Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

IHI Corporation

30 pending office actions • 21 art units • 30 examiners • 0 of 30 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

30
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
16
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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.

14
Hard (47%)
16
Medium (53%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (3%)
§101 + other2 (7%)
§103 only12 (40%)
§102 only4 (13%)
Multi-statute (no §101)11 (37%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
13% of docket
3
Information Tech
10% of docket
1
Communications
3% of docket
5
Semiconductors
17% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
47% of docket
3
Business / Other
10% 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.

300 h
Manual time on pending OAs
60 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
105 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BROCKMAN, ELDON T 1 85.3% +6.1%
DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER 1 84.1% +22.0%
WONG, ELTON K 1 77.9% +19.2%
FLORES, JUAN G 1 79.3% +14.7%
SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD 1 9.1% +11.7%
LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW 1 64.7% +51.9%
DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 1 74.1% +17.9%
MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER 1 68.6% +33.9%
WAITS, ALAN B 1 68.9% +29.6%
HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 1 79.2% +13.5%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19380095 TURBINE AND TURBOCHARGER DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER

Hard Cases (14)

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
17466039 MOVING BODY MONITORING SYSTEM, CONTROL SERVER OF MOVING BODY MONITORING SYSTEM, AND MOVING BODY MONITORING METHOD UNDERWOOD, BAKARI 147d overdue
18596694 OPERATION PLAN CREATION DEVICE AND OPERATION PLAN CREATION METHOD BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 53d overdue
19002696 RADIAL FOIL BEARING WITH BUMP FOIL WAITS, ALAN B 7d
19268009 ROTARY DEVICE FLORES, JUAN G 8d
18232445 POWER CONTROL DEVICE, POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR 12d
19403426 ROTARY DEVICE BROCKMAN, ELDON T
19185268 ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION DEVICE SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD
19174923 COMPRESSOR WITH ELECTRIC MOTOR LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW

Interview Candidates (9)

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
19002696 RADIAL FOIL BEARING WITH BUMP FOIL WAITS, ALAN B 7d
19268009 ROTARY DEVICE FLORES, JUAN G 8d
19071859 TURBINE DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 23d
19380095 TURBINE AND TURBOCHARGER DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER
19372477 TURBINE AND TURBOCHARGER WONG, ELTON K
19185268 ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION DEVICE SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD
19174923 COMPRESSOR WITH ELECTRIC MOTOR LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW
19010270 ROTATION DEVICE MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3745 5
2119 2
2859 2
3799 1
3621 1
3746 1
3617 1
2688 1
1711 1
3797 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19403426 ROTARY DEVICE BROCKMAN, ELDON T 3799 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 28, 2025
19380095 TURBINE AND TURBOCHARGER DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER 3745 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 05, 2025
19372477 TURBINE AND TURBOCHARGER WONG, ELTON K 3745 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 29, 2025
19268009 ROTARY DEVICE FLORES, JUAN G 3745 §102§103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jul 14, 2025
19185268 ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION DEVICE SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD 3621 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 22, 2025
19174923 COMPRESSOR WITH ELECTRIC MOTOR LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW 3746 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 10, 2025
19071859 TURBINE DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 3745 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Mar 06, 2025
19010270 ROTATION DEVICE MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 06, 2025
19002696 RADIAL FOIL BEARING WITH BUMP FOIL WAITS, ALAN B 3617 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Dec 27, 2024
18917547 TURBINE AND TURBOCHARGER HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 3745 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18901147 ADVANCE NOTICE SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE ADNAN, MUHAMMAD 2688 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18806825 METHOD FOR REMOVING DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT COATING CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN 1711 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 16, 2024
18797874 ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE KLEIN, BROOKE L 3797 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 08, 2024
18782287 FLARE STACK AND SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME SHIRSAT, VIVEK K §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2024
18663065 MOTOR DEVICE WITH CARRIER SIGNAL FOR POWER SUPPLY IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S 2846 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 14, 2024
18643238 SELF-LOCATION ESTIMATION DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE, AND SELF-LOCATION ESTIMATION METHOD NGUYEN, MISA H 3666 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Apr 23, 2024
18596694 OPERATION PLAN CREATION DEVICE AND OPERATION PLAN CREATION METHOD BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2024
18285277 ROTATING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND CONTROL DEVICE GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1754 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 02, 2023
18239804 HYDROGEN PRODUCTION APPARATUS PEREZ, JELITZA M §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 30, 2023
18276726 ENERGY CONSUMPTION PREDICTION DEVICE, ENERGY CONSUMPTION PREDICTION METHOD, AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION PREDICTION PROGRAM SAEED, USMAAN 2146 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2023
18232445 POWER CONTROL DEVICE, POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR 2119 §103§112 Final Rejection 12d Pending Aug 10, 2023
18348474 WORKPIECE CUTTING DEVICE AND WORKPIECE CUTTING METHOD RILEY, JONATHAN G 3724 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18336016 SURFACE MAGNET ROTOR SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH 2834 §102§112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 16, 2023
18038827 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING METHOD LEE, EDMUND H 1744 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 25, 2023
18129241 POWER CONTROL DEVICE, POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND POWER CONTROL PROGRAM BOOKER, KELVIN 2119 §102 Final Rejection Pending Mar 31, 2023
18111112 POWER FEEDING SYSTEM BARNIE, REXFORD N 2836 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 17, 2023
17969900 ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM AND ELECTROLYSIS METHOD RIPA, BRYAN D 1794 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 20, 2022
17750829 POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND POWER SUPPLY METHOD FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE WEINMANN, RYU-SUNG PETER 2859 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending May 23, 2022
17698297 POWER SUPPLYING FACILITY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND POWER SUPPLY METHOD FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE USING POWER SUPPLYING FACILITY MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK 2859 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 18, 2022
17466039 MOVING BODY MONITORING SYSTEM, CONTROL SERVER OF MOVING BODY MONITORING SYSTEM, AND MOVING BODY MONITORING METHOD UNDERWOOD, BAKARI 3663 §101 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Sep 03, 2021

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