Listed by the USPTO as FANG, MICHAEL YIMING
Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 3793 3796 3798
This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases
FANG, MICHAEL YIMING is a USPTO patent examiner in Tech Center 3700 and Art Unit 3793. The profile covers 87 resolved cases, with a 62.1% allowance rate and a 36.7% interview lift. The median time to allowance is 1248 days.
Boston Scientific Corporation, Koninklijke Philips N.V., and Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. are the leading companies represented in the resolved work. Frequently appearing firms are SEAGER, TUFTE & WICKHEM, LLP, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, and Outlier Patent Attorneys, PLLC. For practitioners, the interview-lift figure supports treating examiner interviews as a potentially useful part of prosecution strategy.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18813808 | ULTRASOUND PROBE | Non-Final OA | FUJIFILM Corporation |
| 18819001 | Intravascular Ultrasound Catheter | Final Rejection | Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. |
| 18642195 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR IMAGING WITHIN A BODY LUMEN | Non-Final OA | Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. |
| 18373706 | BEACON DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL PROCEDURES | Final Rejection | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC. |
| 19112395 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT KINEMATICS PROCESSING, NAVIGATION, AND FEEDBACK | Final Rejection | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. |
| 17993227 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATION IN IMAGE-GUIDED MEDICAL PROCEDURES | Non-Final OA | INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC. |
| 18872868 | HYBRID INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY TRANSDUCER AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | Final Rejection | KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. |
| 18864016 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTANCE IN A SURGICAL PROCEDURE | Non-Final OA | KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. |
| 18039586 | INDUCTIVE SENSING SYSTEM FOR SENSING ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS FROM A BODY | Non-Final OA | KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. |
| 19481805 | DEVICE USE-TIME ESTIMATION | Non-Final OA | Exo Imaging, Inc. |
| 19061813 | METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING BREAST DENSITY AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM | Final Rejection | GE Precision Healthcare LLC |
| 18105381 | DETERMINING A LOCATION OF AN APPARATUS IN AN MRT SYSTEM | Non-Final OA | Siemens Healthcare GmbH |
| 18740940 | DISTAL END COMPONENT PORTION, ENDOSCOPE INSERTION PORTION, ENDOSCOPE AND ULTRASOUND ENDOSCOPE | Final Rejection | OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. |
| 19046322 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING THERMAL DOSE DELIVERED TO A SUBJECT | Final Rejection | HistoSonics, Inc. |
| 18684813 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PARAMETRIC FDG PET QUANTIFICATION, SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF ABNORMALITIES | Non-Final OA | University of Virginia Patent Foundation |
| 18945685 | PRIORITIZATION OF MULTIPLE OBJECTS IN AN ASSISTANCE FUNCTIONALITY FOR A SURGICAL MICROSCOPY SYSTEM | Non-Final OA | CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG |
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Build Your Strategy62.1% of resolved applications examined by Michael Yiming Fang were allowed (87 resolved cases), compared with 48.7% across Art Unit 3793 over the last five years.
This examiner's interview lift is +36.7 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.
Applications allowed by Michael Yiming Fang took 1,248 days on average from filing to allowance.
Michael Yiming Fang examines applications in Art Unit 3793 in Tech Center 3700 (Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering).
