USPTO Examiner SHEDRICK CHARLES TERRELL - Art Unit 2646

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18760357PARENT-CHILD CLUSTER COMPRESSIONJuly 2024July 2025Allow1310NoNo
18676907UE BEHAVIOR WITH REJECTION OF RESUME REQUESTMay 2024January 2025Allow700NoNo
18631844POINT-OF-VIEW IMAGE WARP SYSTEMS AND METHODSApril 2024December 2024Allow800NoNo
18626060ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND SYSTEMApril 2024January 2025Allow1010NoNo
18617183SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING ITEMSMarch 2024September 2025Allow1821YesNo
185909933D POINT CLOUD ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, COMPRESSION METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON GRAPH DICTIONARY LEARNINGFebruary 2024May 2024Allow300NoNo
18434462SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING TIMING DATA FROM AN INCOMPLETE PACKET TO MORE ACCURATELY DETERMINE THE POSITION OF A TRANSMITTERFebruary 2024March 2026Allow2500NoNo
18427296METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF POSITIONING RELATED PROTOCOLSJanuary 2024December 2024Allow1110YesNo
18416485Methods and Systems for Automatically Generating Backdrop Imagery for a Graphical User InterfaceJanuary 2024October 2024Allow910NoNo
18542919Calibration for multi-camera and multisensory SystemsDecember 2023September 2024Allow900NoNo
18533805METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF TRACKING VELOCITYDecember 2023January 2025Abandon1310NoNo
18510916DYNAMIC FOVEATED PIPELINENovember 2023July 2024Allow800NoNo
18387993IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHODNovember 2023June 2024Allow800NoNo
18479592PAGING INDICATION METHOD AND APPARATUSOctober 2023February 2026Allow2910NoNo
18476174APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COORDINATING A REAUTHENTICATION/REAUTHORIZATION PROCEDURE FOR ACCESS TO UNCREWED AERIAL SERVICESSeptember 2023February 2026Allow2810NoNo
18552819MEASUREMENT TRIGGERING FOR NETWORKS WITH MOVING NETWORK NODESSeptember 2023October 2025Allow2400NoNo
18467207Minimum Deep Learning with Gating MultiplierSeptember 2023July 2024Allow1000NoNo
18466919METHODS AND DEVICES FOR BINARY ENTROPY CODING OF POINT CLOUDSSeptember 2023August 2024Allow1110NoNo
18465352Encoders for Improved Image DitheringSeptember 2023July 2025Allow2320YesYes
18463257Large-Scale Event Detection Using Voronoi CellsSeptember 2023February 2026Allow3000NoNo
18242416LOCALLY VARYING NUMERICAL RANGES FOR DATA COMPRESSIONSeptember 2023August 2024Allow1110NoNo
18233493ALERT PERIPHERAL FOR NOTIFICATION OF EVENTS OCCURRING ON A PROGRAMMABLE USER EQUIPMENT WITH COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIESAugust 2023February 2025Allow1820YesNo
17564728CT SUPER-RESOLUTION GAN CONSTRAINED BY THE IDENTICAL, RESIDUAL AND CYCLE LEARNING ENSEMBLE (GAN-CIRCLE)August 2023August 2023Allow1910NoNo
18275394BASE STATION ALLOCATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, BASE STATION ALLOCATION SUPPORT METHOD AND PROGRAMAugust 2023January 2026Allow2910NoNo
18351111COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUSJuly 2023August 2025Allow2500NoNo
18347871METHOD FOR DIRECT CURRENT LOCATION PROCESSING AND RELATED DEVICEJuly 2023December 2025Allow3010NoNo
18341871SUPPRESSING INDICATIONS OF EVENTS IN USER INTERFACESJune 2023April 2024Allow910NoNo
18267358PAGING MESSAGE MONITORING METHOD, PAGING MESSAGE MONITORING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2023December 2025Allow3010NoNo
18331948AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUSJune 2023November 2025Allow2900NoNo
18200482POLICY INFORMATION TO POLICY CONTROL AND CONFIRMATION TO SESSION MANAGEMENTMay 2023February 2024Allow810NoNo
18144861WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY AND METHODSMay 2023July 2025Allow2621NoNo
18314638DEEP LEARNING-BASED VARIANT CLASSIFIERMay 2023May 2024Allow1310YesNo
18312011Performing Inference And Training Using Sparse Neural NetworkMay 2023February 2025Allow2130NoNo
18251757Periodic Registration Update Procedure for Non-Allowed Service AreasMay 2023February 2026Allow3310NoNo
18298448PARENT-CHILD CLUSTER COMPRESSIONApril 2023April 2024Allow1210NoNo
18132648UE BEHAVIOR WITH REJECTION OF RESUME REQUESTApril 2023February 2024Allow1010NoNo
18132939METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING/DECODING THE GEOMETRY OF A POINT CLOUDApril 2023April 2024Allow1210NoNo
18295771Subscriber Identity Module Over-The-Air Push NotificationApril 2023February 2026Allow3510YesNo
18194623INDEPENDENT AND CONTINUOUS VERIFICATION OF SECURITY AND ATTESTATION ZONES IN A DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORKApril 2023June 2025Allow2600NoNo
18128654INVALID AREA SPECIFYING METHOD FOR TOUCH PANEL OF MOBILE TERMINALMarch 2023February 2024Allow1010NoNo
18191944KEY DERIVATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMMarch 2023October 2025Allow3110NoNo
181824013D POINT CLOUD COMPRESSION SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-SCALE STRUCTURED DICTIONARY LEARNINGMarch 2023May 2023Allow200NoNo
18106652System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Perforated Backpropagation in an Artificial Neural NetworkFebruary 2023August 2023Allow610NoNo
18103437Calibration for multi-camera and multisensory SystemsJanuary 2023September 2023Allow810NoNo
18157365USING NEURAL NETWORKS TO PERFORM FAULT DETECTION IN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING APPLICATIONSJanuary 2023December 2024Allow2330YesNo
18156601DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJanuary 2023November 2025Abandon3410NoNo
18147278GENERATING OBJECT MASKS OF OBJECT PARTS UTLIZING DEEP LEARNINGDecember 2022October 2023Allow900NoNo
18145118CONTENT-ADAPTIVE TILING SOLUTION VIA IMAGE SIMILARITY FOR EFFICIENT IMAGE COMPRESSIONDecember 2022July 2023Allow710NoNo
18069466METHODS AND DEVICES FOR BINARY ENTROPY CODING OF POINT CLOUDSDecember 2022June 2023Allow610NoNo
18065675METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING AN OPHTHALMIC LENS IN AN AUTOMATED LENS MANUFACTURING PROCESSDecember 2022August 2025Allow3210NoNo
18074072APPARATUS FOR INTERPOLATING POINT CLOUD AND METHOD THEREOFDecember 2022June 2025Allow3010NoNo
18073789THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICEDecember 2022March 2025Allow2700NoNo
18070898IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MACHINE TOOLNovember 2022May 2025Allow3000NoNo
17983843IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS BOTH USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD PERFORMED BY THE IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND THE IMAGE DECODING APPARATUSNovember 2022March 2025Allow2800NoNo
17982763SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING ITEMSNovember 2022March 2025Abandon2850YesNo
17983064POINT CLOUD COMPRESSION METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER, AND STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2022November 2025Abandon3720NoNo
17981251APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VOLUME DATANovember 2022January 2026Allow3910NoNo
17976192SUPER RESOLUTION UPSCALINGOctober 2022January 2025Allow2600NoNo
17921406PRESENCE PROOF SYSTEM, PRESENCE PROOF METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMOctober 2022February 2025Allow2800NoNo
17973967SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR 3D POINT CLOUD DENSIFICATIONOctober 2022November 2025Allow3700NoNo
17969242SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTENT ADAPTIVE ONLINE TRAINING FOR MULTIPLE BLOCKS BASED ON CERTAIN PATTERNSOctober 2022September 2025Allow3420YesNo
17918170GENERATING QUANTIZATION TABLES FOR IMAGE COMPRESSIONOctober 2022February 2026Allow4010NoNo
17962178Mechanism to Activate and Manage a Standalone Device for Cellular ServiceOctober 2022May 2023Allow800NoNo
17933578INTERPRETING COLOR IN AN ENVIRONMENTSeptember 2022October 2025Allow3710YesNo
17906642INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODSeptember 2022January 2026Abandon4020NoNo
17947255IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2022August 2023Allow1110NoNo
17911766AUTHENTICATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AUTHENTICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUMSeptember 2022November 2025Abandon3820YesNo
17942284IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2022June 2025Allow3310NoNo
17930923Body Pose Tracking of Players from Sports Broadcast Video FeedSeptember 2022January 2025Allow2810NoNo
17901700THREE-DIMENSIONAL HUMAN POSE ESTIMATION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUSSeptember 2022October 2024Allow2500NoNo
17895517METHOD FOR DETECTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS IN ROADWAY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEAugust 2022September 2024Allow2500NoNo
17802046INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, FACE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODAugust 2022May 2025Abandon3210NoNo
17801103PHOTOGRAPHING CONTROL DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAMAugust 2022April 2025Abandon3110NoNo
17800688Systems and Methods for Object Detection Including Pose and Size EstimationAugust 2022July 2025Allow3520YesNo
17799301CONTENT-ADAPTIVE BINOCULAR MATCHING METHOD AND APPARATUSAugust 2022February 2023Allow600NoNo
17814461OBSTACLE DETECTION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2022March 2025Allow3210NoNo
17811450RE-IDENTIFICATION OF AGENTS USING IMAGE ANALYSIS AND MACHINE LEARNINGJuly 2022October 2023Allow1500NoNo
17856165ALERT PERIPHERAL FOR NOTIFICATION OF EVENTS OCCURRING ON A PROGRAMMABLE USER EQUIPMENT WITH COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIESJuly 2022March 2023Allow910NoNo
17833723LEARNING VISUAL CONCEPTS USING NEURAL NETWORKSJune 2022May 2023Allow1110NoNo
17829588DATA COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOFJune 2022March 2025Allow3310NoNo
17781315SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TELESTRATION WITH SPATIAL MEMORYMay 2022October 2025Allow4130YesNo
17751359ITERATIVE MULTISCALE IMAGE GENERATION USING NEURAL NETWORKSMay 2022March 2023Allow1010NoNo
17743774Training Method of Facial Expression Embedding Model, Facial Expression Embedding Method and Facial Expression Embedding DeviceMay 2022January 2025Allow3210NoNo
17739166POINT CLOUD RECONSTRUCTION METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON PYRAMID TRANSFORMER, DEVICE, AND MEDIUMMay 2022August 2022Allow400NoNo
17722360SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERIC VISUAL ODOMETRY USING LEARNED FEATURES VIA NEURAL CAMERA MODELSApril 2022February 2025Allow3421YesNo
17720790ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING METAVERSE ENVIRONMENT USING DRAWING MOTION AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAMEApril 2022April 2025Allow3610NoNo
17699837PROCESSING 2-D PROJECTION IMAGES USING A NEURAL NETWORKMarch 2022August 2025Allow4120YesNo
17655531METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TWO-PHASE CAMERA TO LIDAR ALIGNMENTMarch 2022October 2023Allow1900NoNo
17641827SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEURAL-NETWORK BASED COLOR RESTORATIONMarch 2022January 2025Allow3410YesNo
17681533SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR PROCESSING IMAGE PIXEL VALUESFebruary 2022July 2025Allow4120NoNo
17678732SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OBJECT DETECTION BASED ON IMAGE DATAFebruary 2022September 2025Abandon4360YesNo
17678646METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING IMAGEFebruary 2022March 2025Abandon3650NoNo
17667688DEVICE BASED ON MACHINE LEARNINGFebruary 2022July 2024Allow2910NoNo
17650460MORE EFFICIENT AUTOMATIC DOOR SENSINGFebruary 2022July 2024Allow2910YesNo
17587309SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-EXPOSURE, MULTI-FRAME BLENDING OF RED-GREEN-BLUE-WHITE (RGBW) IMAGESJanuary 2022March 2024Allow2600NoNo
17586733INTELLIGENT PERSISTENT MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENTJanuary 2022June 2023Allow1720NoYes
17584662METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH IMAGE DISPLAYJanuary 2022December 2025Allow4630NoNo
17648808PROGRESSIVE DATA COMPRESSION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKSJanuary 2022April 2024Allow2710NoNo
17629377STORAGE MEDIUM, TRACE DETECTION DEVICE, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING TRACE DETECTION MODELJanuary 2022May 2025Allow4020NoNo
17648414FUZZY LOGIC-BASED PATTERN MATCHING AND CORNER FILTERING FOR DISPLAY SCALERJanuary 2022June 2024Allow2900NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
28
Examiner Affirmed
19
(67.9%)
Examiner Reversed
9
(32.1%)
Reversal Percentile
48.6%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 32.1% 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.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
72
Allowed After Appeal Filing
22
(30.6%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
50
(69.4%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
46.4%
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, 30.6% 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.

Strategic Recommendations

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 SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL works in Art Unit 2646 and has examined 785 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 84.8%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 22 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL's allowance rate of 84.8% places them in the 61% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL receive 1.91 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 46% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL is 22 months. This places the examiner in the 88% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +7.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL. This interview benefit is in the 35% 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, 28.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 51% 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 30.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 44% 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.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 68.6% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 58% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. If you have strong arguments, a PAC request may result in favorable reconsideration.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 60.6% of appeals filed. This is in the 38% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 39.5% 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, 62.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 67% 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 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 60% 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 27% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may 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:

    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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