USPTO Examiner BREIER KRYSTINE E - Art Unit 3645

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19208456METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEISMIC MONITORINGMay 2025August 2025Allow300NoNo
19199512EXTRAPOLATION OF SEISMIC LAND STREAMER DATA USING INTERFEROMETRYMay 2025August 2025Allow410NoNo
19048248ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER FOR TOWED SEISMIC PINGERFebruary 2025April 2025Allow200NoNo
18939876COAL ROCK INTERFACE DIRECTIONAL DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD BASED ON ELASTIC WAVESNovember 2024March 2025Allow410NoNo
18766160TRUE PARTICLE VELOCITY WAVEFIELD PROCESSING IN FIBER OPTICS - PARTICLE MOTION SENSOR HYBRID ARRAYJuly 2024March 2026Allow2000NoNo
18753233System and Method for Bond Log AnalysisJune 2024September 2025Allow1430NoNo
18641933Computer System for Event Detection of Passive Seismic DataApril 2024August 2024Allow400NoNo
18641950Apparatus with Circuitry for Seismic Data DetectionApril 2024July 2024Allow300NoNo
18641972Apparatus and System for Identifying Seismic FeaturesApril 2024August 2024Allow400NoNo
18607365HIGH-PRECISON MODELING METHOD AND SYSTEM OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL VELOCITY FIELD FOR PRECISE NAVIGATION OF DEEP OIL AND GASMarch 2024September 2024Allow620NoNo
18599172Freely-combinable multifunctional ocean-bottom seismic detection deviceMarch 2024May 2024Allow300NoNo
18292071SLIM SONIC LOGGING TOOL WITH MULTIPLE MODULES FOR BOREHOLE RESONANCE MODE AND PITCH-CATCH MEASUREMENTJanuary 2024January 2026Allow2410YesNo
18410632AUTONOMOUS DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND METHODJanuary 2024November 2025Allow2200NoNo
18399759INTERNAL PEEPING DETECTION-WHILE-DRILLING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEEP GOAF OF MINING-DISTURBED STRATUMDecember 2023September 2024Allow801NoNo
18395727METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACQUIRING SEISMIC DATA OF FOUR-COMPONENT OCEAN BOTTOM NODE (OBN)December 2023April 2024Allow300NoNo
18538168BOND LOG ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF SAMEDecember 2023February 2025Abandon1420NoNo
18563023DATA-DRIVEN SEPARATION OF UPGOING FREE-SURFACE MULTIPLES FOR SEISMIC IMAGINGNovember 2023March 2026Allow2710NoNo
18240547MARINE VIBRATOR DIRECTIVE SOURCE SURVEYAugust 2023February 2026Abandon2910NoNo
18448511SWIM BLADDER BIONIC AMPHIBIOUS OPTICAL FIBER OCEAN ACOUSTIC SENSORAugust 2023October 2023Allow200NoNo
18264345AUTOMATED METHODS TO DETERMINE PROPERTIES OF LAMINATED RESERVOIR FORMATIONSAugust 2023December 2025Allow2811NoNo
18361324REDUCTION OF A TOOL WAVE EXCITED BY A TRANSMITTER OF A WELL LOGGING TOOLJuly 2023September 2025Allow2600NoNo
18356361METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING EXUDATIVE SANDSTONE URANIUM DEPOSITJuly 2023May 2025Allow2120NoNo
18348739SPECTRAL ANALYSIS AND MACHINE LEARNING TO DETECT OFFSET WELL COMMUNICATION USING HIGH FREQUENCY ACOUSTIC OR VIBRATION SENSINGJuly 2023February 2026Allow3110NoNo
18341230QUALITY CONTROL AND PRECONDITIONING OF SEISMIC DATAJune 2023October 2025Allow2710YesNo
18213689Blue-Shift Of Resonance Frequency To Detect Fluid Channel Behind Cemented CasingJune 2023October 2025Allow2810YesNo
18331102SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEISMIC IMAGING AROUND WELLBORESJune 2023July 2025Allow2500NoNo
18039837Methods and Systems for Determining Parameters of AnisotropyJune 2023December 2025Abandon3110NoNo
18139563Methods And Apparatus For Wideband Acoustic CommunicationApril 2023June 2025Allow2500NoNo
18304026Real-Time Microseismic Magnitude Calculation Method and Device Based on Deep LearningApril 2023August 2023Allow410NoNo
18302422CEMENT BONDING EVALUATION WITH A SONIC-LOGGING-WHILE-DRILLING TOOLApril 2023July 2025Allow2700NoNo
18296494WORK FLOW BASED ACOUSTIC PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHODApril 2023October 2025Allow3011YesNo
18028718SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYING SEISMIC NODESMarch 2023November 2025Allow3101NoNo
18189281ULTRASONIC BOREHOLE CLASSIFICATION METHODMarch 2023August 2025Allow2911NoNo
18119829INTELLIGENT GEOPHYSICAL DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND ACQUISITION METHOD FOR SHALE OIL AND GAS OPTICAL FIBERMarch 2023May 2025Allow2600NoNo
18115806COMBINED SUBMARINE SEISMIC ACQUISITION NODE WITH SECONDARY POSITIONING FUNCTIONMarch 2023July 2023Allow510NoNo
18175473DOPPLER DEVICE, AND DEPRESSION ANGLE ESTIMATION METHODFebruary 2023March 2025Allow2500NoNo
18100898OPTIMIZING WELL SEQUENCES IN A WELL DEVELOPMENT ZONEJanuary 2023April 2025Allow2710YesNo
18156515Method and Apparatus for Seismic Data InversionJanuary 2023November 2025Allow3420YesNo
18156341SEISMIC IMAGING FREE GAS STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEMJanuary 2023December 2023Allow1100NoNo
18081502Separation of Blended Seismic Survey DataDecember 2022February 2025Allow2600NoNo
18063010METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING STRAIN RATE AT A SCALE SHORTER THAN GAUGE LENGTHDecember 2022November 2024Allow2300NoNo
18059417CONTINUOUS SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION HAVING VARIABLE DENSITY SOURCE GEOMETRYNovember 2022October 2025Allow3520NoNo
18058170SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MINIMIZING ENVIRONMENTAL NOISES ON ACOUSTIC SIGNALSNovember 2022February 2025Allow2710NoNo
17989359METHOD OF OBTAINING SEISMIC WHILE DRILLING SIGNALNovember 2022April 2023Allow510NoNo
17921705HYBRID SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING METHODSOctober 2022March 2025Allow2910NoNo
17942110INTERPRETIVE-GUIDED VELOCITY MODELING SEISMIC IMAGING METHOD AND SYSTEM, MEDIUM AND DEVICESeptember 2022April 2023Allow720NoNo
17889342Fluid Phase Discrimination And Acoustic Velocity Estimation By Measuring Guided-Wave SpeedAugust 2022April 2025Allow3211YesNo
17885347Hydrophone Gain Design For Array Noise ToolAugust 2022December 2024Allow2810YesNo
17875662SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING MARINE SEISMIC DATA USING A VIBRATORJuly 2022March 2025Allow3201NoNo
17873244FAST POWER ON METHOD FOR MARINE ACQUISITION STREAMERJuly 2022April 2024Allow2111NoNo
17841488SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING STATICS IN SEISMIC IMAGINGJune 2022May 2025Abandon3510NoNo
17827075CONTINUOUS SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION HAVING VARIABLE DENSITY SOURCE GEOMETRYMay 2022December 2024Allow3110NoNo
17741524COVER UNIT OF ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERMay 2022October 2024Allow2900NoNo
17716475System and Method for Characterizing a Seismic Acoustic SignalApril 2022November 2024Allow3101NoNo
17652165SEISMIC DENOISING BY WEIGHTED MULTIPLANAR RECONSTRUCTIONFebruary 2022July 2024Allow2900NoNo
17671683METHOD OF TIME-LAPSE MONITORING USING SEISMIC WAVESFebruary 2022August 2024Allow3010YesNo
17672486TRAINING DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING SEISMIC INVERSIONFebruary 2022August 2024Allow3010NoNo
17667173EVENT DETECTION AND DE-NOISING METHOD FOR PASSIVE SEISMIC DATAFebruary 2022July 2024Allow2910NoNo
17646732MODEL-BASED CORRECTIONS TO ACOUSTIC PROPERTY VALUES OF ANNULAR MATERIAL TO MITIGATE IDEAL ARTIFACTSJanuary 2022March 2024Allow2600NoNo
17534630Gauge Length Effect and Gauge Length ConversionNovember 2021January 2024Allow2600NoNo
17520016Automatic Recognition of Environmental Parameters with Azimuthally Distributed TransducersNovember 2021December 2023Allow2500NoNo
17505756ATTENUATION OF INTERFACE WAVES USING SINGLE COMPONENT SEISMIC DATAOctober 2021March 2024Allow2910YesNo
17487206NEUTRALLY BUOYANT PARTICLE VELOCITY SENSORSeptember 2021June 2024Allow3311YesNo
17483197MODELING-BASED MACHINE LEARNING FOR SEISMIC PROCESSINGSeptember 2021July 2025Allow4611NoNo
17342097METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF DEPLOYING AND RETRIEVING STREAMER CLEANING DEVICESJune 2021June 2024Allow3711NoNo
17291040SPECTRAL ANALYSIS AND MACHINE LEARNING TO DETECT OFFSET WELL COMMUNICATION USING HIGH FREQUENCY ACOUSTIC OR VIBRATION SENSINGMay 2021March 2023Allow2200NoNo
17211429TRUE PARTICLE VELOCITY WAVEFIELD PROCESSING IN FIBER OPTICS - PARTICLE MOTION SENSOR HYBRID ARRAYMarch 2021April 2024Allow3701NoNo
17204854Attenuation of Axial Vibration Noise in Pressure Sensor MeasurementsMarch 2021May 2024Allow3811NoNo
17171749METHODS TO ESTIMATE FORMATION SLOWNESS FROM MULTI-BOREHOLE MODES AND OF A MULTI-MODE DISPERSION WAVE AND MULTI-MODE DISPERSION ESTIMATION SYSTEMSFebruary 2021March 2024Allow3711YesNo
17153549PHYSICAL SEISMIC SIMULATION TEST APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON REFLECTED WAVE FIELD FOR HYDRATE FORMATIONJanuary 2021May 2021Allow410NoNo
17144271Five-component marine natural gas hydrate intelligent sensing nodeJanuary 2021July 2023Allow3000NoNo
17120377Marine Survey Data Acquisition at a Tow LineDecember 2020February 2024Allow3811NoNo
17115471DAS SYSTEM FOR PRE-DRILL HAZARD ASSESSMENT AND SEISMIC RECORDING WHILE DRILLINGDecember 2020October 2023Allow3410NoNo
17109481DECENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF SEISMIC SOURCE SHOOTINGDecember 2020June 2023Allow3000NoNo
17090031Method for Evaluating a Material on a Remote Side of a Partition using Ultrasonic MeasurementsNovember 2020August 2021Allow911YesNo
17087037COMPUTING PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PROSPECTING AND ELIMINATING SURFACE-RELATED MULTIPLES IN THE BEAM DOMAIN WITH DEGHOST OPERATORNovember 2020April 2024Abandon4120NoNo
17068648Seismic Surveys with Increased Shot Point Intervals for Far OffsetsOctober 2020September 2023Allow3500NoNo
17065155LONG-OFFSET ACQUISITION WITH IMPROVED LOW FREQUENCY PERFORMANCE FOR FULL WAVEFIELD INVERSIONOctober 2020October 2023Allow3611NoNo
17031211TIME-REVERSED NONLINEAR ACOUSTICS FOR WELLBORE INTEGRITY CHARACTERIZATIONSeptember 2020May 2021Allow811YesNo
17029865METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC ROLL COMPENSATION OF STREAMER FOR MARINE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYINGSeptember 2020August 2023Allow3500NoNo
16967149ULTRASONIC ACOUSTIC SENSORS FOR MEASURING FORMATION VELOCITIESAugust 2020September 2023Allow3710YesNo
16891817SPARSE SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITIONJune 2020January 2024Allow4320YesNo
16881992MODIFIED SIMULTANEOUS LONG-OFFSET ACQUISITION WITH IMPROVED LOW FREQUENCY PERFORMANCE FOR FULL WAVEFIELD INVERSIONMay 2020April 2024Allow4720YesNo
16763468SEISMIC PRESSURE AND ACCELERATION SENSORMay 2020July 2023Allow3820YesNo
16649802DE-SPIKING DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSOR SEISMIC PROFILEMarch 2020February 2023Allow3410YesNo
16817215COMPRESSING ULTRASOUND DATA IN A DOWNHOLE TOOLMarch 2020July 2023Allow4020YesNo
16775045APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUS LOGGING FOR MULTIPOLE SONIC AND ACOUSTIC REFLECTION SURVEYJanuary 2020July 2023Abandon4210NoNo
16773224QUALITY CONTROL AND PRECONDITIONING OF SEISMIC DATAJanuary 2020May 2023Allow3911YesNo
16725664Attenuation of Guided Waves Using Polarization FilteringDecember 2019March 2023Allow3910NoNo
16461151SOIL PROBING DEVICE HAVING BUILT-IN GENERATORS AND DETECTORS FOR COMPRESSIONAL WAVES AND SHEAR WAVESDecember 2019October 2022Allow4110NoNo
16610062REDUCTION OF A TOOL WAVE EXCITED BY A TRANSMITTER OF A WELL LOGGING TOOLOctober 2019April 2023Allow4211YesNo
16656288TARGETED ACTIVATION PARAMETERS FOR MARINE SEISMIC SOURCESOctober 2019September 2023Allow4721NoNo
16571886SEISMIC NODE DEPLOYMENT SYSTEMSeptember 2019June 2020Allow911YesNo
16561631METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOWNHOLE OBJECT LOCATION AND ORIENTATION DETERMINATIONSeptember 2019June 2023Allow4511NoNo
16557255CEMENT BONDING EVALUATION WITH A SONIC-LOGGING-WHILE-DRILLING TOOLAugust 2019February 2023Allow4110YesNo
16489864SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION UNITS AND RELATED METHODSAugust 2019February 2023Allow4110NoNo
16488907SHEAR VELOCITY RADIAL PROFILING BASED ON FLEXURAL MODE DISPERSIONAugust 2019December 2022Allow3910YesNo
16547919Simultaneous Seismic Refraction And TomographyAugust 2019February 2023Allow4220NoNo
16547143Spectral Noise Separation And Cancellation From Distributed Acoustic Sensing Acoustic DataAugust 2019September 2022Allow6010NoNo
16533173SEPARATION OF BLENDED MARINE SEISMIC SURVEY DATA ACQUIRED WITH SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-SOURCE ACTUATIONAugust 2019September 2022Allow3810NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BREIER, KRYSTINE E.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
25
Examiner Affirmed
19
(76.0%)
Examiner Reversed
6
(24.0%)
Reversal Percentile
37.4%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 24.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
48
Allowed After Appeal Filing
13
(27.1%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
35
(72.9%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
39.4%
Lower than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

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, 27.1% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.

Strategic Recommendations

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 BREIER, KRYSTINE E - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner BREIER, KRYSTINE E works in Art Unit 3645 and has examined 428 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 83.2%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 37 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner BREIER, KRYSTINE E's allowance rate of 83.2% places them in the 57% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by BREIER, KRYSTINE E receive 1.73 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 37% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by BREIER, KRYSTINE E is 37 months. This places the examiner in the 33% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +8.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BREIER, KRYSTINE E. This interview benefit is in the 38% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 34.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 77% 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 36.5% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 55% 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.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 42.4% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 39% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 56.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 29% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 36.4% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 70.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 77% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.7% of allowed cases (in the 64% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 2.8% of allowed cases (in the 73% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • RCEs are effective: This examiner has a high allowance rate after RCE compared to others. If you receive a final rejection and have substantive amendments or arguments, an RCE is likely to be successful.

Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

  • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
  • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
  • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
  • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
  • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
  • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

Important Disclaimer

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