Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

ClearMotion Inc.

Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

15 pending office actions • 11 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

ClearMotion Inc. has 14 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 14 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units, indicating a broad prosecution footprint with a separate examiner for every pending matter. The art-unit distribution is narrower than the examiner distribution, leaving some units with multiple matters.

LOUIE, WAE LENNY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner-specific cluster dominates the portfolio, so counsel should emphasize centralized deadline control and consistent technical support while adapting claim amendments and argument structure to each examination assignment.

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

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)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 (40%)
7
Medium (47%)
2
Easy (13%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (13%)
§103 only6 (40%)
§102 only1 (7%)
Double-patenting only2 (13%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
93% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LOUIE, WAE LENNY 1 84.9% +7.9%
SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P 1 85.5% +6.2%
BAILEY, JOHN D 1 79.2% +16.7%
HEIM, MARK ROBERT 1 55.6% -3.6%
MERINO, JOHN CHIANG 1 73.1% +25.5%
MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE 1 89.6% +9.0%
SAHNI, VISHAL R 1 75.4% +18.9%
PENKO, JOSHUA JEFFREY 1 69.6% +8.3%
BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R 1 47.5% +30.1%
ALKIRSH, AHMED 1 47.7% +32.9%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18643878 ACCUMULATORS FOR A DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE 139d overdue
19216035 ACTIVE VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEM LOUIE, WAE LENNY —
18936494 THROUGH TUBE ACTIVE SUSPENSION ACTUATOR SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P —

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18267912 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROAD FEATURE DETECTION PENKO, JOSHUA JEFFREY 86d overdue
18727475 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUT SATURATION AVOIDANCE IN PREVIEW-BASED VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL BAILEY, JOHN D —
18724462 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION HEIM, MARK ROBERT —
18712308 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION OF A VEHICLE MERINO, JOHN CHIANG —
17920628 TERRAIN-BASED VEHICLE NAVIGATION AND CONTROL BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R —
16485927 ACTIVE FORCE CANCELLATION AT STRUCTURAL INTERFACES ELARABI, TAREK A —

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18418996 DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM WITH AN ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN PUMP AND VALVE CONTROLLED HYDRAULIC PUMP BYPASS FLOW PATH SAHNI, VISHAL R 100d overdue
17773676 MULTI-LANE ROAD CHARACTERIZATION AND TRACKING ALGORITHMS ALKIRSH, AHMED 22d overdue
18727475 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUT SATURATION AVOIDANCE IN PREVIEW-BASED VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL BAILEY, JOHN D —
18712308 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION OF A VEHICLE MERINO, JOHN CHIANG —
17920628 TERRAIN-BASED VEHICLE NAVIGATION AND CONTROL BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3661 2
3616 2
3747 2
3668 2
3669 1
3614 1
3667 1
2151 1
3665 1
3745 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19216035 ACTIVE VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEM LOUIE, WAE LENNY 3661 DP Non-Final OA — Pending May 22, 2025
18936494 THROUGH TUBE ACTIVE SUSPENSION ACTUATOR SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P 3616 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18727475 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUT SATURATION AVOIDANCE IN PREVIEW-BASED VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL BAILEY, JOHN D 3747 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 09, 2024
18724462 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION HEIM, MARK ROBERT 3668 §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 26, 2024
18712308 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION OF A VEHICLE MERINO, JOHN CHIANG 3669 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 22, 2024
18643878 ACCUMULATORS FOR A DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE 3614 §103 Non-Final OA 139d overdue Pending Apr 23, 2024
18418996 DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM WITH AN ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN PUMP AND VALVE CONTROLLED HYDRAULIC PUMP BYPASS FLOW PATH SAHNI, VISHAL R 3616 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18267912 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROAD FEATURE DETECTION PENKO, JOSHUA JEFFREY 3667 §102§103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
17920628 TERRAIN-BASED VEHICLE NAVIGATION AND CONTROL BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R 2151 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 21, 2022
17773676 MULTI-LANE ROAD CHARACTERIZATION AND TRACKING ALGORITHMS ALKIRSH, AHMED 3668 §102 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2022
17787679 PROACTIVE CONTROL OF VEHICLE SYSTEMS SHARMA, SHIVAM 3665 §103 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2022
17775567 DIFFERENTIAL HYDRAULIC BUFFER NGUYEN, DUSTIN T 3745 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 09, 2022
17772036 VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL BASED ON ROAD FEATURE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION JIN, GEORGE C. 3747 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2022
17489924 VEHICLE LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS NGUYEN, CHUONG P 3646 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 30, 2021
16485927 ACTIVE FORCE CANCELLATION AT STRUCTURAL INTERFACES ELARABI, TAREK A 3661 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 14, 2019

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does ClearMotion Inc. have?

ClearMotion Inc. has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 15 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most ClearMotion Inc. applications?

Wae Lenny Louie has the most, with 1 of ClearMotion Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are ClearMotion Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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