Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Heartflow Inc.

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

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.

7
Hard (88%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other7 (88%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
25% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
4
Business / Other
50% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CLOW, LORI A 6 64.2% +28.5%
PATEL, PINALBEN V 1 89.2% +9.5%
ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 1 60.5% +20.7%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17655746 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING IMAGES TO DETERMINE PLAQUE PROGRESSION AND REGRESSION CLOW, LORI A 10d overdue
18047944 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES AND UPDATING BASED ON SENSOR DATA ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 61d
18342178 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING SENSITIVITY OF BLOOD FLOW CALCULATIONS TO CHANGES IN ANATOMICAL GEOMETRY CLOW, LORI A —
18325341 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO PREDICT LESIONS CLOW, LORI A —
18322214 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO PREDICT LESIONS CLOW, LORI A —
18168870 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT IMAGE PROCESSING TO EVALUATE TISSUE FUNCTION CLOW, LORI A —
17810735 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO MODEL NUTRIENT TRANSPORT CLOW, LORI A —

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17655746 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING IMAGES TO DETERMINE PLAQUE PROGRESSION AND REGRESSION CLOW, LORI A 10d overdue
18047944 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES AND UPDATING BASED ON SENSOR DATA ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 61d
18342178 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING SENSITIVITY OF BLOOD FLOW CALCULATIONS TO CHANGES IN ANATOMICAL GEOMETRY CLOW, LORI A —
18325341 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO PREDICT LESIONS CLOW, LORI A —
18322214 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO PREDICT LESIONS CLOW, LORI A —
18168870 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT IMAGE PROCESSING TO EVALUATE TISSUE FUNCTION CLOW, LORI A —
17810735 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO MODEL NUTRIENT TRANSPORT CLOW, LORI A —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1687 2
2673 1
3791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19003213 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL ACQUISITION PROCESSING AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR ANATOMICAL ASSESSMENT PATEL, PINALBEN V 2673 Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 27, 2024
18342178 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING SENSITIVITY OF BLOOD FLOW CALCULATIONS TO CHANGES IN ANATOMICAL GEOMETRY CLOW, LORI A — §101§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 27, 2023
18325341 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO PREDICT LESIONS CLOW, LORI A — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2023
18322214 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO PREDICT LESIONS CLOW, LORI A — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 23, 2023
18168870 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT IMAGE PROCESSING TO EVALUATE TISSUE FUNCTION CLOW, LORI A — §101DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2023
18047944 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES AND UPDATING BASED ON SENSOR DATA ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 3791 §101§103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Oct 19, 2022
17810735 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO MODEL NUTRIENT TRANSPORT CLOW, LORI A 1687 §101§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 05, 2022
17655746 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING IMAGES TO DETERMINE PLAQUE PROGRESSION AND REGRESSION CLOW, LORI A 1687 §101§102§103Other Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2022

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