Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18935742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BOUNDING BOX TO FRACTURED BODY PARTS IN MUSCULOSKELETAL X-RAY | November 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18785077 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROCESSING DOCUMENTS | July 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18767449 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF DE-IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES | July 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18720042 | AUTOMATED IMAGE-BASED ROCK TYPE IDENTIFICATION WITH NEURAL-NETWORK SEGMENTATION AND CONTINUOUS LEARNING | June 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18713653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A PERSON IN A VIDEO | May 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18620136 | Instance Level Scene Recognition with a Vision Language Model | March 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18692516 | OBJECT RECOGNITION | March 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18589742 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE VEGETATION ENCROACHMENT ALONG A RIGHT-OF-WAY | February 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 16 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18439213 | Methods and Devices for Binary Entropy Coding of Point Clouds | February 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18421740 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING/RECONSTRUCTING ATTRIBUTES OF POINTS OF A POINT CLOUD | January 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18411471 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE PROFILING | January 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18391276 | INTERSECTION REGION DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION FOR AUTONOMOUS MACHINE APPLICATIONS | December 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18532846 | Elongated Fingerprint Sensor | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18503048 | VIDEO DATA ACQUISITION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR QUARTERBACK SELECTION BY THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE | November 2023 | April 2025 | Abandon | 17 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18492532 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE, AND APPARATUS TO CLASSIFY LABELS BASED ON IMAGES USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18237270 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR OBJECT DETECTION COVERAGE ESTIMATION | August 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18453213 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE IDENTITY OF A USER BY IDENTIFYING AN OBJECT WITHIN AN IMAGE THAT HAS A BIOMETRIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE USER AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD | August 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18365631 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY VALIDATING EVIDENCE OF TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS USING AUTOMATICALLY DETECTED CONTEXT FEATURES | August 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18230120 | OBJECT INGESTION AND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18345350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING INTRA PREDICTION MODE | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18345301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING INTRA PREDICTION MODE | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18208655 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC TUMOR DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION | June 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18207788 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING DIRECT CONVERSION OF IMAGE SENSOR DATA TO IMAGE ANALYTICS | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18039269 | IMPROVED NOISE REDUCTION AUTO-ENCODER-BASED ANOMALY DETECTION MODEL TRAINING METHOD | May 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18137108 | COMPOSITE CAR IMAGE GENERATOR | April 2023 | January 2025 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18191939 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUAL INSPECTION OF SIGNAL LIGHTS AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS | March 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18149035 | AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TEACHING VIDEOS BASED ON DIFFERENT PRESENTATION FORMS | December 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18078368 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME | December 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17986081 | MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17984731 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETECTING HAND REGION | November 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17996894 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KEYPOINT DETECTION BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS | October 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18048528 | CHANGE DETECTION DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS | October 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17944863 | Enrollment Using Synthetic Fingerprint Image and Fingerprint Sensing Systems | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17944809 | STATE-BASED BASE CALLING | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17930663 | DIRECT CLASSIFICATION OF RAW BIOMOLECULE MEASUREMENT DATA | September 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17865261 | METHOD FOR MATCHING IMAGE FEATURE POINT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17864835 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS PERFORMING COLOR CONVERSION AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING | July 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17863515 | SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE EMOTIONS OF A DRIVER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | July 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17849858 | QUALITY MONITORING AND CONTROLS FOR A COMMINUTION SYSTEM USING IMAGING OF MATERIAL IN A DISCHARGE STAGE | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17840747 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TRAFFIC LIGHT, DEVICE, CLOUD CONTROL PLATFORM AND VEHICLE-ROAD COORDINATION SYSTEM | June 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17783410 | Program and Communications System | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17834822 | AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17832906 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK TO PERFORM OBJECT DETECTION USING LIDAR SENSORS AND RADAR SENSORS | June 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17804730 | System and Method to Detect LEDs and Their States in an AR Context | May 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17826497 | PHOTOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND AI-BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD THEREOF | May 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17774455 | VISUAL OBJECT DETECTION IN A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES | May 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17733812 | Artificial Intelligence Driven Automated Atomic Manipulation | April 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17660233 | RECONSTRUCTION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM | April 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17727604 | Semi Supervised Training from Coarse Labels of Image Segmentation | April 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17724154 | WAFER INSPECTION SYSTEM METHOD | April 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17723723 | WAFER INSPECTION SYSTEM | April 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17769908 | ITEM IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING SYSTEM | April 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17722970 | ITEM IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING SYSTEM | April 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17717546 | METHOD FOR TRAINING NEURAL NETWORK, SYSTEM FOR TRAINING NEURAL NETWORK, AND NEURAL NETWORK | April 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17701967 | DYNAMIC ANALYSIS DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17699519 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | March 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17698631 | Method and Apparatus for Obtaining Extended Depth of Field Image and Electronic Device | March 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17678200 | SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR IDENTIFYING CAUSE OF MANUFACTURING DEFECTS | February 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17592790 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR MAIN GROUP IDENTIFICATION IN IMAGES VIA SOCIAL RELATION RECOGNITION | February 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17590036 | GESTURE TRACKING SYSTEM | February 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17628440 | PARTICLE QUANTIFYING DEVICE | January 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17557061 | RECOGNITION METHOD OF 3D VEIN PATTERN AND RECOGNITION DEVICE THEREOF | December 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17550825 | OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON ENVIRONMENT MATCHING | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17616335 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OBJECT ANALYSIS | December 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17455574 | Traffic Light Navigation Based on Worst Time to Red Estimation | November 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17509615 | IMPACT MOTION RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR SCREEN-BASED MULTI-SPORT COACHING | October 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17506099 | System and Method for Determining Object Characteristics in Real-time | October 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17440062 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEFECT DETECTION IN IMAGE DATA OF A TARGET COATING | September 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17447235 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING MEDICAL IMAGES USING GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS | September 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17289938 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING PERIODONTAL POCKET DEPTH | April 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 41 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17101515 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTOMATIC REMOTE VERIFICATION OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS | November 2020 | January 2025 | Abandon | 50 | 7 | 0 | No | No |
| 15295936 | COVER-GLASS OPTICAL ISOLATION FOR OPTICAL TOUCH AND FINGERPRINT SENSING | October 2016 | September 2018 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15203329 | MULTI-SENSOR COMPRESSIVE IMAGING | July 2016 | June 2018 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15066444 | IMAGE ABSTRACTION SYSTEM | March 2016 | April 2018 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14866771 | 3D OBJECT SEGMENTATION | September 2015 | October 2017 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14865201 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DEPTH IMAGE DEQUANTIZATION | September 2015 | November 2017 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14833305 | METHOD FOR VOLUME EVALUATION OF PENUMBRA MISMATCH IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE AND SYSTEM THEREFOR | August 2015 | October 2017 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14815645 | LOCATION CALCULATION SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | July 2015 | September 2017 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14709876 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PRIORITIZE VIDEO INFORMATION DURING CODING AND DECODING | May 2015 | December 2016 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14676204 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | April 2015 | January 2017 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14676404 | NEURAL NETWORK IMAGE REPRESENTATION | April 2015 | March 2016 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14627502 | System and Method to Align and Merge Differently Exposed Digital Images to Create a HDR (High Dynamic Range) Image | February 2015 | December 2016 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14615029 | Image Denoising System and Method | February 2015 | January 2017 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14588476 | AUTOMATED ITERATIVE IMAGE-MASKING BASED ON IMPORTED DEPTH INFORMATION | January 2015 | September 2016 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14473398 | Determining Pathogens Based on an Image of Somatic Cells in a Fluid Sample | August 2014 | August 2016 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14336242 | Retrieving Contact Information Based on Image Recognition Searches | July 2014 | May 2016 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14138052 | INFRARED IMAGING ENHANCEMENT WITH FUSION | December 2013 | December 2016 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14028659 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PULMONARY VENTILATION IMAGING USING LOCAL VOLUME CHANGES | September 2013 | December 2013 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13922075 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING CRYSTALLIZATION | June 2013 | July 2015 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13732562 | IMAGE SELECTION AND MASKING USING IMPORTED DEPTH INFORMATION | January 2013 | October 2014 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13732548 | 3D SHAPE MEASUREMENT USING DITHERING | January 2013 | September 2014 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13731755 | Methods and Devices for Processing Handwriting Input | December 2012 | December 2014 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13664429 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND BOUNDARY LINE GRAPH CHECKING METHOD | October 2012 | June 2014 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13695060 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING VIDEO QUALITY USING AT LEAST ONE SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING REGRESSOR FOR MEAN OBSERVER SCORE PREDICTION | October 2012 | May 2014 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13663329 | DISPLAY ANALYSIS USING SCANNED IMAGES | October 2012 | July 2014 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 13501110 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE | June 2012 | March 2015 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 13517164 | POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM | June 2012 | December 2013 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13527429 | Method of tracking objects | June 2012 | September 2014 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13526803 | SPECTRAL EDGE MARKING FOR STEGANOGRAPHY OR WATERMARKING | June 2012 | June 2014 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13482454 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | May 2012 | January 2014 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SHAH, UTPAL D.
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, 0.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner SHAH, UTPAL D works in Art Unit 2668 and has examined 146 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 96.6%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.
Examiner SHAH, UTPAL D's allowance rate of 96.6% places them in the 90% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by SHAH, UTPAL D receive 1.13 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 17% 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 SHAH, UTPAL D is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 41% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +4.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SHAH, UTPAL D. This interview benefit is in the 26% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 42.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 94% 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.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 52.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 74% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 90% 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, 125.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 98% 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 2.7% of allowed cases (in the 81% percentile). Per MPEP § 1302.04, examiner's amendments are used to place applications in condition for allowance when only minor changes are needed. This examiner frequently uses this tool compared to other examiners, indicating a cooperative approach to getting applications allowed. Strategic Insight: If you are close to allowance but minor claim amendments are needed, this examiner may be willing to make an examiner's amendment rather than requiring another round of prosecution.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 25% 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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