Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Heartflow Inc.

8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

1
Hard (12%)
5
Medium (62%)
1
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only4 (50%)
§112 only1 (12%)
Double-patenting + other1 (12%)
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
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
2
Communications
25% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
38% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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
HARANDI, SIAMAK 2 90.7% +7.5%
CLOW, LORI A 2 63.9% +28.7%
HIGGS, STELLA EUN 1 39.1% +34.9%
TOMBERS, JOSEPH A 1 46.2% +31.1%
HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 1 28.8% +35.5%
ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 1 63.6% +9.3%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18472729 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING IMAGE QUALITY IN MODELING OF PATIENT ANATOMIC OR BLOOD FLOW CHARACTERISTICS HARANDI, SIAMAK 50d
18488706 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING IMAGE QUALITY SCORES OF IMAGES HARANDI, SIAMAK 55d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18062878 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFYING LIMITATIONS IN CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW DURING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 15d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18062878 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFYING LIMITATIONS IN CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW DURING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 15d overdue
17655746 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING IMAGES TO DETERMINE PLAQUE PROGRESSION AND REGRESSION CLOW, LORI A 10d overdue
19003500 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES ACROSS REGIONS HIGGS, STELLA EUN 22d
18171728 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO IDENTIFY RELEVANT FLOW CHARACTERISTICS TOMBERS, JOSEPH A 68d
17399704 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC IMAGING AND MODELING OF DRUG DELIVERY CLOW, LORI A 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2662 2
3791 2
1687 2
3681 1
2188 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19003500 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES ACROSS REGIONS HIGGS, STELLA EUN 3681 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 27, 2024
18488706 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING IMAGE QUALITY SCORES OF IMAGES HARANDI, SIAMAK 2662 §112 Final Rejection 55d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18472729 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING IMAGE QUALITY IN MODELING OF PATIENT ANATOMIC OR BLOOD FLOW CHARACTERISTICS HARANDI, SIAMAK 2662 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18171728 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO IDENTIFY RELEVANT FLOW CHARACTERISTICS TOMBERS, JOSEPH A 3791 §103 Final Rejection 68d Pending Feb 21, 2023
18062878 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFYING LIMITATIONS IN CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW DURING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 2188 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2022
18047944 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES AND UPDATING BASED ON SENSOR DATA ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 3791 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Oct 19, 2022
17655746 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING IMAGES TO DETERMINE PLAQUE PROGRESSION AND REGRESSION CLOW, LORI A 1687 Other Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2022
17399704 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC IMAGING AND MODELING OF DRUG DELIVERY CLOW, LORI A 1687 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Aug 11, 2021

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