Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
22 pending office actions • 10 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aeva Inc. has 23 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio reaches 21 examiners and 11 art units, showing a wide distribution of prosecution activity across technical assignments.
NOEL, JEMPSON is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The busiest examiner therefore handles only a portion of the overall workload, while the remaining matters are distributed among other examiners. This limits the usefulness of a single examiner-specific response model for the portfolio as a whole.
The spread across 11 art units also supports matter-level monitoring of claim construction, prior-art positions, and amendment practice. Counsel should identify recurring issues where they appear, but preserve separate strategies when examiner or art-unit treatment differs.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 4 (18%) |
| §103 only | 10 (45%) |
| §102 only | 2 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOEL, JEMPSON | 2 | 66.9% | +30.4% |
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 2 | 77.3% | +16.9% |
| JONES, JAMES | 1 | 88.4% | +4.5% |
| DECARIA, MICHAEL ALEX | 1 | — | — |
| SABUR, ALIA | 1 | 74.6% | +6.5% |
| HULKA, JAMES R | 1 | 76.3% | +11.9% |
| HELLNER, MARK | 1 | 90.4% | +8.6% |
| NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE | 1 | — | — |
| STREGE, JOHN B | 1 | 87.0% | +13.9% |
| HSIEH, PING Y | 1 | 79.1% | +15.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958100 | System and Method for Tracking Motion | JONES, JAMES | — |
| 18760760 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RANGES TO A TARGET BEHIND A TRANSPARENT SURFACE | HELLNER, MARK | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18104006 | TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR) SCANNING DEVICE | XIAO, YUQING | 43d overdue |
| 18604868 | System and Method for Detecting Potential Matches Between a Candidate Biometric and a Dataset of Biometrics | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | 33d |
| 18950773 | TECHNIQUES FOR LIDAR SYSTEM NOISE CALIBRATION AND COMPENSATION FOR IMPROVED TARGET DETECTION | DECARIA, MICHAEL ALEX | — |
| 18909435 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENTIAL TRANSIENT LIQUID PHASE BONDING | SABUR, ALIA | — |
| 18760745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MOTION-STABILIZED IMAGES OF A TARGET USING LIDAR AND VIDEO MEASUREMENTS | HULKA, JAMES R | — |
| 18731728 | TECHNIQUES FOR MIRROR DOPPLER SPREAD COMPENSATION | NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE | — |
| 18668217 | System and Method for Improving an Image Characteristic of Image Frames in a Video Stream | STREGE, JOHN B | — |
| 18321380 | TECHNIQUES FOR OPTICAL SUB-ASSEMBLY AND PACKAGING | GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17745420 | TECHNIQUES FOR BAND SPECIFIC PEAK DETECTION IN A LIDAR SYSTEM | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 13d |
| 17703876 | TECHNIQUES TO SELECT MULTIPLE RETURNS IN FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE LIDAR SYSTEMS | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 15d |
| 18104161 | TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING CROSS-CHANNEL INTERFERENCE IN FMCW LIDAR SYSTEMS | NOEL, JEMPSON | 62d |
| 18760745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MOTION-STABILIZED IMAGES OF A TARGET USING LIDAR AND VIDEO MEASUREMENTS | HULKA, JAMES R | — |
| 18761022 | TECHNIQUES FOR USING A COHERENT RECEIVER IN A FMCW LIDAR SYSTEM | NOEL, JEMPSON | — |
| 18668217 | System and Method for Improving an Image Characteristic of Image Frames in a Video Stream | STREGE, JOHN B | — |
| 18642837 | System and Method for Detecting and Removing Occlusions in a Three-Dimensional Image | HSIEH, PING Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 12 |
| 2857 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2669 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18958100 | System and Method for Tracking Motion | JONES, JAMES | 2872 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18950773 | TECHNIQUES FOR LIDAR SYSTEM NOISE CALIBRATION AND COMPENSATION FOR IMPROVED TARGET DETECTION | DECARIA, MICHAEL ALEX | 3645 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18909435 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENTIAL TRANSIENT LIQUID PHASE BONDING | SABUR, ALIA | 2812 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18760745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MOTION-STABILIZED IMAGES OF A TARGET USING LIDAR AND VIDEO MEASUREMENTS | HULKA, JAMES R | 3645 | §101DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18760760 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RANGES TO A TARGET BEHIND A TRANSPARENT SURFACE | HELLNER, MARK | 3645 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18761022 | TECHNIQUES FOR USING A COHERENT RECEIVER IN A FMCW LIDAR SYSTEM | NOEL, JEMPSON | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18731728 | TECHNIQUES FOR MIRROR DOPPLER SPREAD COMPENSATION | NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE | 2857 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18668217 | System and Method for Improving an Image Characteristic of Image Frames in a Video Stream | STREGE, JOHN B | 2669 | §101§102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2024 |
| 18642837 | System and Method for Detecting and Removing Occlusions in a Three-Dimensional Image | HSIEH, PING Y | 2664 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18615721 | PERFORMING SPECKLE REDUCTION USING POLARIZATION | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 3645 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18604868 | System and Method for Detecting Potential Matches Between a Candidate Biometric and a Dataset of Biometrics | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | 2154 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18525690 | SERIES MULTI-COIL CLAMSHELL DESIGN FOR ACTUATORS | MULLINS, BURTON S | 4100 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18207370 | TECHNIQUES FOR PHOTONICS INPUT/OUTPUT COUPLERS FOR FMCW LIDAR | BEDTELYON, JOHN M | 3645 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18321380 | TECHNIQUES FOR OPTICAL SUB-ASSEMBLY AND PACKAGING | GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | 2828 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18125620 | TECHNIQUES FOR ASSEMBLING "LIDAR ON A CHIP" TO MINIMIZE MECHANICAL VOLUME | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 18104006 | TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR) SCANNING DEVICE | XIAO, YUQING | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 18104161 | TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING CROSS-CHANNEL INTERFERENCE IN FMCW LIDAR SYSTEMS | NOEL, JEMPSON | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 18061640 | TECHNIQUES FOR A LASER DRIVER CIRCUIT WITH ANALOG MIXER AND OFFSET | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17869368 | TECHNIQUES FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING IN A LIDAR SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE RETURN WAVEGUIDES | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2022 |
| 17745420 | TECHNIQUES FOR BAND SPECIFIC PEAK DETECTION IN A LIDAR SYSTEM | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | May 16, 2022 |
| 17703876 | TECHNIQUES TO SELECT MULTIPLE RETURNS IN FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE LIDAR SYSTEMS | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Mar 24, 2022 |
| 17591393 | TECHNIQUES FOR SUBBAND PROCESSING FOR A LIDAR SYSTEM | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 2857 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAeva Inc. has 22 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 20 examiners.
Jempson Noel has the most, with 2 of Aeva Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
