Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18635112 | System and Method for Authoring Human-Involved Context-Aware Applications | April 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18541002 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED DEFECT ANALYSIS REPORTING AND TRACKING | December 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18561588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO PROCESSING, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18491916 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR GENERATING DEPTH MAP AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | October 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18380207 | CALIBRATION METHOD OF APPARATUS INSTALLATION PARAMETER AND RELATED SURVEILLANCE DEVICE | October 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18287033 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18552156 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VEHICLE, ROADSIDE UNIT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18463068 | GEOMETRY-AWARE SEMANTICS SEGMENTATION WITH GRAVITY-NORMAL REGULARIZATION | September 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18455140 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE PERFORMING INTERPOLATION, OPERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18228832 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18225950 | AUTOMATED COLOR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMAGES BASED ON OBJECT FEATURES | July 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18344582 | PLANT TREATMENT MODEL SELECTION BASED ON AGRICULTURAL IMAGE INTERACTION | June 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18339173 | HARDWARE-EFFICIENT DISPARITY ESTIMATION USING THE DCT OF INTERLEAVED IMAGES | June 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18206216 | SKELETON ESTIMATION DEVICE, SKELETON ESTIMATION METHOD, AND GYMNASTICS SCORING SUPPORT SYSTEM | June 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18298243 | VIDEO PROCESSING | April 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18188873 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM | March 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18173593 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR QUALITY CONTROL OF A DIGITAL IMAGE OF A SAMPLE | February 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18160067 | VIRUS DETECTION METHOD USING COLOR CHANGE OF VIRUS DETECTOR | January 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18078657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY AMALGAMATED CNN-TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURE FOR MOBILE VISION APPLICATIONS | December 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18008051 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17980184 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IDENTIFYING STATE OF LIGHTING | November 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17922826 | IMAGE SELECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE SELECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17911406 | PARKING SPACE DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17930720 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, RADIOGRAPHY APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | September 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17940206 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBJECTS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR THE SAME | September 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17818706 | PROXIMITY DANGER DETECTION BASED ON SUBJECT AND OBJECT DISTANCE ANALYSIS | August 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17784770 | CORRECTION OF IMAGES AND DEPTH INFORMATION FOR DETECTION WITH MATRIX | June 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17827798 | CONTOUR EXTRACTION DEVICE, CONTOUR EXTRACTION METHOD, AND CONTOUR EXTRACTION PROGRAM | May 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17825256 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-MODAL IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION | May 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17752015 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17722387 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND FACIAL EXPRESSION DETERMINATION METHOD | April 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17710147 | CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17642412 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | March 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17652672 | Similarity-Embedding Binarization | February 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17652669 | Soft function based Similarity-Embedding Binarization | February 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17650978 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING IMAGE INFORMATION WITH AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK | February 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17669340 | DIVISION LINE RECOGNITION APPARATUS | February 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17668057 | APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING PARAMETER RELATED TO DEFECT DETECTION FOR IMAGE PROCESSING , METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND PROGRAM | February 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17667523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNSUPERVISED SUPERPIXEL-DRIVEN INSTANCE SEGMENTATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGE | February 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17581244 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WELDING WORKPIECE BY VISION GUIDED WELDING PLATFORM | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17573161 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR 360-DEGREE VIDEO STITCHING | January 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17644469 | System and Method For Capturing Tire Sidewall Data From A Moving Vehicle | December 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17617597 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR AUTHENTICATING A USER | December 2021 | September 2025 | Allow | 46 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17543065 | MODEL WITH USAGE DATA COMPENSATION | December 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17542535 | Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Model for 3D Prostate Zonal Segmentation | December 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17541753 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH OBJECT TRACKING USING DYNAMIC FIELD OF VIEW | December 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 43 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17456977 | ALGORITHM FOR MIX-SIZE DEPALLETIZING | November 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17614559 | IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | November 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17614825 | Method for Detecting and Tracking Orbiting Objects By On-Board Processing of Images Acquired By A Space Platform | November 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17513433 | LIDAR LOCALIZATION USING OPTICAL FLOW | October 2021 | August 2025 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17510227 | MASK INSPECTION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR SPECIMEN FABRICATION | October 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17504070 | Acquisition of optical characteristics | October 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17601377 | Methods and Systems for Cystoscopic Imaging Incorporating Machine Learning | October 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17493045 | POSE ESTIMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS TRAINED USING MOTION CAPTURE DATA | October 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17486952 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM | September 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 43 | 5 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17442964 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, MOBILE BODY, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | September 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17485165 | Triggering a head-pose dependent action | September 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 45 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17448861 | INTENSITY THRESHOLDING-BASED IMAGE MODIFICATION FOR COMPUTER VISION | September 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17476555 | DEFECT IMAGE GENERATION METHOD FOR DEEP LEARNING AND SYSTEM THEREFOR | September 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17460038 | SELF-ORGANIZED LEARNING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION DATA | August 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 39 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17411971 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | August 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17409249 | Systems And Methods For Generating Predicted Visual Observations Of An Environment Using Machine Learned Models | August 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17401543 | METHODS FOR CREATING PRIVACY-PROTECTING SYNTHETIC DATA LEVERAGING A CONSTRAINED GENERATIVE ENSEMBLE MODEL | August 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17444881 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR ALIASING ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING | August 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17430062 | LESION AREA DIVIDING DEVICE, MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, LESION AREA DIVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | August 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17389469 | METHOD FOR LABELING IMAGE OBJECTS | July 2021 | April 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17366350 | METHOD FOR DE-NOISING AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPE IMAGE | July 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17365089 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM | July 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17365533 | METHODS OF GEOLOGIC SAMPLE ANALYSIS | July 2021 | December 2024 | Abandon | 42 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17363365 | System and Method for Authoring Human-Involved Context-Aware Applications | June 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17360535 | IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17296560 | METHOD FOR COMMON DETECTING, TRACKING AND CLASSIFYING OF OBJECTS | May 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17296783 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A DROWSINESS LEVEL OF A MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER | May 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 44 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17316471 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING VOLUMES OF 3D IMAGES | May 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17313758 | DEEP LEARNING BASED VISUAL SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING | May 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17308134 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAINING AN EVALUATION ALGORITHM, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND ELECTRONICALLY READABLE DATA CARRIER | May 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17278535 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING, BY A PROCESSING MODULE, AN ACQUISITION MODULE RELATIVE TO A DEVICE TO BE MONITORED | April 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 49 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17230639 | MACHINE LEARNING NETWORK BASED CARRIAGE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR MAINTENANCE STRIPING | April 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17219322 | ACTION RECOGNITION USING LIMITED DATA | March 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 52 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17201851 | WIND DETERMINATION METHOD, WIND DETERMINATION SYSTEM, AND WIND DETERMINATION COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION BASED ON IMAGE ANALYSIS | March 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17187466 | TUMOR RECURRENCE PREDICTION DEVICE AND METHOD | February 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17123920 | MACHINE VISION BASED AUTOMATIC NEEDLE CANNULA INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | December 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BILODEAU, DUSTIN E.
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, 50.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner BILODEAU, DUSTIN E works in Art Unit 2664 and has examined 41 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 87.8%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 40 months.
Examiner BILODEAU, DUSTIN E's allowance rate of 87.8% places them in the 67% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by BILODEAU, DUSTIN E receive 2.44 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 70% 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 BILODEAU, DUSTIN E is 40 months. This places the examiner in the 24% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +9.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BILODEAU, DUSTIN E. This interview benefit is in the 42% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 26.1% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 42% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 41.7% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 64% 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.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 100.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 73% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 91% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 133.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 96% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 21% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 28% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may come directly without a separate action for formal matters.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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