Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18650293 | IMAGE-READING DEVICE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF OPTICAL COMPONENTS ARRANGED ALONG THE SCANNING DIRECTION BOARD COMPONENTS ARRANGED TO HAVE A SECOND CLEARANCE THEREBETWEEN AND BOARD COMPONENTS FIXED TO THE HOUSING | April 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18650243 | IMAGE-READING DEVICE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF OPTICAL COMPONENTS ARRANGED ALONG THE SCANNING DIRECTION AND HOUSING COMPONENTS ARRANGED TO HAVE A FIRST CLEARANCE THEREBETWEEN, BOARD COMPONENTS ARRANGED TO HAVE A SECOND CLEARANCE THEREBETWEEN AND THE FIRST CLEARANCE AND THE SECOND CLEARANCE ARE ARRANGED TO BE STAGGERED IN THE SCANNING DIRECTION | April 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18649792 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS CAUSED TO READ A HOLDING MEMBER PLACED ON A READING AREA, THE HOLDING MEMBER HOLDING RECEIPTS AND EXTRACTING EDGES OF THE RECEIPTS FROM A SINGLE READ IMAGE | April 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18506924 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | November 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18506580 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM COMPRISING DISPLAYING A SCANNED IMAGE WITH AN ILLUSTRATION REPRESENTING ONE SHEET OR A PLURALITY OF SHEETS | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18497906 | MEDIUM CONVEYING APPARATUS INCLUDING A FIRST CONVEYANCE GUIDE TO MOVE IN CONJUNCTION WITH MOVEMENT OF ROLLER AND A SECOND CONVEYANCE GUIDE TO REGULATE THE FLOATING OF A CONVEYED MEDIUM | October 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18480284 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF EXECUTING SCAN PROCESSING BASED ON REQUEST FROM CLIENT TERMINAL, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR TO CAUSE A CLIENT TERMINAL TO SEND A PASSWORD TO AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS USING ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION TEMPORARILY IN A CASE WHERE A SCAN REQUEST INCLUDES A DESIGNATION FOR AN ENCRYPTED FILE | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18479225 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RECORDING APPARATUS COMPRISING DETERMINING A POSSIBILITY OF REPLENISHMENT OF PAPER IN THE MANUAL PAPER FEED SECTION BASED ON PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF PAPER SET ON THE MANUAL PAPER FEED SECTION | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18464612 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMPRISING A READING PORTION, A FIRST COVER, A SECOND COVER AND HOLDING MECHANISM CONFIGURED TO PREVENT THE FIRST COVER FROM MOVING TO A SECOND CLOSED POSITION AND HOLD THE FIRST COVER IN THE SECOND OPEN POSITION | September 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18464751 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMPRISING A READING PORTION, THE READING PORTION INCLUDES AN IMAGE SENSOR, CASING, TRANSPARENT MEMBER AND A SHIELD MEMBER BETWEEN THE TRANSPARENT MEMBER AND CASING, AND ELECTRICALLY GROUNDED | September 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18462658 | RECORDING DEVICE TO READ AN IMAGE OF A DOCUMENT AND DETERMINE THE POSITION OF AN EDGE GUIDE TO DETECT THE SIZE OF A MEDIUM WITH THE SAME READER USED TO DETECT THE DOCUMENT IMAGE | September 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18452440 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING A LIGHT EMITTER FOR INDICATING A STATUS OF THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | August 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18234087 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING TRANSFORMATIONS OF COLOR DATA FROM A SOURCE COLOR SPACE TO A TARGET COLOR SPACE USING A TRANSFORMATION RULE TRV | August 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18446377 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME COMPRISING RESTRICTING THE OUTPUT OF INPUT PRINT DATA WHEN PREDETERMINED TEXT DATA IS INCLUDED IN THE INPUT PRINT DATA | August 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18217032 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING IMAGE FORMING OPERATION BASED ON DETECTED VALUE FROM DETECTOR AND AT LEAST ONE OF FIRST INFORMATION THAT IS NOT ACQUIRED BASED ON THE DETECTED VALUE OR SECOND INFORMATION ACQUIRED OUTSIDE THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | June 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18345239 | IMAGE INSPECTION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM COMPRISING A HARDWARE PROCESSOR THAT EXECUTES CONTINUITY INSPECTION OF AN IDENTIFIER IN AN INSPECTION REGION IN A READ IMAGE ACROSS A PLURALITY OF JOBS | June 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18345579 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR FOR DISPLAYING CANDIDATE IMAGES OF PRINT IMAGE TO EVALUATE THE CANDIDATE IMAGES BEFORE PRINTING AN IMAGE | June 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18345121 | PRINTING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR SELECTING WHETHER TO RETAIN OR DELETE SELECTED JOBS AFTER PRINTING BASED ON ENABLING OR NOT ENABLING A SINGLE CHECK BOX WHICH CHANGES THE WORDING OF A PRINT BUTTON | June 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18338254 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND VERIFICATION METHOD FOR COMPARISON OF DATA FROM WIRELESS TAG | June 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18336375 | OPERATION TERMINAL, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM AN OUTPUT DEVICE BY A FIRST COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SENDING AN OUTPUT REQUEST FOR OUTPUTTING A FILE BY A SECOND COMMUNICATION METHOD | June 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18209511 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING METHOD | June 2023 | November 2024 | Abandon | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18136309 | AUTOMATIC SCORING METHOD AND SYSTEM TO OUTPUT A TEST SCORE BASED ON A COMPARISON OF A CURRENT TEST PAPER IMAGE AND A REFERENCE TEST PAPER IMAGE WHEN DETERMINING A SCRIPT COLOR IS A DESIGNATED SCRIPT COLOR | April 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18030698 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEGMENTING 3D IMAGES COMPRISING A DOWNSAMPLER, LOW-RESOLUTION MODULE TRAINED TO INFER A COMPLETE LOW-RESOLUTION SEGMENTATION AND GENERATE CORRESPONDING LOW-RESOLUTION FEATURE MAPS FROM AN INPUT DOWNSAMPLED HIGH-RESOLUTION 3D IMAGE AND HIGH-RESOLUTION MODULE TRAINED TO INFER A COMPLETE HIGH-RESOLUTION SEGMENTATION FROM AN INPUT FROM THE LOW-RESOLUTION MODULE AND 3D HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE | April 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18125197 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A PRINT JOB BY A PRINTER WITH LESS WASTE BASED ON DETERMINING WASTE AREAS ON THE SHEETS | March 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 22 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18152762 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM THAT GENERATE QUESTIONS ABOUT TARGET OBJECT SPECIFIED IN DOCUMENT | January 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18077088 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM COMPRISING ACQUIRING AN IMAGE GENERATED BY READING AN ORIGINAL, AND REMOVING NOISE FROM AN OBJECT REGION WITH A SIZE SMALLER THAN A SIZE SPECIFIED IN A FIRST THRESHOLD | December 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17986809 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD CONFIGURED WITH PIXEL SHIFTING AND GRADATION CONVERSION AND SPATIAL FREQUENCY FILETERING IN SUB-SCANNING DIRECTION | November 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 30 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17919297 | ELEVATOR 3D DATA PROCESSING DEVICE | October 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17959451 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM THAT FORMS IMAGES ON VARIOUS TYPES OF SHEETS AND CONTROLS WHETHER OR NOT TO PERFORM PRINTING BASED ON DETECTION RESULTS INDICATING A SHEET DESIGNATED IN A JOB IS A DIFFERENT TYPE THAN THE SHEET TYPE DETECTED BY A SENSOR | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17936896 | SCANNING DEVICE COMPRISING A SENSOR ASSEMBLY INCLUDING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENTS IN A ROW THAT DETECT A RECTANGULAR HOLE TO DETERMINE A SCANNING START POSITION | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17930900 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM COMPRISING APPLYING A FIRST IMAGE PROCESSING, REDUCING THE DEGREE OF THE SECOND IMAGE PROCESSING, AS COMPARED TO THE FIRST IMAGE PROCESSING, AFTER DETERMINING CONFIRMATION OF THE RADIATION IMAGE IS COMPLETE | September 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17907845 | LOW DELAY SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSING | August 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17792220 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM SELECTING A BASE IMAGE INCLUDING A TARGET REGION THAT INCLUDES AN OBJECT THAT IS A TARGET OF MACHINE LEARNING AND A BACKGROUND THAT DOES NOT, SYNTHESIZING AN IMAGE OF A TARGET REGION OF ANOTHER BASE IMAGE WITH A DUPLICATE OF THE BASE IMAGE, AND GENERATING A DATA SET THEREFROM | July 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17786840 | INFRARED IMAGE SEQUENCE-BASED SLEEP QUALITY EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD COMPRISING PERFORMING EVALUATION BY A CLASSIFIER AND COUNTING THE SLEEP QUALITY EVALUATION RESULTS TO DETERMINE THE LARGEST NUMBER TO JUDGE GOOD OR POOR SLEEP QUALITY | June 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17744096 | PALM PRINT RECOGNITION METHOD, METHOD FOR TRAINING FEATURE EXTRACTION MODEL, COMPRISING OBTAINING SAMPLE HAND IMAGES FOR USER IDENTIFIERS, CALLING FEATURE EXTRACTION MODEL TO EXTRACT PALM PRINT FEATURES, AND ADJUST THE FEATURE EXTRACTION MODEL ACCORDING TO THE SAMPLE PALM PRINT FEATURES | May 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17729496 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM COMPRISING SETTING FIRST, SECOND AND INTERMEDIATE REGIONS IN ORDER TO EXECUTE A FIRST PROCESSING OR SECOND PROCESSING ON EACH PIXEL IN THE SET REGIONS | April 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17766919 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | April 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17712821 | READING APPARATUS WITH SENSORS LOCATED AT DIFFERENT POSITIONS ALONG A CONVEYER PATH | April 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 30 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17709711 | FACE DETECTION TO GENERATE PARAMETERS FOR A NEURAL NETWORK THAT DETERMINES FACIAL LANDMARKS USED FOR FACIAL SYNTHESIS FOR HEAD TURNS IN AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT | March 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17702669 | ARCHITECTURE FOR DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AUGMENTATION WITH OBJECTS DETECTED USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS FROM DATA RECEIVED FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES | March 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17696617 | DOCUMENT READER HAVING AN OPTICAL FILTER WITH VARIABLE LIGHT TRANSMISSION | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17586343 | VISUALIZATION OF THE IMPACT OF TRAINING DATA USING BOUNDING BOX VECTORS TO TRAIN A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | January 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17648843 | READING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING READING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM CAUSING COMPUTER TO CONTROL READING APPARATUS TO CORRECT READING POSITION OF DOCUMENT | January 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 38 | 5 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17555580 | CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE, CHARACTER INPUT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CHARACTER INPUT PROGRAM FOR OBTAINING A FIRST CHARACTER STRING, EXTRACTING SIMILAR CHARACTERS AND GENERATING SECOND CHARACTER STRING WITH REPLACEMENT CHARACTERS AND OUTPUTTING CONVERSION CANDIDATES | December 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17553654 | APPARATUS WITH OPENABLE SLOT COVERING, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMPRISING A HOUSING HAVING AN OPENABLE COVERING THAT COVERS A PORTION WITH ONE OR MORE SLOTS INTO WHICH AN INSERTABLE OBJECT IS INSERTABLE AND HAVING AN AREA WITH NO SLOTS | December 2021 | June 2025 | Abandon | 42 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17456422 | IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BY CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK USING RADIAL SUMMATION | November 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
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Examiner DICKERSON, CHAD S works in Art Unit 2682 and has examined 3 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 66.7%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 41 months.
Examiner DICKERSON, CHAD S's allowance rate of 66.7% places them in the 28% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by DICKERSON, CHAD S receive 3.00 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 86% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues more office actions than most examiners, which may indicate thorough examination or difficulty in reaching agreement with applicants.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by DICKERSON, CHAD S is 41 months. This places the examiner in the 21% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +50.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by DICKERSON, CHAD S. This interview benefit is in the 93% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner and should be strongly considered as a prosecution strategy. Per MPEP § 713.10, interviews are available at any time before the Notice of Allowance is mailed or jurisdiction transfers to the PTAB.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 33.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 72% 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 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.
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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