Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
66 pending office actions • 42 art units • 65 examiners • 0 of 66 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 230 patents granted in the last 365 days
Collins Aerospace has 66 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 65 distinct examiners, which shows a high degree of diversity in the individuals reviewing the company's applications. The prosecution activity is spread across 42 distinct art units, reflecting a wide technical range for the portfolio.
The busiest examiner, AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR, is currently managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This is a very small portion of the 66 total pending office actions, indicating that the workload is not concentrated with any single examiner. With 65 distinct examiners involved, the company encounters a wide variety of examination styles across 42 distinct art units. Practitioners should be prepared for unique examiner feedback on almost every application, as there is virtually no examiner overlap. This distribution suggests that the company's innovations are being reviewed by many different technical groups, requiring a flexible and tailored approach for each of the 66 pending office actions. The ratio of 65 distinct examiners to 66 actions highlights a highly decentralized prosecution landscape.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 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. 26 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 only | 1 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (12%) |
| §103 only | 35 (53%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 18 (27%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR | 2 | 82.5% | +20.2% |
| YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 1 | 77.6% | +14.6% |
| DANIELS, MATTHEW J | 1 | 69.8% | +25.1% |
| HORGER, KIM S. | 1 | 70.7% | +20.0% |
| PARIHAR, PRADHUMAN | 1 | 56.5% | +21.0% |
| IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 81.4% | -5.7% |
| MURPHY, KEVIN F | 1 | 67.8% | +27.7% |
| GAGNON, GRANT A | 1 | 82.8% | +7.8% |
| JONES, GORDON A | 1 | 60.7% | +38.2% |
| SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811206 | INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ASSISTANT FOR AIRCRAFT CABIN APPLICATIONS | GAGNON, GRANT A | — |
| 18787857 | CARGO RESTRAINT SYSTEM FOR JOINT MODULAR INTERMODAL CONTAINERS | SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17894890 | Monitoring Operator Fatigue | KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD | 126d overdue |
| 17752806 | HEATED AIRCRAFT FLOOR PANELS | TRAN, TIFFANY T | 119d overdue |
| 18793565 | NAVIGATION ASSURANCE IN GPS DENIED ENVIRONMENTS | LIANG, HONGYE | 98d overdue |
| 18440707 | GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) AGNOSTIC MULTINODE TIMING (GAMT) SYSTEM AND METHOD | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 44d overdue |
| 18514503 | ENABLING MM-WAVE AESAS USING ADVANCED PACKAGING | BRADFORD, PETER | 38d overdue |
| 18820982 | HEATED VALVE ASSEMBLY | MURPHY, KEVIN F | 30d overdue |
| 18742843 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TO IDENTIFY MISMATCHED AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATIONS ON AN INTEGRATED AVIONICS SYSTEM | LOWEN, NICHOLAS DANIEL | 10d overdue |
| 18440438 | OPERATIONAL REASONING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ROTARU, OCTAVIAN | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18820982 | HEATED VALVE ASSEMBLY | MURPHY, KEVIN F | 30d overdue |
| 18797680 | COOLANT WING SURFACE HEAT EXCHANGER | JONES, GORDON A | 55d |
| 19370196 | DE-ICING SYSTEM CONTROL | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | — |
| 19196438 | CONFORMABLE TOOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPLEX CONTOUR COMPOSITE PREFORMS | DANIELS, MATTHEW J | — |
| 19041004 | HIGH TEMPERATURE OXIDATION PROTECTION FOR COMPOSITES | HORGER, KIM S. | — |
| 18975638 | TANK RINSING ARRANGEMENT | PARIHAR, PRADHUMAN | — |
| 18904944 | MINIMAL CONTROL OVERHEAD AVALANCHE RELAY | AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR | — |
| 18581627 | MULTIPATH SIGNAL ANALYZER | AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 4 |
| 1714 | 2 |
| 3753 | 2 |
| 3616 | 2 |
| 1712 | 2 |
| 3761 | 2 |
| 3662 | 2 |
| 2653 | 2 |
| 3665 | 2 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19370196 | DE-ICING SYSTEM CONTROL | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 3642 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19196438 | CONFORMABLE TOOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPLEX CONTOUR COMPOSITE PREFORMS | DANIELS, MATTHEW J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19041004 | HIGH TEMPERATURE OXIDATION PROTECTION FOR COMPOSITES | HORGER, KIM S. | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18975638 | TANK RINSING ARRANGEMENT | PARIHAR, PRADHUMAN | 1714 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18915090 | CARGO RESTRAINT ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18820982 | HEATED VALVE ASSEMBLY | MURPHY, KEVIN F | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18811206 | INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ASSISTANT FOR AIRCRAFT CABIN APPLICATIONS | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18797680 | COOLANT WING SURFACE HEAT EXCHANGER | JONES, GORDON A | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18787857 | CARGO RESTRAINT SYSTEM FOR JOINT MODULAR INTERMODAL CONTAINERS | SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | 3612 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18761841 | ATTACHMENT OF CARBON WEAR LINERS TO CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE (CMC) CORES | BOWES, STEPHEN M | 3616 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18752491 | POTTED CAVITY FITTING | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18586238 | MULTI-PARTITION CORE WIRES WITH MULTI-MATERIAL POWDERS FOR TAILORED MATERIAL PROPERTIES IN WIRE ARC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (WAAM) | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 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 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18489329 | CERAMIC MODIFIED LINERS FOR WEAR IMPROVEMENT IN CORE-LINER BRAKE CONFIGURATION | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18469139 | CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) MANAGEMENT IN CARBON-CARBON (C/C) PREFORM PRODUCTION PROCESS | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1692 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 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 |
| 18186844 | SELF HEALING OPS THROUGH VISCOSITY LOWERING | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 18168133 | MULTILAYER STRUCTURE WITH CARBON NANOTUBE HEATERS | KHLOK, BONITA | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
| 18099124 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE SHOCK STRUT PERFORMANCE | BURCH, MELODY M | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 18156839 | POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT HEATER WITH EFFICIENT HEATING TRACES FOR FREEZE PROTECTION APPLICATIONS | CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | 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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 119d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
| 17133232 | EFFICIENT BRAKING AND ANTI-TAIL TIP CARGO HANDLING SYSTEMS | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2020 |
| 19210586 | TAXIWAY NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED PILOT HEADS-UP OPERATION | PATEL, MANGLESH M | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18931378 | ROUTE SURVIVABILITY AUTONOMOUS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM | MILLER, PRESTON JAY | 3661 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18924845 | HIGH COMFORT ENDURANCE HAPTIC CUSHION | HARTMAN JR, RONALD D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18904944 | MINIMAL CONTROL OVERHEAD AVALANCHE RELAY | AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18896401 | LIGHT COMMUNICATION USING EVENT-BASED SENSORS AND NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSING | LI, SHI K | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18830082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AIRCRAFT OBSTACLE DETECTION | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18793565 | NAVIGATION ASSURANCE IN GPS DENIED ENVIRONMENTS | LIANG, HONGYE | 3664 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 98d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18744447 | SURFACE AND NEAR-SURFACE INTENT-BASED COLLISION AVOIDANCE | SMITH, ISAAC G | 3662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18742843 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TO IDENTIFY MISMATCHED AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATIONS ON AN INTEGRATED AVIONICS SYSTEM | LOWEN, NICHOLAS DANIEL | 2653 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18741570 | AIRCRAFT BASED CLOUD CEILING DETECTION | BADII, BEHRANG | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | 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 |
| 18673042 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS | KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18670082 | INTEGRATED ACTIVE SIDESTICK AND FLY-BY-WIRE | HALL, HANA VICTORIA | 2846 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18669022 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A SET OF LANDING SITES FOR AN AIRCRAFT | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18627911 | METHODS AND COMPUTATIONAL PIPELINE FOR FLIGHT SIMULATOR HOST SIGNAL CALIBRATION | KALHORI, DAN F | 2618 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18618582 | METHODS AND DEVICE FOR MULTI-LEVEL PORTABLE SECURE DATA STORAGE | NAJI, YOUNES | 2445 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18617108 | MONITOR FOR AVIONICS CAN BUS SOLUTIONS | HACKENBERG, RACHEL J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18615395 | LASER SURFACE MODIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED PLATE SURFACE | LEE, DOUGLAS | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18606609 | LANGUAGE MODELS FOR AUTOMATIC MICROBENCHMARK GENERATION | DO, AN H | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18600371 | CONFIGURATION SENSITIVE RANGE RINGS AND GLIDE RINGS | DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON | 3663 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18595628 | OCULAR DERIVED BLOOD FLOW AND OXYGENATION VIA EYE TRACKING | ABOUELELA, MAY A | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18581627 | MULTIPATH SIGNAL ANALYZER | AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR | 2466 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18582229 | METHOD FOR DYNAMIC RF DATALINK NETWORK MODELING AND MISSION EVALUATION | ZHAO, YONGHONG | 2472 | §102 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18440707 | GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) AGNOSTIC MULTINODE TIMING (GAMT) SYSTEM AND METHOD | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18440438 | OPERATIONAL REASONING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ROTARU, OCTAVIAN | 3624 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18417549 | PLASMA MULTI-WAFER ASHING SYSTEM | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 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 | §101§103§112 | 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 |
| 18514503 | ENABLING MM-WAVE AESAS USING ADVANCED PACKAGING | BRADFORD, PETER | 2897 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18234646 | DOMAIN AGNOSTIC OPERATIONAL PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD | CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18229347 | RUNTIME ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR MANUAL AND AUTOMATED LANDINGS | HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18364383 | MODULAR SUCTION UNIT FOR A URINARY RELIEF SYSTEM | FLYNN, TIMOTHY LEE | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | 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 |
| 18216236 | EYE TRACKING, PHYSIOLOGY, FACIAL EXPRESSION, AND POSTURE TO MODULATE EXPRESSION | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 3796 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 96d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18212583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF CABIN WITH INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) CONCEPT | BADERMAN, SCOTT T | 2118 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18140257 | ADAPTIVE SCHEDULER FOR LOAD BALANCING OF UNPREDICTABLE, TIME-SENSITIVE REQUESTS FOR A SHARED RESOURCE | LEE, ADAM | 2198 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Apr 27, 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 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 126d overdue | Pending | Aug 24, 2022 |
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