Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Assurant, Inc.

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)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.

2
Hard (22%)
7
Medium (78%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (22%)
§103 only7 (78%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
11% of docket
2
Information Tech
22% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
67% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WEISBERGER, RICHARD C 1 47.7% -3.5%
KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 1 68.9% +17.1%
COLEMAN, RYAN L 1 55.8% +60.2%
KIM, PATRICK 1 26.0% +33.8%
NGUYEN, TAN D 1 24.3% +19.1%
LAKHANI, ANDREW C 1 22.2% +30.7%
SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 1 76.2% +36.1%
TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN 1 76.1% +16.7%
WOOD, WILLIAM C 1 74.4% +20.8%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18494389 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-EXECUTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REDUCED-RELIANCE APPLICATION ONBOARDING KIM, PATRICK 98d overdue
18348894 SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR OPTIMIZING RESOURCE USAGE LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3d overdue
18351622 SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING AND SYNCHRONIZING INDEPENDENT COMPUTING RESOURCES NGUYEN, TAN D 23d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18147579 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR NETWORK-CENTRIC AUGMENTED REALITY PROCESSING TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN 114d overdue
18494389 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-EXECUTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REDUCED-RELIANCE APPLICATION ONBOARDING KIM, PATRICK 98d overdue
18794667 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FOLLOWING AN EDGE OF AN OBJECT KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 79d overdue
18315036 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR USER DEVICE REPAIR AND CONDITIONING SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 71d overdue
18047114 DYNAMIC COMPUTING RESOURCE SET GENERATION AND ACCESS CONTROL WOOD, WILLIAM C 8d overdue
18348894 SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR OPTIMIZING RESOURCE USAGE LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3d overdue
18351622 SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING AND SYNCHRONIZING INDEPENDENT COMPUTING RESOURCES NGUYEN, TAN D 23d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3629 2
3693 1
3657 1
1714 1
3628 1
2116 1
3715 1
2193 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19029346 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT DEVICE PROTECTIONS WEISBERGER, RICHARD C 3693 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2025
18794667 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FOLLOWING AN EDGE OF AN OBJECT KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2024
18397349 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS UTILIZING A CLEANING FIXTURE COLEMAN, RYAN L 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18494389 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-EXECUTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REDUCED-RELIANCE APPLICATION ONBOARDING KIM, PATRICK 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 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 Final Rejection 23d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18348894 SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR OPTIMIZING RESOURCE USAGE LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18315036 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR USER DEVICE REPAIR AND CONDITIONING SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending May 10, 2023
18147579 APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR NETWORK-CENTRIC AUGMENTED REALITY PROCESSING TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN 3715 §103 Final Rejection 114d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
18047114 DYNAMIC COMPUTING RESOURCE SET GENERATION AND ACCESS CONTROL WOOD, WILLIAM C 2193 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2022

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