Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Fca US LLC

80 pending office actions • 46 art units • 74 examiners • 1 of 80 (1%) have an AI response strategy ready • 261 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

80
Total Pending OAs
36
Non-Final OAs
39
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
1
Due this week
9
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (2)

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.

37
Hard (46%)
36
Medium (45%)
6
Easy (8%)
1
Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§101 + other7 (9%)
§103 only31 (39%)
§102 only4 (5%)
§112 only5 (6%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)29 (36%)
No statute on record1 (1%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
11% of docket
4
Information Tech
5% of docket
6
Communications
8% of docket
7
Semiconductors
9% of docket
50
Mechanical / Eng
62% of docket
4
Business / Other
5% 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.

800 h
Manual time on pending OAs
160 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
280 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
7.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE 3 66.7% +31.2%
BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A 2 85.1% +3.4%
STEFANON, JUSTIN 2 50.8% +48.3%
FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD 2 79.0% +2.9%
LIANG, JACKIE 2
BOGUE, JESSE SAMUEL 1 79.2% +20.6%
KECK, DANIEL M 1 81.5% +19.6%
BROWN, DREW J 1 89.6% +5.7%
ELNAKIB, AHMED 1 78.8% +8.6%
BROWN, VERNAL U 1 69.6% +13.8%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18981873 SNUBBER BRACKET KECK, DANIEL M
18981986 REAR RAIL HITCH INTERFACE FOR A VEHICLE BROWN, DREW J
18884240 WATER CHANNEL ASSEMBLY FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A

Hard Cases (37)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18495992 TWO SPEED GEAR REDUCER FOR ELECTRIC DRIVE MODULE PERVIN, FARHANA 175d overdue
18619567 VEHICLE DISPLAY SYSTEM MILLER, JOHN W 140d overdue
18652386 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ENABLE CLOUD INTERACTIONS THAT ACTUATE VEHICLE ACTIONS UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL 17d overdue
18442345 TAILGATE HINGE ASSEMBLY CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS 4d overdue
18544497 VEHICLE CENTER CONSOLE PASS THROUGH SYSTEM FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD 7d
18782543 COOLANT MONITORING SYSTEM THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH 8d
18635424 DRIVER RATING AND INTERFACE SYSTEM HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P 19d
18758406 DYNAMIC LIGHT FOR A DRIVING SIMULATOR FRENCH, CORRELL T 21d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
19174052 DUAL-ACTING VALVE ENABLED CATALYST BYPASS BOGUE, JESSE SAMUEL 12d
18981873 SNUBBER BRACKET KECK, DANIEL M
18976890 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO LOCATE A VEHICLE ACCESS DEVICE BROWN, VERNAL U
18426424 ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH COOLED ROTOR BARS STEFANON, JUSTIN
18524226 TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMALLY DISTRIBUTING A POWER DISSIPATION TARGET BETWEEN COMPONENTS OF AN ELECTRIFIED POWERTRAIN HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE
18524179 ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE POWER DISSIPATION MODE ENABLE STRATEGY HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE
18524204 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING A POWER DISSIPATION MODE OF AN ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE
18458361 GENERATOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR ATTACHING GENERATOR ASSEMBLY TO AN ENGINE STEFANON, JUSTIN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3612 6
3655 4
3664 4
2834 3
3663 3
3613 3
3662 3
3676 3
3614 2
2686 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19174052 DUAL-ACTING VALVE ENABLED CATALYST BYPASS BOGUE, JESSE SAMUEL 3746 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 09, 2025
18981873 SNUBBER BRACKET KECK, DANIEL M 3614 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18981986 REAR RAIL HITCH INTERFACE FOR A VEHICLE BROWN, DREW J 3617 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18981998 THERMAL MANAGEMENT FOR ROTOR COOLING IN ELECTRIC MACHINE ELNAKIB, AHMED 2834 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18976890 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO LOCATE A VEHICLE ACCESS DEVICE BROWN, VERNAL U 2686 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 11, 2024
18976680 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC CREEP ON ELECTRIFIED VEHICLES TISSOT, ADAM D 3663 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 11, 2024
18976901 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO LOCATE A VEHICLE ACCESS DEVICE USING A SECOND VEHICLE ACCESS DEVICE WANG, JACK K 2686 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 11, 2024
18973217 SEAT HEAD RESTRAINT TILTING MECHANISM FOR FORE-AFT MOVEMENT NGUYEN, CHI Q 3635 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2024
18958840 SLIDING SNAP MECHANISM IN SEAT BACK PASS-THROUGH PLASTIC TO AVOID WHIPLASH INJURY BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL 3636 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 25, 2024
18932931 OVERMODULATION USING RECTANGULAR CARRIER-BASED PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION IN ELECTRIFIED VEHICLES MASIH, KAREN 2837 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18929921 AUTOMATED BATTERY ISOLATION TESTING SYSTEM WITH DUAL-CHANNEL MULTIMETER INTEGRATION FOR ELECTRIFIED VEHICLES MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G 2858 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 29, 2024
18926567 ELECTRIC DRIVE MODULE INTERMEDIATE BRACKET FOR AN ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS 3613 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2024
18925159 VACUUM INSULATED GLASS PANELS FOR AN AUTOMOBILE NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L 1788 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2024
18910284 Y-CURTAIN FOR IMPROVED AERODYNAMIC AND BRAKING COOLING PERFORMANCE MORROW, JASON S 3612 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2024
18910106 IN-VEHICLE CONSOLE WITH VOICE-RESPONSIBLE CONTROL GILBERTSON, SHAYNE M 3665 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 09, 2024
18910683 VEHICLE CAMERA-BASED AMBIENT LIGHT DETECTION YENKE, BRIAN P 2422 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2024
18910314 VEHICLE HAVING HVAC MODULE INCLUDING AN AIR GUIDE WITH INTEGRATED DUCTS WU, LORI SOUTHARD 3655 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2024
18908973 EMBEDDED SYSTEM BUILD TOOL AND PLATFORM TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B 3687 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 08, 2024
18894304 VEHICLE POSITIONING SYSTEMS AND METHODS HUTCHINSON, ALAN D 3669 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 24, 2024
18886072 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING A RETRACTION LOAD FOR A WINCH HOOK RETENSION SYSTEM RANDAZZO, THOMAS 3655 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 16, 2024
18886297 THERMAL PROTECTIVE BUSHING PANG, ROGER L 3655 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 16, 2024
18884240 WATER CHANNEL ASSEMBLY FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A 3612 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18818878 VEHICLE OBJECT AND TRAFFIC SIGNAL DETECTION SYSTEM BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O 2685 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 29, 2024
18812307 PERSON TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BARAKAT, MOHAMED 2689 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2024
18782645 TECHNIQUES FOR ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE RANGE PREDICTION BASED ON PATTERN RECOGNITION LAGUARDA, GONZALO 3747 §101§102Other Final Rejection Pending Jul 24, 2024
18782543 COOLANT MONITORING SYSTEM THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH 3665 §103§112 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jul 24, 2024
18781111 VEHICLE FRONT TRUNK DOOR WITH A CLOSING VELOCITY IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM FREEDMAN, LAURA 3614 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 23, 2024
18758406 DYNAMIC LIGHT FOR A DRIVING SIMULATOR FRENCH, CORRELL T 3715 §102§103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18755804 LONG DISTANCE VEHICLE-RATED EVENT RECOGNIZATION AND ALERT GENERATION TECHNIQUES LINHARDT, LAURA E 3663 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 27, 2024
18750191 ANGLED BED CAP FOR TRUCK BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A 3612 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 21, 2024
18652386 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ENABLE CLOUD INTERACTIONS THAT ACTUATE VEHICLE ACTIONS UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL 3662 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 01, 2024
18635424 DRIVER RATING AND INTERFACE SYSTEM HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P 3628 §101§103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Apr 15, 2024
18635358 TECHNIQUES FOR REAL-TIME ENERGY CONSUMPTION OPTIMIZATION IN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES NGUYEN, TAN QUANG 3613 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 15, 2024
18619319 VEHICLE HAVING AN ACTIVE LENGTH AND ANGLE REAR DIFFUSER THOMAS, JASMINE JAMES 3612 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2024
18619567 VEHICLE DISPLAY SYSTEM MILLER, JOHN W 2422 §103§112 Non-Final OA 140d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18619533 CONNECTED VEHICLE FACTOR AUTHENTICATION RORIE, ALYSSA N 3662 §101§103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18616344 HINGE REINFORMENT FOR DOOR GUTMAN, HILARY L 3612 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 26, 2024
18589557 CROSS-PLATFORM ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT RESOURCE MONITOR AND BENCHMARK SUITE FOR VEHICLE HARDWARE ENGINEERING RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A §101 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 2024
18588082 SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVE ROUTING OF A HEATED LIQUID TO AN AIR INTAKE DUCT JOHNS, HILARY LYNN 3613 Final Rejection 39d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18443937 HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT KNUDSON, ELLE ROSE 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18442345 TAILGATE HINGE ASSEMBLY CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS 3676 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18441139 PLENUM SKIRTING FOR POWERED DOWNFORCE ALCORN III, GEORGE A 3662 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18441037 COOPERATIVE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLES DYER, ANDREW R 2663 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18441079 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE USING A DUCT PURGE STRATEGY MALLON, BRETT PETERSON 3762 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2024
18428189 STABILIZATION FACTORS AND APPROACHES IN REAL-TIME VEHICLE POWERTRAIN MODE OPTIMIZATION GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS 3668 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18426424 ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH COOLED ROTOR BARS STEFANON, JUSTIN 2834 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2024
18544497 VEHICLE CENTER CONSOLE PASS THROUGH SYSTEM FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD 3676 §102§112 Final Rejection 7d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18532156 CLIMATE-BASED WINDSHIELD WIPER CONTROL PARIHAR, PRADHUMAN 1714 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 07, 2023
18524226 TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMALLY DISTRIBUTING A POWER DISSIPATION TARGET BETWEEN COMPONENTS OF AN ELECTRIFIED POWERTRAIN HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE 3664 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2023
18524179 ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE POWER DISSIPATION MODE ENABLE STRATEGY HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE 3664 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2023
18524204 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING A POWER DISSIPATION MODE OF AN ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE 3664 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2023
18524315 SIDE CRASH BEAM FOR DOOR LYNCH, CARLY W 3643 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18522370 LITHIUM IRON PHOSPHATE BATTERY CELL END-OF-LINE QUALITY CONTROL PROCESSING SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 2857 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending Nov 29, 2023
18512577 DEPLOYABLE CART AND ORGANIZER FOR A LOAD FLOOR OF A VEHICLE FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD 3676 §102§103 Final Rejection AI Ready Nov 17, 2023
18495992 TWO SPEED GEAR REDUCER FOR ELECTRIC DRIVE MODULE PERVIN, FARHANA 3655 §102§103 Non-Final OA 175d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18494096 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A FRONT TRUNK OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE COLILLA, DANIEL JAMES 3612 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2023
18491211 VARIABLE POSITION WINDBREAK FOR SUNROOF EQUIPPED VEHICLES SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS 3663 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2023
18485366 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING ONBOARD CHARGER ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 12, 2023
18484719 METHOD FOR DESIGNING ACCELERATED BATTERY AGING TESTING PROTOCOL FROM BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE USAGE DATA COBB, MATTHEW 3661 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2023
18479355 TECHNIQUES FOR INTEGRATING AND MANAGING FUEL CELL SYSTEMS IN FUEL CELL BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES JOHNSON, SONJI N §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2023
18459477 RETRIEVING LOST ITEMS IN THE VEHICLE AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18459483 REGENERATIVE BRAKING CONTROL FOR IMPROVED DRIVABILITY ON ELECTRIFIED PROPULSION SYSTEMS TESTARDI, DAVID A 3664 §112 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2023
18458361 GENERATOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR ATTACHING GENERATOR ASSEMBLY TO AN ENGINE STEFANON, JUSTIN 2834 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 30, 2023
18455825 HIGH DENSITY COOLING JACKET SHRIVER II, JAMES A 1721 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 25, 2023
18455771 FUEL CELL ELECTRIC VEHICLE HAVING RANGE EXTENSION ARCHITECTURE KRONE, TAYLOR HARRISON 1725 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 25, 2023
18454937 METHOD OF LONGITUDINAL ACCELEROMETER RATIONALIZATION WITH A WHEEL SPEED SENSOR COONS, LOGAN DOUGLAS 2857 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 24, 2023
18453349 OFF-ROAD CAPABLE TRAILER KNUTSON, JACOB D 3611 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 22, 2023
18452034 HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING FAULTY BATTERY MODULE LIANG, JACKIE 1726 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 18, 2023
18452013 HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY AUXILIARY EXHAUST SYSTEM LIANG, JACKIE 1726 DP Final Rejection Pending Aug 18, 2023
18351743 ELECTRIC VEHICLE EXHAUST SYSTEM LEE, DANIEL H. 1746 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 13, 2023
18340333 INTERNAL FUSE FOR BATTERY CELL KHANAL, ARTI 1746 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jun 23, 2023
18326525 ADAPTIVE HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY COOLING GAYE, SAMBA NMN 3763 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 31, 2023
18326712 SECURE WIRELESS OVER-THE-AIR DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN MULTIPLE VEHICLE ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNITS SMITH, CHENECA 2192 §112 Final Rejection Pending May 31, 2023
18309292 CRITICAL PLANE BASED MULTI-AXIAL FATIGUE METHOD IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 28, 2023
18306319 VEHICLE WHEEL WELL COMPONENT WITH HEATER PAIK, SANG YEOP 3761 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2023
18192924 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EN ROUTE PROACTIVE THERMAL CONDITIONING OF ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE BATTERIES TO REDUCE CHARGING AND STOPPAGE TIME PALMARCHUK, BRIAN KEITH 3669 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Mar 30, 2023
18192365 SECONDARY CONTROLLER COMMUNICATION/FUNCTION MANAGEMENT ON MULTI-CAN BUSES IN FUEL CELL ELECTRIFIED VEHICLES CHIN, JAMES BRIAN 3656 §102§103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Mar 29, 2023
18186578 EXTERNAL BATTERY HOUSING HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM FOR BATTERY MODULES OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHANDLER, KAITY V 1725 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 20, 2023
18186345 SECURE AND EFFICIENT ENROLLMENT OF VEHICLE-TO-EVERYTHING COMMUNICATION MIAN, MOHAMMAD YOU A 2457 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 20, 2023
18181864 VEHICLE UNDERWATER DETECTION SYSTEM MERCADO, RAMON A 3658 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2023

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