Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: RICHTER, KARA MARIE

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 3645

This examiner grants 67% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

66.7%
Allow Rate
+14.7% vs TC avg
60
Total Applications
+41.7%
Interview Lift
1464
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 15 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.0%
§101 Eligibility
31.4%
§102 Novelty
47.5%
§103 Obviousness
16.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17455637 OPTICAL RANGING DEVICE Final Rejection DENSO CORPORATION
17880932 BEAM SPLITTER ARRANGEMENT FOR OPTOELECTRONIC SENSOR, OPTOELECTRONIC SENSOR HAVING SAME, AND METHOD OF BEAM SPLITTING IN AN OPTOELECTRONIC SENSOR Final Rejection SICK AG
17471814 APPARATUS FOR SELECTING LIDAR TARGET SIGNAL, LIDAR SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
17820940 METHOD FOR PIXEL BINNING IN A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR, SWITCHED DEVICE FOR A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Final Rejection Infineon Technologies AG
18043639 LIDAR TECHNOLOGY-BASED METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADAPTIVELY TRACKING AN OBJECT Non-Final OA ArianeGroup SAS
17954372 INTELLIGENT AND ADAPTIVE MULTI-MODAL REAL-TIME SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING BASED ON LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING AND CAMERA OR IMAGE SENSORS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17864186 SCANNING LIGHT SOURCE WITHOUT MOVING PARTS Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18191815 FREQUENCY ESTIMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COHERENT RANGE ESTIMATION Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
18126262 TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA SYSTEM Non-Final OA Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
18121391 ELECTRO-OPTICAL DISTANCE METER Non-Final OA TOPCON CORPORATION
17875895 OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Final Rejection ams International AG
18186721 SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING CROSSTALK AND INTERFERENCE FOR FLASH IMAGING LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING (LiDAR) DEVICES Non-Final OA GM Cruise Holdings LLC
18000967 Method For Determining Wind Velocity Components by Means of a Laser Remote Sensor and by Means of a Temporal Coherence Non-Final OA IFP Energies nouvelles
17490204 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Shot-Specific Detection Control Non-Final OA AEYE, Inc.
18095457 LIDAR GROUND PLANE DETECTION USING PROJECTED AND FILTERED DATA Non-Final OA Luminar Technologies, Inc
18126612 OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICE DEGRADATION CHECK Non-Final OA Rosemount Aerospace Inc.
18126240 REAL-TIME MONITORING DC OFFSET OF ADC DATA OF LIDAR SYSTEM Non-Final OA Innovusion, Inc.
18001253 LIDAR SYSTEM WITH COARSE ANGLE CONTROL Non-Final OA OSRAM GMBH
18102940 OVERLAPPING SUB-RANGES WITH POWER STEPPING Non-Final OA Ouster, Inc.
17664272 ATMOSPHERIC SENSOR USING PROGRAMMABLE TIME-GATED DETECTION APERTURE Final Rejection CONNECTSIX LLC
17505476 ELECTRONIC SURVEYING INSTRUMENT Final Rejection LEICA GEOSYSTEM AG

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