Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
Huazhong University of Science and Technology currently has 9 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These 9 pending office actions are handled by 9 distinct examiners, meaning no two cases share the same examiner. The prosecution is distributed across 9 distinct art units, showing a perfect match between the number of actions, examiners, and art units.
SADLER, NATHAN is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This highlights the total lack of concentration in the portfolio, as each of the 9 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different person in a different art unit. This distribution requires a highly individualized approach to each application, as there are no shared examiner preferences to exploit.
The involvement of 9 distinct art units suggests that the university's research spans many different sub-fields of computing and software. With 9 distinct examiners involved, there is no opportunity to leverage examiner-specific insights across multiple files. Practitioners must focus on the unique requirements of each of the 9 distinct art units to successfully move the 9 pending office actions toward allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 3 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SADLER, NATHAN | 1 | 70.9% | +26.4% |
| KAPLAN, HAL IRA | 1 | 86.0% | +9.4% |
| WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | 1 | 35.9% | +26.5% |
| CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1 | 83.4% | +12.8% |
| MILLER, DANIEL E | 1 | 40.0% | +38.1% |
| LE, JOHN H | 1 | 87.7% | +7.0% |
| TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 1 | 68.2% | +19.1% |
| CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 1 | 56.2% | +27.3% |
| KAWSAR, ABDULLAH AL | 1 | 79.0% | +56.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531672 | LATTICE CURRENT COLLECTOR WITH BOTH FUNCTIONS OF STRAIN SENSING AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE CIRCUIT BREAKING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19302307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING KV-SEPARATED LSM-TREE STORAGE INDEXING BASED ON SMART SSD | SADLER, NATHAN | — |
| 19192300 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND IMAGING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | KAPLAN, HAL IRA | — |
| 18483625 | CASCADE-BASED POWER DISSIPATION OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AMPLIFICATION CIRCUIT | MILLER, DANIEL E | — |
| 18461487 | METHOD FOR MEASURING OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THIN FILM MATERIAL | LE, JOHN H | — |
| 18154637 | KNOWLEDGE-GRAPH EXTRAPOLATING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTION | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | — |
| 17961798 | METHOD FOR TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REASONING BASED ON DISTRIBUTED ATTENTION | KAWSAR, ABDULLAH AL | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18324995 | PNEUMATIC SOFT DEXTEROUS HAND FOR PATIENT WITH MISSING FINGER FUNCTIONS AND SOFT ROBOT | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 42d |
| 19302307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING KV-SEPARATED LSM-TREE STORAGE INDEXING BASED ON SMART SSD | SADLER, NATHAN | — |
| 18631660 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OVERWRITING-BASED DELETION OF INFORMATION AND VERIFICATION OF DELETION | WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | — |
| 18531672 | LATTICE CURRENT COLLECTOR WITH BOTH FUNCTIONS OF STRAIN SENSING AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE CIRCUIT BREAKING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 18483625 | CASCADE-BASED POWER DISSIPATION OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AMPLIFICATION CIRCUIT | MILLER, DANIEL E | — |
| 18154637 | KNOWLEDGE-GRAPH EXTRAPOLATING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTION | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | — |
| 17961798 | METHOD FOR TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REASONING BASED ON DISTRIBUTED ATTENTION | KAWSAR, ABDULLAH AL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2139 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 2851 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| 2127 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19302307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING KV-SEPARATED LSM-TREE STORAGE INDEXING BASED ON SMART SSD | SADLER, NATHAN | 2139 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19192300 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND IMAGING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | KAPLAN, HAL IRA | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 18631660 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OVERWRITING-BASED DELETION OF INFORMATION AND VERIFICATION OF DELETION | WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | 2156 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18531672 | LATTICE CURRENT COLLECTOR WITH BOTH FUNCTIONS OF STRAIN SENSING AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE CIRCUIT BREAKING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18483625 | CASCADE-BASED POWER DISSIPATION OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AMPLIFICATION CIRCUIT | MILLER, DANIEL E | 2851 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18461487 | METHOD FOR MEASURING OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THIN FILM MATERIAL | LE, JOHN H | 2857 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18324995 | PNEUMATIC SOFT DEXTEROUS HAND FOR PATIENT WITH MISSING FINGER FUNCTIONS AND SOFT ROBOT | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | May 28, 2023 |
| 18154637 | KNOWLEDGE-GRAPH EXTRAPOLATING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTION | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 2144 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17961798 | METHOD FOR TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REASONING BASED ON DISTRIBUTED ATTENTION | KAWSAR, ABDULLAH AL | 2127 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHuazhong University of Science and Technology has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 9 examiners.
Nathan Sadler has the most, with 1 of Huazhong University of Science and Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
