Reference Clock Switching in Phase-Locked Loop CircuitsJanuary 2023July 2024Allow1810NoNo
18150930METHOD FOR INDICATING DIRECT CURRENT SUBCARRIER AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUSJanuary 2023May 2024Allow1600NoNo
18149246SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME FREQUENCY SHIFT DETECTIONJanuary 2023May 2024Allow1600NoNo
18086474Dynamic Selection and Usage of MIMO Antenna Elements in an Electronic Device as a Function of Correlation PatternDecember 2022August 2023Allow810NoNo
18068416RESTRICTING UPLINK MIMO ASSIGNMENT BASED ON FADING IN AN mmWAVE SYSTEMDecember 2022May 2023Allow510YesNo
18002250ANTENNA SWITCHING FOR REFERENCE SIGNALSDecember 2022April 2024Allow1600NoNo
18066717RATE SPLITTING FOR MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT COMMUNICATIONSDecember 2022March 2024Allow1500NoNo
18064593ASYNCHRONOUS BIT DETECTION MECHANISM FOR ASK DEMODULATORSDecember 2022May 2024Allow1710NoNo
18077995SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFERENCE CANCELLATIONDecember 2022April 2023Allow400YesNo
18075466PHASE NOISE SUPPRESSION METHOD FOR A MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEM WITH A PLURALITY OF CO-REFERENCE CHANNELSDecember 2022May 2023Allow510YesNo
18075049ANTENNA FILTER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING SAME IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMDecember 2022April 2024Allow1710YesNo
18070866Method to Locate Faulted Message Elements Using AI in 5G and 6GNovember 2022May 2023Allow500NoNo
18059264CALIBRATING A QUADRATURE RECEIVE SERIAL INTERFACENovember 2022February 2024Allow1500NoNo
17994755ENHANCED BASE STATION DOWNLINKNovember 2022October 2023Abandon1100NoNo
17991495DEMODULATOR FOR AN ISOLATION COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FOR DUAL COMMUNICATIONNovember 2022October 2023Allow1110NoNo
17979337ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CELL COVERAGE ENHANCEMENT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOFNovember 2022December 2023Allow1400NoNo
18051939METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING A FIXED FREQUENCY RATIO FOR A MULTI-AXIS SCANNERNovember 2022February 2024Allow1500NoNo
18050162HYBRID FREQUENCY REPEATER FOR A MULTIPLE HOP LINKOctober 2022March 2024Allow1700NoNo
17973351NON-UNIFORM BEAM SPATIAL MODULATION METHOD AND SYSTEM APPLICABLE TO MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION AND SENSING INTEGRATIONOctober 2022November 2024Allow2510NoNo
17968798ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED CONSTRAINED RANDOM VERIFICATION METHOD FOR DESIGN UNDER TEST AND NON-TRANSITORY MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM CODE THAT PERFORMS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED CONSTRAINED RANDOM VERIFICATION METHOD WHEN EXECUTEDOctober 2022March 2024Allow1700NoNo
17952559ADAPTABLE MIMO CONFIGURATIONS BASED ON WIRELINE PARAMETERS IN WIRELESS-WIRELINE PHYSICALLY CONVERGED ARCHITECTURESSeptember 2022November 2024Allow2610NoNo
17952169EFFICIENT DETERMINATION OF RF EXPOSURE FOR MIMO TRANSMITTERSSeptember 2022October 2023Allow1310NoNo
17951827LOW POWER PASSIVE MIMO SURFACE USING APERTURE TYPE RADIATORSSeptember 2022November 2023Allow1410NoNo
17943725LOW-RESOLUTION, LOW-POWER, RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVERSeptember 2022December 2023Abandon1520NoNo
17903867IMBALANCE COMPENSATION FOR UPLINK (UL) - MULTIPLE-INPUT AND MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) TRANSMISSIONSSeptember 2022September 2023Allow1200NoNo
17895393METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOW NOISE SUB-SAMPLING PHASE LOCK LOOP (PLL) ARCHITECTURE WITH AUTOMATIC DYNAMIC FREQUENCY ACQUISITIONAugust 2022January 2024Allow1700NoNo
17819528LDPC BASE GRAPH SELECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODSAugust 2022April 2024Allow2010YesNo
17798736UPLINK DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2022January 2024Allow1800NoNo
17797902METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A PILOT SEQUENCE, ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A CHANNEL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMAugust 2022January 2024Allow1800YesNo
17797980Eigenvector-Based Method and Apparatus for MIMO Equalizer Design via Linear Integer Forcing ArchitectureAugust 2022December 2023Allow1600NoNo
17879567BEAM CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUSAugust 2022May 2023Allow1010NoNo
17816622METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) RADAR SENSING WITH RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACE (RIS)August 2022April 2024Allow2111NoNo
17814639FLEXIBLE FREQUENCY HOPPINGJuly 2022August 2024Allow2520NoNo
17812630LOW PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL SEQUENCE AND PATTERNJuly 2022June 2023Allow1100NoNo
17864100EDGE ENHANCEMENT FOR SIGNAL TRANSMITTERJuly 2022April 2023Allow910NoNo
17860633RESOLVER INTEGRAL DEMODULATION USING ZERO CROSSING POINTSJuly 2022March 2023Allow800NoNo
17859969APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNAL FOR SIGNALING INFORMATION ABOUT COMBINATION OF LDM AND MIMO AND METHOD USING THE SAMEJuly 2022October 2023Allow1500NoNo
17852922Phase Modulated Data Link for Low-Swing Wireline ApplicationsJune 2022June 2023Allow1200NoNo
17851753Identification and Mitigation of Message Faults in 5G and 6G CommunicationsJune 2022October 2022Allow400NoNo
17847091SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING SERIAL RECEIVERJune 2022February 2025Allow3210YesNo
17756967COORDINATION OF DPUs IN A CROSSTALK ENVIRONMENTJune 2022April 2025Allow3410NoNo
17779201NETWORK NODES AND METHODS PERFORMED IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKMay 2022February 2024Allow2010NoNo
17750926SELECTIVE MAPPING OF CODED MULTI-CHANNEL TRANSMISSIONMay 2022October 2023Allow1610NoNo
17746144RESTRICTING UPLINK MIMO ASSIGNMENT BASED ON FADING IN AN mmWAVE SYSTEMMay 2022September 2022Allow400NoNo
17704451METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING INTERFERENCE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEMarch 2022September 2022Allow600NoNo

Appeals Overview

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Examiner GUARINO, RAHEL - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner GUARINO, RAHEL works in Art Unit 2631 and has examined 481 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 98.3%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 13 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner GUARINO, RAHEL's allowance rate of 98.3% places them in the 95% 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 GUARINO, RAHEL receive 0.80 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 8% 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 GUARINO, RAHEL is 13 months. This places the examiner in the 99% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +2.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by GUARINO, RAHEL. This interview benefit is in the 18% 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.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 34.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 71% 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 91.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 98% 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.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 21.6% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 12% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.2% 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 52.4% of allowed cases (in the 98% 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.

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.

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

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