Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18647366 | COMBINING BRIGHTFIELD AND FLUORESCENT CHANNELS FOR CELL IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS IN IMAGES OBTAINED FROM AN IMAGING FLOW CYTOMETER | April 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18630301 | OBSTACLE RECOGNITION METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS | April 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18689205 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING CHARACTERIZATION OF ONE OR MORE MATERIALS | March 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18593067 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING KEYPOINT MOVEMENT FOR MULTIPLE SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS USING SPATIAL-TEMPORAL GRAPH ATTENTION MODELING | March 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18581444 | METHOD FOR GENERATING IMPROVED TRAINING DATA VIDEO AND APPARATUS THEREOF | February 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18572118 | REPRESENTATIONS OF FOOT FEATURES | December 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18467086 | ANALYZING MECHANICAL COMPONENTS | September 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18276633 | IDENTIFICATION OF WORKERS USING PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND WORKER MOVEMENT CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS | August 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18363433 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING FROM 3D DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS AND DIGITAL POINT POSITIONING DATABASE CONTROLLED STEREO IMAGERY | August 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18226050 | INTERFACE DETECTION IN RECIPROCAL SPACE | July 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18218971 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING PORTRAIT IMAGE, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18328837 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TIRE TREAD PATTERN IMAGE SEGMENTATION | June 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18190510 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | March 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18246625 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) FACIAL FEATURE TRACKING FOR AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC TELEPRESENCE SYSTEMS | March 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18116686 | Machine-Learning Models Trained to Modify Image Illumination Without Ground-Truth Images | March 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18114929 | METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING ANOMALOUS LANE LINE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | February 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18167477 | OBTAINING REALISTIC BOUNDARIES OF STRUCTURAL DEFECTS OF MATERIALS IN IMAGES OF STRUCTURES | February 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18158541 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CATEGORIZING AND ADJUSTING ORIENTATION OF CLINICAL IMAGE | January 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18095573 | DRIVER ATTENTION AREA PREDICTION SYSTEM | January 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18087809 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED 2D STRUCTURED IMAGE GENERATION | December 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18087431 | DUAL DETAIL ENCODING IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM | December 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18084444 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING VIDEO DATA, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE | December 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18010495 | POSITIONING DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | December 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17928583 | OPERATION DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND OPERATION DETERMINATION METHOD | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18057133 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18057167 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF READING INFORMATION FROM INFORMATION CODE, AND INFORMATION CODE READING METHOD | November 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17979434 | MONITORING PROCESS STATIONS UTILIZING VISUAL INDICATORS | November 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17977032 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE AUTHENTICITY OF AN IDENTITY DOCUMENT | October 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17920223 | Point-Cloud Processing | October 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17919319 | Method of Detecting at Least One Geological Constituent of a Rock Sample | October 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17966628 | METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING RETINAL LAYERS IN OCT IMAGE | October 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17966142 | DATA OBTAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS | October 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17963009 | FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING BRAIN MAPPING AND NEUROMODULATION GUIDANCE AND MONITORING BASED THEREON | October 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17931878 | POINT CLOUD DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, POINT CLOUD DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | September 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17930263 | SELECTING A TILT ANGLE OF AN AR DISPLAY | September 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17909828 | DATA GENERATING METHOD, LEARNING METHOD, ESTIMATING METHOD, DATA GENERATING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM | September 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17909504 | LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING BY A GROUP OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17903160 | INTER-AND EXTRAPOLATION OF CHEST IMAGE AND MECHANICAL VENTILATION SETTINGS INTO A TIME LAPSE SERIES FOR PROGRESSION MONITORING AND OUTCOME PREDICTION DURING LONG TERM MECHANICAL VENTILATION | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17903656 | System to Identify and Isolate Selected Crustaceans Using Flipping Device to View Ventral Surface | September 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17902323 | DATA LABELING METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17901768 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED PAYROLL ADMINISTRATION IN A FREELANCE WORKFORCE | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17801573 | REAL-TIME MONITORING AND EARLY DETECTION SYSTEM FOR INSECT ACTIVITY IN GRAINS DURING STORAGE | August 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17817665 | SPOOF IMAGES FOR USER AUTHENTICATION | August 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17816559 | HARDWARE ACCELERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON SCALE-INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORM ALGORITHM | August 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17796670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LABELING AN IMAGE | July 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17876908 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MULTI-ATTRIBUTE NETWORK BASED FAKE IMAGERY DETECTION (MANFID) | July 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17874940 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING FAKE IMAGE DISCRIMINATIVE MODEL | July 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17873263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING LANES USING A SEGMENTED IMAGE AND SEMANTIC CONTEXT | July 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17867281 | RANKING PUBLICATIONS FOR AN OBJECT OF INTEREST | July 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17758678 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | July 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17791099 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING MEDICAL IMAGE | July 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17856693 | Systems and Methods for Lightweight Machine Learning for Image Illumination Control | July 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17787012 | GAZE POINT CALCULATION APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | June 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17838205 | NON-CONTACT FACIAL BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT METHOD BASED ON 3D CNN | June 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17837636 | SCALABLE KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION TECHNIQUES FOR MACHINE LEARNING | June 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17833713 | DETERMINING CONTOUR EDGES FOR AN IMAGE | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17833460 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A GRASPING HAND MODEL | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17830171 | CONTROL METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17827973 | IN-CABIN OCCUPANT AGE DETERMINATION | May 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17780490 | ANOMALY DETECTOR, METHOD OF ANOMALY DETECTION AND METHOD OF TRAINING AN ANOMALY DETECTOR | May 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17750993 | METHOD FOR GENERATING 3D REFERENCE POINTS IN A MAP OF A SCENE | May 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17750440 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17738678 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING OCCLUDED OBJECTS | May 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17772843 | HIGH-PRECISION SEMI-AUTOMATIC IMAGE DATA LABELING METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17730844 | System and Method for Selecting a Dimensioning Function and Dimensioning an Object | April 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17724412 | VEGETATION INSPECTION USING MULTIPLE DIGITAL IMAGES | April 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17715016 | OBJECT POSITIONING METHOD AND OBJECT POSITIONING SYSTEM | April 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17754256 | SATURATION ENHANCEMENT METHOD AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17683643 | Methods and Apparatuses for Visualization of Tumor Segmentation | March 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17677629 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR REMOTE OBJECT MEASUREMENT | February 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17643877 | BALANCE WEIGHTED VOTING | December 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17539066 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS TO OPTIMIZE A COSMETIC MANUFACTURING PROCESS | November 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17536384 | INSTANT MASKS WITH POLARIZED LIGHT | November 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17536169 | Automated Camera Search System | November 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17530514 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION LIKELIHOOD BASED ON LESION WALL SHEAR STRESS DESCRIPTORS | November 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17530526 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING LANE PATTERN | November 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17528784 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND ANALYZING DESIRED PROPERTIES OF A MATERIAL | November 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
No appeal data available for this record. This may indicate that no appeals have been filed or decided for applications in this dataset.
Examiner MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM works in Art Unit 2665 and has examined 7 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 100.0%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 35 months.
Examiner MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM's allowance rate of 100.0% places them in the 96% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM receive 1.29 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 18% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM is 35 months. This places the examiner in the 40% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM. This interview benefit is in the 14% 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.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 50.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 97% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 100.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 91% 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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