Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Hitachi Astemo Ltd.

88 pending office actions • 38 art units • 80 examiners • 0 of 88 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 333 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

88
Total Pending OAs
64
Non-Final OAs
21
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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.

41
Hard (47%)
40
Medium (45%)
6
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§101 + other8 (9%)
§103 only35 (40%)
§102 only5 (6%)
§112 only6 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)32 (36%)
No statute on record1 (1%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
1% of docket
6
Information Tech
7% of docket
2
Communications
2% of docket
14
Semiconductors
16% of docket
44
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
21
Business / Other
24% 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.

880 h
Manual time on pending OAs
176 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
308 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
7.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
IRVIN, THOMAS W 3 77.3% +14.9%
SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R 2 89.8% +8.4%
RHEE, ROY B 2 68.9% +24.1%
NGUYEN, LILLIAN T 2 84.1% +13.9%
IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW 2 71.4% +0.0%
BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 2 81.0% +11.8%
MORRIS, DAVID R. 2 81.9% +14.2%
NGUYEN, CUONG H 1 78.5% +8.9%
NGUYEN, NGA X 1 77.6% +5.5%
MUSTAFA, IMRAN K 1 60.4% +16.3%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18689333 CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT FOR PROPELLER SHAFT AND PROPELLER SHAFT BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 4d overdue
18688876 ELECTRIC BRAKE APPARATUS AND DRIVE UNIT NGUYEN, LILLIAN T
18834652 COLLISION AVOIDANCE ASSIST DEVICE SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R
18689888 CYLINDER DEVICE NGUYEN, LILLIAN T
18573037 DRUM BRAKE AND BRAKING MEMBER MORRIS, DAVID R.

Hard Cases (41)

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
18710078 ROTOR OF ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE ELNAKIB, AHMED 36d overdue
19109921 LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD LEE, JONG SUK 23d overdue
18559513 ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER AND ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD REAGAN, JAMES A 17d overdue
19105515 VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT OIL PUMP AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT OIL PUMP FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 4d overdue
18373156 Stator for Rotary Electric Machine and Rotary Electric Machine Using Same MULLINS, BURTON S 8d
18689684 CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT FOR PROPELLER SHAFT AND PROPELLER SHAFT BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 9d
18269658 PHYSICAL QUANTITY DETECTION DEVICE SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI 63d
18863704 Onboard Control Unit NGUYEN, CUONG H

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18689333 CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT FOR PROPELLER SHAFT AND PROPELLER SHAFT BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 4d overdue
18689684 CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT FOR PROPELLER SHAFT AND PROPELLER SHAFT BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 9d
19110719 Vehicle Control Device, Vehicle Control Method, and Vehicle Control System MUSTAFA, IMRAN K
18687590 Vehicle Control Device, Vehicle Control Method, and Vehicle Control System RHEE, ROY B
18846836 ONBOARD ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE RHEE, ROY B
18688876 ELECTRIC BRAKE APPARATUS AND DRIVE UNIT NGUYEN, LILLIAN T
18728732 PISTON FOR BUFFER DEVICE AND BUFFER DEVICE IRVIN, THOMAS W
18691576 ELECTRONIC CONTROL APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC BRAKE APPARATUS IRVIN, THOMAS W

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3616 9
2834 6
3668 4
3661 3
3665 3
3664 3
3657 2
3746 2
3663 2
3679 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18863704 Onboard Control Unit NGUYEN, CUONG H §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 30, 2025
19171427 VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE NGUYEN, NGA X §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 07, 2025
19090681 CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R 3661 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 26, 2025
19110719 Vehicle Control Device, Vehicle Control Method, and Vehicle Control System MUSTAFA, IMRAN K 3668 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 11, 2025
18840609 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 10, 2025
19109921 LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD LEE, JONG SUK 2875 §102§103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2025
19106900 OWN POSITION ESTIMATION DEVICE OH, HARRY Y 3657 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 26, 2025
19105515 VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT OIL PUMP AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT OIL PUMP FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 3746 §102§103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 21, 2025
19103608 Control System, Control Method, and Control Program MARTINEZ, ELIZABETH GALYN 3668 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 13, 2025
18995304 Free Space Detection Device, Object Position Normalization Method PEKO, BRITTANY RENEE 3665 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2025
18992048 PLANAR COIL ARRAY AND DISPLACEMENT SENSOR RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 07, 2025
18880745 STATE DETERMINATION DEVICE BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 2434 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 02, 2025
18019170 INSPECTION DEVICE, INSPECTION METHOD, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PISTON AMARA, MOHAMED K §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18872522 ELECTROMAGNETIC FUEL INJECTION VALVE GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 3752 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18863765 EXTERNAL WORLD RECOGNITION DEVICE AND EXTERNAL WORLD RECOGNITION METHOD ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE 2666 §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2024
18859470 CARBON-FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN CYLINDER FOR PROPELLER SHAFTS MATZEK, MATTHEW D §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 23, 2024
18855451 ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS DEVICE KAUR, JASPREET §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2024
18849245 SEMICONDUCTOR DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM CLARKE, ADAM S 2858 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18848774 Rotary Electric Machine JOHNSON, ERIC §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 19, 2024
18846981 VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE PARK, CHANMIN 3661 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2024
18687590 Vehicle Control Device, Vehicle Control Method, and Vehicle Control System RHEE, ROY B 3664 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 13, 2024
18846836 ONBOARD ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE RHEE, ROY B 3664 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18846462 Stator in Rotary Electric Machine PERKINS, THEODORE L §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2024
18846351 MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND MOTOR CONTROL METHOD LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2024
18844232 TRANSFORMATION CONTROL DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE DHAKAL, BICKEY §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 05, 2024
18843495 Rotating Electrical Machine and Vehicle Driving Device Equipped With Same CHANG, MINKI 2834 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 03, 2024
18842447 SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION DEVICE MUI, WEI YUN §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2024
18841470 IN-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE KASSA, ELIZABETH 2457 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 26, 2024
18841310 ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND DRIVE UNIT INCLUDING THE SAME REID JR, CHARLES H 2834 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2024
18841313 VEHICLE DRIVE SYSTEM SWENSON, BRIAN L §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2024
18688876 ELECTRIC BRAKE APPARATUS AND DRIVE UNIT NGUYEN, LILLIAN T §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2024
18836908 UPDATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CHEN, QING §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2024
18835950 PROCESSING DEVICE AND SOFTWARE COMPONENT SELECTING METHOD PAN, HANG §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 05, 2024
18834652 COLLISION AVOIDANCE ASSIST DEVICE SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R 3661 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2024
18832967 MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE, HYBRID SYSTEM, MECHANICALLY AND ELECTRICALLY INTEGRATED UNIT, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE SYSTEM BOUZIANE, SAID 2846 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 25, 2024
18729544 AIR FLOW METER PHAN, TRUONG D §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 17, 2024
18729203 STRAIN DETECTION DEVICE MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2024
18728732 PISTON FOR BUFFER DEVICE AND BUFFER DEVICE IRVIN, THOMAS W §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 2024
18726097 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE LEE, WOO KYUNG §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 01, 2024
18721183 IN-VEHICLE ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD SANTOS, KIRSTEN JADE M 3664 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2024
18719382 VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE LE, TIEN MINH 3656 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 13, 2024
18718889 TRANSFER DEVICE LEVY, MERRITT E 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18712577 Vehicle Control Device, Vehicle Control Method, and Vehicle Control System GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS 3668 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending May 22, 2024
18711060 ELECTRIC BRAKE DEVICE IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW 3616 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 16, 2024
18710078 ROTOR OF ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE ELNAKIB, AHMED 2834 §103§112 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending May 14, 2024
18698314 HEAT DISSIPATION MATERIAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE ZHANG, RUIYUN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 03, 2024
18697513 VEHICLE TRIEU, VAN THANH 2685 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Apr 01, 2024
18692586 STRUCTURE, VALVE APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING VALVE APPARATUS AUNG, SAN M 3616 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 15, 2024
18691993 DAMPING FORCE ADJUSTABLE SHOCK ABSORBER, DAMPING VALVE, AND SOLENOID ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM 3616 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 14, 2024
18692005 VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD GREENE, MARK L 3747 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 14, 2024
18691576 ELECTRONIC CONTROL APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC BRAKE APPARATUS IRVIN, THOMAS W 3616 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 13, 2024
18689888 CYLINDER DEVICE NGUYEN, LILLIAN T 3655 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2024
18689466 DISC BRAKE AND PLATE IRVIN, THOMAS W 3616 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 06, 2024
18689684 CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT FOR PROPELLER SHAFT AND PROPELLER SHAFT BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 3679 §102§112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 06, 2024
18689333 CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT FOR PROPELLER SHAFT AND PROPELLER SHAFT BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 3679 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2024
18682969 SHOCK ABSORBER IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW 3616 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 12, 2024
18683079 RETURN SPRING AND DISC BRAKE MORRIS, DAVID R. 3616 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 12, 2024
18579730 In-Vehicle Processing Device HU, XIAOQIN 2857 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2024
18573970 ONBOARD INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM, AND ONBOARD SYSTEM ALGAHAIM, HELAL A 3645 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2023
18573037 DRUM BRAKE AND BRAKING MEMBER MORRIS, DAVID R. 3616 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 21, 2023
18567536 DRIVE DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DRIVING AND/OR ASSISTED DRIVING STANLEY, KAVITA 2172 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 06, 2023
18564813 Electronic Control Device and Control Method FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2023
18564164 ROTOR FOR ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE, AND ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE TRUONG, THOMAS 2834 §112 Final Rejection 33d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18564148 HEAT EXCHANGER, POWER CONVERSION DEVICE INCLUDING HEAT EXCHANGER, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING INNER FIN FOR HEAT EXCHANGER DUONG, THO V 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18563964 VEHICLE SYSTEM HEIM, MARK ROBERT 3668 §103 Non-Final OA 125d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2023
18561239 RADAR DEVICE MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA 3648 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2023
18559928 VEHICLE MOTION CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE MOTION CONTROL METHOD STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM 3658 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18559513 ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER AND ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD REAGAN, JAMES A 3697 §101 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18555718 ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE AND IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM ALHARBI, ADAM MOHAMED 3663 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2023
18373156 Stator for Rotary Electric Machine and Rotary Electric Machine Using Same MULLINS, BURTON S 2834 §103§112 Final Rejection 8d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18370576 ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE DEVICE WILLIAMS, THOMAS J 3616 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18281796 Physical Quantity Detection Device, Signal Processing Device, and Signal Processing Method MARINI, MATTHEW G 2853 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18548671 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD JEN, MINGJEN 3657 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 01, 2023
18547531 METHOD FOR SHAPING WIRE MATERIAL AND WIRE MATERIAL SHAPING DEVICE ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S 3725 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18273124 Vehicle Drive Motor STEFANON, JUSTIN 2834 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 2023
18261911 MAP STORAGE DEVICE PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 3658 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 18, 2023
18269658 PHYSICAL QUANTITY DETECTION DEVICE SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI 2857 §101§103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Jun 26, 2023
18254447 ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 25, 2023
18037581 CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD NAHRA, SELENA SABAH 2192 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
18247490 HEATING ELEMENT COOLING STRUCTURE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL 2897 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 31, 2023
18009840 VEHICLE MOTION CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE MOTION CONTROL METHOD ANDA, JENNIFER MARIE 3662 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2022
18008848 SENSOR RECOGNITION INTEGRATION DEVICE STRYKER, NICHOLAS F 3665 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 07, 2022
17926939 COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING CONTROL DEVICE MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 2124 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2022
17912208 STEERING APPARATUS STANLEY, TYLER JAY 3611 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 16, 2022
17911244 VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM SHARMA, SHIVAM 3665 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2022
17782133 MOUNTED IMAGING DEVICE WITH HEAT DISSIPATION DUREN, TIMOTHY EDWARD 2817 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 02, 2022
17596875 Fuel Pump KASTURE, DNYANESH G 3746 §112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2021
17505484 Battery Pack and Holder NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V 1724 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 19, 2021

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