Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

California Institute of Technology

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

94 pending office actions • 48 art units • 88 examiners • 0 of 94 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 90 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

California Institute of Technology maintains 90 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This workload is distributed across 84 distinct examiners and 48 distinct art units. The count of 48 distinct art units suggests that the institute's research and patenting efforts span various specialized sub-fields within the biotechnology sector. The ratio of pending office actions to 84 distinct examiners indicates that most examiners are reviewing an individual application for the institution.

WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions. While this is the largest concentration of work for any individual, it represents a small portion of the total 90 pending office actions. The fact that distinct examiners are involved highlights the distribution of the prosecution environment. This distribution means that the outcomes of the active matters are dependent on a variety of examiner perspectives across the 48 distinct art units.

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

Portfolio Summary

94
Total Pending OAs
54
Non-Final OAs
38
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 29 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

15
Overdue
1
Due this week
9
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 29 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (15)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (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.

44
Hard (47%)
41
Medium (44%)
7
Easy (7%)
2
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§101 + other14 (15%)
§103 only33 (35%)
§102 only3 (3%)
§112 only5 (5%)
Double-patenting only2 (2%)
Double-patenting + other5 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)29 (31%)
No statute on record2 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

43
Life Sciences
46% of docket
5
Information Tech
5% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
9
Semiconductors
10% of docket
21
Mechanical / Eng
22% of docket
16
Business / Other
17% 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.

940 h
Manual time on pending OAs
188 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
329 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
8.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C 3 61.0% +20.4%
LUONG, PETER 2 69.0% +26.4%
GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN 2 71.7% +11.5%
DUTT, ADITI 2 47.0% +48.5%
WESTERBERG, NISSA M 2 23.4% +37.1%
BARIA, DINAH N 1 72.9% +28.5%
SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 1 31.6% +25.9%
MARCETICH, ADAM M 1 72.7% +18.8%
CHEN, CHIA-LING 1 51.3% +42.0%
SHAH, MILAP 1 69.8% +40.2%

Hard Cases (45)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18336863 THERMOACOUSTIC AND ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI 274d overdue
17849132 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITING CORONAVIRAL REPLICATION SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN 66d overdue
17308599 CATIONIC MUCIC ACID POLYMER-BASED DELIVERY SYSTEMS WESTERBERG, NISSA M 50d overdue
18074369 METHOD OF MAPPING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF CELLULAR COMPONENTS LU, FRANK WEI MIN 43d overdue
19320925 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF INTRAVASCULARLY IMPLANTABLE PROSTHETIC VALVES BARIA, DINAH N 31d overdue
18175378 METHOD FOR GENERATION OF RANDOM QUANTUM STATES AND VERIFICATION OF QUANTUM DEVICES HALES, BRIAN J 30d overdue
17006591 PROTEASE SENSITIVE GVPC AND RELATED GAS VESICLE GENE CLUSTERS, EXPRESSION SYSTEMS, CONSTRUCTS, VECTORS, GENETIC CIRCUITS, CELLS, COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGING REYNOLDS, FRED H 30d overdue
17861077 ENHANCED NUCLEIC ACID IDENTIFICATION AND DETECTION CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA 18d overdue

Interview Candidates (16)

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
17308599 CATIONIC MUCIC ACID POLYMER-BASED DELIVERY SYSTEMS WESTERBERG, NISSA M 50d overdue
19320925 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF INTRAVASCULARLY IMPLANTABLE PROSTHETIC VALVES BARIA, DINAH N 31d overdue
15893456 USE OF GUT MICROBIOTA IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTICS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE DUTT, ADITI 28d
19002387 ULTRASOUND DETECTION OF CLOTS IN THE BLOODSTREAM LUONG, PETER 41d
19319521 Systems and Methods for Augmented Reality Guided Labor Services SWARTZ, STEPHEN S —
19005983 ANTI-INFECTION FLUIDIC CHANNEL MARCETICH, ADAM M —
18990696 RANGING WITH INTEGRATED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS CHEN, CHIA-LING —
18974842 ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM SHAH, MILAP —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 8
3797 4
3798 4
1683 3
1682 3
2872 3
1675 3
1681 3
1618 3
1651 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19320925 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF INTRAVASCULARLY IMPLANTABLE PROSTHETIC VALVES BARIA, DINAH N 3774 §103§112 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Sep 05, 2025
19319521 Systems and Methods for Augmented Reality Guided Labor Services SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 04, 2025
19005983 ANTI-INFECTION FLUIDIC CHANNEL MARCETICH, ADAM M — Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
19002387 ULTRASOUND DETECTION OF CLOTS IN THE BLOODSTREAM LUONG, PETER 3797 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 41d Pending Dec 26, 2024
18990696 RANGING WITH INTEGRATED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS CHEN, CHIA-LING — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18974842 ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM SHAH, MILAP — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 10, 2024
18951500 AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF RIGHT ATRIAL PRESSURE VIA MACHINE LEARNING THOMAS, SOUMYA — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18940771 ASSOCIATIVE POLYMERS AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2024
18939211 SYNTHESIS OF MONOLAYER TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES BY ELECTROSTATIC SELF-ASSEMBLY KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 1714 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 06, 2024
18935159 COMPACT LASER-POWERED SPECKLE VISIBILITY SPECTROSCOPY DEVICES MATTSON, SEAN D — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 01, 2024
18927386 ASSOCIATIVE POLYMERS FOR USE IN A FLOW AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18898619 System And Method For Joint Dynamic Forwarding And Caching In Content Distribution Networks DOAN, HIEN VAN 2449 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18829089 METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A PRESSURE WAVE FROM PERIPHERAL SITE TO CENTRAL SITE BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 09, 2024
18819803 QUANTUM COHERENT RECEIVER SOHN, SEUNG C 2878 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 29, 2024
18780407 CROSS-RAY ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY (CRUST) METHODS AND SYSTEMS CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON 3797 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jul 22, 2024
18772024 FECAL TRANSPLANTS FOR REVERSING MOTOR AND GUT SYMPTOMS IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM 1651 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 12, 2024
18752231 FIBER-SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY TRAN, LONG T — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 24, 2024
18723184 SUPPRESSION OF NON-SPECIFIC SIGNALS BY EXONUCLEASES IN FISH EXPERIMENT WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 21, 2024
18737918 Vibration Damping of Structures Using Slip in Pretensioned Coils SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18658823 HYBRID METHOD FOR FAST FUNCTIONAL IMAGING WITH SPARSE SAMPLING IN TOMOGRAPHY KIKNADZE, IRAKLI 2884 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending May 08, 2024
18634308 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LEFT VENTRICULAR END DIASTOLIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENT TOTH, KAREN E 3791 §101§102§112Other Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
18629732 QUANTUM PHASED ARRAYS DINKE, BITEW A — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 08, 2024
18605727 WEARABLE APTAMER NANOBIOSENSOR FOR NON-INVASIVE FEMALE HORMONE MONITORING BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA 3791 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 14, 2024
18604340 Systems and Methods for Modifying Metal Feedstock Material YANG, JIE — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2024
18603200 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR QUANTITATIVE, HIGH-THROUGHPUT PROTEIN BINDING MEASUREMENT RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 12, 2024
18592402 PROBES FOR MEASURING MOLECULAR PROXIMITY IN A SAMPLE BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE 1683 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 29, 2024
18444514 DEEP TISSUE IN VIVO PRINTING ZHANG, LEI 3798 §103§112 Final Rejection 41d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18433250 Methods for Detecting Target Analytes WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 05, 2024
18431197 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODULATING APPETITE AND INTAKE OF SODIUM GIBBS, TERRA C 1635 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Feb 02, 2024
18419486 CHROMOPHORE-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR DETECTING GENETIC VARIATIONS IN ANALYTES HORLICK, KENNETH R — §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2024
18410842 SINGLE-SHOT 3D IMAGING USING A SINGLE DETECTOR DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 2855 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 11, 2024
18537495 ALL-INTEGRATED PHOTONIC TRANSCEIVER WITH A COMMON APERTURE WOODS, BRANDON SEAN 2845 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 12, 2023
18517703 ENGINEERED LIGHT-SENSITIVE PROTEINS VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1638 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2023
18563676 LINKED AMPLIFICATION TETHERED WITH EXPONENTIAL RADIANCE SALMON, KATHERINE D 1682 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 22, 2023
18516490 High Quality Factor Metasurfaces for Wavefront Manipulation SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 2872 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 21, 2023
18507663 INTERFEROMETRIC SPECKLE VISIBILITY SPECTROSCOPY LUONG, PETER 3797 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 13, 2023
18505827 Method for Pre-Training and Stabilizing Ultrasonic Brain-Machine Surfaces ERDMAN, CHAD G 3791 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 09, 2023
18289674 SINGLE CHAIN TRIMER MHC CLASS I NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE LANDSMAN, ROBERT S 1647 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 06, 2023
18288910 RECOMBINANT AAVS FOR DELIVERY TO CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND BRAIN VASCULATURE BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1632 §101§102§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 30, 2023
18486054 Systems and Methods for Assessment of Lipid Membrane-Associated Molecule Kinetics, Dynamics, and Interactions NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 1631 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 12, 2023
18479286 Parylene-in-Oil Hydrophobic Coating SHAH, SAMIR 1787 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 02, 2023
18476808 NOVEL COATING METHOD OF COMPLEX 3D STRUCTURES USING LOW PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION CHEN, KEATH T 1716 §103§112 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18470879 PURIFICATION AND DETECTION OF ANALYTES KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 1799 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 20, 2023
18450597 LOCATION-DEPENDENT SPATIOTEMPORAL ANTIALIASING IN PHOTOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY CELESTINE, NYROBI I 3798 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2023
18546420 LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY-BASED FLOW SENSOR FOR DOWNHOLE MEASUREMENTS IN OIL PIPES SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK 3645 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 14, 2023
18225403 WEARABLE MICROFLUIDIC BIOAFFINITY SENSOR FOR AUTOMATIC MOLECULAR ANALYSIS ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 3791 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 24, 2023
18352175 EPITAXIAL SUBSTRATE SURFACES FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL GROWTH AND IMPROVED SMOOTH SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES FOR HIGHER CHANNEL MOBILITY THROUGH THE FORMATION AND REMOVAL OF REACTIVE LAYERS WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL 2897 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 13, 2023
18270131 CROSS-NEUTRALIZING SARS-COV2 ANTIBODIES JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1672 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 28, 2023
18343597 Systems and Methods for Bipolar Membranes DEES, NIKKI H 1791 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 28, 2023
18336834 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY OF BLOOD FLOW FRITH, SEAN A 3798 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 16, 2023
18336863 THERMOACOUSTIC AND ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI 3797 §103§112 Final Rejection 274d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
18205179 Si-SUBSTITUTED LITHIUM THIOBORATE MATERIAL WITH HIGH LITHIUM ION CONDUCTIVITY FOR USE AS SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTE AND ELECTRODE ADDITIVE CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG 1751 §103Other Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 02, 2023
18311113 Additively Manufacturing Molds with Localized Gas Permeability CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 1744 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 02, 2023
18302598 Erodible Support Materials for Additive Manufacturing PAN, YUHUI R 2116 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 18, 2023
18127331 ADAPTIVE SELF-CALIBRATING LIDAR SYSTEM BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES 3645 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 28, 2023
18187419 TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSDUCTION AND STORAGE OF QUANTUM LEVEL SIGNALS CHANG, JOSEPH 2849 §112 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18177566 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CROSSING BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M 1675 §112 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Mar 02, 2023
18175378 METHOD FOR GENERATION OF RANDOM QUANTUM STATES AND VERIFICATION OF QUANTUM DEVICES HALES, BRIAN J 2125 §103§112 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2023
18022056 ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS COMPOSITIONS HAVING PREFERRED EXPRESSION LEVELS SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK 1671 §103§112 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 17, 2023
18167697 ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED ELECTROLYSIS CELL STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN 1795 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 10, 2023
18077846 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POWERING AUTONOMOUS SWEAT SENSOR ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN 3791 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 08, 2022
18074369 METHOD OF MAPPING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF CELLULAR COMPONENTS LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1683 §103§112Other Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2022
17993743 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SMART BANDAGE FOR MONITORING AND TREATING WOUNDS GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA 3783 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 23, 2022
17993602 NON-INVASIVE METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUS SWEAT INDUCTION AND COLLECTION BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 23, 2022
17982901 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INHIBITION AND TARGETING OF P97 VOLKOV, ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVIC 1677 §101§102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 08, 2022
18047789 MINIATURIZED IMPLANTABLE ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR DEVICES CHEN, TSE W 3791 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Oct 19, 2022
17968556 WAFER SCALE PRODUCTION OF SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNESIUM DIBORIDE THIN FILMS WITH HIGH TRANSITION TEMPERATURE WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A 1735 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 18, 2022
17937614 THERMAL STATE SWITCHES IN MACROPHAGES YU, DAVID TUYANG 1635 §103DP Non-Final OA 20d Pending Oct 03, 2022
17936286 VIRAL DELIVERY OF GAS VESICLE GENES SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS 1631 DP Final Rejection — Pending Sep 28, 2022
17820232 CELL-TO-CELL DELIVERY OF RNA CIRCUITS PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 1634 — Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2022
17814384 VIRAL VECTORS FOR ENHANCED ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED DELIVERY TO THE BRAIN QIAN, CELINE X 1637 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 22, 2022
17866240 STOICHIOMETRIC EXPRESSION OF MESSENGER POLYCISTRONS WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C 1681 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 15, 2022
17861077 ENHANCED NUCLEIC ACID IDENTIFICATION AND DETECTION CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA 1681 §102§103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2022
17809376 EXPRESSION OF NEUROPEPTIDES DUTT, ADITI 1675 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 28, 2022
17849132 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITING CORONAVIRAL REPLICATION SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN 1636 §101§112 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2022
17844456 CYCLIC PEPTIDES AS PROTEIN TARGETING AGENTS JONES, DAMERON LEVEST 1618 §112 Non-Final OA 203d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2022
17824798 WEARABLE AUTONOMOUS BIOMIMETIC SWEAT SENSOR FOR PRECISION NUTRITION XU, JUSTIN 3791 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 25, 2022
17683246 SAME-SAMPLE ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TEST AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH 1683 §101§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 28, 2022
17652464 PROBIOTIC THERAPIES FOR SOCIAL DEFICIT AND STRESS RESPONSE CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER 1657 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 24, 2022
17558186 FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR CHROMATOGRAPHY AND CATALYSIS REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 1651 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 21, 2021
17509926 SCALABLE AND DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK WITH UNIFIED ENCODER (SULU) KAPOOR, DEVAN 2126 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2021
17450633 ACTIVE FOCUSING NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT METHODS AND SYSTEMS JONES, JAMES 2872 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 12, 2021
17355727 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INDUCING APPENDAGE AND LIMB REGENERATION CORNET, JEAN P 1628 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 23, 2021
17308599 CATIONIC MUCIC ACID POLYMER-BASED DELIVERY SYSTEMS WESTERBERG, NISSA M 1618 §103§112Other Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending May 05, 2021
17167849 OPTICAL SYSTEM NGUYEN, THONG Q 2872 §103§112 Final Rejection 9d Pending Feb 04, 2021
17264734 ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY OF MICROORGANISMS AND RELATED MARKERS, COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS HAMMELL, NEIL P 1681 §101§112 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2021
17127762 SELF ORGANIZATION OF NEUROMORPHIC MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURES DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 2144 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2020
17092215 REMOTE-CONTROLLED IMAGE-GUIDED DRUG DELIVERY VIA ULTRASOUND-MODULATED MOLECULAR DIFFUSION WESTERBERG, NISSA M 1618 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2020
17006591 PROTEASE SENSITIVE GVPC AND RELATED GAS VESICLE GENE CLUSTERS, EXPRESSION SYSTEMS, CONSTRUCTS, VECTORS, GENETIC CIRCUITS, CELLS, COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGING REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §103§112Other Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2020
16959998 PROBIOTICS, METABOLITES, AND USES THEREOF BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE 1657 §103DP Final Rejection 8d Pending Jul 02, 2020
16946496 IMAGE-GUIDED MICROROBOTIC METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M 3798 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 24, 2020
16770889 MULTIPLEX LABELING OF MOLECULES BY SEQUENTIAL HYBRIDIZATION BARCODING WITH RAPID SWITCHING AND REHYBRIDIZATION OF PROBES SISSON, BRADLEY L 1682 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 08, 2020
15893456 USE OF GUT MICROBIOTA IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTICS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE DUTT, ADITI 1675 §112Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 09, 2018
15713597 RECORDING AND MAPPING LINEAGE INFORMATION AND MOLECULAR EVENTS IN INDIVIDUAL CELLS JOHANNSEN, DIANA B 1682 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 22, 2017

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