Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19192177 | ROBOTIC FLOOR-CLEANING SYSTEM MANAGER | April 2025 | September 2025 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18921835 | IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE | October 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18918081 | ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | October 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18852298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECT AND AVOID MECHANISMS FOR UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM | September 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18725584 | AUTOMATIC LABELING SYSTEM | June 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18679987 | DETERMINING ADVERSARIAL COST BASED ON GENERATED DEVIATIONS | May 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18709157 | PRECISION ASSEMBLY CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM BY ROBOT WITH VISUAL-TACTILE FUSION | May 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18699302 | CONTROL DEVICE | April 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18626050 | TECHNIQUES FOR OPERATING A KINEMATIC STRUCTURE BY MANUAL MOTION OF LINK COUPLED TO THE KINEMATIC STRUCTURE | April 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18696290 | METHOD FOR THE SAFETY CONTROL, DURING DIRECT TEACHING, OF A ROBOTISED SYSTEM AND RELATIVE ROBOTISED SYSTEM | March 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18693667 | TEACHING DEVICE AND ROBOT SYSTEM | March 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18689732 | AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE, AUDIO OUTPUT METHOD, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18424847 | INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS FOR DETERMINING WORKING PARAMETERS OF COLLABORATIVE ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF | January 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18544269 | USER INTERFACES FOR CUSTOMIZED NAVIGATION ROUTES | December 2023 | March 2026 | Abandon | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18568335 | MOVING APPARATUS AND MOVING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD | December 2023 | February 2026 | Abandon | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18513354 | INTERFACING WITH A MOBILE TELEPRESENCE ROBOT | November 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18504334 | CONTROL APPARATUS, WORK ROBOT, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD | November 2023 | February 2026 | Abandon | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18483652 | OBSTACLE MAP FOR AUTONOMOUS PILE DRIVING SYSTEM | October 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18376766 | ACTIVE PREDICTION BASED ON OBJECT TRAJECTORIES | October 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18373695 | ESTIMATION OF A POSITION AND ORIENTATION OF A FRAME USED IN CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF A TOOL | September 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18283228 | Method for Generating Training Data for a Machine Learning (ML) Model | September 2023 | December 2025 | Abandon | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18470030 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR INTRA-ORAL SCANNING | September 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18280798 | Work Teaching Device and Work Teaching Method for Robot | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18461337 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZED ASSIGNMENT OF TRAVERSAL TASKS UNDER IMPERFECT SENSING OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18241834 | METHODS AND SERVERS FOR GENERATING A PREDICTION SCORE BY A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM | September 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18241041 | Prediction Variance Estimation | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18458635 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING NAVIGATION PROGRAM | August 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18239134 | ROBOTIC FLOOR-CLEANING SYSTEM MANAGER | August 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18237136 | Speeding up Stochastic Routing of Vehicles using Tiering | August 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18358440 | EFFICIENT NETWORK-GRAPH FRAMEWORK AND QUERY SYSTEM FOR CARGO ROUTES | July 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18356497 | EFFICIENT METHOD FOR ROBOT SKILL LEARNING | July 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18224248 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE | July 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18220723 | Stochastic Route Planning for Electric Vehicles | July 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18259409 | METHOD FOR GENERATING CIRCULAR TRAVELING ROUTE OF VEHICLE, DEVICE FOR GENERATING CIRCULAR TRAVELING ROUTE OF VEHICLE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING METHOD FOR GENERATING CIRCULAR TRAVELING ROUTE OF VEHICLE IS RECORDED | June 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18215064 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AUTONOMOUS, MOBILE ROBOT | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18340968 | SKILL TEMPLATE DISTRIBUTION FOR ROBOTIC DEMONSTRATION LEARNING | June 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18334959 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOT FOR MANIPULATING, IN PARTICULAR PICKING UP, AN OBJECT | June 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18265768 | ROBOT AND TEACHING METHOD | June 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18256218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TRAVEL ROUTE | June 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18330075 | DEVICE FOR CALCULATING DRIVING ROUTES FOR USE IN A MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING DRIVING ROUTES | June 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18143795 | Multi-arm Spacecraft Model Predictive Control Method Based on Mixture of Gaussian Processes, Equipment, and Medium | May 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18143475 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TESTING ENVIRONMENTS | May 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18140358 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | April 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18135941 | AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF AERIAL ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | April 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18302596 | CONTROL AND TRAINING OF ROBOTS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | April 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18134873 | ROBOT SENSING ANIMAL WASTE LOCATED INDOORS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | April 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18131627 | Condition-Based Robot Audio Techniques | April 2023 | April 2025 | Abandon | 25 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18120545 | Method for Safely Determining a Flight Path of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle | March 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18178605 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE INFERENCE OF ROUTES FOR ACTORS EXHIBITING UNRECOGNIZED BEHAVIOR | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18023430 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING A MOTION DATA SAMPLE OF A GIVEN ROBOT AND ITS SURROUNDING OBJECT SET | February 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18021268 | Robot System and Picking Method | February 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18040997 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD | February 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18103256 | CATEGORY-LEVEL MANIPULATION FROM VISUAL DEMONSTRATION | January 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18153021 | PRIMARY-AND-SECONDARY ROBOT SYSTEM | January 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18149372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMAL PATH DETERMINATION USING CONTRACTION HIERARCHIES WITH TURN COSTS | January 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18080978 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE CONTROL BASED ON A PROBABILITY OF COLLISION | December 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18001324 | MOVING OBJECT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MOVING OBJECT | December 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17961054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING AN AUTHORIZED OPERATOR OF A CONTROL SYSTEM TO REMOTELY REESTABLISH COMMUNICATION WITH THE CONTROL SYSTEM WHERE A PRIMARY MEANS OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE CONTROL SYSTEM HAS BEEN LOST, HIJACKED OR OTHERWISE COMPROMISED | October 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17941829 | ROBOT DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | September 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17854849 | System for Generating Scene Context Data Using a Reference Graph | June 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17740251 | Autonomous Vehicle Validation using Real-World Adversarial Events | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17728049 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC ROBOTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS | April 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17717416 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANEUVERING VEHICLES USING PREDICTIVE CONTROL AND AUTOMATED DRIVING | April 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17708007 | HYBRID DISPATCH METHOD AND SERVER FOR AUTONOMOUS AND MANUALLY-DRIVEN VEHICLES | March 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17653031 | System and Method for Robust Robotic Manipulation using Chance Constrained Optimization | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17652033 | VEHICLE, PROGRAM AND NOTIFICATION METHOD | February 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17631801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUSLY TRACKING DISTRESS EVENTS ON AN AIRCRAFT IN REAL-TIME WHILE IN FLIGHT | January 2022 | July 2024 | Abandon | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17584704 | RAISED SEATING SYSTEM FOR A PERSONAL WATERCRAFT | January 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17582214 | SMALL ELECTRIC VEHICLE | January 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17582144 | Systems and Method for Recharging and Navigating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using the Electrical Grid | January 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17577757 | ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER AND TURF MAINTENANCE VEHICLE INCORPORATING SAME | January 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17575606 | AUTONOMOUS WORK MACHINE, CONTROL DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS WORK MACHINE CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE OPERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17559000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING GUIDANCE FOR A ROBOTIC MEDICAL PROCEDURE | December 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17540616 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PATH SELECTION | December 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17615749 | DRIVER STATE ESTIMATION DEVICE, DRIVER STATE ESTIMATION METHOD, AND LEARNING METHOD | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17613918 | MOVING NUMBER ESTIMATING DEVICE, MOVING NUMBER ESTIMATING METHOD, AND MOVING NUMBER ESTIMATING PROGRAM | November 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17530371 | PARKING ASSIST SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED AVOIDANCE STEERING CONTROL AND METHOD THEREOF | November 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17454292 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE MANAGEMENT AT UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS | November 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17410843 | AIRCRAFT SYSTEM AND METHOD | August 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17388032 | SPACE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MOBILE BODY, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SPACE MANAGEMENT METHOD | July 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 39 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17310298 | VEHICLE BRAKE DEVICE | July 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17370792 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES INCLUDING LADDERS AND RELATED METHODS | July 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17366409 | AUTOMATIC DRIVING SYSTEM FOR GRAIN PROCESSING, AUTOMATIC DRIVING METHOD, AND AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION METHOD | July 2021 | April 2024 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17291276 | INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE | July 2021 | November 2024 | Abandon | 42 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17291925 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT | May 2021 | August 2024 | Abandon | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17280670 | MEDICAL ROBOT COMPRISING AUTOMATIC POSITIONING MEANS | March 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17211359 | METHOD FOR A SENSOR ASSEMBLY, SENSOR ASSEMBLY, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | March 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17272974 | PARAMETER ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, PARAMETER ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM | March 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17145608 | AUTONOMOUS FLOOR CLEANER AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS FLOOR CLEANING | January 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17256930 | Method for Operating a Vehicle | December 2020 | February 2024 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16469771 | COLLISION MONITORING OF A ROBOT | June 2019 | September 2022 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15949708 | ROBOTIC FLOOR-CLEANING SYSTEM MANAGER | April 2018 | August 2019 | Abandon | 16 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner RINK, RYAN J.
With a 100.0% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
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 show good success rates. If you have a strong case on the merits, consider fully prosecuting the appeal to a Board decision.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner RINK, RYAN J works in Art Unit 3619 and has examined 20 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 70.0%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 35 months.
Examiner RINK, RYAN J's allowance rate of 70.0% places them in the 32% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by RINK, RYAN J receive 1.70 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 35% 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 RINK, RYAN J is 35 months. This places the examiner in the 40% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a -4.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by RINK, RYAN J. This interview benefit is in the 5% 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, 36.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 84% 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 2% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 50.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 19% 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, 88.9% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 88% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 33% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments less often than average. You may need to make most claim amendments yourself.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 35% 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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