USPTO Examiner SAINT CYR LEONARD - Art Unit 2658

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19196797METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND DEVICES FOR FACILITATING CUSTOMIZABLE COMMUNICATIONS WITH USERSMay 2025March 2026Allow1020NoNo
19188918DETERMINING A NEXT-BEST ACTION ACROSS MEDICAL CONDITIONSApril 2025December 2025Allow810NoNo
19050862TRANSLATION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO COMPUTATIONAL EVIDENCE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOFFebruary 2025December 2025Allow1120YesNo
19050872TRANSLATION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO COMPUTATIONAL EVIDENCE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOFFebruary 2025December 2025Allow1010NoNo
19045329TRANSLATION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO COMPUTATIONAL EVIDENCE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOFFebruary 2025December 2025Allow1010NoNo
18761943APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED SAFETY DATA SHEET PROCESSINGJuly 2024August 2025Abandon1310NoNo
18753840SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS WITHIN A MEDIA ASSET WITHOUT BREAKING IMMERSIONJune 2024August 2025Allow1410NoNo
18746910IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAMEJune 2024August 2025Allow1420YesNo
18663831NON-SPEECH INPUT TO SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEMMay 2024July 2025Allow1420NoNo
18662334SELECTIVE ADAPTATION AND UTILIZATION OF NOISE REDUCTION TECHNIQUE IN INVOCATION PHRASE DETECTIONMay 2024November 2024Allow600NoNo
18649738AUDIO DECODER AND DECODING METHODApril 2024April 2025Allow1110NoNo
18702550METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING A FUNCTIONAL UNIT OF A VEHICLEApril 2024March 2026Allow2310NoNo
18636728Interactive conversation assistance using semantic search and generative AIApril 2024March 2025Allow1100NoNo
18633112DECODING AUDIO BITSTREAMS WITH ENHANCED SPECTRAL BAND REPLICATION METADATA IN AT LEAST ONE FILL ELEMENTApril 2024November 2024Allow700NoNo
18620081SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVELY NORMALIZING LOUDNESS OF AUDIO SIGNALS WITHIN PORTABLE DEVICESMarch 2024November 2024Allow710NoNo
18605696COMMUNICATIONS AND CONTENT PLATFORMMarch 2024February 2025Allow1130YesNo
18442239DIALOG UNDERSTANDING DEVICE AND DIALOG UNDERSTANDING METHODFebruary 2024January 2026Allow2310NoNo
18431516TRIGGER WORD DETECTION WITH MULTIPLE DIGITAL ASSISTANTSFebruary 2024September 2025Allow1930NoNo
18428431Emoji Understanding in Online ExperiencesJanuary 2024November 2025Allow2230YesNo
18406508DETERMINING A NEXT-BEST ACTION ACROSS MEDICAL CONDITIONSJanuary 2024March 2025Allow1510YesNo
18407281DIGITAL ASSISTANT HARDWARE ABSTRACTIONJanuary 2024November 2024Allow1010YesNo
18397693SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED AUDIO MIXINGDecember 2023December 2025Allow2410YesNo
18538381Signal Processing Method and DeviceDecember 2023November 2024Allow1110NoNo
18535040CONTENT PLAYBACK SYSTEMDecember 2023July 2025Allow1920NoNo
18524654Encoding Method, Decoding Method, Encoding Apparatus, and Decoding ApparatusNovember 2023September 2024Allow1010NoNo
18561788DIALOGUE APPARATUS, DIALOGUE METHOD, AND PROGRAMNovember 2023December 2025Allow2510NoNo
18389315SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRECTING ERRORS IN CAPTION TEXTNovember 2023October 2024Allow1110NoNo
18496523SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING A CUSTOMIZED GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT PLATFORMOctober 2023February 2026Allow2810YesNo
18481979Context Aware NotificationsOctober 2023October 2025Allow2410NoNo
18475580METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL SPACE IN WHICH INTERACTION WITH ANOTHER ENTITY IS APPLIED TO ENTITYSeptember 2023January 2026Allow2710YesNo
18283762SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A CLOSED DOMAIN CONVERSATIONSeptember 2023January 2026Allow2710NoNo
18370222ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OPERATING STATE OF PLURALITY OF DEVICESSeptember 2023September 2025Allow2410NoNo
18369496SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENTLY CONFIGURING AND DEPLOYING A CONVERSATIONAL MEMORY-INFORMED CONTROL STRUCTURE OF A MACHINE LEARNING-BASED DIALOGUE SYSTEMSeptember 2023November 2023Allow200NoNo
18461590METHOD OF RECOMMENDING EMOTION ICONSSeptember 2023August 2025Allow2410YesNo
18242202LOW-POWER KEYWORD SPOTTING SYSTEMSeptember 2023March 2024Allow700NoNo
18458546METHOD OF ANALYSIS TEXT MESSAGE SYNTACTICALLY AND BY CONTENTAugust 2023November 2025Abandon2710NoNo
18238231SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS WITHIN A MEDIA ASSET WITHOUT BREAKING IMMERSIONAugust 2023March 2024Allow700NoNo
18236945SPEAKER-DEPENDENT VOICE-ACTIVATED CAMERA SYSTEMAugust 2023November 2025Allow2740NoYes
18451399SOUND PROCESSING WITH INCREASED NOISE SUPPRESSIONAugust 2023April 2025Allow2020NoYes
18449244Handling of loss of pairing between networked devicesAugust 2023December 2024Allow1620NoNo
18446954TRANSLATION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO COMPUTATIONAL EVIDENCE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOFAugust 2023February 2026Abandon3110NoNo
18230921SYSTEM TO PROVIDE NATURAL UTTERANCE BY A VOICE ASSISTANT AND METHOD THEREOFAugust 2023October 2025Allow2710YesNo
18365322Filling of Non-Coded Sub-Vectors in Transform Coded Audio SignalsAugust 2023June 2024Allow1010NoNo
18227741INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2023January 2025Allow1720NoNo
18227716INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2023December 2024Allow1720NoNo
18227729INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2023January 2025Allow1820NoNo
18227142METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SMART VISUAL INTERPRETERSJuly 2023December 2025Abandon2910NoNo
18360367MULTI-MODAL INTERFACE IN A VOICE-ACTIVATED NETWORKJuly 2023May 2024Allow1000NoNo
18223265METHOD EXECUTED BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2023September 2025Allow2610YesNo
18351769AUDIO DECODER AND DECODING METHODJuly 2023January 2024Allow700NoNo
18346537ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING AN OPERATION CORRESPONDING TO A USER'S VOICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFJuly 2023November 2025Allow2910YesNo
18217516HIERARCHICAL MODEL TO PROCESS CONVERSATIONSJune 2023January 2024Allow710YesNo
18343192SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A FUEL PUMPJune 2023September 2024Allow1520NoNo
18340565Message Filtering Based on Dynamic Voice-Activated RulesJune 2023August 2024Allow1420YesNo
18212364APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF INTEGRATED SPEECH AND AUDIOJune 2023September 2024Allow1520NoNo
18210963MULTI-USER AUTHENTICATION ON A DEVICEJune 2023December 2025Allow3010YesNo
18330766ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOFJune 2023January 2026Allow3120NoNo
18329787SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE PROPER NAME ENTITY RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDINGJune 2023July 2024Allow1310NoNo
18204767TECHNIQUES TO ADD SMART DEVICE INFORMATION TO MACHINE LEARNING FOR INCREASED CONTEXTJune 2023May 2024Allow1210NoNo
18318443DECODING AUDIO BITSTREAMS WITH ENHANCED SPECTRAL BAND REPLICATION METADATA IN AT LEAST ONE FILL ELEMENTMay 2023December 2023Allow700NoNo
18141884Interactive conversation assistance using semantic search and generative AIMay 2023February 2024Allow920NoYes
18306628Connection Strength-Based Name Detection And Attribution In ConferencesApril 2023November 2025Allow3010YesNo
18303919SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVELY NORMALIZING LOUDNESS OF AUDIO SIGNALS WITHIN PORTABLE DEVICESApril 2023December 2023Allow700NoNo
18032815METHOD FOR DETECTING AN AUDIO ADVERSARIAL ATTACK WITH RESPECT TO A VOICE COMMAND PROCESSED BYAN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, CORRESPONDING DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-READABLE CARRIER MEDIUMApril 2023December 2025Abandon3210NoNo
18303869Systems and Methods for Identifying and Providing Information about Semantic Entities in Audio SignalsApril 2023April 2025Allow2410NoNo
18303336TRIGGER WORD DETECTION WITH MULTIPLE DIGITAL ASSISTANTSApril 2023December 2023Allow800NoNo
18135026TRANSLATION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO COMPUTATIONAL EVIDENCE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOFApril 2023October 2023Allow620YesNo
18133743SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHODApril 2023November 2025Allow3110NoNo
18131895IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAMEApril 2023February 2024Allow1110YesNo
18295888METHOD FOR SUPPORTING ONLINE DIALOGUE, PROGRAM FOR CAUSING PROCESSOR TO EXECUTE THE METHOD FOR SUPPORTING, AND SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR ONLINE DIALOGUEApril 2023November 2025Abandon3110NoNo
18192282METHOD FOR UTILIZING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY AN UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO COMMANDMarch 2023October 2025Allow3110YesNo
18126025DISAMBIGUATING CONTACTS USING RELATIONSHIP DATAMarch 2023February 2024Allow1110NoNo
18121351TEXT TRANSLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMMarch 2023June 2025Allow2710NoNo
18120557Emoji Understanding in Online ExperiencesMarch 2023October 2023Allow710YesNo
18115413OUTSIDE ORDERING SYSTEMFebruary 2023May 2024Abandon1410NoNo
18159679Guided Speech Enhancement NetworkJanuary 2023October 2025Allow3320NoNo
18157518Signal Processing Method and DeviceJanuary 2023September 2023Allow810NoNo
18153128MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUSJanuary 2023June 2025Allow2910NoNo
18095464SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MISMATCH BETWEEN A USER SENTIMENT AND A POLARITY OF A SITUATION USING AN AI CHATBOTJanuary 2023April 2023Allow300NoNo
18082742NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERACTIONS USING VISUAL UNDERSTANDINGDecember 2022August 2025Allow3210NoNo
18065588VOICE RECOGNITION GRAMMAR SELECTION BASED ON CONTEXTDecember 2022December 2025Allow3620NoYes
18079088Filling of Non-Coded Sub-Vectors in Transform Coded Audio SignalsDecember 2022May 2023Allow500NoNo
18077194CONTROLLING INTERACTIVE AGENTS USING MULTI-MODAL INPUTSDecember 2022July 2025Allow3210NoNo
18076144SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING THE BLIND IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTDecember 2022April 2025Abandon2910NoNo
18061189METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A DYNAMIC SEQUENCE OF ACTIONSDecember 2022October 2023Allow1110YesNo
18057536GENERATING SENTIMENT MODELS USING WEAK LABELS GENERATED FROM DISCOURSE MARKERSNovember 2022June 2025Allow3110YesNo
17925774CHARACTERIZATION VIA HOMOLOGIZING DISPARATE SPEECH TERMINOLOGYNovember 2022April 2025Allow2910NoNo
17988125PATH DROPOUT FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSINGNovember 2022June 2025Allow3110YesNo
17984743DATA AUGMENTATION AND BATCH BALANCING METHODS TO ENHANCE NEGATION AND FAIRNESSNovember 2022May 2025Allow3010YesNo
18054120GENERATION OF IMPOSITION TYPE LISTS FOR INPUT TEXTNovember 2022February 2026Allow4040NoNo
18053449SPEECH CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2022April 2025Abandon3010NoNo
17923237METHOD FOR GENERATING KEYWORD FOR SOUND SOURCENovember 2022June 2025Abandon3110NoNo
17977980CONTEXT-BIASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VIDEO GENERATIONOctober 2022September 2023Allow1010NoNo
17974409Question Answering Method for Query Information, and Related ApparatusOctober 2022March 2025Allow2910NoNo
17919982PHRASE-BASED END-TO-END TEXT-TO-SPEECH (TTS) SYNTHESISOctober 2022February 2025Allow2810NoNo
18047465SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNDESIRABLE AND POTENTIALLY HARMFUL ONLINE BEHAVIOROctober 2022April 2023Allow600NoNo
17967924DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED WORDS FOR CHARACTER INPUTOctober 2022September 2024Allow2330NoNo
17961861SYSTEM AND METHOD OF REINFORCING GENERAL PURPOSE NATURAL LANGUAGE MODELS WITH ACQUIRED SUBJECT MATTEROctober 2022October 2025Allow3620NoNo
17951216TRANSLATION METHOD, MODEL TRAINING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND STORAGE MEDIUMSSeptember 2022January 2025Allow2810NoNo
17950656DYNAMIC VOCABULARY CUSTOMIZATION IN AUTOMATED VOICE SYSTEMSSeptember 2022February 2024Allow1710NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SAINT CYR, LEONARD.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
24
Examiner Affirmed
16
(66.7%)
Examiner Reversed
8
(33.3%)
Reversal Percentile
52.4%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 33.3% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is above the USPTO average, indicating that appeals have better success here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
81
Allowed After Appeal Filing
36
(44.4%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
45
(55.6%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
73.0%
Higher 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, 44.4% 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.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB show good success rates. If you have a strong case on the merits, consider fully prosecuting the appeal to a Board decision.

Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Examiner SAINT CYR, LEONARD - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner SAINT CYR, LEONARD works in Art Unit 2658 and has examined 823 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 84.4%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 28 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner SAINT CYR, LEONARD's allowance rate of 84.4% places them in the 60% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by SAINT CYR, LEONARD receive 2.19 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 60% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by SAINT CYR, LEONARD is 28 months. This places the examiner in the 69% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +13.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SAINT CYR, LEONARD. This interview benefit is in the 51% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 29.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 55% 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 44.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 68% 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.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 50.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 44% 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.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 71.1% of appeals filed. This is in the 58% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 45.8% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows above-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. The mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) provides an opportunity for reconsideration.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 33.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 21% 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 0.7% of allowed cases (in the 64% 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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