Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19252652 | MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING | June 2025 | November 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19217080 | AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PATHOLOGY IMAGE BASED ON DEEP LEARNING | May 2025 | July 2025 | Allow | 1 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19217047 | MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING | May 2025 | September 2025 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19217461 | MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING | May 2025 | August 2025 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19217154 | MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING | May 2025 | August 2025 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18998939 | DATA MATCHING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, AND DEVICE AND MEDIUM | January 2025 | June 2025 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18955829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLUSTERING SIMILAR OBJECTS IN IMAGES | November 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18943672 | MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING | November 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18926149 | Method for Identifying Similar Objects in Remote Sensing Images with Spectral Similarity based on Condition Number of Matrix | October 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18668179 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING COLLISION REGIONS OF BOUNDARY LAYER CONVERGENCE LINES PRONE TO TRIGGER LOCAL CONVECTION | May 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18668118 | SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION ANALYSIS | May 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18645118 | TRACKING IN A MOVING PLATFORM | April 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18615754 | COMPUTER-BASED PLATFORMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT AI-BASED DIGITAL VIDEO SHOT INDEXING | March 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18612913 | COMPUTATIONAL PATHOLOGY APPROACH FOR RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF TISSUE-BASED COMPANION DIAGNOSTIC DRIVEN CLINICAL TRIAL STUDIES | March 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18593033 | IMAGE COLORIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | March 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18586354 | METHOD FOR GENERATING ROOF OUTLINES FROM LATERAL IMAGES | February 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18585263 | IDENTIFYING REGIONS OF INTEREST FROM WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES | February 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18441842 | HYPERSPECTRAL DATA INTERPRETATION USING CO-REGISTERED DATASETS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | February 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18431186 | Autonomous Denudation in an Intelligent Automated In Vitro Fertilization and Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Platform | February 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18567680 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING EVAPORATION ENDPOINT BY IMAGE RECOGNITION IN EVAPORATION AND CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS OF AMMONIA-NITROGEN WASTEWATER | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18510513 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED TAGGING OF DIGITAL HISTOLOGY SLIDES | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18387475 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING CELL CRUSH | November 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18500218 | Method for Accurate Segmentation of Unstained Living Adherent Cells in Differential Interference Contrast Images | November 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18289299 | ANALYSIS OF HISTOPATHOLOGY SAMPLES | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18491609 | HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL ANALYSIS | October 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18379235 | Systems and Methods for Detecting a Travelling Object Vortex | October 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18553676 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TRADEMARK SIMILARITY | October 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18284414 | SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND METHOD | September 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18471218 | METHOD FOR GENERATING ROOF OUTLINES FROM LATERAL IMAGES | September 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18369091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOME FAÇADE FEATURES IN A GEOGRAPHIC REGION | September 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18243396 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | September 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18278294 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18231675 | AUTOMATED ACTIVITY DETECTION | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18214874 | APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE ASSESSMENT PROCESSING | June 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18267809 | TARGET TRACKING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER DEVICE | June 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18336733 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD | June 2023 | December 2024 | Abandon | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18331182 | VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND VIDEO ANALYSIS METHOD | June 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18318364 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFECT SIZE OPTIMIZATION OF OBJECT CLASSIFICATION | May 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18197924 | System and Method for Consolidation of Alerts and Events Using Image Matching of Heatmap Descriptions of Infrastructure Status | May 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18196286 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGE FOR DETECTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR LEGIONS | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18300031 | FORMULA RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS | April 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18192780 | Image Processing Sequence Generation Method, Image Processing Sequence Generation Device, And Computer Program | March 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18188701 | INFRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS USING PANOPTIC SEGMENTATION | March 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18185240 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE CORRECTING METHOD | March 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17775617 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | March 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18175951 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIZING OBJECTS VIA A COMPUTING DEVICE | February 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18170872 | PORTABLE MACHINE LEARNING TAXA DETECTION | February 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18110231 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18169641 | HISTOLOGICAL STAIN PATTERN AND ARTIFACTS CLASSIFICATION USING FEW-SHOT LEARNING | February 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18095231 | OBJECT POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS | January 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18010347 | Maskless 2D/3D Artificial Subtraction Angiography | December 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18075875 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME HUMAN DETECTION AND TRACKING SYSTEM AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | December 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18008654 | APPARATUS FOR CORRECTION OF COLLIMATOR PENUMBRA IN AN X-RAY IMAGE | December 2022 | February 2026 | Abandon | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17987647 | SPATIAL FEATURE ANALYSIS FOR DIGITAL PATHOLOGY IMAGES | November 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17986428 | MITIGATING REALITY GAP THROUGH FEATURE-LEVEL DOMAIN ADAPTATION IN TRAINING OF VISION-BASED ROBOT ACTION MODEL | November 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18055033 | METHODS AND RELATED ASPECTS OF RAPID MICROBIAL DETECTION USING INTRINSIC FEATURE TRACKING | November 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17977977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING DAMAGE TO INFRASTRUCTURE | October 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 19 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18049205 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION | October 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17910276 | OBJECT TRACKING DEVICE, OBJECT TRACKING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | September 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17901203 | DETERMINING SCORES INDICATIVE OF TIMES TO EVENTS FROM BIOMEDICAL IMAGES | September 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17894685 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | August 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17821909 | LEARNING METHOD AND PROCESSING APPARATUS REGARDING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL CLASSIFYING INPUT IMAGE | August 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17883483 | VIDEO RETRIEVAL METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON KEY FRAME DETECTION | August 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17852636 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POINT CLOUD REGISTRATION | June 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17784342 | Image Processing Method and Related Apparatus | June 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17834535 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17782918 | INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD | June 2022 | January 2026 | Abandon | 43 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17804669 | IMAGE RESTRICTION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SUPPORT SYSTEM | May 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17751413 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING DISTANCE BASED WEIGHTED AVERAGE FOR POINT CLOUD CODING | May 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17778662 | Target Detection Method and Apparatus | May 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17777613 | ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | May 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17744767 | MAPPING BINNED MEDICAL DATA | May 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17662013 | TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNABLE MODEL TO ESTIMATE RELATIVE OBJECT SCALE | May 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17730621 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR BASKETBALL RULE VIOLATIONS AND OTHER ACTIONS | April 2022 | January 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17727671 | IMAGE MODIFICATION METHOD AND IMAGE MODIFICATION DEVICE | April 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17716148 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT ZONAL RECOGNITION AND AUTOMATED CONTEXT MAPPING | April 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17665913 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHECKING AN ADHESIVE CONNECTION BETWEEN A HOLLOW NEEDLE OR CANNULA AND A HOLDING PART | February 2022 | March 2026 | Allow | 49 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17584330 | FLAT FINE-GRAINED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION WITH PROGRESSIVE PRECISION | January 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17581423 | TECHNIQUES FOR USING DYNAMIC PROPOSALS IN OBJECT DETECTION | January 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17575512 | Face identification using millimeter-wave radar sensor data | January 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17625844 | SCATTERING TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE AND SCATTERING TOMOGRAPHY METHOD | January 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17457948 | Data-consistency for Image Reconstruction | December 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17468520 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17394594 | DUAL STAGE NEURAL NETWORK PIPELINE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | August 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17393535 | DATA LABELING MODEL TRAINING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2021 | February 2025 | Abandon | 42 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17391137 | SURGICAL TRACKING AND PROCEDURAL MAP ANALYSIS TOOL | August 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17418610 | STRUCTURAL MEASUREMENT USING A FIXED PATTERN | June 2021 | November 2024 | Abandon | 41 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17231352 | Object Recognition Method and Terminal Device | April 2021 | March 2025 | Abandon | 47 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17220739 | REACTION TRACK FOR DIFFERENT SPECTATOR GROUPS WITHIN AN AUDIENCE | April 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 47 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17057353 | PERSON INDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | November 2020 | October 2024 | Allow | 47 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16316658 | INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS | January 2019 | November 2019 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16191759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE OBJECT TRACKING | November 2018 | September 2024 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | No | No |
| 16037541 | POSITION RECOGNITION APPARATUS FOR PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD, POSITION RECOGNITION AND PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD MANUFACTURING METHOD | July 2018 | January 2020 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15773050 | TEMPLATE GENERATION | May 2018 | April 2020 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15762309 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | March 2018 | November 2019 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15908238 | CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | February 2018 | November 2019 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15709771 | PATTERN RECOGNITION DEVICE, PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | September 2017 | April 2019 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15459388 | VIDEO IMAGE OVERLAY OF AN EVENT PERFORMANCE | March 2017 | May 2019 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15511122 | VEGETATION CATEGORISATION | March 2017 | December 2019 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 1 | No | No |
| 15457012 | Method and Processing Unit for Correlating Image Data Content from Disparate Sources | March 2017 | May 2019 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner PARK, SOO JIN.
With a 100.0% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
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 PARK, SOO JIN works in Art Unit 2675 and has examined 107 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 97.2%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 27 months.
Examiner PARK, SOO JIN's allowance rate of 97.2% places them in the 88% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by PARK, SOO JIN receive 1.64 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 33% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by PARK, SOO JIN is 27 months. This places the examiner in the 73% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +4.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by PARK, SOO JIN. This interview benefit is in the 27% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 29.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 55% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 44.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 67% 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 75.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 65% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 66.7% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows above-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. The mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) provides an opportunity for reconsideration.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 28.6% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 16% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.
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 29% 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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