Collins Aerospace

Portfolio Summary

69

Total Pending OAs

18

Non-Final OAs

28

Final Rejections

23

Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 43 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

31

Overdue

2

Due this week

5

Due this month

3

Due in next 60 days

2

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

Overdue (31)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (2)

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.

0

Hard (0%)

65

Medium (94%)

2

Easy (3%)

2

Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

Bucket	Cases
§103 only	59 (86%)
§102 only	6 (9%)
§112 only	2 (3%)
No statute on record	2 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

6

Life Sciences

9% of docket

10

Information Tech

14% of docket

4

Communications

6% of docket

3

Semiconductors

4% of docket

43

Mechanical / Eng

62% of docket

3

Business / Other

4% 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.

690 h

Manual time on pending OAs

138 h

Time saved (low, 20%)

241 h

Time saved (mid, 35%)

6.0 wks

FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

Examiner	Apps on this docket	Allow rate	Interview lift
DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN	3	62.1%	+56.1%
SAHNI, VISHAL R	2	75.5%	+19.3%
KONERU, LAKSHMI S	1	62.7%	+16.2%
MURPHY, KEVIN F	1	67.7%	+28.0%
PRICE, CRAIG JAMES	1	68.7%	+21.9%
JONES, GORDON A	1	60.5%	+38.8%
PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM	1	100.0%	+0.0%
CHOI, WILLIAM SOON	1	74.6%	+11.1%
BERGIN, JAMES S	1	79.4%	+9.9%
MERKLING, MATTHEW J	1	68.1%	+13.1%

Quick Wins (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
18775337	SCALABLE SWARM POWER DRIVE SYSTEM	PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM	—

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18804230	WASTE TANK ASSEMBLY	PRICE, CRAIG JAMES	38d overdue
18820982	HEATED VALVE ASSEMBLY	MURPHY, KEVIN F	30d overdue
18614298	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT CABIN CONFIGURATION PRESETS	DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN	30d overdue
18506805	WASHER FOR IMPROVED RIVETING OF CARBON WEAR LINERS TO CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE (CMC) CORES	SAHNI, VISHAL R	8d overdue
18233087	SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DISPLAY VIEW OF AIRPORT MOVING MAP DEPICTING RUNWAY OVERRUN AWARENESS AND ALERTING SYSTEM (ROAAS)-BASED INDICATORS	DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN	5d overdue
18752491	POTTED CAVITY FITTING	CHOI, WILLIAM SOON	6d
18678488	VISION SYSTEM BASED LANDING SYSTEM	DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN	14d
18797680	COOLANT WING SURFACE HEAT EXCHANGER	JONES, GORDON A	55d

Top Art Units

Art Unit	Apps
3616	5
3663	4
3662	4
3753	3
3669	3
3761	2
3661	2
3664	2
3665	2
3791	2

Pending Office Actions

App #	Title	Examiner	Art Unit	Statutes	Status	Due in	AI	Filed
19081878	SEAL	KONERU, LAKSHMI S	3675	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Mar 17, 2025
18820982	HEATED VALVE ASSEMBLY	MURPHY, KEVIN F	3753	§103	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	Aug 30, 2024
18804230	WASTE TANK ASSEMBLY	PRICE, CRAIG JAMES	3753	§103	Non-Final OA	38d overdue	Pending	Aug 14, 2024
18797680	COOLANT WING SURFACE HEAT EXCHANGER	JONES, GORDON A	3763	§103	Non-Final OA	55d	Pending	Aug 08, 2024
18775337	SCALABLE SWARM POWER DRIVE SYSTEM	PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM	3652	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Jul 17, 2024
18752491	POTTED CAVITY FITTING	CHOI, WILLIAM SOON	3679	§103	Non-Final OA	6d	Pending	Jun 24, 2024
18654199	MULTICOLOR STROBING PYROTECHNIC FLARE	BERGIN, JAMES S	3641	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	May 03, 2024
18402503	CARBON-CARBON (C/C) CHEMICAL VAPOR INFILTRATION (CVI) SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING C/C BRAKES WITH NEAR ZERO CARBON EMISSION	MERKLING, MATTHEW J	—	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Jan 02, 2024
18514486	METHOD FOR NEAR NET SHAPE MANUFACTURING HIGH STRENGTH TITANIUM COMPONENTS	HEVEY, JOHN A	1735	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Nov 20, 2023
18506805	WASHER FOR IMPROVED RIVETING OF CARBON WEAR LINERS TO CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE (CMC) CORES	SAHNI, VISHAL R	3616	§103	Non-Final OA	8d overdue	Pending	Nov 10, 2023
18504726	FORCE CONTROL FOR AN ELECTROMECHANICAL BRAKE ACTUATOR	IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW	3616	§112	Final Rejection	9d	Pending	Nov 08, 2023
18467524	GUIDE ROLLER WITH ENHANCED CHIP, CUT, AND ABRASION RESISTANCE FOR CARGO DOORWAY ENTRANCE	IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE	1789	§103	Non-Final OA	92d overdue	Pending	Sep 14, 2023
18467215	GUIDE ROLLER WITH ENHANCED CHIP, CUT, AND ABRASION RESISTANCE FOR CARGO DOORWAY ENTRANCE	THOMPSON, CAMIE S	1786	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Sep 14, 2023
18466372	VALVE HEATING ARRANGEMENT	KEASEL, ERIC S	3753	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Sep 13, 2023
18344774	LOW COST, LOW WEAR PREFORM	GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ	1748	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Jun 29, 2023
18335050	AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR ENERGY ABSORPTION	BURCH, MELODY M	3616	§103	Non-Final OA	1d overdue	Pending	Jun 14, 2023
18334116	CARGO SYSTEM WIRELESS ADAPTER	SOROWAR, GOLAM	2641	§103	Non-Final OA	72d overdue	Pending	Jun 13, 2023
18319992	LATCH SOLENOID ACTUATED FULLY AUTOMATIC AUXILIARY GUIDE ASSEMBLY	GUTMAN, HILARY L	3612	§103	Non-Final OA	80d overdue	Pending	May 18, 2023
18311041	RDPC FOR PRIMARY SECONDARY ARCHITECTURE	KING, BRADLEY T	3616	§103	Non-Final OA	62d	Pending	May 02, 2023
18297895	ELECTRIC-HYDRAULIC BRAKE ACTUATORS FOR BRAKING AND PARKING	SAHNI, VISHAL R	3616	§102	Non-Final OA	61d	Pending	Apr 10, 2023
18186844	SELF HEALING OPS THROUGH VISCOSITY LOWERING	EMPIE, NATHAN H	1712	Other	Non-Final OA	26d	Pending	Mar 20, 2023
18174482	ELECTRIC BRAKE CONFIGURATION FOR WEIGHT AND COMPLEXITY REDUCTION	DO, TRUC M	3658	§103	Non-Final OA	72d overdue	Pending	Feb 24, 2023
18168133	MULTILAYER STRUCTURE WITH CARBON NANOTUBE HEATERS	KHLOK, BONITA	3761	§103	Final Rejection	6d	Pending	Feb 13, 2023
18156839	POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT HEATER WITH EFFICIENT HEATING TRACES FOR FREEZE PROTECTION APPLICATIONS	CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE	3741	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Jan 19, 2023
17829103	CARGO CONTAINER SENSOR	MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO	2877	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	May 31, 2022
17752806	HEATED AIRCRAFT FLOOR PANELS	TRAN, TIFFANY T	3761	§103	Non-Final OA	119d overdue	Pending	May 24, 2022
17212218	HYBRID LIDAR SYSTEM	CHILTON, CLARA GRACE	3645	§103	Final Rejection	25d overdue	Pending	Mar 25, 2021
17133232	EFFICIENT BRAKING AND ANTI-TAIL TIP CARGO HANDLING SYSTEMS	SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO	3663	§103	Non-Final OA	52d overdue	Pending	Dec 23, 2020
18931378	ROUTE SURVIVABILITY AUTONOMOUS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM	MILLER, PRESTON JAY	3661	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Oct 30, 2024
18804932	ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED COAX-LIKE CONNECTION FOR MICROSTRIP ANTENNA FEEDING AND SIGNAL INTEGRITY IN HIGH FREQUENCY PCB	BACK, AUSTIN M	—	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Aug 14, 2024
18793565	NAVIGATION ASSURANCE IN GPS DENIED ENVIRONMENTS	LIANG, HONGYE	3664	§103	Final Rejection	98d overdue	Pending	Aug 02, 2024
18749214	HEAD WORN DISPLAY (HWD) OPTICAL ASSEMBLY WITH WAVEGUIDE EMBEDDED IMAGING AND ILLUMINATION	MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT	2872	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Jun 20, 2024
18744447	SURFACE AND NEAR-SURFACE INTENT-BASED COLLISION AVOIDANCE	SMITH, ISAAC G	3662	§103	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Jun 14, 2024
18741570	AIRCRAFT BASED CLOUD CEILING DETECTION	BADII, BEHRANG	3665	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Jun 12, 2024
18740234	SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE OF FLIGHT PATH VECTOR SYMBOL AND FLIGHT DIRECTOR SYMBOL TO PREVENT OCCLUSION OF RUNWAY ENVIRONMENT AND METHOD THEREFOR	SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS	3663	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Jun 11, 2024
18678488	VISION SYSTEM BASED LANDING SYSTEM	DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN	3669	§103	Final Rejection	14d	Pending	May 30, 2024
18669022	METHOD OF DETERMINING A SET OF LANDING SITES FOR AN AIRCRAFT	MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S	3663	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	May 20, 2024
18618582	METHODS AND DEVICE FOR MULTI-LEVEL PORTABLE SECURE DATA STORAGE	NAJI, YOUNES	2445	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Mar 27, 2024
18615270	CONTEXT AWARE NOTICES TO AIR MISSIONS AUTOMATION ALGORITHM	INSERRA, MADISON RENEE	3662	§103	Final Rejection	23d overdue	Pending	Mar 25, 2024
18615395	LASER SURFACE MODIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED PLATE SURFACE	LEE, DOUGLAS	1714	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Mar 25, 2024
18614298	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT CABIN CONFIGURATION PRESETS	DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN	3669	§103	Final Rejection	30d overdue	Pending	Mar 22, 2024
18611304	ENTROPY OF PUPIL DYNAMICS FOR ESTIMATING ATTENTION TUNNELING	LI, JOHN DENNY	3798	§102	Non-Final OA	17d overdue	Pending	Mar 20, 2024
18600371	CONFIGURATION SENSITIVE RANGE RINGS AND GLIDE RINGS	DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON	3663	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Mar 08, 2024
18595628	OCULAR DERIVED BLOOD FLOW AND OXYGENATION VIA EYE TRACKING	ABOUELELA, MAY A	3791	§102	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Mar 05, 2024
18581627	MULTIPATH SIGNAL ANALYZER	AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR	2466	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Feb 20, 2024
18582229	METHOD FOR DYNAMIC RF DATALINK NETWORK MODELING AND MISSION EVALUATION	ZHAO, YONGHONG	2472	§102	Non-Final OA	42d	Pending	Feb 20, 2024
18440438	OPERATIONAL REASONING SYSTEM AND METHOD	ROTARU, OCTAVIAN	3624	§103	Final Rejection	3d overdue	Pending	Feb 13, 2024
18440707	GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) AGNOSTIC MULTINODE TIMING (GAMT) SYSTEM AND METHOD	MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA	3648	§102	Final Rejection	44d overdue	Pending	Feb 13, 2024
18429067	MODULAR MULTIFUNCTIONAL AIR COMBAT MANEUVERABILITY INSTRUMENTATION (ACMI) CYBERSECURITY APPLIANCE	ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD	2431	§103	Final Rejection	42d overdue	Pending	Jan 31, 2024
18416660	METHOD FOR DERIVATION OF SYNTHETIC AIR DATA BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING AND OPTIMAL STATE ESTIMATION	HORNER, MINATO LEE	3665	§103	Non-Final OA	71d overdue	Pending	Jan 18, 2024
18391204	METHOD AND MICROARCHITECTURE FOR ANOMALY DETECTION BASED ON HARDWARE PERFORMANCE MONITORS	PUENTE, EMERSON C	2187	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Dec 20, 2023
18525183	LASER PULSER SYSTEM	SIPES, JOHN CURTIS	4100	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Nov 30, 2023
18523095	TERRAIN DATABASE ADAPTIVE RESOLUTION METHOD	RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J	2156	§103	Non-Final OA	127d overdue	Pending	Nov 29, 2023
18514600	INTERACTIVE STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT GROUND OPERATIONS	CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN	3661	§103	Non-Final OA	50d overdue	Pending	Nov 20, 2023
18514503	ENABLING MM-WAVE AESAS USING ADVANCED PACKAGING	BRADFORD, PETER	2897	§103	Final Rejection	38d overdue	Pending	Nov 20, 2023
18387726	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTED FREQUENCY DOMAIN CORRELATION WITH DOPPLER BINNING	PEREZ, JAMES M	2473	§112	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Nov 07, 2023
18235115	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROAAS USING AI/ML MODEL TO SET AUTO BRAKE VALVE	KAN, YURI	3662	§103	Non-Final OA	26d overdue	Pending	Aug 17, 2023
18233087	SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DISPLAY VIEW OF AIRPORT MOVING MAP DEPICTING RUNWAY OVERRUN AWARENESS AND ALERTING SYSTEM (ROAAS)-BASED INDICATORS	DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN	3669	§103	Final Rejection	5d overdue	Pending	Aug 11, 2023
18229347	RUNTIME ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR MANUAL AND AUTOMATED LANDINGS	HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN	3662	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Aug 02, 2023
18225936	SYSTEM FOR GESTURE RECOGNITION BY A REMOTE TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY	SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM	2172	§103	Non-Final OA	176d overdue	Pending	Jul 25, 2023
18217718	PUPIL DYNAMICS, POSE, AND PERFORMANCE FOR INFERRING INTENT	JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE	2666	§103	Final Rejection	44d overdue	Pending	Jul 03, 2023
18216236	EYE TRACKING, PHYSIOLOGY, FACIAL EXPRESSION, AND POSTURE TO MODULATE EXPRESSION	TEJANI, ANKIT D	3796	Other	Non-Final OA	96d overdue	Pending	Jun 29, 2023
18140257	ADAPTIVE SCHEDULER FOR LOAD BALANCING OF UNPREDICTABLE, TIME-SENSITIVE REQUESTS FOR A SHARED RESOURCE	LEE, ADAM	2198	§102	Non-Final OA	56d	Pending	Apr 27, 2023
18133354	VISUAL INDICATION OF RUNWAY OVERRUN AWARENESS AND ALERTING SYSTEM STOPPING DISTANCES	ROBINSON, KITO R	3664	§103	Non-Final OA	93d overdue	Pending	Apr 11, 2023
18119113	ANTENNA ARRAY FAILURE DETECTION	GUYAH, REMASH RAJA	3648	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Mar 08, 2023
18082962	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE BEYOND LINE OF SIGHT (BLOS) COMMUNICATIONS VIA EVAPORATION DUCT	LE, LANA N	2648	§103	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Dec 16, 2022
17894890	Monitoring Operator Fatigue	KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD	2653	§103	Final Rejection	126d overdue	Pending	Aug 24, 2022
17715494	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING PILOT BIOMETRICS	GOMES, SRISTI DIVINA	3791	§103	Final Rejection	30d overdue	Pending	Apr 07, 2022
17536972	MILITARY TRUSTED INTERWORKING FUNCTION TO INTEGRATE IP TACTICAL NODES INTO A 5G NETWORK	SHOLEMAN, ABU S	2496	§103	Non-Final OA	32d overdue	Pending	Nov 29, 2021

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