Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19342656 | INTELLIGENT SECURITY METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BASED ON QUADRUPED ROBOT | September 2025 | March 2026 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18826456 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM | September 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18643381 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC FLIGHT VEHICLE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ELECTRIC FLIGHT VEHICLE | April 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18682214 | LOADING TYPE TRUCK CRANE | February 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18400175 | LEANING-VEHICLE-TRAVELING-DATA-PROCESSING DEVICE | December 2023 | January 2026 | Abandon | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18532437 | METHOD OF MANAGING POWER STORAGE AND VEHICLE | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18385301 | OVERSPEED DETECTION DEVICE | October 2023 | December 2025 | Abandon | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18481367 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION FOR A CLEANING DEVICE | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18473889 | METHODOLOGY TO PROVIDE ASSURANCE OF DATA ASSOCIATION IN NAVIGATION AND RADAR SYSTEMS | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18244154 | FUEL MEASUREMENT FOR VERTICAL TAKE-OFF DUAL-ENGINE AIRCRAFT | September 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18363541 | DATA INTEGRATION FROM MULTIPLE SENSORS | August 2023 | December 2025 | Abandon | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18217443 | CONTROL AERIAL MOVEMENT OF DRONE BASED ON LINE-OF-SIGHT OF HUMANS USING DEVICES | June 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18343159 | OPTICAL TIME OF FLIGHT SENSOR FOR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS IN ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS | June 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18268101 | CONCRETE SURFACE MAPPING ROBOTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING CONCRETE SURFACES | June 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18196938 | USER INTERFACE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE DISPLAY | May 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18247931 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle And Controller Communication | April 2023 | September 2025 | Abandon | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18179758 | VEHICLE POSITION GENERATION APPARATUS, VEHICLE, AND SERVER | March 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18179958 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | March 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18112143 | ULTRASONIC WAVE-BASED INDOOR INERTIAL NAVIGATION MAPPING METHOD AND SYSTEM | February 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18042247 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING THE LONGITUDINAL SPEED OF A VEHICLE | February 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18021874 | System and Method for the Driving Mode-Dependent Setting of Vehicle Properties of a Motorized Two-Wheeled Vehicle | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18108453 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISK-BOUNDED CONTROL BARRIER FUNCTIONS | February 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18085174 | SELF-CHARGING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE | December 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18063850 | Dynamic Agricultural Weed Removal System | December 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 35 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17985471 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE, MEASUREMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM | November 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17972602 | VEHICLE BATTERY SMART RANGE ESTIMATION | October 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17940815 | DRIVER ASSISTANCE METHOD AND DRIVER ASSISTANCE APPARATUS | September 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17883104 | MOBILE SECURITY ROBOT EQUIPPED WITH MICRO FLIGHT DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | August 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17876636 | AIRCRAFT ENERGY MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM | July 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17846695 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO HELP SUPPLEMENT A VEHICLES SENSOR DATA | June 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17845575 | Communication Nodes and Methods for Relative Positioning of Wireless Communication Devices | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17840656 | MOVEMENT INSTRUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD | June 2022 | May 2024 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17750318 | STEERING DEVICE DETECTING THE AIRTIGHTNESS OF ROAD WHEEL ACTUATOR | May 2022 | November 2025 | Abandon | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17747142 | Enhanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight With Situational Awareness For Moving Vessels | May 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17728137 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS VISION-GUIDED OBJECT COLLECTION FROM WATER SURFACES WITH A CUSTOMIZED MULTIROTOR | April 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17658525 | Track Associations at Least Partially Based on Low Confidence Detections | April 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17767159 | AIRCRAFT POSITION CONTROL SYSTEM, AIRCRAFT, AND AIRCRAFT POSITION CONTROL METHOD | April 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17699721 | TRAVELING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17655046 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE RETURN METHOD AND APPARATUS AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE | March 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17641977 | VULNERABLE ROAD USER SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES BASED ON RESPONSIBILITY SENSITIVE SAFETY | March 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17680408 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2022 | January 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17680344 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17551091 | DATA COLLECTION AND MODELING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | December 2021 | June 2024 | Abandon | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17551078 | LIDAR OBSTRUCTION DETECTION | December 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17549412 | DELIVERY SYSTEM | December 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17541266 | CONTROL METHOD OF MOVABLE PLATFORM, MOVABLE PLATFORM, CONTROL TERMINAL, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17540494 | ANTI-DRONE INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | December 2021 | May 2025 | Abandon | 41 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17594519 | SPEED DETERMINATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17594446 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM, AND BRAKE SYSTEM | October 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17493793 | IMPLEMENT-ON-GROUND DETECTION USING VIBRATION SIGNALS | October 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 40 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17492355 | LANE-RELATED VISUAL ASSISTANCE FUNCTION IN A HEAD-UP DISPLAY FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | October 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17492142 | Metrics for Evaluating Autonomous Vehicle Performance | October 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 45 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17492085 | TECHNIQUES FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH VEHICLES | October 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17407469 | CONTROL APPARATUS, UNINHABITED AIRBORNE VEHICLE, AND METHOD | August 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17444390 | WORK SUPPORT APPARATUS FOR WORK MACHINE | August 2021 | April 2025 | Abandon | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17384954 | OFF-ROAD ACTIVITY TRACKER | July 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 34 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17352798 | AIRCRAFT-BASED VISUAL-INERTIAL ODOMETRY WITH RANGE MEASUREMENT FOR DRIFT REDUCTION | June 2021 | March 2024 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17338236 | PROPULSION ASSEMBLY | June 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17331051 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING SCENE-BASED METRICS TO GATE READINESS OF AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS | May 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17302332 | GPS LOCATION AUGMENTATION AND OUTAGE PLAYTHROUGH | April 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17244069 | DEMAND DRIVEN CROWDSOURCING FOR UAV SENSOR DATA | April 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17223137 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEARCHLIGHT CONTROL FOR AERIAL VEHICLES | April 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17214464 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING POINT CLOUD | March 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17180078 | VEHICLE LOCATION AND CONTROL SYSTEM | February 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17178585 | VEHICLE BLACK BOX, VEHICLE AS WELL AS METHOD OF GATHERING DATA | February 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17178534 | Landmark-Based Localization Methods and Architectures for an Autonomous Vehicle | February 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17177475 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VEHICLE CONTROL | February 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17178094 | POWERTRAIN CONTROLS FOR AN ELECTRIC MOTOR AND AN AUTOMATED MANUAL TRANSMISSION | February 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17268529 | CARRIER SYSTEM COMPRISING A CARRIER AND A MOBILE DEVICE FOR TILLING THE SOIL AND/OR FOR MANIPULATING FLORA AND FAUNA, AND METHOD THEREFOR | February 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 52 | 3 | 1 | No | No |
| 17171072 | Autonomous Vehicle and Infrastructure Aided Robotic System For End-To-End Package Delivery | February 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17169723 | UNMANNED FOLLOWING VEHICLE | February 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17168591 | VIBRATION DAMPING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE, AND VIBRATION DAMPING CONTROL METHOD | February 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17260105 | VEHICULAR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD OF VEHICULAR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | January 2021 | June 2022 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17138710 | COLLISION AVOIDANCE USING AN OBJECT CONTOUR | December 2020 | May 2024 | Allow | 40 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17133045 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE A PATH PLAN | December 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16973843 | METHOD OF NAVIGATING A VEHICLE AND SYSTEM THEREOF | December 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17117007 | Indirect Verification of Speed Limits Based on Contextual Information For Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Driving Systems | December 2020 | December 2023 | Abandon | 36 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17107695 | AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLE OUTDOOR EXERCISE COMPANION | November 2020 | September 2023 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17105788 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE AND STATION | November 2020 | April 2023 | Abandon | 29 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17102999 | AUTONOMOUS DEVICE SAFETY SYSTEM | November 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17096644 | SELECTIVE ROAD INFORMATION HARVESTING BASED ON DATA QUALITY | November 2020 | October 2024 | Abandon | 47 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17093753 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDOOR POSITIONING | November 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17090539 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MAPPING BASED ON A DETECTED PEDESTRIAN TYPE | November 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17051839 | METHOD FOR CONTROL OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE WITH INTERNAL DELAYS | October 2020 | November 2022 | Abandon | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17066943 | Systems And Methods For Nighttime Delivery Mobile Robot With Hybrid Infrared and Flash Lighting | October 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17066861 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING RECUPERATION | October 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 34 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17045251 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | October 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16982068 | Method for robot repositioning | September 2020 | November 2022 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16978890 | AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND THE VEHICLE MADE THEREWITH | September 2020 | October 2024 | Allow | 50 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17010358 | UTILIZING VISUALIZATION FOR MANAGING AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE | September 2020 | May 2024 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17004503 | APPROACH MODE ACTIVATION MONITORING FUNCTION AND AUTOMATIC ACTIVATION IN AN EVENT OF PILOT INCAPACITATION | August 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16967301 | EXCAVATION BY WAY OF AN UNMANNED VEHICLE | August 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16983942 | PICKUP SYSTEM | August 2020 | May 2023 | Abandon | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16935229 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR VALIDATING OCCURRENCE OF EVENTS | July 2020 | August 2024 | Abandon | 49 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 16929313 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCURATE TRAJECTORY FOLLOWING FOR AUTOMATED VEHICLES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS | July 2020 | December 2024 | Allow | 54 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16930073 | Autonomous Robotic Cargo System | July 2020 | December 2022 | Abandon | 29 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16929155 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING A SECURE NAVIGATION PATH FOR NAVIGATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | July 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16921167 | MOVING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | July 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16959685 | MOVEABLE MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR UAV | July 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16920082 | MOVING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | July 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE.
With a 0.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.
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 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 KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE works in Art Unit 3666 and has examined 93 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 72.0%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 34 months.
Examiner KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE's allowance rate of 72.0% places them in the 35% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE receive 2.20 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 61% 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 KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE is 34 months. This places the examiner in the 45% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +9.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE. This interview benefit is in the 41% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 31.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 66% 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 44.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 67% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 0.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 2% 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, 100.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 93% 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 38% 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 41% 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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