Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Denso Ten Limited

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

1
Hard (14%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§103 only4 (57%)
§102 only2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
2
Communications
29% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BRINEY III, WALTER F 1 65.4% +5.2%
TAN, OLIVER E 1 75.2% +9.0%
TILAHUN, ALAZAR 1 71.2% +14.3%
FERNSTROM, KURT 1 65.9% +14.9%
AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B 1 76.2% +14.0%
TRAN, THAI H 1 71.9% +25.7%
TERRELL, EMILY C 1 58.8% +35.7%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18693240 EMOTION ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF GENERATING EMOTION ESTIMATION MODEL FERNSTROM, KURT 28d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18394353 POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE TRAN, THAI H 30d overdue
18693240 EMOTION ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF GENERATING EMOTION ESTIMATION MODEL FERNSTROM, KURT 28d overdue
18122929 ONBOARD CAMERA CALIBRATION APPARATUS TERRELL, EMILY C 7d
18606449 CENTER DEVICE, ON-VEHICLE DEVICE, AND SAFETY CONFIRMATION SYSTEM AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B 16d
18615018 RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT AND IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION DEVICE TILAHUN, ALAZAR 69d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2692 1
3669 1
2424 1
3715 1
2488 1
2836 1
2666 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18821230 SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS BRINEY III, WALTER F 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18624422 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM TAN, OLIVER E 3669 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Apr 02, 2024
18615018 RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT AND IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION DEVICE TILAHUN, ALAZAR 2424 §102 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18693240 EMOTION ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF GENERATING EMOTION ESTIMATION MODEL FERNSTROM, KURT 3715 §101 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Mar 19, 2024
18606449 CENTER DEVICE, ON-VEHICLE DEVICE, AND SAFETY CONFIRMATION SYSTEM AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B 2488 §102 Final Rejection 16d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18394353 POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE TRAN, THAI H 2836 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18122929 ONBOARD CAMERA CALIBRATION APPARATUS TERRELL, EMILY C 2666 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Mar 17, 2023

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