Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Aeye Inc.

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Aeye Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit, showing substantial pending activity distributed among several examiners within a shared unit. Counsel should use a centralized docket while maintaining separate response strategies for each examiner assignment.

XIAO, YUQING is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. This examiner handles part of the portfolio, while the remaining pending actions are associated with other examiners. The shared art-unit setting may support consistent technical positioning, but the different examiner allocations require matter-specific review of claim scope, objections, and response timing.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

2
Hard (33%)
4
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
Double-patenting + other1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
XIAO, YUQING 2 60.5% +27.7%
BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES 1 77.3% +16.9%
CHEN, CHIA-LING 1 52.5% +40.3%
NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K 1 85.5% +15.6%
NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 1 27.1% +55.3%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17490273 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Multi-Channel Readout of Returns NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 71d overdue
17523509 Ladar System with Adaptive Receiver NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17490273 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Multi-Channel Readout of Returns NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 71d overdue
17554256 Multi-Lens Lidar Receiver with Multiple Readout Channels CHEN, CHIA-LING 25d overdue
17490260 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Optimized Range-Based Detection Intervals XIAO, YUQING 56d
17970761 Systems and Methods for Spatially-Stepped Imaging BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES —
17523509 Ladar System with Adaptive Receiver NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K —
17490221 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Controllable Detection Intervals Based on Environmental Conditions XIAO, YUQING —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3645 6

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
17970761 Systems and Methods for Spatially-Stepped Imaging BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES 3645 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 21, 2022
17554256 Multi-Lens Lidar Receiver with Multiple Readout Channels CHEN, CHIA-LING 3645 §103DP Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2021
17523509 Ladar System with Adaptive Receiver NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K 3645 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 10, 2021
17490260 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Optimized Range-Based Detection Intervals XIAO, YUQING 3645 §103Other Final Rejection 56d Pending Sep 30, 2021
17490273 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Multi-Channel Readout of Returns NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 3645 §103§112 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2021
17490221 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Controllable Detection Intervals Based on Environmental Conditions XIAO, YUQING 3645 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Aeye Inc. have?

Aeye Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 5 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Aeye Inc. applications?

Yuqing Xiao has the most, with 2 of Aeye Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Aeye Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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