Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18794484 | TIME SERIES INSAR TROPOSPHERIC DELAY CORRECTION IN COMPLEX MOUNTAINOUS AREAS | August 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18792542 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGE COMPRESSION | August 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18784934 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEFORMATION FIELD MODELING METHOD FUSING GNSS/INSAR OBSERVATION DATA | July 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18654493 | RANGE-GATED IMAGER | May 2024 | July 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18694705 | Application of Adaptive Pulse Compression (APC) in Cluttered Radar Cross-Section (RCS) Measurements | March 2024 | July 2024 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18394544 | RADAR OBJECT CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | December 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 16 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18358975 | ITERATIVE FOCUSED MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION AND SENSING METHOD | July 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18272657 | METHOD FOR ACTIVATING A MOTOR VEHICLE FUNCTION AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVATION DEVICE | July 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 12 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18219733 | AIRPORT STAND ARRANGEMENT | July 2023 | September 2024 | Abandon | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18266475 | CLASSIFICATION OF MATTER FROM SPACE | June 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18168225 | RADAR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION BY MONITORING OF CHANNELS AND SWITCHING TO INTERFERENCE-FREE CHANNEL | February 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18081169 | RADAR INTERFERENCE DETECTION | December 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18000749 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND PROGRAM | December 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17932461 | Detecting a Frame-of-Reference Change in a Smart-Device-Based Radar System | September 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17874797 | FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR SYSTEM | July 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17857784 | LIVE POINT CLOUD COMPRESSION WITH EGOMOTION PROPAGATION | July 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17856109 | Methods and Apparatus for Velocity Detection in MIMO Radar Including Velocity Ambiguity Resolution | July 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17809116 | Waveguide with Slot Antennas and Reflectors | June 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17807911 | MODULAR RADAR SYSTEMS | June 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17744566 | RADAR CLUSTERING USING MACHINE LEARNING | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17775512 | METHOD FOR REMOVING RANDOM NOISE OF RADAR COLLECTION SIGNAL IN BIOMETRIC SIGNAL MEASUREMENT RADAR, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME | May 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17704414 | Method for Operating a Heating Device for Controlling the Temperature of a Radome of a Radar Sensor of a Vehicle by Using Image Data from a Camera, Computing Device, Heating Control System and Vehicle | March 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 17 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17693458 | RADAR REFLECTOR, PROTECTOR AND WEAR | March 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17653275 | POINT CLOUD DATA FUSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | March 2022 | January 2023 | Abandon | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17651859 | Ghost Object Detection | February 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17753022 | RADAR SENSOR, MOTOR VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A RADAR SENSOR | February 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17668941 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR REAL TIME IMAGING USING A PORTABLE DEVICE | February 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17649649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CALIBRATING A RANGE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | February 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17574417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MICROWAVE IMAGING | January 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17563062 | FOREIGN-OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM | December 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17553370 | RADAR APPARATUS | December 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17552627 | HIGH-RESOLUTION RADAR TARGET SIGNATURE SMEARING CORRECTION | December 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17552056 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING BLACK ICE ON ROADS USING BEAMFORMING ARRAY RADAR | December 2021 | November 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17552200 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR REAL TIME IMAGING USING A PORTABLE DEVICE | December 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17643110 | MONITORING IMPEDANCE MATCHING OF A RECEIVE ANTENNA AND MONITORING A RECEIVE CHAIN USING A TEST SIGNAL | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17541516 | VECTOR SENSOR ARRAY SURFACE WAVE RADAR | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17521804 | Proximity Detection Using Multiple Power Levels | November 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17451700 | VEHICULAR SENSING SYSTEM USING MIMO RADAR SENSOR UNITS | October 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17604534 | HYGIENIC TANK SEAL | October 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17479002 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT USING MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR | September 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17396032 | Scene-Adaptive Radar | August 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17391247 | DIPOLE-RESONATOR RESISTIVE ABSORBER | August 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17389745 | TEST SYSTEM AND FEEDTHROUGH ASSEMBLY | July 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17387173 | RADAR DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSOR, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD | July 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17443160 | CAMERA AUGMENTED BICYCLE RADAR SENSOR SYSTEM | July 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17381658 | METHOD OF TARGET FEATURE EXTRACTION BASED ON MILLIMETER-WAVE RADAR ECHO | July 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17373457 | GENERATING A SUBTERRANEAN MAP WITH GROUND PENETRATING RADAR | July 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 44 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17420147 | AIRPORT STAND ARRANGEMENT | July 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17364026 | SECONDARY RADAR IMPROVING AERIAL SAFETY VIA VERY-LONG-RANGE ADS-B DETECTION | June 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17304858 | VEHICLE RADAR SYSTEM WITH SOLUTION FOR ADC SATURATION | June 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17347896 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING AND ALIGNING AUTOMOTIVE SENSORS | June 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17342111 | RADAR DEVICE | June 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17339042 | ENERGY-SAVING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR A PRESENCE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | June 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17299398 | IMPEDANCE MATCHING FILM FOR RADIO WAVE ABSORBER, IMPEDANCE MATCHING FILM-ATTACHED FILM FOR RADIO WAVE ABSORBER, RADIO WAVE ABSORBER, AND LAMINATE FOR RADIO WAVE ABSORBER | June 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17331425 | DYNAMIC POWER MANAGEMENT IN LOW POWER RADAR SOLUTIONS | May 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17316462 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM PRODUCT | May 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17292607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CALIBRATING A RADAR ROTATABLE ANTENNA SYSTEM | May 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17244511 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS OF MEASURING A REFLECTION COEFFICIENT | April 2021 | October 2021 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17240456 | SELECTIVE INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS | April 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17240548 | INCREASING CACHE HITS FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR | April 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17046955 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A RADAR CROSS SECTION, METHOD FOR TRAINING AN INTERACTION MODEL, AND RADAR TARGET EMULATOR AND TEST FACILITY | April 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 35 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17283813 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN OCCUPANCY STATE OF A PARKING SPACE | April 2021 | April 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17222766 | META SECONDARY RADAR | April 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17282550 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE | April 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17301448 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AN OBJECT USING RADAR DATA AND IMAGER DATA | April 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17220397 | RADAR SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN ON-DEMAND DISTRIBUTED APERTURE BY MECHANICAL ARTICULATION | April 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17281858 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION BY MEANS OF MULTIPLE RADAR SENSORS | March 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17216749 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR RADAR INTERFERENCE REDUCTION | March 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17215585 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING ANTENNAS FOR ANGLE OF ARRIVAL MEASUREMENT | March 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17188676 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AT LEAST ONE PIECE OF TARGET INFORMATION | March 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17163191 | GAN-BASED DATA SYNTHESIS FOR SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING OF A RADAR SENSOR | January 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17153788 | Radar System with Sparse Primary Array and Dense Auxiliary Array | January 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17152846 | OBJECT TRACKING IN AN AREA OF DISTRIBUTED SENSORS | January 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17148689 | APPARATUS FOR COMPENSATING PHASE ERROR OF CHIRP SIGNAL | January 2021 | December 2021 | Allow | 11 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17143147 | ANGULAR RESOLUTION REFINEMENT IN A VEHICLE RADAR FOR OBJECT IDENTIFICATION | January 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17139480 | CALIBRATION OF A PHASED ARRAY | December 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17119101 | RADAR BASED PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES USING SPATIOTEMPORAL INTERPOLATION | December 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17109317 | CO-PRIME CODED (CPC) DOPPLER DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (DDM) MIMO RADAR METHOD AND SYSTEM | December 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17058522 | SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR METHOD AND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DEVICE | November 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17058248 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING UNCRUSHABLE MATERIALS FOR INSTALLATION IN HEAVY MACHINERY BUCKETS | November 2020 | March 2024 | Abandon | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17058586 | RADAR HEAD POSE LOCALIZATION | November 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16952134 | VEHICLE AND VEHICLE SYSTEM | November 2020 | February 2025 | Allow | 51 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17097373 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMULATING DIFFUSE TARGETS | November 2020 | March 2025 | Allow | 52 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17090668 | SENSOR CALIBRATION | November 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17080452 | MANIPULATION OF 3-D RF IMAGERY AND ON-WALL MARKING OF DETECTED STRUCTURE | October 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17079674 | RADAR TARGET SIMULATOR WITH CONTINUOUS DISTANCE EMULATION AND CORRESPONDING SIMULATION METHOD | October 2020 | November 2024 | Allow | 49 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17074259 | Electronic Devices Having Millimeter Wave Ranging Capabilities | October 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17073821 | RADOME FOR A RADAR SENSOR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND MOTOR VEHICLE | October 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17047622 | Portable Vehicle Sensor Calibration Apparatus Having a Suction Mechanism | October 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16982680 | OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE AND OBJECT DETECTION METHOD | September 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16981339 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | September 2020 | May 2025 | Abandon | 56 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17020931 | NOISE MITIGATION IN RADAR SYSTEMS | September 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17019531 | Fano-Based Information Theoretic Method (FBIT) for Design and Optimization of Nonlinear Systems | September 2020 | January 2025 | Allow | 52 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17012528 | STRADDLE TYPE VEHICLE | September 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17009396 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMITTING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION AND RECEIVING PARTIAL RADIATION REFLECTED BY THE OBJECTS | September 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16976852 | RADAR SENSOR SYSTEM | August 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16976313 | METHOD FOR JOINT RADAR-COMMUNICATION | August 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17002150 | LIVE POINT CLOUD COMPRESSION WITH EGOMOTION PROPAGATION | August 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16997328 | RADAR REPEATERS FOR NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT TARGET DETECTION | August 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16994313 | METHOD OF PROCESSING WAVEFORMS AT A MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) RADAR FOR AN UNKNOWN TARGET | August 2020 | November 2020 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A.
With a 50.0% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. 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, 40.9% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting 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 is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A works in Art Unit 3648 and has examined 763 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 89.6%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 31 months.
Examiner BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A's allowance rate of 89.6% places them in the 69% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A receive 1.46 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 34% 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 BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A is 31 months. This places the examiner in the 37% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +2.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A. This interview benefit is in the 21% 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, 31.6% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 57% 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 52.7% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 74% 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, 25.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 27% 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 64.3% of appeals filed. This is in the 39% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 38.9% 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, 60.3% 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's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 60% 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 2.0% of allowed cases (in the 66% 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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