Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18669210 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING PROBABILITY OF ROAD COLLAPSE | May 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18407325 | Battery Impedance Tracking During Charging | January 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18205819 | Trend based battery health estimation | June 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18142622 | Battery adapted and configurable impedance circuit | May 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18302208 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING FAILURE OF COMPONENTS USING TEMPORAL SCOPING OF SENSOR DATA | April 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18128095 | Sheath including monitoring electrodes for battery health monitoring | March 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18093238 | Embedded monitoring electrodes for battery health monitoring | January 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17975822 | Non-charging based battery monitoring and characterization | October 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17955789 | Trend based battery health estimation | September 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17954749 | Battery monitoring and characterization during charging | September 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17951721 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS OF POLYMERS AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF OTHER POLYMER PROPERTIES WITHOUT PHYSICAL SEPARATION | September 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17933357 | REAL-TIME BATTERY FAULT DETECTION AND STATE-OF-HEALTH MONITORING | September 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17874419 | Sheath including monitoring electrodes for battery health monitoring | July 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17793050 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING DAILY PRECIPITATION FORECAST BY USING BERNOULLI-GAMMA-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION | July 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17852654 | Embedded monitoring electrodes for battery health monitoring | June 2022 | October 2022 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17843599 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT | June 2022 | February 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17750448 | METHOD FOR MONITORING ABNORMAL SENSORS DURING FABRICATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17706832 | Battery adapted and configurable impedance circuit | March 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17581850 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELIMINATING QUANTUM MEASUREMENT NOISE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM | January 2022 | March 2024 | Abandon | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17647299 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING AND OPTIMIZING OPERATION OF CONNECTED OIL AND GAS WELLS | January 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17597424 | ANTI-COLLISION WELL TRAJECTORY DESIGN | January 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17551319 | Stress gradient high-efficiency non-destructive detection system based on frequency domain calculation of broadband swept frequency signals, and detection method thereof | December 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17551881 | Designing Service for Wellbores With Fluid Losses | December 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17644103 | METHOD FOR QUADRIMODAL FAULT PREDICTION USING STRAIN TENSOR CYCLIDES | December 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17549908 | METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING CRACK PROFILES BASED ON COMPOSITE-MODE TOTAL FOCUSING METHOD | December 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17540545 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AGING STATE OF BATTERY AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING METHOD THEREFOR | December 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17535211 | DETERMINING SWEET SPOTS AND RANKING OF A BASIN | November 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17604241 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF IDENTIFYING A BOND BOUNDARY BETWEEN A SOUND BOND AND A WEAK BOND IN A MULTILAYER ARTICLE | October 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17500121 | PERFORATION CLUSTER DESIGN METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON A HYBRID MODEL TO PREDICT PROPPANT DISTRIBUTION | October 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17493800 | MANAGING MACHINE OPERATIONS USING ENCODED MULTI-SCALE TIME SERIES DATA | October 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17462510 | Battery monitoring and characterization during charging | August 2021 | July 2022 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17431526 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AN ITEM BY OLFACTORY SIGNATURE | August 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17391722 | BOREHOLE LOCALIZATION RELATIVE TO OBJECTS AND SUBTERRANEAN FORMATIONS | August 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 38 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17427175 | Solar Radiation Heat Sensor Device and Solar Radiation Heat Measuring Method | July 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17443609 | MULTIPOINT SERIES SENSOR IN ELECTRIC HEATING ELEMENTS | July 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17375255 | Method for Extracting IP Information from Grounded-wire Transient Electromagnetic Response | July 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17373113 | WEATHER PARAMETER PREDICTION MODEL TRAINING METHOD, WEATHER PARAMETER PREDICTION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2021 | November 2023 | Abandon | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17299637 | DETERMINING A THERMAL FOOTPRINT FOR A THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTED PART | June 2021 | February 2025 | Abandon | 44 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17335478 | SELECTION OF TIRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM (TPMS) SENSOR MODULES FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY (RF) COMMUNICATION BY ANGLE DETECTION | June 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17330548 | Trend based battery health estimation | May 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17328976 | MOBILE DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND/OR CLASSIFYING OCCUPANTS OF A VEHICLE AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF | May 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17325184 | Diagnostic Baselining | May 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17317334 | GAIT ANALYSIS METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | May 2021 | November 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17240384 | Non-charging based battery monitoring and characterization | April 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17222921 | BATTERY MONITORING DEVICE | April 2021 | January 2022 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17201000 | EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS AND EXPERIMENTAL METHOD FOR PHYSICAL MODELING OF TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY | March 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17196848 | REAL-TIME BATTERY FAULT DETECTION AND STATE-OF-HEALTH MONITORING | March 2021 | June 2022 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17178521 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDITION MONITORING ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT | February 2021 | January 2022 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17175985 | Systems and Methods for Determining Properties of Porous, Fluid-Filled Geological Formations Based on Multi-Frequency Measurements | February 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17262315 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE QUALITY OF LOCALISATION IN THE SELF-LOCALISATION OF A VEHICLE, DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE STEPS OF THE METHOD, VEHICLE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | January 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17095833 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY WATER MANAGEMENT CANDIDATES AT ASSET LEVEL | November 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17051516 | TEMPERATURE SENSOR, TEMPERATURE MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF | October 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 45 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17039553 | USING ACTIVE ACTUATION FOR DOWNHOLE FLUID IDENTIFICATION AND CEMENT BARRIER QUALITY ASSESSMENT | September 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17022382 | METHOD OF MONITORING A STATE OF CHARGE OF A BATTERY | September 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16940492 | Systems and Methods for Determining Properties of Porous, Fluid-Filled Geological Formations Based on Multi-Frequency Measurements | July 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16937662 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LOCATING EQUIPMENT-LEVEL OSCILLATION SOURCES OF DFIG GRID-CONNECTED SYSTEM | July 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16924129 | DETECTION DEVICE | July 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16958986 | DETERMINING A REALFEEL SEASONAL INDEX | June 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16899890 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIQUIDS CORRECTION IN OIL AND GAS PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS | June 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16896174 | POSITIONING FOR WEATHER SENSING DEVICES | June 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 49 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16865063 | DETERMINING EXPLORATION POTENTIAL RANKING FOR PETROLEUM PLAYS | May 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16851338 | LINEARIZATION OF INPUT SIGNALS | April 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16645322 | DETERMINING A MOTOR ABNORMALITY BASED ON A DRIVE COMMAND PROVIDED TO THE MOTOR AND A CURRENT AMPLITUDE OF POWER PROVIDED TO THE MOTOR | March 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16790851 | METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING TENSOR ARTIFICIAL-SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL DATA AND DEVICE THEREOF | February 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16774762 | WELLBORE LEAK DETERMINATION | January 2020 | August 2023 | Abandon | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16718763 | Production Surveillance - Management System | December 2019 | September 2024 | Abandon | 57 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16715835 | RADIOMETRIC MODELING FOR OPTICAL IDENTIFICATION OF SAMPLE MATERIALS | December 2019 | August 2023 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16693038 | METHODS TO CONFIGURE A DOWNHOLE ELECTROMAGNETIC TOOL AND DOWNHOLE ELECTROMAGNETIC TOOL CALIBRATION SYSTEMS | November 2019 | August 2021 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16611363 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING WHITE PLUME CONTROL LINE OF SMOKE AFTER WET DESULPHURIZATION | November 2019 | July 2022 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16609349 | SENSOR HAVING DUPLICATE DETECTION LINES | October 2019 | April 2022 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16665416 | PRESSURE ASSISTED POSITIONING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF | October 2019 | January 2022 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16574846 | APPARATUS, METHODOLOGIES AND SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS FOR DETERMINING A LEVEL OF DIRECT SUNLIGHT | September 2019 | January 2024 | Allow | 52 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16559116 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE NUMERICAL MEASUREMENT OF A LEAST ONE FLOW-RELATED CHARACTERISTIC OF A BODY | September 2019 | May 2024 | Abandon | 57 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16459467 | SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYTICS FOR BURST DETECTION AND LOCATION IN WATER DISTRIBUTION | July 2019 | June 2023 | Abandon | 47 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16454106 | Wellbore Inflow Detection Based on Distributed Temperature Sensing | June 2019 | July 2021 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16427935 | Battery monitoring and characterization during charging | May 2019 | June 2021 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16419100 | AUTOMATED TRANSITIVE READ-BEHIND ANALYSIS IN BIG DATA TOXICOLOGY | May 2019 | April 2024 | Allow | 59 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 16338064 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING FLUID FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF LENS-FREE CMOS OPTICAL ARRAY SENSOR PACKAGE MODULE HAVING FLOW CHANNEL | March 2019 | August 2021 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16295604 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING WIND VELOCITY FOR VEHICLES TRAVERSING A CURVE | March 2019 | November 2022 | Allow | 45 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16280018 | Sensor System Interconnect For Automatic Configuration | February 2019 | February 2022 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16323952 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING MECHANICAL CONNECTION POINTS IN AN INSTALLATION | February 2019 | December 2023 | Allow | 58 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16083136 | DEVICE OPERATION INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM | January 2019 | July 2021 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16247954 | MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR FINDING MATERIALS WITH DESIRED PROPERTIES | January 2019 | November 2023 | Allow | 58 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16231160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING FAILURE OF COMPONENTS USING TEMPORAL SCOPING OF SENSOR DATA | December 2018 | January 2023 | Allow | 49 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16214804 | EMPIRICAL DETERMINATION OF VLF ATTENUATION FACTORS | December 2018 | March 2021 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16099498 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | November 2018 | May 2021 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16098977 | SOLAR POWER FORECASTING | November 2018 | June 2022 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16165265 | Systems and Methods for Dynamic Liquid Level Monitoring and Control | October 2018 | August 2021 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16163740 | WORK ASSISTANCE DEVICE, WORK ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND WORK ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | October 2018 | September 2021 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16094542 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS OF POLYMERS AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF OTHER POLYMER PROPERTIES WITHOUT PHYSICAL SEPARATION | October 2018 | June 2022 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16163184 | ELECTRONIC RELIABILITY ENHANCEMENT OF A PHYSICAL QUANTITY SENSOR | October 2018 | December 2020 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16161088 | INSPECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INSPECTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUSES, AND INSPECTION MANAGEMENT METHOD | October 2018 | August 2021 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16161937 | DATA QUALITY MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | October 2018 | April 2021 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16161852 | Data-driven Model for Lithium-ion Battery Capacity Fade and Lifetime Prediction | October 2018 | September 2021 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16159068 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HYBRID VEHICLE | October 2018 | April 2022 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16083005 | SUPPORTING MEANS FOR AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION, WITH MULTIPLE SENSORS ARRANGED ALONG THE SUPPORTING MEANS | September 2018 | September 2022 | Abandon | 49 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J.
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, 0.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J works in Art Unit 2863 and has examined 94 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 84.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 29 months.
Examiner SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J's allowance rate of 84.0% places them in the 53% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J receive 1.54 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 39% 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 SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J is 29 months. This places the examiner in the 47% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +3.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J. This interview benefit is in the 25% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 34.6% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 71% 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 51.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 73% 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.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 13% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show limited success with this examiner compared to others. While still worth considering, be prepared to proceed with a full appeal brief if the PAC does not result in favorable action.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 0.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 1% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 0.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 3% 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 25% 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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