DETAILED NON-FINAL OFFICE ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Comments
The drawings of October 13, 2024 are hereby accepted as FORMAL.
The information disclosure statement (IDS) of October 13, 2024 has been considered during examination.
Please note that any mention of a line number of a claim in this office action refers to the claims as they appear in the official claim listing in the image file wrapper (IFW).
Claim Interpretation
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 12-13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
On line 1 of dependent claim 12, the word, “medium” is indefinite and unclear in context as to whether the term encompasses transitory forms.
On line 1 of dependent claim 13, the word, “medium” is indefinite and unclear in context as to whether the term encompasses transitory forms.
Overall, dependent claim 13 is unclear as to how the “computer program” (line 1) could be “on a computing device” (line 3) to “execute” (line 1) since the “medium” is not claimed as being “computer-readable.”
Non-Statutory Subject Matter
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 12-13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because in each of claims 12 and 13 the term “medium,” in the broadest reasonable interpretation, would encompass signals (i.e., signal claims) since the term “medium” does not exclude transitory forms of media. Amending each of claims 12 and 13 to add the word, “non-transitory” to characterized the “medium” would overcome this rejection.
Allowable Claims
Claims 1-11 are allowable over the prior art of record.
Regarding independent claim 1, none of the prior art of record discloses in combination the claimed features, “calculating, by the processor, a first error by comparing … command comprising the correction angle” as recited on lines 5-14 of the claim, nor would this claimed combination of features have been obvious to one of ordinary skill-in-the-art.
Each of dependent claims 2-11 is allowable, at least, in that it depends from allowable, independent claim 1.
Prior Art of General Interest
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Kazuhiro Ueda (JP 06138199 A) is of general interest for the disclosure related to the “compensation function.”
Kazuhiro Ueda (JP H05288497 A) is of general interest for the disclosure related to the “flight table” and to the “correcting signal.”
Kazuhiro Ueda (JP H04295783 A) is of general interest for the disclosure related to the “correction calculator.”
Kenji Oami (JP H01316678 A) is of general interest for the disclosure related to the “correction data storing section.”
Walker (GB 2154802 A) is of general interest for the disclosure related to the “look-up table ROM” and to the “correction signals.”
Gratt et al (‘011) is of general interest for the disclosure related to the correction of radome boresight error using the solution of certain algorithms.
Price et al (‘725) is of general interest for the disclosure related to the “store of error correction data.”
Contact Information
Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to BERNARR E GREGORY whose telephone number is (571)272-6972. The examiner can normally be reached on Mondays through Fridays from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm eastern time.
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/BERNARR E GREGORY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3648
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