Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Advanced Energy Industries Inc. has 14 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are distributed across 14 examiners and 11 art units, creating a substantial examination footprint with several matters sharing art-unit coverage.
RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger identified workload, so the docket does not turn on one examiner relationship despite its overall size.
Counsel should use art-unit groupings to coordinate recurring technical and claim issues, while maintaining examiner-specific response plans. The spread across 14 examiners also makes centralized tracking important for deadlines, amendments, and argument consistency.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (43%) |
| §102 only | 3 (21%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (29%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | 1 | 87.3% | +8.6% |
| PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO | 1 | 83.9% | +13.8% |
| NGUYEN, HIEU P | 1 | 92.1% | +5.2% |
| COTEY, PHILIP L | 1 | 83.9% | +21.2% |
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.2% |
| REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 1 | 42.3% | +50.5% |
| AHMAD, SHAHZEB K | 1 | 79.6% | +4.6% |
| CHAN, WEI | 1 | 74.7% | +13.8% |
| CHEN, PATRICK C | 1 | 82.5% | +9.9% |
| WELLS, KENNETH B | 1 | 86.3% | +2.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18359840 | MATCH NETWORK DESIGN FOR USE WITH FREQUENCY SWEEPING | WELLS, KENNETH B | 56d |
| 18964989 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GROUND FAULT MONITORING | RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | — |
| 18830709 | SURFACE CHARGE AND POWER FEEDBACK AND CONTROL USING A SWITCH MODE BIAS SYSTEM | PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO | — |
| 18633590 | CLASS D-H PREAMPLIFIER AND CASCODED HIGH-VOLTAGE AMPLIFIER | NGUYEN, HIEU P | — |
| 18518840 | TRANSIENT CONTROL OF AN ASYMMETRIC WAVEFORM | CHEN, PATRICK C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18159780 | MULTI-FILAR COIL | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 42d overdue |
| 18611945 | Optical Signal Transfer Mechanism For A Vacuum Compatible Spring Loaded Thermometry Probe | COTEY, PHILIP L | 27d |
| 18605486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARC DETECTION AND HANDLING USING IMPEDANCE DATA | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| 18584816 | BIAS SUPPLY WITH RESONANT SWITCHING | REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524437 | MATCH NETWORK WITH VARIABLE CAPACITANCE AND SWITCHABLE ARRAY OF SOLID-STATE CAPACITANCE | CHAN, WEI | 182d overdue |
| 18611945 | Optical Signal Transfer Mechanism For A Vacuum Compatible Spring Loaded Thermometry Probe | COTEY, PHILIP L | 27d |
| 18830709 | SURFACE CHARGE AND POWER FEEDBACK AND CONTROL USING A SWITCH MODE BIAS SYSTEM | PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO | — |
| 18605486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARC DETECTION AND HANDLING USING IMPEDANCE DATA | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| 18584816 | BIAS SUPPLY WITH RESONANT SWITCHING | REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 3 |
| 2842 | 2 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2843 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 2633 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18964989 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GROUND FAULT MONITORING | RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | 2858 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18830709 | SURFACE CHARGE AND POWER FEEDBACK AND CONTROL USING A SWITCH MODE BIAS SYSTEM | PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO | 2838 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18633590 | CLASS D-H PREAMPLIFIER AND CASCODED HIGH-VOLTAGE AMPLIFIER | NGUYEN, HIEU P | 2843 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18611945 | Optical Signal Transfer Mechanism For A Vacuum Compatible Spring Loaded Thermometry Probe | COTEY, PHILIP L | 2855 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18605486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARC DETECTION AND HANDLING USING IMPEDANCE DATA | JENNISON, BRIAN W | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18584816 | BIAS SUPPLY WITH RESONANT SWITCHING | REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 1718 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18392169 | OPEN CIRCUIT AND BACK-SURGE PROTECTION FOR POWER SUPPLIES | AHMAD, SHAHZEB K | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18524437 | MATCH NETWORK WITH VARIABLE CAPACITANCE AND SWITCHABLE ARRAY OF SOLID-STATE CAPACITANCE | CHAN, WEI | 2844 | §103 | Final Rejection | 182d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18518840 | TRANSIENT CONTROL OF AN ASYMMETRIC WAVEFORM | CHEN, PATRICK C | 2842 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2023 |
| 18359840 | MATCH NETWORK DESIGN FOR USE WITH FREQUENCY SWEEPING | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2842 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18304510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING A LOAD VOLTAGE IN A POWER CONVERTER | SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18302294 | MULTI-LEVEL PULSING SYSTEM | SINGH, AMNEET | 2633 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18159780 | MULTI-FILAR COIL | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 2837 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 17483559 | COATED-SUBSTRATE SENSING AND CRAZING MITIGATION | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAdvanced Energy Industries Inc. has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 14 examiners.
Raul J Rios Russo has the most, with 1 of Advanced Energy Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
