Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asensus Surgical US Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket spans 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing broad examiner coverage and limited technical-unit overlap.
BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The current record does not show repeated assignment to one examiner. Counsel can use consistent surgical-device positions across the portfolio, but should assess each office action independently because the examiner and art-unit settings differ.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 1 | 77.4% | +25.8% |
| SINHA, SNIGDHA | 1 | 33.3% | +25.5% |
| JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 1 | 63.3% | +22.8% |
| BARNES JR, CARL E | 1 | 33.3% | +25.2% |
| POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 59.6% | +33.2% |
| CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 1 | 60.9% | +25.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18582644 | QUICK DISCONNECT OF A DISTAL SURGICAL ROBOTIC ARM | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651035 | AUGMENTED REALITY SURGERY SET-UP FOR ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES | SINHA, SNIGDHA | 97d overdue |
| 17955486 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING TOOL WIDTH DATA TO ESTIMATE MEASUREMENTS IN A SURGICAL SITE | BARNES JR, CARL E | 30d overdue |
| 19379599 | SIMULTANEOUS DIRECT RELATIVE MEASUREMENT AND CALCULATION OF POSITIONS OF EQUIPMENT BASES | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | — |
| 18582644 | QUICK DISCONNECT OF A DISTAL SURGICAL ROBOTIC ARM | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | — |
| 17495792 | SURGICAL RECORD CREATION USING COMPUTER RECOGNITION OF SURGICAL EVENTS | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | — |
| 16920737 | System and Method for Modulating Tissue Retraction Force in a Surgical Robotic System | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2619 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19379599 | SIMULTANEOUS DIRECT RELATIVE MEASUREMENT AND CALCULATION OF POSITIONS OF EQUIPMENT BASES | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 3798 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 18651035 | AUGMENTED REALITY SURGERY SET-UP FOR ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES | SINHA, SNIGDHA | 2619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18582644 | QUICK DISCONNECT OF A DISTAL SURGICAL ROBOTIC ARM | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 17955486 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING TOOL WIDTH DATA TO ESTIMATE MEASUREMENTS IN A SURGICAL SITE | BARNES JR, CARL E | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17495792 | SURGICAL RECORD CREATION USING COMPUTER RECOGNITION OF SURGICAL EVENTS | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2021 |
| 16920737 | System and Method for Modulating Tissue Retraction Force in a Surgical Robotic System | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialAsensus Surgical US Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Alexei Bykhovski has the most, with 1 of Asensus Surgical US Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
