Technology area: Networking & Security
248 pending office actions • 160 art units • 238 examiners • 0 of 248 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 514 patents granted in the last 365 days
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute has 256 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The docket spans 246 examiners and 162 art units, showing extensive distribution across the examination structure. The relatively close action and examiner counts indicate that many examiner relationships concern a limited number of matters, while the art-unit footprint requires substantial technical organization.
UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. This small cluster can be reviewed together, but it does not replace portfolio-wide controls. Counsel should combine examiner-specific monitoring with art-unit and technology-based ownership to manage the remaining distributed docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 50 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. 50 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 | 11 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 36 (15%) |
| §103 only | 90 (36%) |
| §102 only | 19 (8%) |
| §112 only | 5 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 80 (32%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE | 2 | 80.0% | +9.0% |
| NASSER, JAWAD J | 2 | — | — |
| SHIN, ANDREW | 2 | 75.9% | +16.3% |
| MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | 2 | 77.8% | +17.4% |
| NGUYEN, BAO G | 2 | 73.8% | +4.0% |
| ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 2 | 35.0% | +22.7% |
| BOKHARI, SYED M | 2 | 82.9% | +17.7% |
| ACOSTA, RILEY SULLIVAN | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| YEUNG, MANG HANG | 2 | 87.3% | +12.1% |
| LEE, WILLIAM MICHAEL | 2 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16088464 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INDUCING MOTION PREDICTION INFORMATION | UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE | 37d overdue |
| 18037484 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING MULTICAST TRANSMISSION | YEUNG, MANG HANG | 39d |
| 18906808 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MOVING PICTURE USING ADAPTIVE SCANNING | BOKHARI, SYED M | — |
| 18889711 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING FLEXIBLE TRANSMISSION SLOT IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM | BOKHARI, SYED M | — |
| 18710166 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONFIGURING REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR COVERAGE EXTENSION | YEUNG, MANG HANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18650568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING CYBER THREATS USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING | ABYANEH, ALI S | 112d overdue |
| 18155471 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING FUTURE STATE AND RELIABILITY BASED ON TIME SERIES DATA | KAPOOR, DEVAN | 60d overdue |
| 18960348 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING RELATED TO MEDICAL DATA AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE | 38d overdue |
| 18345495 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING RESPONSES TO DANGEROUS SITUATIONS BASED ON DEGREES OF DANGER | OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | 31d overdue |
| 18166948 | FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD AND APPARATUS | ALI, NAYMUR RAHMAN | 31d overdue |
| 18813215 | METHOD OF COORDINATING PRIORITIES AMONG MULTIPLE AUTONOMOUS DRIVING ROBOTS AND APPARATUS PERFORMING THE SAME | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 30d overdue |
| 18946329 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING SIMILAR INCIDENT INFORMATION ABOUT REPORTED INCIDENT AND OPERATING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MA, LISA | 23d overdue |
| 18498221 | 3D PRINTER OUTPUT POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 23d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18962612 | METHOD OF ENCODING/DECODING A LATENT REPRESENTATION BASED ON HIERARCHICAL QUANTIZATION AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM RECORDING THEREOF | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 5d overdue |
| 18037484 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING MULTICAST TRANSMISSION | YEUNG, MANG HANG | 39d |
| 19030834 | TRAINING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING VIRTUAL REALITY SITE STATE AND REAL-WORLD SITE STATE AND PERFORMING TRACKING OPTIMIZATION BASED ON DYNAMIC OBJECT IMPORTANCE | SHIN, ANDREW | — |
| 19017886 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION POWER IN WLAN SYSTEM | MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | — |
| 18981829 | MULTI-STYLE TRANSFORMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD | SHIN, ANDREW | — |
| 18934230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CELL SELECTION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | — |
| 18906808 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MOVING PICTURE USING ADAPTIVE SCANNING | BOKHARI, SYED M | — |
| 18889711 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING FLEXIBLE TRANSMISSION SLOT IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM | BOKHARI, SYED M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2461 | 6 |
| 2488 | 4 |
| 2474 | 4 |
| 2415 | 4 |
| 2872 | 4 |
| 2481 | 3 |
| 2667 | 3 |
| 2672 | 3 |
| 3663 | 3 |
| 3715 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19364560 | LENS CONTROL DEVICE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SMART VARIABLE-FOCUS LENS AND LENS CONTROL METHOD USING THE SAME | BIBBEE, CHAYCE R | 2624 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19353348 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ENCODING/DECODING BY USING REGION-BASED INTER/INTRA PREDICTION TECHNIQUE | HOLDER, ANNER N | 2484 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19344342 | METHOD OF PREVENTING DRUNK DRIVING AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD | FRISBY, KEITH J | 3614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19339234 | APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING TEMPERATURE IN ANIMAL HOUSING ENVIRONMENT EXPOSED TO ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE | JORDAN, MORGAN T | 3643 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19166448 | METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE | 2481 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19163812 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING MODEL-BASED PREDICTION METHOD, AND BITSTREAM STORAGE MEDIUM | PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 2424 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19312089 | INFRARED SENSOR-BASED NANOMAGNETIC PARTICLE MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE USING EXOTHERMIC REACTION OF PARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE PARTICLES, AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19272894 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | DANG, PHILIP | 2488 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19145883 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19127144 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DIES | LEWIS-TAYLOR, DAYTON A. | 2181 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19198893 | METHOD FOR RESERVATION-BASED SENSING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM PROVIDING THE SAME | ZONG, RUOLEI | 2449 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 18853400 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B | 2488 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19171568 | VARIFOCAL EXTENDED REALITY IMAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMAGE | BOCAR, DONNA V | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19097324 | DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR BIT STREAM SUPPORTING PLURALITY OF LAYERS | PICON-FELICIANO, ANA J | 2482 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19097455 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING INACTIVE STATE OF SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL AND BROADCAST CHANNEL TRANSMISSION | NASSER, JAWAD J | 2461 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19096367 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL MONITORING IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | NASSER, JAWAD J | 2461 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19090861 | BIOSIGNAL DETECTION DEVICE, HYBRID ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTERS AND ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTERSION METHOD FOR BIOSIGNAL | LAUTURE, JOSEPH J | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19090843 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DIAGNOSTIC PATH AND FACILITY DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | PATEL, MANGLESH M | 3665 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19087043 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK (NTN) SUPPORT FUNCTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, JOSHUA L | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19085194 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME DMA AND MMIO THREAT DETECTION OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS | DANG, PHONG H | 2184 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19085533 | DELIVERY ROBOT SERVICE PROVIDER AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF | MARTINEZ, ELIZABETH GALYN | 3668 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19084327 | META-SPACE GENERATION METHOD BASED ON USER SPACE ALIGNMENT IN METAVERSE AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | NGUYEN, PHONG X | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19082404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING FOREIGN OBJECTS USING VARIABLE MONITORING AREA IN WIRELESS CHARGING SYSTEM | YESHAW, ESAYAS G | 2849 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19073849 | MOBILE DEVICE AND SELECTIVE OFFLOADING METHOD OF THE SAME | WALSH, JOHN B | 2451 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19059802 | DEVICE FOR RECOGNIZING MULTI-CHANNEL INPUT VOICE INDEPENDENT ON MICROPHONE ARRAY FORM AND LEARNING METHOD THEREOF | LEE, EUNICE SOMIN | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19057342 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRAINING GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL AND INFERENCE OF GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL | AZAD, ABUL K | 2656 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19055652 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CCTV-INTEGRATED MONITORING | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 2486 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19055174 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL | GAY, SONIA L | 2657 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19050519 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELF-SUPERVISED CONTRASTIVE LEARNING | YANG, QIAN | 2677 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19042490 | METHOD OF MEASURING CARBON EMISSIONS AND SERVICE SERVER THEREOF | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19030834 | TRAINING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING VIRTUAL REALITY SITE STATE AND REAL-WORLD SITE STATE AND PERFORMING TRACKING OPTIMIZATION BASED ON DYNAMIC OBJECT IMPORTANCE | SHIN, ANDREW | 2612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19024484 | METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING MULTI-PLANE STRUCTURE IMAGES AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXECUTING THE ENCODING METHOD | BOYAR, NOAH WILLIAM | 2669 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19019585 | METHOD TO TRANSMIT DOWNLINK SIGNALING MESSAGE ON CELLULAR SYSTEMS FOR PACKET TRANSMISSION AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING THE MESSAGE | SCIACCA, SCOTT M | 2478 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19017886 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION POWER IN WLAN SYSTEM | MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | 2474 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19015478 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RADAR IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION | SHIN, SOO JUNG | 2667 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19013347 | SUB-HARMONIC MIXER MODULE INCLUDING POSITION-ADJUSTABLE GROUND CONDUCTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | TSVEY, GENNADIY | 2842 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18881255 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING | MATT, MARNIE A | 2485 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19002909 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BIT STREAM IS STORED | HILAIRE, CLIFFORD | 2488 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 19001886 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING RELATIVE PHASE | MONSUR, NASIMA | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 19001117 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EXPOSURE SERVICE OF USER PLANE FOR TIME SENSITIVE COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18999274 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING CYBERATTACK SEQUENCE BASED ON REINFORCEMENT LEARNING | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 2493 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18999076 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME FOR ESTIMATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE COORDINATES OF TARGET | HOANG, HAN DINH | 2661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18986903 | MULTI-LAYER DRIVING DEVICE, MOVING ROBOTS FOR GREENHOUSES EQUIPPED WITH THEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18981829 | MULTI-STYLE TRANSFORMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD | SHIN, ANDREW | 2612 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875501 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONSTANT ENVELOPE MULTIPLEXING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | COX, BRIAN P | 2474 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18982444 | PROTECTIVE FILM AND OPTICAL ARTICLE INCLUDING THE SAME | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18979773 | PHOTO-ACOUSTIC SENSOR DEVICE AND PHOTO-ACOUSTIC SENSING METHOD OF THE SAME | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18978270 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL PARALLELIZATION FOR HETEROGENEOUS GPU CLUSTER | SHANKAR, VIJAY | 2624 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18978117 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM THAT LIMITS THE DRIVER'S DRIVING BEHAVIOR AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD USING THE SAME | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 3669 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18975869 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHASE SHIFTER | LE, TUNG X | 2844 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute has 248 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 160 art units and 238 examiners.
Lindsay Jane Kile Uhl has the most, with 2 of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
