Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Assurant Inc.

12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 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.

6
Hard (50%)
6
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§101 + other3 (25%)
§103 only6 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
8% of docket
3
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
42% of docket
3
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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SALCE, JASON P 1 67.9% +16.1%
SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 1 27.6% +40.0%
SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 1 81.5% +23.6%
COLEMAN, RYAN L 1 55.7% +59.7%
REAGAN, JAMES A 1 71.2% +20.1%
KIM, PATRICK 1 25.9% +33.0%
NGUYEN, TAN D 1 24.3% +19.1%
GAN, CHUEN-MEEI 1 81.9% +41.3%
MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER 1 79.8% +16.7%
MCCARTHY, CHRISTOPHER S 1 86.0% -4.9%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18892095 SYSTEM, METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING TO PROCESS AN IMAGE OF A MOBILE DEVICE TO DETERMINE A MOBILE DEVICE INTEGRITY STATUS SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM
18304109 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MODELING EXPECTED DEVICE ATTRIBUTES GAN, CHUEN-MEEI

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
18397349 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS UTILIZING A CLEANING FIXTURE COLEMAN, RYAN L 117d overdue
18494389 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-EXECUTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REDUCED-RELIANCE APPLICATION ONBOARDING KIM, PATRICK 98d overdue
18351622 SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING AND SYNCHRONIZING INDEPENDENT COMPUTING RESOURCES NGUYEN, TAN D 23d
19086732 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT EXTRACTION IN VISUAL MEDIA CONTENT SALCE, JASON P
18990898 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION PREDICTION AND MODELING, AND RESOURCE ACQUISITION OFFER GENERATION, ADJUSTMENT AND APPROVAL SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z
18147268 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LOCATION AWARE DEVICE FAULT DETECTION MCCARTHY, CHRISTOPHER S
12313740 Automated claims processing system POLLOCK, GREGORY A

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18397349 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS UTILIZING A CLEANING FIXTURE COLEMAN, RYAN L 117d overdue
18494389 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-EXECUTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REDUCED-RELIANCE APPLICATION ONBOARDING KIM, PATRICK 98d overdue
18351622 SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING AND SYNCHRONIZING INDEPENDENT COMPUTING RESOURCES NGUYEN, TAN D 23d
19086732 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT EXTRACTION IN VISUAL MEDIA CONTENT SALCE, JASON P
18990898 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION PREDICTION AND MODELING, AND RESOURCE ACQUISITION OFFER GENERATION, ADJUSTMENT AND APPROVAL SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z
18892095 SYSTEM, METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING TO PROCESS AN IMAGE OF A MOBILE DEVICE TO DETERMINE A MOBILE DEVICE INTEGRITY STATUS SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM
18533695 ELECTRONIC DATA MANAGEMENT FOR AN ASSET ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPERTY IDENTIFIER BASED ON A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER REAGAN, JAMES A
18304109 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MODELING EXPECTED DEVICE ATTRIBUTES GAN, CHUEN-MEEI

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2421 1
1714 1
3697 1
3628 1
3629 1
2499 1
2113 1
3715 1
3691 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19086732 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT EXTRACTION IN VISUAL MEDIA CONTENT SALCE, JASON P 2421 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 21, 2025
18990898 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION PREDICTION AND MODELING, AND RESOURCE ACQUISITION OFFER GENERATION, ADJUSTMENT AND APPROVAL SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z §101§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024
18892095 SYSTEM, METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING TO PROCESS AN IMAGE OF A MOBILE DEVICE TO DETERMINE A MOBILE DEVICE INTEGRITY STATUS SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18397349 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS UTILIZING A CLEANING FIXTURE COLEMAN, RYAN L 1714 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18533695 ELECTRONIC DATA MANAGEMENT FOR AN ASSET ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPERTY IDENTIFIER BASED ON A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER REAGAN, JAMES A 3697 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
18494389 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-EXECUTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REDUCED-RELIANCE APPLICATION ONBOARDING KIM, PATRICK 3628 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18351622 SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING AND SYNCHRONIZING INDEPENDENT COMPUTING RESOURCES NGUYEN, TAN D 3629 §101§112 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18304109 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MODELING EXPECTED DEVICE ATTRIBUTES GAN, CHUEN-MEEI §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 20, 2023
18177484 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ACCESS PERMISSION CONTROL IN A MOBILE DEVICE MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER 2499 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 02, 2023
18147268 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LOCATION AWARE DEVICE FAULT DETECTION MCCARTHY, CHRISTOPHER S 2113 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 28, 2022
18147579 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR NETWORK-CENTRIC AUGMENTED REALITY PROCESSING TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 114d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
12313740 Automated claims processing system POLLOCK, GREGORY A 3691 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending Nov 24, 2008

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