Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
EDDA Technology Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner coverage with some concentration at the art-unit level.
FANG, MICHAEL YIMING is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a multiple-matter cluster in the current data. Counsel can use a common technical framework across the docket, while adapting claim arguments to the separate examiner and art-unit settings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 1 | 62.1% | +36.7% |
| MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 1 | 55.7% | +22.7% |
| PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 1 | 62.1% | +28.1% |
| MALDONADO, STEVEN | 1 | 26.9% | +42.9% |
| BURKE, TIONNA M | 1 | 53.7% | +20.5% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 47.5% | +25.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR 3D SURFACE MODEL FITTING VIA ROBOT ARM CONTROLLED LASER GRID AND CAMERA | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 113d overdue |
| 18541792 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEQUENCE-AWARE ESTIMATION OF ULTRASOUND PROBE POSE IN LAPAROSCOPIC ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 71d overdue |
| 18528475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A 3D CAMERA POSE BASED ON 2D MASK AND RIDGES AND APPLICATION IN A LAPAROSCOPIC PROCEDURE | BURKE, TIONNA M | 27d |
| 19481799 | Method and System for Estimating Ultrasound Probe Pose in Laparoscopic Ultrasound Procedures | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | — |
| 19040245 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING ROBOT BASE LOCATION FOR MAXIMIZED ROBOT MANIPULABILITY | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR 3D SURFACE MODEL FITTING VIA ROBOT ARM CONTROLLED LASER GRID AND CAMERA | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 113d overdue |
| 18541792 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEQUENCE-AWARE ESTIMATION OF ULTRASOUND PROBE POSE IN LAPAROSCOPIC ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 71d overdue |
| 18172447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMODAL DISPLAY VIA SURGICAL TOOL ASSISTED MODEL FUSION | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 4d overdue |
| 18528475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A 3D CAMERA POSE BASED ON 2D MASK AND RIDGES AND APPLICATION IN A LAPAROSCOPIC PROCEDURE | BURKE, TIONNA M | 27d |
| 19481799 | Method and System for Estimating Ultrasound Probe Pose in Laparoscopic Ultrasound Procedures | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | — |
| 19040245 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING ROBOT BASE LOCATION FOR MAXIMIZED ROBOT MANIPULABILITY | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19481799 | Method and System for Estimating Ultrasound Probe Pose in Laparoscopic Ultrasound Procedures | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19040245 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING ROBOT BASE LOCATION FOR MAXIMIZED ROBOT MANIPULABILITY | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3796 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18999620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR 3D SURFACE MODEL FITTING VIA ROBOT ARM CONTROLLED LASER GRID AND CAMERA | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 3799 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 113d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18541792 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEQUENCE-AWARE ESTIMATION OF ULTRASOUND PROBE POSE IN LAPAROSCOPIC ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18528475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A 3D CAMERA POSE BASED ON 2D MASK AND RIDGES AND APPLICATION IN A LAPAROSCOPIC PROCEDURE | BURKE, TIONNA M | 2178 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18172447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMODAL DISPLAY VIA SURGICAL TOOL ASSISTED MODEL FUSION | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 3797 | DP | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEDDA Technology Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Michael Yiming Fang has the most, with 1 of EDDA Technology Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
