Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Advanced Energy Industries Inc.

16 pending office actions • 10 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

7
Hard (44%)
6
Medium (38%)
2
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (6%)
§103 only4 (25%)
§102 only2 (12%)
Double-patenting only2 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (38%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
19% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
8
Semiconductors
50% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
4
Business / Other
25% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LE, TUNG X 1 87.0% +3.2%
SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS 1 88.9% +6.1%
RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J 1 87.0% +8.8%
LY, XUAN 1 85.2% +6.5%
TRAN, VINCENT HUY 1 86.6% +9.6%
NGUYEN, HIEU P 1 92.1% +5.2%
CLARK, CHRISTOPHER JAY 1 75.6% +23.0%
LEE, WILSON 1 86.8% +3.1%
CHAN, WEI 1 74.4% +14.0%
WELLS, KENNETH B 1 86.2% +2.2%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18359840 MATCH NETWORK DESIGN FOR USE WITH FREQUENCY SWEEPING WELLS, KENNETH B 56d
19169049 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELAY AND AMPLITUDE CORRECTION SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS
18964989 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GROUND FAULT MONITORING RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J
18633590 CLASS D-H PREAMPLIFIER AND CASCODED HIGH-VOLTAGE AMPLIFIER NGUYEN, HIEU P

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18159780 MULTI-FILAR COIL LIAN, MANG TIN BIK 42d overdue
18892841 SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE POWER CONTROLLERS TO REDUCE HARMONICS LY, XUAN 30d overdue
18590299 OVER-CURRENT PROTECTION FOR A POWER SUPPLY CLARK, CHRISTOPHER JAY 28d
18811697 MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE CONTROL WITH SIGNUM PROJECTION TENSOR OPERATIONS TRAN, VINCENT HUY
18442876 ELECTROSTATIC WAFER CLAMPING AND SENSING SYSTEM LEE, WILSON
17855566 ADAPTIVE ENGINE WITH IDENTITY MAPPING MODULES SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL
17749394 SINGLE-TURN AND LAMINATED-WALL INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA SOURCES ALEJANDRO MULERO, LUZ L

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18524437 MATCH NETWORK WITH VARIABLE CAPACITANCE AND SWITCHABLE ARRAY OF SOLID-STATE CAPACITANCE CHAN, WEI 182d overdue
18590299 OVER-CURRENT PROTECTION FOR A POWER SUPPLY CLARK, CHRISTOPHER JAY 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2838 2
1716 2
2836 1
2115 1
2843 1
2844 1
2842 1
2857 1
2837 1
1797 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19186843 ROBUST TENSORIZED SHAPED SETPOINT WAVEFORM STREAMING CONTROL LE, TUNG X Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 23, 2025
19169049 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELAY AND AMPLITUDE CORRECTION SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 03, 2025
18964989 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GROUND FAULT MONITORING RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 02, 2024
18892841 SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE POWER CONTROLLERS TO REDUCE HARMONICS LY, XUAN 2836 §102§103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2024
18811697 MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE CONTROL WITH SIGNUM PROJECTION TENSOR OPERATIONS TRAN, VINCENT HUY 2115 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2024
18633590 CLASS D-H PREAMPLIFIER AND CASCODED HIGH-VOLTAGE AMPLIFIER NGUYEN, HIEU P 2843 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 12, 2024
18590299 OVER-CURRENT PROTECTION FOR A POWER SUPPLY CLARK, CHRISTOPHER JAY 2838 §102§103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 28, 2024
18442876 ELECTROSTATIC WAFER CLAMPING AND SENSING SYSTEM LEE, WILSON §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 15, 2024
18524437 MATCH NETWORK WITH VARIABLE CAPACITANCE AND SWITCHABLE ARRAY OF SOLID-STATE CAPACITANCE CHAN, WEI 2844 §103 Non-Final OA 182d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18359840 MATCH NETWORK DESIGN FOR USE WITH FREQUENCY SWEEPING WELLS, KENNETH B 2842 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jul 26, 2023
18345665 GAS FLOW DIFFUSORS FOR REMOTE PLASMA SOURCES KACKAR, RAM N 1716 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 30, 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
18112971 MAINTENANCE FOR REMOTE PLASMA SOURCES SAUNCY, TONI DIAN 2857 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 22, 2023
18159780 MULTI-FILAR COIL LIAN, MANG TIN BIK 2837 §103§112 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
17855566 ADAPTIVE ENGINE WITH IDENTITY MAPPING MODULES SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL 1797 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2022
17749394 SINGLE-TURN AND LAMINATED-WALL INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA SOURCES ALEJANDRO MULERO, LUZ L 1716 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 20, 2022

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