Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Histosonics Inc. has 9 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 9 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution within a narrower set of technical groups.
FARAG, AMAL ALY is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate positions across the three art units while preparing separate responses for the multiple examiner assignments.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FARAG, AMAL ALY | 1 | 68.0% | +38.4% |
| TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | 1 | 57.5% | +29.0% |
| BRUTUS, JOEL F | 1 | 72.9% | +17.7% |
| CWERN, JONATHAN | 1 | 51.0% | +33.1% |
| FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 1 | 62.1% | +36.7% |
| YUN, JURIE | 1 | 87.4% | +10.2% |
| KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 1 | 73.1% | +60.8% |
| DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 1 | 53.3% | +36.3% |
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 1 | 52.7% | +40.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18890580 | CO-REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES BETWEEN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING SYSTEMS AND HISTOTRIPSY ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | YUN, JURIE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046322 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING THERMAL DOSE DELIVERED TO A SUBJECT | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 44d overdue |
| 19144216 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | FARAG, AMAL ALY | 3d overdue |
| 19139227 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING HISTOTRIPSY BUBBLE CLOUD SIZE THROUGH PULSE SHAPE OPTIMIZATION | TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | — |
| 19210976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TUNING A HISTOTRIPSY THERAPY TRANSDUCER | BRUTUS, JOEL F | — |
| 17929951 | ARTICULATING ARM LIMITER FOR CAVITATIONAL ULTRASOUND THERAPY SYSTEM | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046322 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING THERMAL DOSE DELIVERED TO A SUBJECT | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 44d overdue |
| 19144216 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | FARAG, AMAL ALY | 3d overdue |
| 19139227 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING HISTOTRIPSY BUBBLE CLOUD SIZE THROUGH PULSE SHAPE OPTIMIZATION | TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | — |
| 19210976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TUNING A HISTOTRIPSY THERAPY TRANSDUCER | BRUTUS, JOEL F | — |
| 19061794 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CWERN, JONATHAN | — |
| 18890580 | CO-REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES BETWEEN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING SYSTEMS AND HISTOTRIPSY ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | YUN, JURIE | — |
| 18535877 | ULTRASOUND COUPLING DEVICE FOR HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | — |
| 18311045 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 5 |
| 3798 | 3 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19144216 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | FARAG, AMAL ALY | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19139227 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING HISTOTRIPSY BUBBLE CLOUD SIZE THROUGH PULSE SHAPE OPTIMIZATION | TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19210976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TUNING A HISTOTRIPSY THERAPY TRANSDUCER | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19061794 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CWERN, JONATHAN | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19046322 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING THERMAL DOSE DELIVERED TO A SUBJECT | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18890580 | CO-REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES BETWEEN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING SYSTEMS AND HISTOTRIPSY ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | YUN, JURIE | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18535877 | ULTRASOUND COUPLING DEVICE FOR HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18311045 | HISTOTRIPSY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 17929951 | ARTICULATING ARM LIMITER FOR CAVITATIONAL ULTRASOUND THERAPY SYSTEM | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHistosonics Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 9 examiners.
Amal Aly Farag has the most, with 1 of Histosonics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
