Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH

55 pending office actions • 44 art units • 54 examiners • 0 of 55 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 94 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

55
Total Pending OAs
37
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 54 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

29
Overdue
1
Due this week
14
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 54 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (29)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (14)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (3)

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.

3
Hard (5%)
47
Medium (85%)
4
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (5%)
§103 only44 (80%)
§102 only3 (5%)
§112 only4 (7%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
13
Information Tech
24% of docket
8
Communications
15% of docket
12
Semiconductors
22% of docket
22
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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.

550 h
Manual time on pending OAs
110 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
192 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, VI N 2 46.5% +35.3%
MAI, THIEN T 1 58.9% +20.8%
ANWAH, OLISA 1 89.3% +4.4%
KRYUKOVA, ERIN 1 64.1% +28.9%
NGUYEN, LONG T 1 89.2% +8.2%
WANG, JACK K 1 61.4% +12.6%
MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER 1 57.9% +12.2%
ALAM, MIRZA F 1 74.1% +34.0%
KHAN, ATTA 1 83.7% +25.3%
HUSSAIN, TAUQIR 1 84.4% +26.0%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
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 51d overdue
18845173 MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING-BASED SPECIFIC RELATIVE-SPEED SERVICE HUSSAIN, TAUQIR 49d overdue
18894834 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA IN TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORK, DEVICE AND MEDIUM KHAN, ATTA 21d
19103369 METHOD FOR DETECTING ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK ANWAH, OLISA 41d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18291032 METHOD OF JOINT USER ACTIVITY DETECTION AND CHANNEL INFORMATION ESTIMATION IN EXTRA-LARGE MIMO (XL-MIMO) SYSTEMS WITH NON-STATIONARITIES WANG, HANNAH S 67d overdue
18255508 METHOD FOR DETERMINING COMPONENTS OF A SENSOR NETWORK WITHIN AN IN-VEHICLE ETHERNET NETWORK IN A MOTOR VEHICLE CHRISS, ANDREW W 42d overdue
18833525 METHOD FOR OPERATING A BRAKE SYSTEM ASSEMBLY, AND BRAKE SYSTEM ASSEMBLY HUYNH, HAI H 39d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18925612 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ON A DISPLAY OF A VEHICLE MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER 60d overdue
18845173 MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING-BASED SPECIFIC RELATIVE-SPEED SERVICE HUSSAIN, TAUQIR 49d 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
18561977 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING OPTIMIZED SYSTEM PARAMETERS OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM USING A COST FUNCTION TRAN, VI N 3d overdue
18894834 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA IN TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORK, DEVICE AND MEDIUM KHAN, ATTA 21d
18905323 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN AN ELECTRONIC MODULE AND A REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE ALAM, MIRZA F 23d
19267859 LIGHT GUIDE FOR A BACKLIGHT, BACKLIGHT AND DISPLAY DEVICE MAI, THIEN T 28d
19040354 DISPLAY DEVICE WITH BACKLIGHT UNIT KRYUKOVA, ERIN 53d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3747 3
2875 2
2686 2
2446 2
3666 2
2117 2
3667 2
3616 2
2872 2
3663 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19267859 LIGHT GUIDE FOR A BACKLIGHT, BACKLIGHT AND DISPLAY DEVICE MAI, THIEN T 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 14, 2025
19103369 METHOD FOR DETECTING ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK ANWAH, OLISA 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Feb 12, 2025
19040354 DISPLAY DEVICE WITH BACKLIGHT UNIT KRYUKOVA, ERIN 2875 §112 Final Rejection 53d Pending Jan 29, 2025
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
18860490 METHOD FOR SENDING VEHICLE-TO-X-MESSAGES, METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSSIBLE COLLISION, AND VEHICLE-TO-X-COMMUNICATIONS MODULE WANG, JACK K 2686 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2024
18925612 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ON A DISPLAY OF A VEHICLE MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2024
18905323 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN AN ELECTRONIC MODULE AND A REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE ALAM, MIRZA F 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Oct 03, 2024
18894834 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA IN TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORK, DEVICE AND MEDIUM KHAN, ATTA 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Sep 24, 2024
18845173 MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING-BASED SPECIFIC RELATIVE-SPEED SERVICE HUSSAIN, TAUQIR 2446 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2024
18833525 METHOD FOR OPERATING A BRAKE SYSTEM ASSEMBLY, AND BRAKE SYSTEM ASSEMBLY HUYNH, HAI H 3747 §101 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Jul 26, 2024
18726677 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE TRAN, THANG DUC 2686 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18722915 METHOD FOR CHECKING THE SWITCH-OFF CAPABILITY OF A MOSFET BELLIDO, NICOLAS G 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18717551 METHOD FOR DRIVING A POWER SUPPLY INVERTER OF A MOTOR COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO WINDINGS UPON A SHORT-CIRCUIT TYPE FAILURE LUO, DAVID S 2846 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18713124 SYSTEM AND APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR ADJUSTMENT OF ONE OR MORE SEATS, AND A PROCESSING METHOD IN ASSOCIATION THERETO SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM 3668 §103 Non-Final OA 110d overdue Pending May 23, 2024
18711786 METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE CHOI, JISUN 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18701520 APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND/OR COOLING FLUID, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 162d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2024
18699275 METHOD FOR STARTING UP PROGRAM PACKETS IN VEHICLES RAMPURIA, SATISH 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 06, 2024
18693687 METHOD OF VERIFICATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N 2441 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2024
18691414 PNEUMATIC APPARATUS FOR A SENSOR APPARATUS OF A VEHICLE CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18688497 HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH REDUCED OBSTRUCTION LIANG, DONG HUI 2629 §103 Final Rejection 43d Pending Mar 01, 2024
18688140 FASTENING ARRANGEMENT FOR FASTENING A DEVICE HOUSING OF A DEVICE TO A VEHICLE PANEL OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND MOTOR VEHICLE AND DEVICE CRAWFORD, JASON 2844 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18686218 ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH A CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY NGO, STEVEN 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18682887 CIRCUIT APPARATUS FOR LOCATING AT LEAST ONE DEVICE UNIT IN A PARTICULAR LOCATING SESSION, METHOD AND VEHICLE LIU, HARRY K 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2024
18292371 METHOD FOR UE-TO-UE RELAYING RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SANTOS, FRANCESCA LIMA 2468 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18291032 METHOD OF JOINT USER ACTIVITY DETECTION AND CHANNEL INFORMATION ESTIMATION IN EXTRA-LARGE MIMO (XL-MIMO) SYSTEMS WITH NON-STATIONARITIES WANG, HANNAH S 2631 §101 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18290731 METHOD FOR FORWARDING SYNCHRONIZATION INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND VEHICLE SCIACCA, SCOTT M 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2024
18570308 METHOD FOR TRIGGERING OCCUPANT PROTECTION DEVICES IN A MOTOR VEHICLE LAGUARDA, GONZALO 3747 Other Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18562290 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING OPTIMIZED SYSTEM PARAMETERS OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM BY MEANS OF A COST FUNCTION TRAN, VI N 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Nov 18, 2023
18561977 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING OPTIMIZED SYSTEM PARAMETERS OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM USING A COST FUNCTION TRAN, VI N 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2023
18560589 METHOD AND A RELAY UE (USER EQUIPMENT) FOR SERVICE RELAYING VOLTAIRE, JEAN F 2417 §103 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18290170 METHOD FOR RELAY SELECTION BASED ON COMPOSITE MULTI-INTERFACE LOAD METRIC LING, CHHIAN 2446 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18556795 METHOD FOR CREATING A MAP WITH COLLISION PROBABILITIES ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 177d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18284254 A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A LEVEL OF LUMINANCE OF A DISPLAY GYAWALI, BIPIN 2625 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18279968 ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT FOR AN ELECTRONIC VEHICLE KEY SINGH, GURBIR 2845 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 01, 2023
18280110 METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ULTRA WIDE-BAND DEVICE, ULTRA WIDE-BAND DEVICE, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING AN ULTRA WIDE-BAND DEVICE HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 3648 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18235069 METHOD FOR CORRECTING A HEIGHT VALUE, MEASURED USING A HEIGHT SENSOR, OF A MOTOR VEHICLE BY A CORRECTION VALUE LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP 3747 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18224417 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ENTERTAINMENT IN A MOTOR VEHICLE BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH 3666 §102 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2023
18345416 DIGITAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THE SAME FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18257283 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CONTACT POSITION AND ELECTRICALLY ACTUATED MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE LI, CE LI 3661 §112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 13, 2023
18255508 METHOD FOR DETERMINING COMPONENTS OF A SENSOR NETWORK WITHIN AN IN-VEHICLE ETHERNET NETWORK IN A MOTOR VEHICLE CHRISS, ANDREW W 2472 §101 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
18254855 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A BRAKE SYSTEM AND BRAKE SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES MORRIS, DAVID R. 3616 §102 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 27, 2023
18199454 SUBASSEMBLY FOR A MEANS OF TRANSPORT, AND MEANS OF TRANSPORT CONDO, VERONICA MARIE 3612 §102 Non-Final OA 71d Pending May 19, 2023
18037197 APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL IMAGE, COMPRISING AN ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM FOR ANTIREFLECTIVE LAMELLAE EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 16, 2023
18034810 DISPLAY DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE 3667 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending May 01, 2023
18307602 METHOD FOR PREDICTING TRAFFIC PARTICIPANT BEHAVIOR, DRIVING SYSTEM AND VEHICLE UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023
18249256 ELECTRIC DRUM BRAKE MODULE COMPRISING AN INTEGRATED OPERATING BRAKE AND AN INTEGRATED ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE SICONOLFI, ROBERT 3616 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Apr 16, 2023
18249214 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING TRAJECTORIES FOR MANEUVER PLANNING BASED ON A NEURAL NETWORK XIA, XUYANG 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18028849 METHOD FOR DETECTING AN OBJECT TO BE CHARGED AND ASSOCIATED CHARGING DEVICE MURALIDAR, RICHARD V 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 28, 2023
18026767 APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL IMAGE, COMPRISING AN ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM FOR ANTIREFLECTIVE SLATS KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 16, 2023
18042153 METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A YAW RATE SENSOR OF A VEHICLE LI, HELEN 3665 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Feb 17, 2023
18150219 Method for checking a static monitoring system TRAN, DUY ANH 2674 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18008842 ACCESS ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE MCPHERSON, JAMES M 3663 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2022
17937628 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR BUILDING A TRAINING DATASET KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §112 Final Rejection 23d Pending Oct 03, 2022
17905507 BRAKING SYSTEM WITH REDUNDANT PARKING BRAKE ACTUATION FLYNN, ABBY J 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Sep 02, 2022
17904373 FLUID CONTAINER COMPRISING A SHUT-OFF DEVICE COLLINS, DANIEL S. 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2022

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