Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18822644 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | September 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18764548 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY SENDING, DELIVERY AND RECEIVING OF FAXES | July 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18738628 | PARAMETER UTILIZATION FOR LANGUAGE PRE-TRAINING | June 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18601005 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE SPACE TRANSFORMATION | March 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18589356 | MAINTENANCE SUPPORT SYSTEM AND MAINTENANCE SUPPORT METHOD | February 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18581180 | Unibody Endoskeletal Transtibial Prosthetic Devices and Digital Fabrication Workflow | February 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18411646 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18531925 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR CORRELATING AT LEAST ONE ADDITIONAL 2D-IMAGE TO A 3D-REPRESENTATION OF AT LEAST A PART OF TOOTH | December 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18529286 | METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION | December 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18525701 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | November 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18387613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED IDENTITY VERIFICATION | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18501728 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18499905 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR INPUTTING CHARACTERS USING TOUCH PANEL, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18488473 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ASSIGNING FILE TO DIRECTORY FOR STORAGE, AND ARRANGING SPECIFIC ELEMENT WITH INPUTTED ATTRIBUTE NAME AT POSITION DESIGNATED BY USER IN RULE DISPLAYED AND EDITED IN FIRST AREA AND ASSIGNS ARRANGED SPECIFIC ELEMENT TO SECOND AREA | October 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18287156 | LEARNING APPARATUS, ESTIMATION APPARATUS, LEARNING MODEL DATA GENERATION METHOD, ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM | October 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18469327 | RELATIVE POSE ESTIMATION AND DATA ADJUSTMENT OF MULTIPLE SENSORS | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18457475 | TRAINING APPARATUS, TRAINING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18546240 | Motion-Induced Blurring to Reduce Scintillations and an Appearance of a Boundary Separating Regions of a Display | August 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18366298 | FREESPACE DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS | August 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18353327 | PIXEL-BASED AUTOMATED TESTING OF A NAVIGABLE SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT | July 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18352082 | GROOVE WEAR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | July 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18347037 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRINTING COMPOSITE IMAGE | July 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18342741 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING MOVING TARGET BASED ON COMPLEMENTARY GIMBAL CONTROL THROUGH DISPLACEMENT PARTITIONING | June 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18213370 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS | June 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18212424 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18212452 | SCENE CAMERA RETARGETING | June 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18208623 | RECOVERING CAMERA POSITION FROM CONTENT FILE | June 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18316711 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROCESS ELECTRONIC IMAGES WITH AUTOMATIC PROTOCOL REVISIONS | May 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18142240 | LOSS CONTRIBUTION DETECTING METHOD AND LOSS CONTRIBUTION DETECTING SYSTEM | May 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18033690 | VIDEO CLUSTERING AND ANALYSIS BASED ON CONCEPT PROMINENCE | April 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18132233 | Terminal Device, Access Point, Communication Device, and Computer Programs Therefor | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18193390 | STRUCTURE DIAGNOSTIC CASE PRESENTATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM | March 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18115553 | NEURAL NETWORK LOSS FUNCTION THAT INCORPORATES INCORRECT CATEGORY PROBABILITIES | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18113764 | METHOD OF PREDICTING FINE DUST CONCENTRATION AND INFERRING SOURCE BY USING LOCAL PUBLIC DATA AND PREDICTION AND INFERENCE DEVICE | February 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18166030 | HIERARCHICAL DEEP LEARNING APPROACH FOR SEGMENTATION OF GLIOBLASTOMA TUMOR NICHES ON DIGITAL HISTOPATHOLOGY | February 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18019110 | ULTRASOUND METHOD | February 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18161680 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIMODAL LAYOUT DESIGNS OF DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS | January 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18018219 | Recording Medium, Method for Generating Learning Model, Surgical Support Device and Information Processing Method | January 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17991908 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING LEARNING DATA FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL | November 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17980433 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DELETION OF SETTING HISTORY | November 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17973661 | SURGICAL ASSISTANT SYSTEM BASED ON IMAGE DATA OF THE OPERATIVE FIELD | October 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17920396 | DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE METHOD, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, AND ALZHEIMER'S PREDICTION PROGRAM | October 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17919778 | INSPECTION SYSTEM | October 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17918158 | GRASPING DEVICE | October 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17937024 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING A PERCEPTUAL QUALITY MODEL FOR PREDICTING VIDEO QUALITY ACROSS DIFFERENT VIEWING PARAMETERS | September 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17935399 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VALIDATING PLANTING OF TREES | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17952789 | METHOD FOR TRACKING DIGITAL ASSETS VIA STATISTICAL STEGANOGRAPHY | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17949003 | System and Method with Masking and Inpainting Strategy for Generic Defense Against Patch Attacks | September 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17944003 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF VIDEO VIRTUAL BACKGROUND IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER APPARATUS | September 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17941512 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING FLARED GAS QUANTITIES BY USING SWIR IMAGES ACQUIRED BY A SPACEBORNE IMAGE SENSOR | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17908070 | METHOD OF TRAINING TARGET OBJECT DETECTION MODEL, METHOD OF DETECTING TARGET OBJECT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17822548 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPPORTED READING BY REDACTING OF A NORMAL AREA IN A MEDICAL IMAGE | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17886362 | OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION DETECTION AND RECOGNITION OF ACTIVITIES WITH INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT SENSOR | August 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17818678 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17874504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE ASSET TAGGING AND MANAGEMENT | July 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17812438 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CHARACTERIZING TISSUE OF A SUBJECT | July 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17786379 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROGRESSIVE REGISTRATION | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17782476 | NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING OF OCT DATA TO GENERATE PREDICTIONS OF GEOGRAPHIC-ATROPHY GROWTH RATES | June 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17781060 | INTRAORAL 3D SCANNING WITH AUTOMATIC CHARTING | May 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17751933 | VEHICLE MOUNTED LIVENESS DETECTION SYSTEM, LIVENESS DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17778324 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, RANGE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | May 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17756131 | APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL INSPECTION OF SANITARYWARE | May 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17777083 | Offline Troubleshooting and Development for Automated Visual Inspection Stations | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17736078 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AND CATEGORIZING WASTE, AND DIRECTING A DESIRED USER ACTION | May 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17772591 | IMAGING APPARATUS FOR AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | April 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17727218 | IMAGE ACQUIRING DEVICE, CANCER DETERMINATION DEVICE, CANCER DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | April 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17718679 | APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING DRIVING OF VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF | April 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17714654 | DEPTH IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | April 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17656803 | SENTIMENT CAPTURE BY WIRELESS NETWORK ELEMENTS | March 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17706107 | Utilizing Sensor Data For Automated User Identification | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17705365 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17698511 | DETECTION DEVICE FOR RECOGNIZING AN OBJECT AND/OR A PERSON, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17698309 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC VIDEO RECONSTRUCTION WITH DYNAMIC POINT OF INTEREST | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17675305 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | February 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17673470 | LEVEL OF DETAIL VIA SUM OF SQUARES TECHNOLOGY | February 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17672427 | MEASUREMENT AND APPLICATION OF IMAGE COLORFULNESS USING DEEP LEARNING | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17581604 | DEEP LEARNING BASED SAMPLE LOCALIZATION | January 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17579370 | GUIDED DOMAIN RANDOMIZATION VIA DIFFERENTIABLE DATASET RENDERING | January 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17573510 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING OBJECT IN IMAGE RELATED TO AN ANIMAL'S EYE OR NOSE | January 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17624621 | IMAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS USING DEEP LEARNING MODEL AND METHOD THEREFOR | January 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17623376 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATING INFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTIONS | December 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17455514 | DATA AUGMENTATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING | November 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17524475 | Systems and Methods for Artificial Facial Image Generation Conditioned On Demographic Information | November 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17504203 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | October 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17491248 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17482875 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SPATIALLY SPARSE CONVOLUTION MODULE FOR VISUAL RENDERING AND SYNTHESIS | September 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17462752 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED ENVIRONMENT FAIL-SAFES THROUGH MULTIPLE CAMERA VIEWS | August 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17142906 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM WITH MENU FOR SERVICE SELECTION | January 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 46 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16224944 | HINGE MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | December 2018 | June 2019 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15875334 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CLIENT TERMINAL | January 2018 | September 2018 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15874332 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | January 2018 | November 2018 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15873408 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME | January 2018 | December 2018 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15869660 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | January 2018 | March 2019 | Allow | 14 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15340220 | PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING WIRELESS DIRECT COMMUNICATION FUNCTION AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE PRINTING APPARATUS | November 2016 | October 2018 | Allow | 24 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
No appeal data available for this record. This may indicate that no appeals have been filed or decided for applications in this dataset.
Examiner MCLEAN, NEIL R works in Art Unit 2681 and has examined 14 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 100.0%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 34 months.
Examiner MCLEAN, NEIL R's allowance rate of 100.0% places them in the 96% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by MCLEAN, NEIL R receive 1.57 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 29% 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 MCLEAN, NEIL R is 34 months. This places the examiner in the 44% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MCLEAN, NEIL R. This interview benefit is in the 14% 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, 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 0.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 1% 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 file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 0.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 4% 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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