USPTO Examiner YAO JULIA ZHI YI - Art Unit 2666

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18421030ACTIVITY PREDICTION USING PORTABLE MULTISPECTRAL LASER SPECKLE IMAGERJanuary 2024February 2026Allow2500YesNo
18289093Fast Kinematic Construct Method for Characterizing Anthropogenic Space ObjectsNovember 2023January 2026Allow2710NoNo
18471188METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING DUAL-ENERGY IMAGES FROM A SINGLE-ENERGY IMAGING SYSTEM BASED ON ANATOMICAL SEGMENTATIONSeptember 2023November 2025Allow2600YesNo
18238688METHOD FOR LEARNING NETWORK PARAMETER OF NEURAL NETWORK, METHOD FOR CALCULATING CAMERA PARAMETER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING A PROGRAMAugust 2023March 2026Allow3111NoNo
18255432MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT LUNG CANCER INVOLVEMENT OF LYMPH NODESJune 2023December 2025Allow3110NoNo
18033882REDUCTION OF ARTEFACTS IN A CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHYMay 2023January 2026Abandon3210NoNo
18124612METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSTANCE SEGMENTATION OF DENSELY PACKED OBJECTSMarch 2023September 2025Allow3000NoNo
18026407IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ESTIMATING HUMAS BEHAVIOR IN FISHEYE IMAGES BASED ON ESTIMATION RESULTS FROM PANORAMIC EXPANSION IMAGE AND PARTIAL FISHEYE IMAGEMarch 2023October 2025Allow3120NoNo
18026097METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING QUALITY OF CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE IMAGEMarch 2023May 2025Allow2700NoNo
18163672SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEFECT DETECTION AND QUALITY CONTROLFebruary 2023November 2025Abandon3310NoNo
18018923MICROSTRUCTURE EVALUATION SYSTEM AND SAMPLE IMAGE IMAGING METHODJanuary 2023July 2025Allow3010NoNo
18149416MAINTAINING ORIGINAL COLOR WHEN APPLYING SUPER RESOLUTION TO INDIVIDUAL BANDSJanuary 2023November 2025Allow3411YesNo
18076190SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FEATURE DETECTION FOR AIRBORNE BATHYMETRYDecember 2022July 2025Allow3110YesNo
17977449ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH SPATIO-TEMPORAL SELF-SIMILARITY CONSIDERATIONOctober 2022July 2025Allow3310YesNo
18050358INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUMOctober 2022June 2025Allow3211NoNo
17906632METHOD FOR INSPECTING THE SIDE WALL OF AN OBJECTSeptember 2022February 2026Allow4120YesNo
17897552SPARSE PATH CODES AND METHODSAugust 2022October 2025Allow3721NoNo
17822138IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING DETERMINATION REGARDING DIAGNOSIS OF LESION ON BASIS OF SYNTHESIZED TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE AND PRIORITY TARGET REGIONAugust 2022January 2026Allow4130YesNo
17821113Method and System for Creating Training DataAugust 2022March 2025Allow3110YesNo
17820203EFFICIENT FLICKER SUPPRESSION FOR SINGLE IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTIONAugust 2022May 2025Allow3310YesNo
17757727METHOD FOR DETECTING ROAD USERSJune 2022November 2025Allow4120YesNo
17836678METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAMEJune 2022March 2025Allow3310YesNo
17729539METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING RED BLOOD CELLS DEFORMABILITYApril 2022February 2026Allow4601YesNo
17720195DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ANOMALY DETECTIONApril 2022February 2025Allow3410NoNo
17764008IMAGE CONTENT CLASSIFICATIONMarch 2022February 2025Allow3510YesNo
17688825INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS BASED ON AUDIENCE EMOTION FOR AUDIENCE PLACEMENTMarch 2022April 2025Allow3711YesNo
17686474IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE INSPECTION METHODMarch 2022August 2025Allow4230YesNo
17683254IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR FACILITATING IMAGE DIAGNOSIS USING MAMMOGRAPHY APPARATUS TO GENERATE COMPOSITE TWO-DIMENSIONAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE USING SELECTED TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE SLICES CORRESPONDING TO DETECTED SPICULA REGIONSFebruary 2022November 2025Allow4530YesNo
17636432DETECTION DEVICE, LEARNING DEVICE, DETECTION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUMFebruary 2022April 2025Allow3821NoNo
17649747SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A STEP AND SCAN DETECTION NETWORK FOR HITCHBALL LOCATION ESTIMATIONFebruary 2022May 2025Allow3920YesNo
175879362D RECURSIVE DE-BANDINGJanuary 2022January 2025Allow3620YesNo
17630228PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMJanuary 2022May 2025Abandon4020YesNo
17581702ASSISTED LABELLING OF TRAINING DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELSJanuary 2022May 2025Allow3920YesNo
17576035SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A BROKEN GRAIN FRACTIONJanuary 2022June 2025Abandon4110NoNo
17568770REAL-TIME OCCLUSION REMOVAL USING SYNTHETIC PIXEL GENERATIONJanuary 2022February 2025Allow3720NoNo
17554660IMAGE COLLECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING IMAGES REPRESENTING A PREDETERMINED SCENE WHEN IT IS DETERMINED THAT THERE IS A RISK OF COLLISIONDecember 2021June 2025Abandon4220YesNo
17539625SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEMPORAL AUTOCALIBRATION IN A CAMERA SYSTEMDecember 2021September 2025Abandon4621NoNo
17540011IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR AN IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE FOR MONITORING AN ENVIRONMENTDecember 2021April 2025Abandon4020YesNo
17539468CYTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR NEAT-1 EXPRESSION FOR DETECTION OF CHOLANGIOCARCINOMADecember 2021November 2024Abandon3510NoNo
17533556METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETECTING MOVEMENTS OF THE VEHICLE BODY IN THE CASE OF A MOTOR VEHICLENovember 2021November 2024Allow3510YesNo
17613126OPHTHALMOLOGIC DEVICE WITH IMAGE STORAGENovember 2021October 2024Abandon3510NoNo
17523291SYSTEM FOR LOCALIZING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTSNovember 2021January 2026Allow5120NoNo
17523613X-RAY IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND X-RAY IMAGE PROCESSING METHODNovember 2021October 2025Allow4730YesNo
17453559CORNEAL EPITHELIUM SEGMENTATION IN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGESNovember 2021September 2024Allow3510YesNo
17515950METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEFECT INSPECTION BASED ON DEEP LEARNINGNovember 2021February 2025Allow3940NoNo
17515733Method for Correcting A Synthetic Aperture Radar Antenna Beam ImageNovember 2021April 2024Allow3010NoNo
17499497METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA CALCULATION IN NEURAL NETWORK MODEL, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUSOctober 2021July 2024Allow3410YesNo
17490139OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUSSeptember 2021January 2025Abandon3920NoNo
17489139METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING RECOGNITION TARGET PERSONSeptember 2021March 2025Abandon4220NoNo
17487538METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING TEXTURE DETAILS OF IMAGESSeptember 2021July 2024Allow3420NoNo
17473342MASK INSPECTION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR SPECIMEN FABRICATIONSeptember 2021April 2025Allow4330YesNo
17469274METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACHIEVING OPTIMAL SEPARABLE CONVOLUTIONSSeptember 2021April 2024Allow3110NoNo
17466711NEURAL NETWORK FOR IMAGE STYLE TRANSLATIONSeptember 2021April 2024Allow3110YesNo
17402162METHOD AND DEVICE OF SUPER-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2021November 2024Abandon3920NoNo
17392397PROVIDING A SCENE WITH SYNTHETIC CONTRASTAugust 2021January 2025Allow4121NoNo
17388522Apparatus for constructing kinematic information of robot manipulator and method thereforJuly 2021March 2025Allow4340YesNo
17423906METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A PERSON USING INFRARED AND VISIBLE LIGHTJuly 2021June 2025Abandon4730YesNo
17377359SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING HAZE FROM REMOTE SENSING IMAGESJuly 2021April 2024Abandon3310NoNo
17371650AUTOMATED UNSUPERVISED LOCALIZATION OF CONTEXT SENSITIVE EVENTS IN CROPS AND COMPUTING EXTENT THEREOFJuly 2021February 2024Allow3110NoNo
17370112IN-STORE FOOD AND BEVERAGE TRANSFER AND COLLECTION SYSTEM USING IMAGE RECOGNITION AND METHOD OF TRANSFERRING AND COLLECTING FOOD AND BEVERAGE IN STORE USING THE SAMEJuly 2021February 2025Allow4330YesNo
17420743VOICE PACKET RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2021July 2024Abandon3710NoNo
17363490Storage and Processing of Intermediate Features in Neural NetworksJune 2021August 2024Abandon3730YesNo
17360897METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BONE AGE ASSESSMENTJune 2021March 2024Allow3320NoNo
17338867SEGMENTATION OF X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES VIA MULTIPLE RECONSTRUCTIONSJune 2021June 2024Abandon3620NoNo
17338999APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DEPTH MAP USING MONOCULAR IMAGEJune 2021January 2024Allow3220YesNo
17318893INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMMay 2021August 2023Allow2710NoNo
17199589IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUSMarch 2021September 2025Abandon5540NoNo
17199067IMAGE CROPPING METHODMarch 2021May 2024Abandon3810NoNo
17161757SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING OPERATING CRITERIA FOR PERFORMING VEHICULAR TASKSJanuary 2021October 2024Allow4540YesNo
17070095APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR APPROXIMATE TRILINEAR INTERPOLATION FOR SCENE RECONSTRUCTIONOctober 2020November 2024Allow4920YesNo
16917738Map Generation Using Two Sources of Sensor DataJune 2020December 2024Allow5330YesNo
16917791APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR APPROXIMATE TRILINEAR INTERPOLATION FOR SCENE RECONSTRUCTIONJune 2020October 2024Allow5130YesNo

Appeals Overview

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Examiner YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI works in Art Unit 2666 and has examined 37 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 59.5%, this examiner allows applications at a lower rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 39 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI's allowance rate of 59.5% places them in the 19% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is less likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI receive 2.05 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 54% 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 YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI is 39 months. This places the examiner in the 27% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +31.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI. This interview benefit is in the 79% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner and should be strongly considered as a prosecution strategy. Per MPEP § 713.10, interviews are available at any time before the Notice of Allowance is mailed or jurisdiction transfers to the PTAB.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 36.1% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 82% 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 21.4% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 27% 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.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 200.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 99% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 22% 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.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • Prepare for rigorous examination: With a below-average allowance rate, ensure your application has strong written description and enablement support. Consider filing a continuation if you need to add new matter.
  • Prioritize examiner interviews: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner. Request an interview after the first office action to clarify issues and potentially expedite allowance.
  • RCEs are effective: This examiner has a high allowance rate after RCE compared to others. If you receive a final rejection and have substantive amendments or arguments, an RCE is likely to be successful.

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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