Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
116 pending office actions • 69 art units • 107 examiners • 0 of 116 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 132 patents granted in the last 365 days
Continental AG has 119 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio spans 106 examiners and 68 art units, creating a broad management requirement across many examiner relationships and technical groupings.
KING, BRADLEY T is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. The assignment warrants focused monitoring, but it does not represent the main structure of the portfolio. The larger examiner figure supports application-specific management, while the art-unit figure supports coordinated review of recurring technical issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 30 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. 30 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 | 2 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 30 (26%) |
| §103 only | 28 (24%) |
| §102 only | 3 (3%) |
| §112 only | 3 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 48 (41%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING, BRADLEY T | 3 | 70.8% | +22.5% |
| LAGUARDA, GONZALO | 3 | 73.0% | +7.2% |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 2 | 78.7% | +14.2% |
| RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN | 2 | 78.8% | +20.4% |
| FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 2 | 71.7% | +30.8% |
| HUANG, DAVID S | 2 | 87.0% | +15.1% |
| GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS | 2 | 33.0% | +7.7% |
| SONG, ZHENG B | 1 | 70.1% | +15.0% |
| CHIANG, MICHAEL | 1 | 70.7% | +21.8% |
| WANG, JINGLI | 1 | 71.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556795 | METHOD FOR CREATING A MAP WITH COLLISION PROBABILITIES | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 177d overdue |
| 18701520 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND/OR COOLING FLUID, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 162d overdue |
| 18076530 | FACILITATING HEAT DISSIPATION AND ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING | CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN | 73d overdue |
| 18224417 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ENTERTAINMENT IN A MOTOR VEHICLE | BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH | 72d overdue |
| 18291032 | METHOD OF JOINT USER ACTIVITY DETECTION AND CHANNEL INFORMATION ESTIMATION IN EXTRA-LARGE MIMO (XL-MIMO) SYSTEMS WITH NON-STATIONARITIES | NEFF, MICHAEL R | 67d overdue |
| 18290731 | METHOD FOR FORWARDING SYNCHRONIZATION INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND VEHICLE | SCIACCA, SCOTT M | 42d overdue |
| 18711786 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE | CHOI, JISUN | 11d overdue |
| 18860490 | METHOD FOR SENDING VEHICLE-TO-X-MESSAGES, METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSSIBLE COLLISION, AND VEHICLE-TO-X-COMMUNICATIONS MODULE | WANG, JACK K | 10d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19371051 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING A BACKGROUND ILLUMINATION AND MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION HAVING SUCH A DISPLAY DEVICE | SONG, ZHENG B | — |
| 19475589 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TRANSPORT MEANS | CHIANG, MICHAEL | — |
| 19273057 | TRAFFIC SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLES | WANG, JINGLI | — |
| 18980012 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE FORCE OF AN ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE, AND ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE | KING, BRADLEY T | — |
| 18866791 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES, HAVING AN ACTUATOR | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
| 18832851 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND ELECTROHYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM | KING, BRADLEY T | — |
| 18729024 | INDUCTIVE POSITION SENSOR DEVICE AND BRAKE SYSTEM HAVING AN INDUCTIVE POSITION SENSOR DEVICE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
| 18718361 | A METHOD OF PROCESSING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SIGNALS FOR USE IN RADAR SENSING | RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 10 |
| 3668 | 6 |
| 2631 | 5 |
| 3666 | 4 |
| 3747 | 4 |
| 3663 | 4 |
| 3667 | 4 |
| 2875 | 3 |
| 3648 | 3 |
| 2841 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19371051 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING A BACKGROUND ILLUMINATION AND MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION HAVING SUCH A DISPLAY DEVICE | SONG, ZHENG B | 2875 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19475589 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TRANSPORT MEANS | CHIANG, MICHAEL | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19273057 | TRAFFIC SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLES | WANG, JINGLI | 3666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19266133 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING TENSIONING FORCES IN AN ELECTROMECHANICAL WHEEL BRAKE | HUYNH, HAI H | 3747 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19218248 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A VEHICLE IN A TRAFFIC AREA | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2025 |
| 19193372 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COOPERATION IN THE COORDINATION OF DRIVING MANEUVERS | KIM, ANDREW SANG | 3668 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19191334 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING VEHICLE DIAGNOSTICS | SMITH, ISAAC G | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19183023 | BRAKE CONTROL UNIT HAVING REDUNDANT POWER SUPPLY | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 3663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19121208 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING THE VALUE OF A VOLTAGE DROP ACROSS A POWER CELL OF A SENSOR OF A TYRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM, AND SENSOR FOR A TYRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | WU, ZHEN Y | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19176368 | METHOD OF MONITORING A TRAFFIC AREA WITH A TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM AND TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM | SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 3668 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19107139 | METHOD FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF DATA, AND BUS NODE | SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B | 2181 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19058872 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS RANGING WITH A VEHICLE | RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE | 3666 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19048071 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE HYDRAULIC VALVE | JEN, MINGJEN | 3657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19035053 | IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 2661 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18993532 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PISTON PUMP IN BRAKE SYSTEMS WITHOUT SUCTION THROTTLING | HSIAO, JAMES K | 3616 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2025 |
| 18881286 | NETWORK FAULT RECOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BOUTAH, ALINA A | 2458 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2025 |
| 18877460 | HEAT DISSIPATION DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 2841 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18876029 | ANTENNA MODULE AND MOTOR VEHICLE | LOTTER, DAVID E | 2845 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18980012 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE FORCE OF AN ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE, AND ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE | KING, BRADLEY T | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18871151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATION FOR SWARM MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION | WONG, YUEN H | 3667 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18866791 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES, HAVING AN ACTUATOR | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18946326 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR ACTUATING A LARGE-AREA CAPACITIVE LOAD THAT IS TO BE OPERATED WITH AN AC VOLTAGE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT | NGUYEN, LONG T | 2842 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18864716 | METHOD, CONTROL UNIT AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE TREAD DEPTH OF A TIRE | LAGUARDA, GONZALO | 2855 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18861380 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEANS OF TRANSPORT | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18860702 | A METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, USER EQUIPMENT AND BASE-STATION | SANDHU, NEVENA ZECEVIC | 2474 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18860827 | HANDLING SMALL DATA TRANSMISSION | VU, QUOC THAI NGOC | 2642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18860490 | METHOD FOR SENDING VEHICLE-TO-X-MESSAGES, METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSSIBLE COLLISION, AND VEHICLE-TO-X-COMMUNICATIONS MODULE | WANG, JACK K | 2686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18860362 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT, BRAKE ASSEMBLY AND BRAKE SYSTEM | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18860013 | SYSTEM, METHODS, USER EQUIPMENT AND BASE STATIONS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN A NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK | NGUYEN, THUONG | 2416 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18859841 | DISPLAY DEVICE | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 2871 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18925612 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ON A DISPLAY OF A VEHICLE | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18858630 | Re-transmission of a transmitted concatenation packet by a sending device, especially a base station device or a terminal device of a telecommunication network | RAIMONDO, TRACY LAUREN | 2474 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18911294 | BRAKE ACTUATING DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM, HAVING AN ADAPTER UNIT | BURCH, MELODY M | 3616 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18854730 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING APERIODIC DOWNLINK SMALL DATA TRANSMISSIONS TO COMMUNICATION DEVICES CONFIGURED FOR SCHEDULED INACTIVATION OF A RECEIVER | CAI, WAYNE HUU | 2644 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18854711 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATING STATES OF A FIRST COMMUNICATION INTERFACE THROUGH MEDIATION VIA A SECOND COMMUNICATION INTERFACE | REDDIVALAM, SRINIVASA R | 2477 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18854787 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK SMALL DATA TRANSMISSIONS TO COMMUNICATION DEVICES CONFIGURED FOR SCHEDULED INACTIVATION OF A RECEIVER | TRAN, CONGVAN | 2647 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18852063 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR FACILITATING VEHICLE SYSTEM UPDATE, AND A PROCESSING METHOD IN ASSOCIATION THERETO | KAMRUZZAMAN, MD | 2191 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18894834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA IN TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORK, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | KHAN, ATTA | 2449 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18882581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING AN IMAGE OUTSIDE A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 2667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18845883 | BRAKE DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | KRAMER, DEVON C | 3741 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18882510 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING AN IMAGE OUTSIDE A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | NGUYEN, CHAN T H | 2638 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18845173 | MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING-BASED SPECIFIC RELATIVE-SPEED SERVICE | HUSSAIN, TAUQIR | 2446 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18842056 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR COMMUNICATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH QUASI-COLOCATION AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD IN ASSOCIATION THERETO | SLOMS, NICHOLAS | 2476 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18839481 | INTER-DRX ASSISTANCE METHOD FOR OPERATING A USER EQUIPMENT (UE) | LOPATA, ROBERT J | 2471 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18838320 | BRAKE LOAD MEASURING DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRIC MOTOR-VEHICLE-WHEEL BRAKE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND ELECTRIC MOTOR-VEHICLE-WHEEL BRAKE COMPRISING A BRAKE LOAD MEASURING DEVICE | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 3655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18837582 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND ASSEMBLY FOR A BRAKE SYSTEM | ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | 3616 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18832851 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND ELECTROHYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM | KING, BRADLEY T | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18729024 | INDUCTIVE POSITION SENSOR DEVICE AND BRAKE SYSTEM HAVING AN INDUCTIVE POSITION SENSOR DEVICE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18726677 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE | TRAN, THANG DUC | 2686 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18726141 | CONGESTION REDUCING METHOD PERFORMED BY A USER EQUIPMENT IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | SMITH, MARCUS | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialContinental AG has 116 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 69 art units and 107 examiners.
Bradley T King has the most, with 3 of Continental AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
