Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
Huazhong University of Science and Technology is currently managing 7 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are distributed across 6 distinct art units and 7 distinct examiners. Nathan Sadler is the busiest examiner for the university, with 1 pending office action currently assigned.
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 | 2 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 | 70.8% | +26.0% |
| KAPLAN, HAL IRA | 1 | 85.9% | +9.4% |
| WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | 1 | 35.8% | +26.3% |
| CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1 | 83.2% | +13.0% |
| MILLER, DANIEL E | 1 | 40.0% | +38.1% |
| LE, JOHN H | 1 | 87.8% | +6.9% |
| NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU | 1 | — | — |
| KAWSAR, ABDULLAH AL | 1 | 78.9% | +56.5% |
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 5 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 | — |
| 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 5 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 2100 | 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 | — | §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 | NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | May 28, 2023 |
| 17961798 | METHOD FOR TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REASONING BASED ON DISTRIBUTED ATTENTION | KAWSAR, ABDULLAH AL | 2100 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
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