Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 4 (31%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 1 | 58.0% | +37.8% |
| FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 1 | 62.1% | +36.7% |
| GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 1 | 64.0% | +43.3% |
| BITAR, NANCY | 1 | 82.7% | +7.7% |
| TRAN, BINH BACH THANH | 1 | 81.0% | +12.0% |
| SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 1 | 82.3% | +16.8% |
| SATCHER, DION JOHN | 1 | 82.1% | +16.7% |
| SONG, LI-TING | 1 | 66.3% | +33.6% |
| LONG, SARAH A | 1 | 60.7% | +42.4% |
| DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN | 1 | 77.1% | +24.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871672 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WHITEBOARD RECTIFICATION | BITAR, NANCY | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836989 | MEDICAL APPARATUS WITH WIRE ANCHORS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | LONG, SARAH A | 10d overdue |
| 18837447 | COLLISION WARNING FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | SONG, LI-TING | 28d |
| 18018976 | CATHETER SHAFT WITH TAPERED INNER DIAMETER FOR IMPROVED FLOW RATE | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 61d |
| 19141003 | FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE CALCULATION METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMS | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | — |
| 19085984 | PHOTOBLEACHED IMAGING APPARATUS OR CATHETER, AND METHODS FOR USING SAME OR PERFORMING PHOTO-BLEACHING FOR SAME | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | — |
| 18993225 | APPARATUS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LASER SAFETY INTERLOCK FOR CATHETER | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| 18960794 | Flexible PCB Camera for Bendable Medical Apparatus | TRAN, BINH BACH THANH | — |
| 18928722 | TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION IN ONE OR MORE IMAGES, SUCH AS IN INTRAVASCULAR IMAGES, USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836989 | MEDICAL APPARATUS WITH WIRE ANCHORS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | LONG, SARAH A | 10d overdue |
| 18837447 | COLLISION WARNING FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | SONG, LI-TING | 28d |
| 19141003 | FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE CALCULATION METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMS | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | — |
| 19085984 | PHOTOBLEACHED IMAGING APPARATUS OR CATHETER, AND METHODS FOR USING SAME OR PERFORMING PHOTO-BLEACHING FOR SAME | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | — |
| 18993225 | APPARATUS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LASER SAFETY INTERLOCK FOR CATHETER | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| 18960794 | Flexible PCB Camera for Bendable Medical Apparatus | TRAN, BINH BACH THANH | — |
| 18928722 | TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION IN ONE OR MORE IMAGES, SUCH AS IN INTRAVASCULAR IMAGES, USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| 18897658 | Apparatus and Methods for Gesture Detection | SATCHER, DION JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 3 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19141003 | FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE CALCULATION METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMS | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 3798 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19085984 | PHOTOBLEACHED IMAGING APPARATUS OR CATHETER, AND METHODS FOR USING SAME OR PERFORMING PHOTO-BLEACHING FOR SAME | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 18993225 | APPARATUS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LASER SAFETY INTERLOCK FOR CATHETER | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18871672 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WHITEBOARD RECTIFICATION | BITAR, NANCY | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18960794 | Flexible PCB Camera for Bendable Medical Apparatus | TRAN, BINH BACH THANH | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18928722 | TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION IN ONE OR MORE IMAGES, SUCH AS IN INTRAVASCULAR IMAGES, USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 3798 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18897658 | Apparatus and Methods for Gesture Detection | SATCHER, DION JOHN | 2676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18837447 | COLLISION WARNING FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | SONG, LI-TING | 3795 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18836989 | MEDICAL APPARATUS WITH WIRE ANCHORS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18768700 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND STORAGE MEDIUMS FOR ABLATION PLANNING AND PERFORMANCE | DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN | 2666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18018976 | CATHETER SHAFT WITH TAPERED INNER DIAMETER FOR IMPROVED FLOW RATE | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 17936791 | MEDICAL DEVICE DISTAL OPTICS POTTING | CHIEM, DINH D | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17182910 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CATHETER TARGET LOCKING | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 216d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialCanon U.S.A. Inc. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 13 examiners.
Katherine L Fernandez has the most, with 1 of Canon U.S.A. Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
