Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Advanced Energy Industries Inc.

10 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
4
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (4)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (10%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (80%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
10% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
9
Semiconductors
90% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LUQUE, RENAN 1 77.7% +17.0%
LY, XUAN 1 85.0% +6.4%
HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 1 81.3% +6.0%
COTEY, PHILIP L 1 84.3% +20.7%
CLARK, CHRISTOPHER JAY 1 75.6% +23.0%
CHAN, WEI 1 74.2% +14.4%
WELLS, KENNETH B 1 86.3% +2.4%
DANG, HUNG Q 1 68.4% +18.3%
ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 1 48.7% +26.1%
ZAYKOVA-FELDMAN, LYUDMILA 1 66.7% +25.1%

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
18892841 SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE POWER CONTROLLERS TO REDUCE HARMONICS LY, XUAN 30d overdue
18611945 Optical Signal Transfer Mechanism For A Vacuum Compatible Spring Loaded Thermometry Probe COTEY, PHILIP L 27d
18670168 BIAS SUPPLY CONTROL AND DATA PROCESSING HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 34d
18359840 MATCH NETWORK DESIGN FOR USE WITH FREQUENCY SWEEPING WELLS, KENNETH B 56d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 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
18925583 CONTROL OF PLASMA SHEATH WITH BIAS SUPPLIES LUQUE, RENAN 30d overdue
18611945 Optical Signal Transfer Mechanism For A Vacuum Compatible Spring Loaded Thermometry Probe COTEY, PHILIP L 27d
17855698 ADAPTIVE LYAPUNOV CONTROLLER ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 27d
18590299 OVER-CURRENT PROTECTION FOR A POWER SUPPLY CLARK, CHRISTOPHER JAY 28d
17318326 EVENT MONITORING AND CHARACTERIZATION ZAYKOVA-FELDMAN, LYUDMILA 34d
18108094 POWER SUPPLY MODULE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY DANG, HUNG Q 57d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2896 1
2836 1
2849 1
2855 1
2838 1
2844 1
2842 1
2841 1
2186 1
2857 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18925583 CONTROL OF PLASMA SHEATH WITH BIAS SUPPLIES LUQUE, RENAN 2896 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2024
18892841 SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE POWER CONTROLLERS TO REDUCE HARMONICS LY, XUAN 2836 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2024
18670168 BIAS SUPPLY CONTROL AND DATA PROCESSING HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 21, 2024
18611945 Optical Signal Transfer Mechanism For A Vacuum Compatible Spring Loaded Thermometry Probe COTEY, PHILIP L 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18590299 OVER-CURRENT PROTECTION FOR A POWER SUPPLY CLARK, CHRISTOPHER JAY 2838 §112 Final Rejection 28d Pending Feb 28, 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 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jul 26, 2023
18108094 POWER SUPPLY MODULE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY DANG, HUNG Q 2841 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Feb 10, 2023
17855698 ADAPTIVE LYAPUNOV CONTROLLER ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2186 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jun 30, 2022
17318326 EVENT MONITORING AND CHARACTERIZATION ZAYKOVA-FELDMAN, LYUDMILA 2857 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 12, 2021

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