Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18624247 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH VARIABLE RESOLUTION MULTI-BEAM SCANNING | April 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18401295 | RANGING SYSTEMS OF A DUAL OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB TIME-OF-FLIGHT MANNER BASED ON DISPERSIVE FOURIER TRANSFORM | December 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18517431 | Chip Packaging in Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Sensor System | November 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18516671 | LIDAR Sensor System Including Integrated Modulator | November 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18508808 | VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING DOPPLER PER POINT LIDAR SYSTEMS | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18485434 | BEAM-STEERING DEVICE PARTICULARLY FOR LIDAR SYSTEMS | October 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18470156 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DETECTION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18241944 | Automated Threat Detection and Deterrence Apparatus | September 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 21 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18446711 | PSEUDO MONOSTATIC LIDAR WITH TWO-DIMENSIONAL SILICON PHOTONIC MEMS SWITCH ARRAY | August 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18347426 | Coherent LIDAR System Including Optical Antenna Array | July 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18140105 | SUB-SWEEP SAMPLING IN A LIDAR SYSTEM | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18139267 | TECHNIQUES FOR USING A COHERENT RECEIVER IN A FMCW LIDAR SYSTEM | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18079620 | Beam-Steering Device Particularly for Lidar Systems | December 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18070403 | DYNAMIC COMPENSATION TO POLYGON AND MOTOR TOLERANCE USING GALVO CONTROL PROFILE | November 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 4 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18057401 | LIDAR Systems with Multi-faceted Mirrors | November 2022 | March 2024 | Abandon | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18056171 | Chip Packaging in Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Sensor System | November 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18049614 | TIME-RESOLVED CONTRAST IMAGING FOR LIDAR | October 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17964786 | LIDAR SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION | October 2022 | August 2023 | Abandon | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17952602 | TECHNIQUES FOR TARGET ORIENTATION ESTIMATION | September 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17881431 | FMCW LIDAR SYSTEM WITH PASSIVE AMPLITUDE MODULATION FOR SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF RANGE AND VELOCITY | August 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17875325 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING SNR IN A FMCW LIDAR SYSTEM USING A COHERENT RECEIVER | July 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17856910 | COMPACT LIDAR SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLE CONTOUR FITTING | July 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 11 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17845873 | MULTI-BEAM LASER SCANNER | June 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17844442 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCED DETECTION OF DISTANT OBJECTS | June 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17774253 | Adaptive Active Safety System using Multi-spectral LIDAR, and Method implemented in the Adaptive Active Safety System | May 2022 | November 2023 | Abandon | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17714077 | DYNAMIC COMPENSATION TO POLYGON AND MOTOR TOLERANCE USING GALVO CONTROL PROFILE | April 2022 | August 2022 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17654010 | NON-CONTACT MOTION DETECTION SENSOR UTILIZING DISTANCE AND INTENSITY STATISTICS | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17686499 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH VARIABLE RESOLUTION MULTI-BEAM SCANNING | March 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 22 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17687372 | PSEUDO MONOSTATIC LIDAR WITH TWO-DIMENSIONAL SILICON PHOTONIC MEMS SWITCH ARRAY | March 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 13 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17668045 | MULTI-BEAM LASER EMITTER WITH COMMON OPTICAL PATH | February 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 22 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17590785 | ATTACHING A GLASS MIRROR TO A ROTATING METAL MOTOR FRAME | February 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17558476 | COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEM INCLUDING OPTICAL ANTENNA ARRAY | December 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 15 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17512570 | TECHNIQUES FOR SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF RANGE AND VELOCITY WITH PASSIVE MODULATION | October 2021 | March 2022 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17495665 | FMCW LIDAR USING ARRAY WAVEGUIDE RECEIVERS AND OPTICAL FREQUENCY SHIFTING | October 2021 | May 2022 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17476455 | LiDAR DETECTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS | September 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 37 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17406018 | AUTOMATED THREAT DETECTION AND DETERRENCE APPARATUS | August 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 23 | 4 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17404840 | LIDAR AND DETECTION APPARATUS THEREOF | August 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17382177 | BEAM-STEERING DEVICE PARTICULARLY FOR LIDAR SYSTEMS | July 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 14 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17382163 | BEAM-STEERING DEVICE PARTICULARLY FOR LIDAR SYSTEMS | July 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 24 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17423652 | MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING METHOD | July 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17297199 | LIGHT DETECTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF LIGHT DETECTION APPARATUS, AND RANGING APPARATUS | May 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17215074 | Surveying Instrument And Surveying System | March 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 48 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17214777 | LASER-RANGING DEVICE AND MOBILE APPARATUS | March 2021 | June 2025 | Abandon | 50 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17278127 | IMPROVED ILLUMINATION DEVICE | March 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 51 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17277006 | SENSOR DEVICE, SENSOR MODULE, IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO OPERATE A SENSOR DEVICE | March 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17198873 | Time-of-Flight Sensing Using Continuous Wave and Coded Modulation Measurements | March 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 50 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17274382 | LIDAR SYSTEM AND MOTOR VEHICLE | March 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 51 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17192714 | SCANNING FIBER TRANSMITTER FOR DISTANCE DETECTION | March 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17248997 | LIGHTING FLOOR ON SIDES OF MATERIAL HANDLING VEHICLE TO INDICATE LIMITED OR NON-LIMITED AREA | February 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17152984 | OPTOELECTRONIC SENSOR AND METHOD OF DETECTING OBJECTS | January 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 52 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17148691 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING LIDAR SENSOR HEALTH | January 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17146177 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF A NOISE POINT USED FOR LIDAR, AND LIDAR SYSTEM | January 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 45 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17258784 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DETECTION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM | January 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 46 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17133355 | HALF AND QUARTER LISSAJOUS SCAN PATTERNS FOR LIDAR | December 2020 | January 2025 | Allow | 49 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17125574 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A LIDAR SYSTEM | December 2020 | February 2025 | Allow | 50 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17253158 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA SYSTEM HAVING AN ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL POWER OUTPUT | December 2020 | November 2024 | Abandon | 47 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17117085 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND ADDRESSING A POTENTIAL DANGER | December 2020 | November 2024 | Abandon | 48 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17115006 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING DYNAMIC LIDAR POINT CLOUD DATA | December 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17115705 | IN-SITU SENSOR CALIBRATION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | December 2020 | August 2024 | Allow | 44 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17059575 | Optical Phased Arrays and Spherical Shift Invariant Sensors For Use In Advanced Lidar Systems | November 2020 | January 2025 | Allow | 50 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17102212 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING COGNITIVE WORKLOAD AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION BY A SENSOR UTILIZED ON A VEHICLE | November 2020 | July 2024 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17056148 | EYE-SAFE LIDAR SYSTEM HAVING AN ADJUSTABLE SCANNING RANGE | November 2020 | September 2024 | Allow | 46 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17096776 | Method and System for Processing Laser Signal Taken by Laser Device | November 2020 | November 2024 | Allow | 48 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17091029 | MEASUREMENT-VALUE CORRECTION METHOD FOR DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE, AND DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE | November 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 41 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17090585 | FLAT OPTICS WITH PASSIVE ELEMENTS FUNCTIONING AS A TRANSFORMATION OPTICS AND A COMPACT SCANNER TO COVER THE VERTICAL ELEVATION FIELD-OF-VIEW | November 2020 | October 2024 | Abandon | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17069364 | LIDAR Based Stereo Camera Correction | October 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17045579 | LIDAR SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INTERNAL LIGHT CALIBRATION | October 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17061239 | OPTICAL DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS | October 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 37 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17041150 | MONITORING CONTROL DEVICE, MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM STORED THEREIN | September 2020 | July 2024 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16980996 | OPTICAL MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD | September 2020 | March 2024 | Abandon | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17015325 | LIGHT DETECTOR, LIGHT DETECTION SYSTEM, LIDAR DEVICE, AND VEHICLE | September 2020 | October 2024 | Abandon | 49 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16975385 | Alignment of Optical Transmitter with Multiple Degrees of Freedom | August 2020 | February 2024 | Abandon | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17001030 | MIRROR ASSEMBLY FOR LIGHT STEERING | August 2020 | January 2025 | Allow | 53 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16992030 | INTERTWINED DETECTOR ARRAY FOR AN OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEM | August 2020 | January 2025 | Abandon | 53 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16944253 | DYNAMIC LIDAR TO CAMERA ALIGNMENT | July 2020 | December 2023 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16921320 | Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) System | July 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16905248 | MIRROR ASSEMBLY FOR LIGHT STEERING WITH FLEXIBLE SUPPORT STRUCTURE | June 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16636496 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DETECTION SIGNAL FOR OBJECTS TO BE DETECTED | March 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 37 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16709032 | MULTICHANNEL ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERTER DEVICE FOR AN OPTOELECTRONIC SENSOR, METHOD FOR SIGNAL MODULATION IN AN OPTOELECTRONIC SENSOR, AND LASER-BASED DISTANCE AND/OR SPEED SENSOR | December 2019 | June 2023 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16618303 | LASER RADAR DEVICE | November 2019 | November 2023 | Allow | 47 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16697793 | LIDAR RECEIVER WITH MULTIPLE DETECTION PATHS | November 2019 | November 2022 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16606459 | DRIVING-SITUATION-DEPENDENT RANGE FINDING FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE LIDAR SENSOR APPARATUS | October 2019 | January 2025 | Abandon | 60 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16591597 | AUTOMATIC ELECTRONIC RANGEFINDER | October 2019 | September 2024 | Allow | 59 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 16573259 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT APPARATUS | September 2019 | January 2025 | Abandon | 60 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 16484787 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DETECTION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM | August 2019 | June 2023 | Allow | 46 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16356893 | Resolving Distance Measurement Ambiguities Using Coded-Modulation Phase Image Frames | March 2019 | January 2023 | Allow | 46 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16353255 | VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING DOPPLER PER POINT LIDAR SYSTEMS | March 2019 | July 2023 | Allow | 52 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16353707 | FLEXIBLE FIELD OF VIEW SOLID STATE LIDAR | March 2019 | October 2022 | Abandon | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16283179 | FAST FREQUENCY MODULATION LIDAR SYSTEM THROUGH SUB-SWEEP SAMPLING | February 2019 | January 2023 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16282651 | STATIONARY WIDE-ANGLE LIDAR | February 2019 | November 2023 | Abandon | 57 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16280723 | Time-Resolved Contrast Imaging for LIDAR | February 2019 | July 2022 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16279586 | OPTICAL SENSING BASED ON WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXED (WDM) LIGHT AT DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS IN LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING LIDAR SYSTEMS | February 2019 | January 2023 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16269173 | Online Extrinsic Miscalibration Detection Between Sensors | February 2019 | May 2024 | Abandon | 60 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16262030 | Optoelectronic Sensor and Method of Detecting Objects in a Monitoring Zone | January 2019 | August 2022 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16321223 | OPTICAL SET-UP FOR A LIDAR SYSTEM, LIDAR SYSTEM AND OPERATING DEVICE | January 2019 | February 2023 | Abandon | 49 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16251343 | ACTIVELY ALIGNED SOLID-STATE LIDAR SYSTEM | January 2019 | January 2024 | Abandon | 60 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16245229 | CONTEXT AWARE REAL-TIME POWER ADJUSTMENT FOR STEERABLE LIDAR | January 2019 | February 2023 | Allow | 49 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16235564 | LIDAR Systems with Multi-faceted Mirrors | December 2018 | August 2022 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16314301 | Laser Radar Device | December 2018 | June 2022 | Abandon | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16235640 | LIDAR SYSTEM | December 2018 | June 2024 | Abandon | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner NOEL, JEMPSON.
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.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner NOEL, JEMPSON works in Art Unit 3645 and has examined 118 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 72.9%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 44 months.
Examiner NOEL, JEMPSON's allowance rate of 72.9% places them in the 28% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by NOEL, JEMPSON receive 2.08 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 69% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by NOEL, JEMPSON is 44 months. This places the examiner in the 3% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +24.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by NOEL, JEMPSON. This interview benefit is in the 75% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 28.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 42% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 15.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 10% 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 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 96% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 100.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 5.9% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 6% 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 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 2.3% of allowed cases (in the 67% 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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