USPTO Examiner FLORES LEON - Art Unit 2676

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19052320INCREMENTAL LEARNING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LARGE VISION-LANGUAGE MODEL FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVINGFebruary 2025May 2025Allow410NoNo
19025673REAL-TIME VIDEO EVENT DETECTION USING EDGE AND CLOUD AIJanuary 2025March 2025Allow200YesNo
19005689SMALL-SIZE VEHICLE DETECTION DEEP LEARNING MODEL BASED ON FEATURE FUSION OF MULTI-SCALE MODULESDecember 2024June 2025Allow610NoNo
18973049APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR LABELING TIME-SERIES DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELSDecember 2024April 2025Allow400YesNo
18929566EDGE COMPUTING-BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING REAL-TIME MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEMOctober 2024July 2025Allow900NoNo
18857046SELF-SUPERVISED ANOMALY DETECTION FRAMEWORK FOR VISUAL QUALITY INSPECTION IN MANUFACTRUINGOctober 2024February 2025Allow400NoNo
18900912METHOD FOR PREDICTING REMOTE SENSING IMAGE TIME SERIES BASED ON RESERVOIR COMPUTINGSeptember 2024March 2025Allow510NoNo
18902546Multi-Axis Vision TransformerSeptember 2024August 2025Allow1020NoNo
18804475DEVICE FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION BASED ON FULL-ANALOG PHOTONIC NEURAL NETWORK AND METHOD THEREOFAugust 2024December 2024Allow400NoNo
18724204PEDESTRIAN RE-IDENTIFICATION METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2024January 2025Allow710NoNo
18754934METHODS OF ASSESSING LUNG DISEASE IN CHEST X-RAYSJune 2024March 2025Allow800YesNo
18751166COMMON-SENSE BIAS DISCOVERY AND MITIGATION FOR MACHINE-LEARNING TASKSJune 2024December 2024Allow610NoNo
18736739METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR MEASURING INTER-VEHICLE DISTANCE BASED ON VEHICLE IMAGEJune 2024August 2025Allow1510NoNo
18643164LANE DEPARTURE MONITORINGApril 2024August 2024Allow400NoNo
18625784SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING CELLULAR PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY FROM MULTI-PARAMETER CELLULAR, AND SUB-CELLULAR IMAGING DATAApril 2024November 2024Allow800NoNo
18617762SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO LABEL STRUCTURES OF INTEREST IN TISSUE SLIDE IMAGESMarch 2024October 2024Allow700YesNo
18614676DEPTH ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING DEPTH ESTIMATION MODEL, AND SYSTEMMarch 2024March 2026Allow2300YesNo
18613313APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF SOURCE IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH AN OBJECTMarch 2024July 2024Allow410YesNo
18583675SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTION OF FIT DATA RELATED TO A SELECTED MASKFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1210NoNo
18682444COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM, COMPUTER VISION METHOD AND COMPUTER VISION PROGRAMFebruary 2024March 2026Allow2500NoNo
18421940AUTO-NORMALIZATION FOR MACHINE LEARNINGJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1410NoNo
18290700FACE REGION DETECTION AND LOCAL RESHAPING ENHANCEMENTJanuary 2024January 2026Allow2300YesNo
18575402APPARATUS FOR LESION DIAGNOSIS AND METHOD THEREOFDecember 2023March 2026Allow2610NoNo
18573871METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING HUMAN BODY SIZE INFORMATION FROM IMAGE DATADecember 2023February 2026Allow2600YesNo
18572953ELECTRODE SURFACE INSPECTION DEVICEDecember 2023March 2026Allow2710NoNo
18545885SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE BASED CONTENT CAPTURE AND EXTRACTION UTILIZING DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK AND BOUNDING BOX DETECTION TRAINING TECHNIQUESDecember 2023November 2024Allow1100YesNo
18537951INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODDecember 2023December 2025Allow2400NoNo
18528155QUANTUM CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUITDecember 2023December 2025Allow2400YesNo
18506018GENERATIVE DATA AUGMENTATION WITH TASK LOSS GUIDED FINE-TUNINGNovember 2023February 2026Allow2710YesNo
18502704METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING IMAGENovember 2023February 2026Allow2710NoNo
18501928COMPOSITE GROUP IMAGENovember 2023March 2026Allow2810NoNo
18379127OBJECT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM AND/OR METHODSOctober 2023January 2026Allow2701YesNo
18483532LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND LEARNING PROGRAMOctober 2023December 2025Allow2710NoNo
18480774USING A GAN DISCRIMINATOR FOR ANOMALY DETECTIONOctober 2023December 2025Allow2710YesNo
18285361REINFORCED ATTENTIONOctober 2023March 2026Abandon3010NoNo
18467550SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNTHETIC IMAGE GENERATIONSeptember 2023February 2026Allow2910YesNo
18282141ULTRASONIC COMPUTATION HARDWARE FOR CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTING AND OTHER COMPUTATION APPLICATIONSSeptember 2023June 2024Allow900YesNo
18243819AUTOMATIC LABELING AND EVENT DETECTION FOR VIDEO ANALYTICS USING HYBRID AISeptember 2023February 2026Allow2910YesNo
18459954GENERATING GROUND TRUTH FOR MACHINE LEARNING FROM TIME SERIES ELEMENTSSeptember 2023October 2024Allow1310YesNo
18241210METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DRIVING RISKS BY USING DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMSAugust 2023February 2026Allow3010NoNo
18449730IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AN UPDATE METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELAugust 2023August 2025Allow2400YesNo
18358274FACILITATING IDENTIFICATION OF ERROR IMAGE LABELJuly 2023October 2025Allow2700YesNo
18224360Systems for Detecting Vehicle Following DistanceJuly 2023August 2025Allow2400NoNo
18273193TRAINING DATA GENERATION DEVICE, TRAINIG DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND MEDIUMJuly 2023February 2026Allow3110YesNo
18350845Dynamic training of ModelsJuly 2023October 2025Allow2700NoNo
18260526EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION DOCUMENT CONTENT AND METADATA SCANNERJuly 2023July 2025Allow2400YesNo
18346623SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING VIDEO DATA AND GENERATING SCORING DATAJuly 2023November 2025Allow2810YesNo
18216147NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODJune 2023August 2025Allow2600YesNo
18336080MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, INFERENCE DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUMJune 2023February 2026Allow3210NoNo
18267539SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOMAIN ADAPTIVE OBJECT DETECTION VIA GRADIENT DETACH BASED STACKED COMPLEMENTARY LOSSESJune 2023January 2026Abandon3110NoNo
18328971OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE DURING TARGET TRACKINGJune 2023December 2024Allow1820YesNo
18327101SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A SLAB HAVING A TOP POLISHED FACE AND RELATED METHODJune 2023December 2025Allow3100YesNo
18323795OBJECT DETECTION FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONSMay 2023December 2025Allow3110YesNo
18321934ANALYSIS METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CEREBROVASCULAR IMAGE BASED ON CEREBROVASCULAR CHUNK FEATURESMay 2023December 2025Allow3010YesNo
18197891DEEP NEURAL NETWORK-BASED OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, AND CLOUD SERVER AND EDGE DEVICE PERFORMING DEEP NEURAL NETWORK-BASED OBJECT DETECTION METHODMay 2023September 2025Allow2810NoNo
18253082Method and System for Training a Neural NetworkMay 2023July 2025Allow2600YesNo
18035790TRAINING AND USING A LEARNING ALGORITHM USING A TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO DATA FOR IDENTIFICATION OF A MEDICAL DEVICE VISIBLE IN IMAGE DATAMay 2023August 2025Allow2800NoNo
18250650A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSED ULTRAFAST TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGINGApril 2023June 2025Allow2500YesNo
18306192SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE RECONSTRUCTIONApril 2023October 2025Allow3010NoNo
18249895DATA CREATION SYSTEM, LEARNING SYSTEM, ESTIMATION SYSTEM, PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA CREATION METHOD, AND PROGRAMApril 2023February 2026Abandon3410YesNo
18136252TRAINING INSTANCE SEGMENTATION NEURAL NETWORKS THROUGH CONTRASTIVE LEARNINGApril 2023June 2025Allow2600NoNo
18128487DEFECT CLASSIFICATION OF PROCESSED WAFERSMarch 2023September 2025Allow2901YesNo
18191269LEARNING MODEL GENERATING METHOD AND INSPECTION DEVICEMarch 2023July 2025Allow2700NoNo
18127426OPTICAL RESOLUTION DETERMINATION FROM BARCODE CHART IMAGESMarch 2023May 2025Allow2600NoNo
18191845GENERATING IMAGES FOR NEURAL NETWORK TRAININGMarch 2023July 2025Allow2700YesNo
18189679INSTANCE-AWARE REPEAT FACTOR SAMPLING METHOD FOR IMBALANCED DATA IN OBJECT DETECTIONMarch 2023August 2025Allow2900NoNo
18124166Occlusion DetectionMarch 2023May 2025Allow2600YesNo
18180978NEURAL NETWORK MODEL TRAINING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND APPARATUSMarch 2023May 2025Allow2600NoNo
18118907Pre-Processing for Automatic Topographic Feature ExtractionMarch 2023May 2025Allow2600YesNo
18177084IMAGE COMPONENT GENERATION BASED ON APPLICATION OF ITERATIVE LEARNING ON AUTOENCODER MODEL AND TRANSFORMER MODELMarch 2023June 2025Allow2800YesNo
18173820MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE AND FAR-INFRARED IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICEFebruary 2023June 2025Allow2700NoNo
18167418METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING PRODUCE CATEGORY, ORGANIC TYPE, AND BAG TYPE IN AN IMAGE USING A CONCURRENT NEURAL NETWORK MODELFebruary 2023November 2025Abandon3310NoNo
18166095GENERATING STRONG LABELS FOR EXAMPLES LABELLED WITH WEAK LABELSFebruary 2023July 2025Allow2900NoNo
18165857METHOD FOR LEVERAGING SHAPE INFORMATION IN FEW-SHOT LEARNING IN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKSFebruary 2023November 2025Abandon3310NoNo
18007288OBJECT RECOGNITION NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING USING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCESJanuary 2023July 2025Allow3010NoNo
18156853SYMBOL ANALYSIS DEVICE AND METHOD INCLUDED IN FACILITY FLOOR PLANJanuary 2023April 2025Allow2700NoNo
18092053METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECT OF IMAGES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEDecember 2022April 2025Allow2800NoNo
18090389METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING FOOD USING MULTIMODAL MODELDecember 2022July 2025Allow3110NoNo
18146450TARGET RE-IDENTIFICATION METHOD, NETWORK TRAINING METHOD THEREOF, AND RELATED DEVICEDecember 2022August 2025Allow3201NoNo
18146175SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA EXTRACTION AND STANDARDIZATION USING AI BASED WORKFLOW AUTOMATIONDecember 2022June 2025Allow3010NoNo
18002534DATA COLLECTION DEVICE AND DATA COLLECTION METHODDecember 2022July 2025Allow3110NoNo
17992514SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WASTE ITEM DETECTION AND RECOGNITIONNovember 2022August 2024Allow2010NoNo
17988188IDENTIFYING NEW CLASSES OF OBJECTS IN ENVIRONMENTS OF VEHICLESNovember 2022August 2023Allow920YesNo
18052238Systems and Methods for Processing Multi-Modal ImagesNovember 2022October 2025Allow3500YesNo
17972942METHOD FOR FEATURE DETECTION OF COMPLEX DEFECTS BASED ON MULTIMODAL DATAOctober 2022June 2025Allow3110NoNo
17970771Systems, Methods, and Media for Training a Model for Improved Out of Distribution PerformanceOctober 2022September 2025Abandon3510NoNo
17970694INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, ESTIMATION METHOD, TRAINING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMOctober 2022May 2025Allow3110YesNo
18048427HIGH-DIMENSIONAL TRANSFER LEARNINGOctober 2022March 2025Allow2800YesNo
18048062COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A TRAINING DATASET FOR TRAINING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKOctober 2022February 2026Allow4000NoNo
17968986SELF-DIRECTED VISUAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMOctober 2022June 2025Allow3110NoNo
17938077TRACK FEATURE DETECTION USING MACHINE VISIONOctober 2022July 2024Allow2220NoNo
17949504SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-TEACHER GROUP-DISTILLATION FOR LONG-TAIL CLASSIFICATIONSeptember 2022May 2025Allow3210NoNo
17948068NEURAL NETWORK BASED IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEMSeptember 2022August 2024Allow2310YesNo
17898678METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING RECEIPT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2022January 2025Allow2900NoNo
17898778INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SKINCARE PRESCRIPTION SYSTEM, SKINCARE PRESCRIPTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2022March 2025Allow3010YesNo
17822989SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROCESS ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO IDENTIFY TUMOR SUBCLONES AND RELATIONSHIPS AMONG SUBCLONESAugust 2022February 2025Allow2910YesNo
17798781METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGISTRATION OF 2D OR 3D IMAGESAugust 2022February 2025Allow3000NoNo
17871081METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A POSE OF AT LEAST ONE OBJECT IN AN OPERATING THEATREJuly 2022May 2025Allow3410YesNo
17868926COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR EVALUATING AN ANGIOGRAPHIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATASET, EVALUATION DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND ELECTRONICALLY READABLE DATA MEDIUMJuly 2022February 2025Allow3100NoNo
17793201SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILIZING SYNTHETIC MEDICAL IMAGES GENERATED USING A NEURAL NETWORKJuly 2022January 2025Allow3001YesNo

Appeals Overview

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Examiner FLORES, LEON - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner FLORES, LEON works in Art Unit 2676 and has examined 51 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 92.2%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 32 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner FLORES, LEON's allowance rate of 92.2% places them in the 78% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by FLORES, LEON receive 1.18 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 14% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by FLORES, LEON is 32 months. This places the examiner in the 51% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +2.3% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by FLORES, LEON. This interview benefit is in the 23% 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.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 30.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 58% 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 60.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 85% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 50.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 47% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 2.0% of allowed cases (in the 74% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 8.5% of allowed cases (in the 87% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

  • Consider after-final amendments: This examiner frequently enters after-final amendments. If you can clearly overcome rejections with claim amendments, file an after-final amendment before resorting to an RCE.

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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