Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18654863 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENROLLMENT AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT USING MOBILE IMAGING | May 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18620011 | GAIT-BASED ASSESSMENT OF NEURODEGENERATION | March 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18603842 | MOVEMENT FEEDBACK FOR ORTHOPEDIC PATIENT | March 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18532071 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING CROP SIZE AND YIELD | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18497918 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING MUSCLE FASCICLE FRACTURING | October 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18227120 | Image Enhancement via Iterative Refinement based on Machine Learning Models | July 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18359716 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING CROP SIZE AND YIELD | July 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18333534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COUCH SAG COMPENSATION | June 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18195649 | GLOBAL AND LOCAL FEATURE RECONSTRUCTION NETWORK-BASED MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD | May 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18189974 | IMAGE PROCESSING-BASED WEIGHT ESTIMATION FOR AQUACULTURE | March 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18185445 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT PLANNING OF ARTERIO-VENOUS MALFORMATION | March 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18184769 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMBOLISM PREDICTION USING EMBOLUS SOURCE AND DESTINATION PROBABILITIES | March 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18181806 | Weakly-Supervised Action Localization by Sparse Temporal Pooling Network | March 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18088174 | NEURAL NETWORK BASED RADIOWAVE MONITORING OF PATIENT DEGENERATIVE CONDITIONS | December 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17927580 | Interaction Method for Electronic Device for Skin Detection, and Electronic Device | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17993246 | LIVENESS DETECTION METHOD | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 41 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17989254 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17997684 | A DATA DIMENSION REDUCTION METHOD BASED ON MAXIMIZING RATIO SUM FOR LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS | November 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17976511 | Stenosis assessment method and device based on intracranial DSA imaging | October 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18048646 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING MUSCLE FASCICLE FRACTURING | October 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17821987 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATING VIA PHOTO MODIFICATION IDENTIFICATION | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17801332 | IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17890669 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17820072 | AUTOMATED ULTRASOUND VIDEO INTERPRETATION OF A BODY PART WITH ONE OR MORE CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17815209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA | July 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17873462 | ENRICHED AND DISCRIMINATIVE CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK FEATURES FOR PEDESTRIAN RE-IDENTIFICATION AND TRAJECTORY MODELING | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17849211 | MOVEMENT STATE ESTIMATION DEVICE, MOVEMENT STATE ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17807325 | SHOOTING SCORE IDENTIFYING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | June 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17662649 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING ACCELERATION | May 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17661949 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION OF A FARM BASED ON REMOTE SENSING | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17727265 | OBJECT DETECTION OVER WATER USING NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX SYSTEM AND METHOD | April 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17725971 | Method and system for stabilizing Poynting vector of seismic wavefield | April 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17763491 | VEHICLE IMAGING STATION | March 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17702545 | DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION | March 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17697866 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING | March 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17696354 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING NEURAL NETWORK MODELS TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE OF THE NEURAL NETWORK MODELS | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17680165 | PIXEL CLASSIFICATION OF FILM NON-UNIFORMITY BASED ON PROCESSING OF SUBSTRATE IMAGES | February 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17637492 | SEGMENTATING A TUBULAR FEATURE | February 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17636431 | OBJECT NUMBER ESTIMATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM | February 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17635671 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD | February 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17635684 | EFFICIENT USER-DEFINED SDR-TO-HDR CONVERSION WITH MODEL TEMPLATES | February 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17669403 | METHOD AND MONITORING CAMERA FOR HANDLING VIDEO STREAMS | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17666723 | X-RAY DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION | February 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17591929 | VIDEO BASED DETECTION OF PULSE WAVEFORM | February 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17630317 | AUTOMATIC HANDBAG RECOGNITION USING VIEW-DEPENDENT CNNs | January 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17581326 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISCOVERING, CHARACTERIZING, CLASSIFYING AND SEMI-AUTOMATICALLY LABELING ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND QUANTITATIVE PHENOTYPING OF BEHAVIORS IN ANIMALS | January 2022 | December 2023 | Abandon | 22 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17562963 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRAINING MULTI-TASK RECOGNITION MODEL AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17558869 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING BASED TRACKINGLESS IMAGING VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION | December 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17643808 | Multiple Hypothesis-Based Fusion of Sensor Data | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17534369 | PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION | November 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17531464 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENROLLMENT AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT USING MOBILE IMAGING | November 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17526170 | HIGH BANDWIDTH CAMERA DATA TRANSMISSION | November 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17491475 | MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD, MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM CONSIDERING FEATURE INFORMATION | September 2021 | November 2023 | Abandon | 26 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17475169 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL TWIN BOOK SHELF | September 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17471498 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING TRAINING DATA FOR DETECTION MODEL BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | September 2021 | June 2024 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17433168 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | August 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17298480 | BALL TRAJECTORY TRACKING | May 2021 | July 2024 | Abandon | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17325123 | SKY DETERMINATION IN ENVIRONMENT DETECTION FOR MOBILE PLATFORMS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | May 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17322919 | IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE, ANALYSIS FUNCTION DECISION METHOD, AND ANALYSIS FUNCTION DECISION PROGRAM | May 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 46 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17323938 | METHOD FOR SIGNALING A GRADUAL TEMPORAL LAYER ACCESS PICTURE | May 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17323895 | REALISTIC PERSONALIZED STYLE TRANSFER IN IMAGE PROCESSING | May 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 46 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17316006 | REMOTE DISTANCE ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | May 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17285805 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION | April 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17301690 | GARMENT SEGMENTATION | April 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17206064 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING CROP SIZE AND YIELD | March 2021 | December 2023 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17248603 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE-FEATURE-BASED RECOGNITION | January 2021 | July 2024 | Abandon | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17141564 | AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION AND GUIDED CORRECTION OF ENDOTHELIAL CELL IMAGES | January 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17126687 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PROCESSING X-RAY IMAGES | December 2020 | December 2023 | Abandon | 36 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17099008 | Method, Device, and Computer Program for Predicting Brain Tissue Lesion Distribution | November 2020 | December 2024 | Allow | 49 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17088042 | KERNEL-LEVEL GRAIN MONITORING SYSTEMS FOR COMBINE HARVESTERS | November 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17081247 | MISSION EARLY LAUNCH TRACKER | October 2020 | October 2023 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17044337 | AUTOMATED DETECTION OF TAMPERING | October 2020 | September 2022 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17033183 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSLATING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES TO PSEUDO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES | September 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16948166 | GAIT-BASED ASSESSMENT OF NEURODEGENERATION | September 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16968088 | HEPATIC INFLAMMATION ANALYSIS WITH DYNAMIC PET | August 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16851606 | MOVEMENT FEEDBACK FOR ORTHOPEDIC PATIENT | April 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 51 | 4 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16363032 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATING IMAGE ANALYSIS, LONGITUDINAL TRACKING OF A REGION OF INTEREST AND UPDATING OF A KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION | March 2019 | November 2024 | Abandon | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16188646 | RECOGNITION SYSTEM | November 2018 | August 2024 | Abandon | 60 | 8 | 0 | No | No |
| 15823031 | Method And Apparatus For Reconstructing Image Projections | November 2017 | December 2023 | Allow | 60 | 10 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15797429 | Gated Image Acquisition And Patient Model Construction | October 2017 | June 2024 | Allow | 60 | 10 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 13315968 | 3D MOTION RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS | December 2011 | February 2014 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12907562 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MASKING PRIVACY AREA OF IMAGE | October 2010 | September 2013 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12904879 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DECODED IMAGES | October 2010 | June 2013 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12791779 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE | June 2010 | October 2012 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M.
With a 50.0% 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.
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, 33.3% 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.
✓ 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 SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M works in Art Unit 2671 and has examined 81 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 85.2%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 33 months.
Examiner SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M's allowance rate of 85.2% places them in the 56% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M receive 1.80 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 55% 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 SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M is 33 months. This places the examiner in the 28% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +2.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M. This interview benefit is in the 22% 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, 23.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 22% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show lower effectiveness with this examiner compared to others. Consider whether a continuation application might be more strategic, especially if you need to add new matter or significantly broaden claims.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 6.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 2% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 11% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show limited success with this examiner compared to others. While still worth considering, be prepared to proceed with a full appeal brief if the PAC does not result in favorable action.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 33.3% of appeals filed. This is in the 3% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 61.5% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 78% 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 20% 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 26% 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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