Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: FRITH, SEAN A

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2677 3793 3798

This examiner grants 60% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

60.5%
Allow Rate
-9.5% vs TC avg
312
Total Applications
+28.7%
Interview Lift
1316
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 276 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

9.0%
§101 Eligibility
15.3%
§102 Novelty
49.6%
§103 Obviousness
23.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18336834 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY OF BLOOD FLOW Final Rejection California Institute of Technology
19065504 ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
19205483 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOSCOPE LOCALIZATION Non-Final OA Noah Medical Corporation
19069759 METHODS FOR ASSESSING A VESSEL WITH SEQUENTIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS Non-Final OA BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
19055949 MEASUREMENT ELEMENTS FOR ORAL CARE DEVICES Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
19184355 ULTRASOUND SIGNAL COUPLER Non-Final OA Worcester Polytechnic Institute
19085485 Systems and methods for producing real-time calibrated stereo long radiographic views of a patient on a surgical table Non-Final OA Alphatec Spine, Inc.
19077998 RAPID PULSE ELECTROHYDRAULIC (EH) SHOCKWAVE GENERATOR APPARATUS WITH IMPROVED ELECTRODE LIFETIME Non-Final OA Soliton, Inc.
19108200 RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE DETECTION FROM ECHOCARDIOGRAMS Non-Final OA CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
18621937 ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Samsung Medison Co., Ltd.
19039911 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING PHOTOGRAMMETRY FOR INTRAOPERATIVELY ALIGNING SURGICAL ELEMENTS Non-Final OA MicroPort Orthopedics Holdings Inc.
18492770 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING Non-Final OA SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
18977486 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONGESTION Final Rejection MUCEX, INC.
18854493 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING HEARTBEAT CHARACTERISTICS Final Rejection Andrey Viktorovich FILIMONOV
18200869 Non-Cavitational Mechanical Pulsed Ultrasound Therapy Non-Final OA Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
18226453 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING LIGHT PENETRATION Non-Final OA NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
18466355 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA TO CONTROL AN ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM BASED ON CONTEXT PARAMETERS OF AN ULTRASOUND IMAGING SESSION Non-Final OA Exo Imaging, Inc.
18610989 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POSITIONING TARGET IN BRAIN REGION Non-Final OA Beihang University
18757956 LOCALIZATION METHOD FOR CEREBRAL INFARCTION AREA, SYSTEM, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT Non-Final OA Anying Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
18706936 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC EUS ANCHOR Final Rejection Thomas Jefferson University
18714917 QUANTIFICATION OF FLUID-TISSUE EXCHANGE USING PHASE ALTERNATE LABELING WITH NULL RECOVERY MRI Non-Final OA KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE
18462551 DEVICE FOR TREATING MALIGNANT DISEASES WITH THE HELP OF TUMOR - DESTRUCTIVE MECHANICAL PULSES (TMI) Non-Final OA Tissue Regeneration Technologies, LLC
18126531 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NON-INVASIVE QUANTIFICATION OF METABOLITES IN THE BODY BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA METLIT, Inc.

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