Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

41 pending office actions • 34 art units • 41 examiners • 0 of 41 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 144 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

41
Total Pending OAs
26
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 40 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
18
Due this month
10
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 40 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (18)Due ≤ 60 days (10)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
39
Medium (95%)
1
Easy (2%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only37 (90%)
§102 only2 (5%)
§112 only1 (2%)
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
19
Information Tech
46% of docket
8
Communications
20% of docket
8
Semiconductors
20% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
15% 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.

410 h
Manual time on pending OAs
82 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
144 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHOU, HONG 1 77.0% +17.1%
ONYEKABA, AMY 1 84.1% +6.3%
YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW 1 84.8% +27.8%
LUO, DAVID S 1 90.4% +6.5%
IBRAHIM, MOHAMED 1 85.4% +7.5%
PARK, CHONGSUH 1 59.8% +18.2%
ALMO, KHAREEM E 1 87.3% +5.1%
PALIWAL, YOGESH 1 83.8% +10.8%
ZARKA, DAVID PETER 1 82.4% +12.9%
WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 1 84.1% +11.3%

Quick Wins (7)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18666674 MOTOR CONTROL LUO, DAVID S 9d overdue
18588985 EXPLOITING PARASITIC OR COUPLING TO MERGE WLAN CHANNELS OF WI-FI RADAR WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 20d
18593809 FACE IDENTIFICATION USING MULTIMODAL IMAGING DATA ZARKA, DAVID PETER 26d
18775908 SOFT METRIC BASED BIT ERROR CORRECTION WITH CRC CODES YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW 27d
18625499 DELEGATING GROUP OWNERSHIP IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS IBRAHIM, MOHAMED 28d
18604302 CHARGE PUMP/PHASE LOCKED LOOP (PLL) AND METHOD ALMO, KHAREEM E 33d
18594786 DYNAMIC USER ACCESS CONTROL AND CREDENTIAL MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICES PALIWAL, YOGESH 46d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18609629 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR WIRELESS RELAYS PARK, CHONGSUH 12d
19249613 SIGNAL PROCESSING UNIT OF CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSING CHANNEL ZHOU, HONG 13d
18588985 EXPLOITING PARASITIC OR COUPLING TO MERGE WLAN CHANNELS OF WI-FI RADAR WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 20d
18593809 FACE IDENTIFICATION USING MULTIMODAL IMAGING DATA ZARKA, DAVID PETER 26d
18775908 SOFT METRIC BASED BIT ERROR CORRECTION WITH CRC CODES YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW 27d
18594786 DYNAMIC USER ACCESS CONTROL AND CREDENTIAL MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICES PALIWAL, YOGESH 46d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3648 4
2478 2
2838 2
2461 2
2858 2
2629 1
2628 1
2111 1
2846 1
2444 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19249613 SIGNAL PROCESSING UNIT OF CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSING CHANNEL ZHOU, HONG 2629 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jun 25, 2025
19248810 SIGMA-DELTA MODULATOR FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSING CHANNEL ONYEKABA, AMY 2628 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 25, 2025
18775908 SOFT METRIC BASED BIT ERROR CORRECTION WITH CRC CODES YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW 2111 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 17, 2024
18666674 MOTOR CONTROL LUO, DAVID S 2846 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending May 16, 2024
18625499 DELEGATING GROUP OWNERSHIP IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS IBRAHIM, MOHAMED 2444 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 03, 2024
18609629 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR WIRELESS RELAYS PARK, CHONGSUH 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Mar 19, 2024
18604302 CHARGE PUMP/PHASE LOCKED LOOP (PLL) AND METHOD ALMO, KHAREEM E 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18594786 DYNAMIC USER ACCESS CONTROL AND CREDENTIAL MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICES PALIWAL, YOGESH 2435 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Mar 04, 2024
18593809 FACE IDENTIFICATION USING MULTIMODAL IMAGING DATA ZARKA, DAVID PETER 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 01, 2024
18588985 EXPLOITING PARASITIC OR COUPLING TO MERGE WLAN CHANNELS OF WI-FI RADAR WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18429712 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS DEVICES PHAM, TIMOTHY X 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18428356 Source Follower Type Regulator with DAC feedback TRAN, NGUYEN 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18393373 PRECISE PROTECTION OF SHARED MEDIUM BASED ON PAYLOAD LENGTH OF A WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK (WPAN) PACKET KURIAN, ANDREW SHAJI 2464 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18393222 SIGNAL CORRECTION IN RECEIVER NGUYEN, HAI V 2649 §102 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18391392 SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING TIRE FIRMNESS VALUES IN RESPONSE TO USER SELECTION AND/OR OTHER DATA BLOUNT, ERIC 2685 §102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18545878 PREDICTIVE RADIO INTERFERENCE MITIGATION LAFONTANT, GARY 2646 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18543220 COVERING FOR TOUCH SENSOR ELECTRODE JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R 2831 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Dec 18, 2023
18532322 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR RADAR OPERATION IN WIRELESS DEVICES DOZE, PETER DAVON 3648 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18532971 METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR ADDING DEVICES TO A WIRELESS NETWORK WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D 2407 §112 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
18531022 INSERTION OF TRAPS FOR IMPROVED ATTACK DETECTION IN ROUND TRIP TIMING ESTIMATION ACOLATSE, KODZOVI 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2023
18513266 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR LOW-POWER SECURE WAKEUP OPERATIONS FOR WIRELESS DEVICES EBRAHIM, ANEZ C 2467 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 17, 2023
18511863 COMMUNICATING WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK HUANG, WEN WU 2648 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18499953 GENERATING BALANCED DATA SETS FOR SPEECH-BASED DISCRIMINATIVE TASKS SOLAIMAN, FOUZIA HYE 2653 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Nov 01, 2023
18477738 DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING VEHICLE SYSTEMS WHEN APPROACHING A ROAD EVENT, INCLUDING A HAZARD EVENT MUSTAFA, IMRAN K 3668 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18478860 COMMUNICATION AND SENSING SYSTEM LE, HAILEY R 3648 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18477413 TIRE FILLING SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18476744 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR LOW-POWER OPERATION OF WIRELESS DEVICES AHMED, NIZAM U 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18476565 BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SCOTT, RANDY A 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 111d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18465884 DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVATING SECOND WIRELESS DEVICE TO MITIGATE AGGRESSIVE MEDIUM OCCUPIER ANWAR, MOHAMMAD S 2463 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18453005 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR MEDIUM RESERVATION MITIGATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NGUYEN, BAO G 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Aug 21, 2023
18338674 WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN) CARRIER FREQUENCY CORRECTION FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION MASUR, PAUL H 2417 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 21, 2023
18329907 FLUID COMPOSITION SENSOR SULTANA, DILARA 2858 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jun 06, 2023
18320804 Secondary side peak current controlled mode flyback converter LAXTON, GARY L 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 19, 2023
18320022 PROGRAMMABLE SENSOR BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
18178223 BUILDING GENERALIZED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FROM MACHINE LEARNING MODEL EXPLANATIONS BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL 2126 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Mar 03, 2023
18178351 MANAGING DATA DRIFT IN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING INCREMENTAL LEARNING AND EXPLAINABILITY SPRATT, BEAU D 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023
18096444 MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY ROHD, BENJAMIN MATTHEW 2147 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jan 12, 2023
17973939 SEMICONDUCTOR DIE SHIELDING STRUCTURE BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Oct 26, 2022
17955335 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR CHANNEL SCANNING IN WIRELESS DEVICES CHEN, JUNPENG 2645 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Sep 28, 2022
17590728 METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR PREVENTING TRACKING BY USE OF REPLY ATTACKS HERZOG, MADHURI R 2438 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Feb 01, 2022
17134095 PATTERN-BASED NEURAL NETWORK PRUNING GERMICK, JOHNATHAN R 2122 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Dec 24, 2020

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