Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19219145 | DRONE SWARM-BASED SEISMIC SURVEYING FOR OIL EXPLORATION AND LANDMINE DETECTION | May 2025 | October 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18756375 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOBILE DEVICE ENVIRONMENT SENSING AND USER FEEDBACK | June 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18429644 | Limitation of Noise on Light Detectors using an Aperture | February 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18412820 | Use of Extended Detection Periods for Range Aliasing Detection and Mitigation in a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) System | January 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18489445 | Laser Diode Timing Feedback Using Trace Loop | October 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18487768 | LIDAR PULSE ELONGATION | October 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18376045 | SIGNAL PROCESSING BASED ON SIGNAL SUBBAND TYPING | October 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18370964 | UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC PROJECTOR TRANSDUCERS | September 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18239501 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND CHARACTERIZING GROUND MOTION | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18234491 | Method and System for Optical Data Communication via Ladar | August 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18221875 | LIDAR AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18220740 | MOTORIZED POLE MOUNT FOR SONAR TRANSDUCERS | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18036154 | DOPPLER COMPENSATION SYSTEM AND DOPPLER COMPENSATION METHOD | May 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18189008 | DETECTOR FOR OPTICALLY DETECTING AT LEAST ONE OBJECT | March 2023 | December 2024 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18121970 | HIGH-SPEED LIGHT SENSING APPARATUS III | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18178937 | DEVICE FOR MARINE SEISMIC EXPLORATIONS FOR DEPOSITS | March 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18022581 | AN IN-AIR SONAR SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREFOR | February 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171883 | Hybrid Time-of-Flight and Imager Module | February 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18019339 | COMPENSATION FOR AN ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER WITH A VARIABLE COMPENSATION INDUCTANCE | February 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18103616 | AD HOC POSITIONING OF MOBILE DEVICES USING NEAR ULTRASOUND SIGNALS | January 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18161283 | DISTRIBUTED LIDAR SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | January 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18149008 | Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) System Including High-Power Amplifier | December 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18088451 | LIDAR SAFETY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | December 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18087807 | LIDAR ANTI-INTERFERENCE METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND LIDAR | December 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18065694 | GUIDED MODE BEAMFORMING FOR PROBING OPEN-HOLE AND CASED-HOLE WELL ENVIRONMENTS | December 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18059249 | TECHNIQUES FOR GHOSTING MITIGATION IN COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEMS USING IN-PHASE/QUADRATURE PHASE (IQ) PROCESSING | November 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18057463 | Limitation of Noise on Light Detectors using an Aperture | November 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18056989 | MONOSTATIC LIDAR TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM | November 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18056114 | LIDAR DEVICE WITH A DYNAMIC SPATIAL FILTER | November 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18052373 | Systems and Methods for Laser Power Interlocking | November 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17979706 | MOTORIZED POLE MOUNT FOR SONAR TRANSDUCERS | November 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17933459 | SURVEYING APPARATUS, SURVEYING METHOD, AND SURVEYING PROGRAM | September 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 37 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17947159 | LADCP AND USBL COMBINED OBSERVATION DEVICE AND APPLICATION METHOD THEREOF | September 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17932121 | LIDAR PULSE ELONGATION | September 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17901331 | WHEEL ALIGNMENT DETERMINATION AND ADJUSTMENT | September 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17895208 | Laser Diode Timing Feedback Using Trace Loop | August 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 13 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17818503 | SYSTEM FOR SCANNING A TRANSMITTED BEAM THROUGH A 360º FIELD-OF-VIEW | August 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17869255 | SIGNAL TEMPORAL POSITION DETERMINATION | July 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17854798 | TECHNIQUES FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING BASED ON SUBBAND TYPING | June 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17849219 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMPACT LIDAR SYSTEM | June 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17846807 | NON-UNIFORM OPTIMAL SURVEY DESIGN PRINCIPLES | June 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17807547 | Method for Estimating Height of Object | June 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17839676 | Use of Extended Detection Periods for Range Aliasing Detection and Mitigation in a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) System | June 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17826631 | BLAST TRIANGULATION | May 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17742348 | CALIBRATION DEVICE FOR AN INTRAORAL SCANNER | May 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17740578 | DIRECTIONAL ACOUSTIC SENSOR, AND METHODS OF ADJUSTING DIRECTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ATTENUATING ACOUSTIC SIGNAL IN SPECIFIC DIRECTION USING THE SAME | May 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17738360 | ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER WITH PERFORATED BASEPLATE | May 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17736833 | INTEGRATED OPTICS QUANTUM WEAK MEASUREMENT AMPLIFICATION SENSOR FOR REMOTE SENSING | May 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17661302 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING HEIGHT OF ANNULAR MEMBER | April 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 39 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17726489 | RADIATION AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE TOLERANT PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASONIC CONTACT TRANSDUCER WITH MOUNTING ASSEMBLY | April 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17709892 | RAILWAY VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH LIDAR DEVICES | March 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17702595 | TECHNIQUES FOR GHOSTING MITIGATION IN COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEMS USING IN-PHASE/QUADRATURE PHASE (IQ) PROCESSING | March 2022 | October 2022 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17763081 | Method for Setting More Precisely a Position and/or Orientation of a Device Head | March 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17701116 | PACKAGE SORTATION AUTOMATION USING LIDAR SENSORS | March 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 44 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17695444 | ACOUSTIC-ENVIRONMENT MISMATCH AND PROXIMITY DETECTION WITH A NOVEL SET OF ACOUSTIC RELATIVE FEATURES AND ADAPTIVE FILTERING | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17694392 | SOUND AMPLIFYING CASE FOR A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | March 2022 | April 2024 | Abandon | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17639156 | POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION OBJECT, ROBOT, DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, AND CONTROLLER | February 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17682956 | FIBER-BASED TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER CHANNELS OF LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEMS | February 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17753265 | ACTIVE MODULATING ELEMENT DETECTION | February 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17673483 | LIDAR SCAN REDUCTION | February 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17670792 | MERGING DATA FROM MULTIPLE LIDAR DEVICES | February 2022 | June 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17671476 | TARGET TRACKING SYSTEM | February 2022 | September 2022 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17591678 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION | February 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17592408 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH PROJECTION CAPABILITY | February 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17569610 | MULTI-BEAM LASER RADAR AND SELF-MOVING VEHICLE | January 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17561959 | ESTIMATING A LOCATION OF AN OBJECT IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO AN ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER | December 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17560592 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOBILE DEVICE ENVIRONMENT SENSING AND USER FEEDBACK | December 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17557401 | INTEGRATED OPTICAL STRUCTURES FOR LiDAR AND OTHER APPLICATIONS EMPLOYING MULTIPLE DETECTORS | December 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17557381 | LASER RADAR AND LASER RADAR DETECTION METHOD | December 2021 | November 2025 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17551650 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMULATING ECHO SIGNALS FOR LIDAR SENSOR | December 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 42 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17551750 | MOTORIZED POLE MOUNT FOR SONAR TRANSDUCERS | December 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17547468 | Rangefinder For A Telescope | December 2021 | November 2025 | Allow | 60 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17643579 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | December 2021 | October 2025 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17543452 | ADAPTIVE PROXIMITY SENSING DEVICE | December 2021 | November 2025 | Abandon | 48 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17457109 | LIDAR IMAGING SYSTEM WITH FMCW TYPE HETERODYNE DETECTION COMPRISING A DEVICE FOR CORRECTING THE PHASE OF THE REFERENCE SIGNAL | December 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 40 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17614538 | AIR-COUPLED ULTRASONIC INTERFEROMETRY METHOD | November 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17456047 | ELECTRONIC HORN DEVICE AND METHOD | November 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17530489 | ACTIVE DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD OF ACTIVE DISTANCE MEASURING | November 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17522293 | DUAL FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER | November 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17285097 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT METHOD | October 2021 | November 2025 | Abandon | 55 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17451946 | THREE DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE HAVING A CAMERA WITH A FISHEYE LENS | October 2021 | September 2025 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17605803 | FLASH LIDAR HAVING NONUNIFORM LIGHT MODULATION | October 2021 | October 2025 | Allow | 48 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17594551 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGING AND SENSING VIBRATIONS | October 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17505905 | LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING DEVICE | October 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17497448 | LASER-BASED RANGEFINDING INSTRUMENT | October 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17494679 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMPACT OPTICAL SENSING MODULE WITH HYBRID MULTI-CHIP INTEGRATION | October 2021 | May 2022 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17492542 | LIGHTWEIGHT LASER DESIGNATOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | October 2021 | September 2025 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17483186 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS | September 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17411337 | LIGHT-EMITTING COMPONENT, LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT ARRAY CHIP, AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | August 2021 | August 2025 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17403115 | LIDAR SYSTEMS BASED ON TUNABLE OPTICAL METASURFACES | August 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17400070 | ENABLING LIDAR DETECTION | August 2021 | December 2025 | Abandon | 52 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17394104 | Method and System for Ladar Pulse Deconfliction | August 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17255948 | LASER RADAR | August 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 47 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17428594 | OPTICAL COMPONENTS FOR SCANNING LIDAR | August 2021 | August 2025 | Allow | 49 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17389013 | CHROMATIC RANGE SENSOR SYSTEM INCLUDING CAMERA | July 2021 | September 2025 | Allow | 49 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17420410 | Rangefinder and Rangefinding Method | July 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 42 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17362588 | PROVIDING SPATIAL DISPLACEMENT OF TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE MODES IN LIDAR SYSTEM | June 2021 | June 2022 | Allow | 11 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17359974 | OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE AND OBJECT DETECTION METHOD | June 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17355051 | INTEGRATED ILLUMINATION AND DETECTION FOR LIDAR BASED 3-D IMAGING | June 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17351641 | SHARED SAMPLE AND CONVERT CAPACITOR ARCHITECTURE | June 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MURPHY, DANIEL L.
With a 38.9% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is above the USPTO average, indicating that appeals have better success here than typical.
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, 31.5% 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.
✓ 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 MURPHY, DANIEL L works in Art Unit 3645 and has examined 1,188 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 83.8%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 33 months.
Examiner MURPHY, DANIEL L's allowance rate of 83.8% places them in the 58% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by MURPHY, DANIEL L receive 1.57 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 29% 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 MURPHY, DANIEL L is 33 months. This places the examiner in the 48% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +11.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MURPHY, DANIEL L. 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, 35.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 80% 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 56.1% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 82% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 54.5% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 47% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 56.6% of appeals filed. This is in the 29% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 34.0% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 37.8% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 26% 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 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 51% 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 11.8% of allowed cases (in the 90% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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