Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18950411 | Position-Based Playback of Multichannel Audio | November 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18762636 | DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING A VIBRATION MODULE | July 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18671287 | Audio Generation in a Media Playback System | May 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18417854 | Position-Based Playback of Multichannel Audio | January 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18418131 | METHOD OF WAKING A DEVICE USING SPOKEN VOICE COMMANDS | January 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18417895 | Position-Based Playback of Multichannel Audio | January 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18403432 | Deferred Loudness Adjustment For Dynamic Range Control | January 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18403552 | Methods and Apparatus for Audio Equalization Based on Variant Selection | January 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18522396 | SELECTING HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION PROFILES FOR AUDIO STREAMS IN GAMING SYSTEMS | November 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18504896 | Audio Generation in a Media Playback System | November 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18503132 | Playback Device Calibration | November 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18495449 | DIGITAL TONE SYNTHESIZERS | October 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18473175 | AUDIO EQUALIZATION OF AUDIO ENVIRONMENT | September 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18283159 | ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL DEVICE, ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL METHOD, AND ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL PROGRAM | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18461289 | SPATIAL AUDIO FOR INTERACTIVE AUDIO ENVIRONMENTS | September 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18453792 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC VOLUME ADJUSTMENT VIA AUDIO CLASSIFICATION | August 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18202946 | DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING A VIBRATION MODULE | May 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18144898 | AUDIO APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AUDIO PROCESSING FOR RENDERING AUDIO ELEMENTS OF AN AUDIO SCENE | May 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18144575 | SUBBAND SPATIAL PROCESSING FOR OUTWARD-FACING TRANSAURAL LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEMS | May 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18304790 | VIBRATION DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | April 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18135402 | AUDIO APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AUDIO PROCESSING FOR RENDERING AUDIO ELEMENTS OF AN AUDIO SCENE | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18135101 | AUDIO DENOISING METHOD AND SYSTEM | April 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18132344 | MODIFYING AND TRANSFERRING AUDIO BETWEEN DEVICES | April 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18030469 | A METHOD OF OUTPUTTING SOUND AND A LOUDSPEAKER | April 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18193850 | DIGITAL TONE SYNTHESIZERS | March 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18191061 | SOUND FIELD CONTROL DEVICE AND FILTER DETERMINATION SYSTEM | March 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18247041 | HRTF PRE-PROCESSING FOR AUDIO APPLICATIONS | March 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18184945 | AUDIO LIMITER | March 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18116715 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING SOUND | March 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18023882 | ACOUSTIC PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18114982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE RESTITUTION OF LOW FREQUENCIES OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL | February 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18173606 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOUND SOURCE VIRTUALIZATION | February 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18113238 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING LOW-FREQUENCY SOUND SENSATION | February 2023 | June 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18109792 | ELECTRONIC MODULE HAVING TRANSDUCERS RADIATING ULTRASONIC WAVES | February 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18020282 | DIVISIVE NORMALIZATION METHOD, DEVICE, AUDIO FEATURE EXTRACTOR AND A CHIP | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18104837 | AUDIO APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AUDIO PROCESSING FOR RENDERING AUDIO ELEMENTS OF AN AUDIO SCENE | February 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18095390 | AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | January 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18149172 | SELECTIVE MICROPHONE USE FOR AUDIO CONFERENCING | January 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18089583 | Electronic Device with a Sounding Function | December 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18146890 | AUTOMATIC LOUDSPEAKER ROOM EQUALIZATION BASED ON SOUND FIELD ESTIMATION WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS | December 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18010870 | CAPACITIVE MEMS MICROPHONE, MICROPHONE UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18061570 | OPTIMIZATION OF NETWORK MICROPHONE DEVICES USING NOISE CLASSIFICATION | December 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 18073168 | INTEGRATED BONE CONDUCTION SOUND GENERATING DEVICE AND METHOD | December 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18058871 | System and Method for Augmenting Vehicle Sound System | November 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17994195 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING MICROPHONE MODULE | November 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17999878 | APPLICATION DEVICE INCLUDING AN ELASTIC MEMBER | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17989427 | AUDIO SYSTEM EQUALIZATION BASED ON TYPE OF AUDIO BEING BROADCAST | November 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17978900 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A MODAL PROCESSOR | November 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17922697 | Silicon-Based Microphone Device And Electronic Device | November 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17975981 | INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM NECK SPEAKER AND HEAD MOVEMENT SENSOR | October 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17921555 | SPEAKER CALIBRATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM | October 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17964818 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS GENERATING A SOUND OF A PLURALITY OF CHANNELS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | October 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17918319 | ADAPTIVE MUSIC SELECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING OF NOISE FEATURES, MUSIC FEATURES AND CORRELATED USER ACTIONS | October 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17938815 | Audio Generation in a Media Playback System | October 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17960009 | NETWORKED AUTOMIXER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | October 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17952714 | PLAYBACK DEVICE CALIBRATION | September 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17907186 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM | September 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17907097 | ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER WITH BALANCED PROPERTIES | September 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17930315 | Frequency Routing Based on Orientation | September 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17821548 | EVENT ACTIVITY DETECTION SIGNALING | August 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17886455 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | August 2022 | September 2024 | Abandon | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17799211 | SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION APPARATUS, SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | August 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17876388 | Non-Coherent Noise Reduction For Audio Enhancement on Mobile Device | July 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17874072 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING ACOUSTIC ANOMALIES | July 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17872729 | INTERCHANGEABLE CARTRIDGE AUDIO PREAMPLIFIER FOR MICROPHONE, AND KIT COMPRISING THE SAME | July 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17793539 | NOISE FLOOR ESTIMATION AND NOISE REDUCTION | July 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17860984 | MISCELLANEOUS AUDIO SYSTEM APPLICATIONS | July 2022 | November 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17856647 | SOUND INPUT-OUTPUT CONTROL APPARATUS, SOUND INPUT-OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | July 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17856850 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ARTIFICIAL REVERBERATION EMPLOYING REVERBERATION IMPULSE RESPONSE SYNTHESIS | July 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17790089 | VIRTUAL SURROUND SOUND PRODUCTION CIRCUIT, PLANAR SOUND SOURCE APPARATUS, AND FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE | June 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17849940 | HEARING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD FOR DIRECTIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING OF SIGNALS IN A MICROPHONE ARRAY | June 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17849941 | EARBUD WITH TEMPERATURE SENSING | June 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17850373 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF AUDIO DATA | June 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17846913 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO EQUALIZATION BASED ON VARIANT SELECTION | June 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17833920 | Multifunctional sounding device | June 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17744754 | SPEAKER | May 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17739694 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING NOISE CORRESPONDING TO A NOISE SOURCE USING NOISE DATA | May 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17755596 | SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE TO BE STABLY FITTED TO EAR | May 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17660380 | AUDIO PLAYBACK SYSTEM FAULT DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS | April 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17766907 | Improved Loudspeaker Assembly And System For Vehicles | April 2022 | May 2024 | Abandon | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17706640 | CONTENT BASED SPATIAL REMIXING | March 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17706400 | ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CHANNEL SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREFOR | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17656380 | Audio Output Modification | March 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17656230 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF A SOUND FIELD | March 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 28 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17762709 | AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING WITH TRANSFORM PARAMETERS | March 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17695254 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AUDIO DATA TO PLURALITY OF EXTERNAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 31 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17677359 | ACOUSTIC PROCESSING DEVICE INCLUDING SPATIAL NORMALIZATION, MASK FUNCTION ESTIMATION, AND MASK PROCESSING, AND ASSOCIATED ACOUSTIC PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17650327 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SETTING OF DIGITAL PROCESSING PARAMETERS APPLIED TO SIGNALS BEFORE BROADCAST BY LOUDSPEAKERS AND DEVICE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SUCH A METHOD | February 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17587662 | LIMITING DISTORTION OF ACOUSTIC RENDERING | January 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17581389 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTROLLED BASED ON SOUND DATA AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON SOUND DATA | January 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17628272 | A MAGNETIC CIRCUIT STRUCTURE OF A TRANSDUCER, A TRANSDUCER AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME | January 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17569006 | VEHICLE AUDIO ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17568171 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR AUDIO INPUT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | January 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17559204 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD INCLUDING STRUCTURE FOR REMOVING ELECTRICAL STRESS | December 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17619923 | DISPLAY DEVICE, SOUND PRODUCING CONTROL METHOD, PARAMETER DETERMINING METHOD AND DEVICE | December 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17547219 | FREQUENCY DEPENDENT DYNAMIC RANGE CONTROL | December 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17541567 | WIRELESS HEADSET SYSTEM | December 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17534398 | AUDIO PROCESSING CIRCUIT WHOSE OUTPUT STAGE HAS DIFFERENT CONFIGURATION BASED ON SIGNAL STRENGTH | November 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17521220 | AUDIO EQUALIZATION OF AUDIO ENVIRONMENT | November 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17608110 | DYNAMIC REDUCTION OF LOUDSPEAKER DISTORTION BASED ON PSYCHOACOUSTIC MASKING | November 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MOONEY, JAMES K.
With a 0.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.
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, 50.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner MOONEY, JAMES K works in Art Unit 2695 and has examined 133 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 89.5%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 26 months.
Examiner MOONEY, JAMES K's allowance rate of 89.5% places them in the 69% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by MOONEY, JAMES K receive 1.50 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 36% 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 MOONEY, JAMES K is 26 months. This places the examiner in the 62% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +9.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MOONEY, JAMES K. This interview benefit is in the 45% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 33.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 64% 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 37.5% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 49% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 66.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 44% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: This examiner shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 42.9% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 45% 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's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 21% 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 1.7% of allowed cases (in the 63% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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