Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.

Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications

215 pending office actions • 111 art units • 165 examiners • 0 of 215 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 311 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing examiner-level distribution with some art-unit overlap.

HODGE, LAURA NICOLE is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. No single examiner accounts for a substantial portion of the pending activity, so prosecution planning should remain tailored to the individual applications and their assigned units.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

215
Total Pending OAs
149
Non-Final OAs
61
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 52 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

30
Overdue
2
Due this week
14
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 52 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (30)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (14)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (4)

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.

96
Hard (45%)
76
Medium (35%)
42
Easy (20%)
1
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only6 (3%)
§101 + other9 (4%)
§103 only54 (25%)
§102 only10 (5%)
§112 only25 (12%)
Double-patenting only17 (8%)
Double-patenting + other12 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)81 (38%)
No statute on record1 (0%)

Industry Mix

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

25
Life Sciences
12% of docket
54
Information Tech
25% of docket
70
Communications
33% of docket
11
Semiconductors
5% of docket
17
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
38
Business / Other
18% 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.

2,150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
430 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
752 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
18.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 10 46.2% +26.8%
REICHLE, KARIN M 10 18.0% +20.5%
ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 6 74.1% +8.9%
OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 6 77.3% +19.2%
GE, YUZHEN 5 59.6% +19.2%
JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 5 83.7% +15.5%
CHOI, WOO H 3 83.7% -4.4%
KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 3 81.3% +7.3%
GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI 2 61.7% +17.4%
ESCALANTE, OVIDIO 2 76.4% +5.6%

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
19027520 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL USING A PHASE VALUE SMOOTHING JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A —
19027506 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL USING A PHASE VALUE SMOOTHING JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A —
19027496 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL USING A PHASE VALUE SMOOTHING JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A —
19027481 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL USING A PHASE VALUE SMOOTHING JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A —
18793792 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A BANDWIDTH EXTENDED SIGNAL FROM A BANDWIDTH LIMITED AUDIO SIGNAL CHOI, WOO H —
18793791 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A BANDWIDTH EXTENDED SIGNAL FROM A BANDWIDTH LIMITED AUDIO SIGNAL CHOI, WOO H —
18793794 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A BANDWIDTH EXTENDED SIGNAL FROM A BANDWIDTH LIMITED AUDIO SIGNAL CHOI, WOO H —

Hard Cases (106)

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
18405402 INTEGRAL BAND-WISE PARAMETRIC AUDIO CODING ROBERTS, SHAUN A 121d overdue
18447486 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENCODING, DECODING, SCENE PROCESSING AND OTHER PROCEDURES RELATED TO DIRAC BASED SPATIAL AUDIO CODING USING DIRECT COMPONENT COMPENSATION KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 104d overdue
18374993 MEMS SOUND TRANSDUCER MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M 87d overdue
18156705 REDUCED SENSING FOR REDUCED CAPABILITY UES LU, XUAN 85d overdue
18026101 METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GENOME EDITED PLANTS MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN 71d overdue
17669173 EFFICIENT MULTICAST PHAM, TITO Q 70d overdue
18405794 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND USER DEVICE PANCHOLI, RINA C 53d overdue
18505380 SIDELINK INTER-UE COORDINATION PROCEDURES CHOI, WON JUN 51d overdue

Interview Candidates (38)

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
18609374 ENHANCED METHOD FOR SIGNAL SHAPING IN MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO RECONSTRUCTION REICHLE, KARIN M 9d
19266081 AUDIO OR VIDEO ENCODER, AUDIO OR VIDEO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNALS USING A VARIABLE PREDICTION DIRECTION GE, YUZHEN —
19266086 AUDIO OR VIDEO ENCODER, AUDIO OR VIDEO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNALS USING A VARIABLE PREDICTION DIRECTION GE, YUZHEN —
19030913 AUDIO OR VIDEO ENCODER, AUDIO OR VIDEO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNALS USING A VARIABLE PREDICTION DIRECTION GE, YUZHEN —
19192511 VIDEO CODEC ALLOWING SUB-PICTURE OR REGION WISE RANDOM ACCESS AND CONCEPT FOR VIDEO COMPOSITION USING THE SAME GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI —
19032059 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH —
19032060 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH —
19032061 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3992 35
2695 9
2659 9
2653 7
2477 5
2657 5
2691 4
2694 4
2655 4
2693 4

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19382951 INACTIVITY PROCEDURES FOR INTERMEDIATE NODES CONNECTING A RADIO TAG TO A READER DEVICE JIANG, YONG HANG 2689 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2025
19376163 CONCEPT FOR TRUSTWORTHINESS CHECK OF VIDEO DATA STREAMS PLECHA, THADDEUS J 2438 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Oct 31, 2025
19323715 APPARATUSES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A SEQUENCE OF INTEGER VALUES, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A SEQUENCE OF INTEGER VALUES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THESE METHODS JEANGLAUDE, JEAN BRUNER 2845 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 09, 2025
19303889 Neural Network Representation Formats SMITH, BRIAN M 2122 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 19, 2025
19278573 CONTROL MESSAGE RECEPTION AT A RECEIVER WOOD, WILLIAM H 3992 §102§112Other Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2025
19266081 AUDIO OR VIDEO ENCODER, AUDIO OR VIDEO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNALS USING A VARIABLE PREDICTION DIRECTION GE, YUZHEN 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2025
19266086 AUDIO OR VIDEO ENCODER, AUDIO OR VIDEO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNALS USING A VARIABLE PREDICTION DIRECTION GE, YUZHEN 3992 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2025
19260271 TRUSTWORTHINESS OF A VIDEO DATA STREAM DUFFIELD, JEREMY S 2498 §112 Final Rejection 61d Pending Jul 03, 2025
19030913 AUDIO OR VIDEO ENCODER, AUDIO OR VIDEO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNALS USING A VARIABLE PREDICTION DIRECTION GE, YUZHEN 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 27, 2025
19192511 VIDEO CODEC ALLOWING SUB-PICTURE OR REGION WISE RANDOM ACCESS AND CONCEPT FOR VIDEO COMPOSITION USING THE SAME GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI 2485 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 29, 2025
19032059 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 19, 2025
19032060 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 19, 2025
19032061 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 19, 2025
19032023 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2025
19032017 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2025
19032028 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112DPOther Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2025
19032052 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2025
19032034 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112DPOther Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2025
19032040 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2025
19027520 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL USING A PHASE VALUE SMOOTHING JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 2695 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19027506 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL USING A PHASE VALUE SMOOTHING JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 2695 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19027496 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL USING A PHASE VALUE SMOOTHING JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 2695 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19027481 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL USING A PHASE VALUE SMOOTHING JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 2695 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19030975 AUDIO OR VIDEO ENCODER, AUDIO OR VIDEO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNALS USING A VARIABLE PREDICTION DIRECTION GE, YUZHEN 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19030770 UPMIXER, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL ESCALANTE, OVIDIO 3992 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19031172 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AND AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OPTIMIZED HASH TABLE DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19031013 AUDIO OR VIDEO ENCODER, AUDIO OR VIDEO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNALS USING A VARIABLE PREDICTION DIRECTION GE, YUZHEN 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19018293 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A VIDEO USING IN-LOOP FILTERING BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M 2487 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jan 13, 2025
19002077 Decoder for Decoding an Encoded Audio Signal and Encoder for Encoding an Audio Signal ZHU, QIN 2691 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 26, 2024
18984262 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING A HARMONIC POST-FILTER AZAD, ABUL K 2656 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 17, 2024
18956633 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 2659 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18956655 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 2659 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18956689 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 2659 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18956747 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 2659 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18956606 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 2659 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18956709 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 2659 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18927147 Preemptive Handover Preparation and Tracking/Paging Area Handling and Intelligent Route Selection in a Cellular Network AHMED, ABDULLAHI 2475 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18926823 CONCEPTS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA TO ONE OR MORE USERS THOMPSON, JR, OTIS L 2477 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18927029 SL UNLICENSED FRAME STRUCTURE CHANG, YU-WEN 2413 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18926883 RESAMPLING OUTPUT SIGNALS OF QMF BASED AUDIO CODEC PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18887358 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND METHOD FOR DECODING AN ENCODED AUDIO SIGNAL OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 2653 §101Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 17, 2024
18810370 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A DETECTION OF A GROUP OF PREVIOUSLY-DECODED SPECTRAL VALUES OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 2653 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18810383 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A DETECTION OF A GROUP OF PREVIOUSLY-DECODED SPECTRAL VALUES OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 2653 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18810318 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A DETECTION OF A GROUP OF PREVIOUSLY-DECODED SPECTRAL VALUES OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 2653 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18810401 AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A DETECTION OF A GROUP OF PREVIOUSLY-DECODED SPECTRAL VALUES OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 2653 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18777949 PACKET LOSS CONCEALMENT FOR DIRAC BASED SPATIAL AUDIO CODING FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH 2692 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 19, 2024
18777173 METHOD AND MEASUREMENT ENVIRONMENT, APPARATUS TO BE TESTED AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O 2649 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 18, 2024
18630171 AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING WITH SYNTAX PORTIONS USING FORWARD ALIASING CANCELLATION RALIS, STEPHEN J 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2024
18630252 AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING WITH SYNTAX PORTIONS USING FORWARD ALIASING CANCELLATION RALIS, STEPHEN J 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2024
18609598 ENHANCED METHOD FOR SIGNAL SHAPING IN MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO RECONSTRUCTION REICHLE, KARIN M 3992 §112DPOther Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 19, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. have?

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. has 215 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 111 art units and 165 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. applications?

Rachna Singh Desai has the most, with 10 of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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