Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
190 pending office actions • 90 art units • 179 examiners • 0 of 190 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 644 patents granted in the last 365 days
Infineon Technologies AG has 198 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The docket spans 184 examiners and 93 art units, creating substantial operational breadth across the examination process. Examiner coverage is wide, while the lower art-unit count indicates that multiple matters are grouped within technical units.
MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending actions. That concentration is limited relative to the full docket, so prosecution management should prioritize reliable matter-level tracking, recurring art-unit issues, and consistent instructions across a large examiner population.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 36 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 36 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 + other | 13 (7%) |
| §103 only | 77 (41%) |
| §102 only | 10 (5%) |
| §112 only | 3 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 83 (44%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISAAC, STANETTA D | 3 | 85.8% | -36.0% |
| KAMARA, MOHAMED A | 2 | 89.3% | +8.6% |
| TRAN, NGUYEN | 2 | 83.6% | +7.6% |
| MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 2 | 72.3% | +27.2% |
| JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 2 | 83.3% | +16.3% |
| MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 2 | 71.1% | +11.1% |
| CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | 2 | 85.7% | +25.0% |
| NGUYEN, THANH T | 2 | 83.4% | +14.3% |
| SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY | 2 | 97.0% | +4.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17712738 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH METAL SILICIDE LAYER | ISAAC, STANETTA D | 3d overdue |
| 18315787 | POWER ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY AND POWER MODULE FOR EMBEDDING IN A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | ISAAC, STANETTA D | 55d |
| 18428356 | Source Follower Type Regulator with DAC feedback | TRAN, NGUYEN | 84d |
| 18898141 | WAKE-UP RADIO PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | KAMARA, MOHAMED A | — |
| 18889617 | CORE TRANSMIT SUSPENSION IN MULTIPLE CORE WIRELESS DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | KAMARA, MOHAMED A | — |
| 18659143 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUITS | MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | — |
| 18598692 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT WITH DYNAMIC OUTPUT SLOPE COMPENSATION FOR DRIVING LARGE CAPACITIVE LOADS | MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | — |
| 18144464 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658572 | DISTRIBUTED DYNAMIC TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION FOR SHUNTS | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 44d overdue |
| 17503636 | Interpretable Neural Networks for Nonlinear Control | BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN | 30d overdue |
| 18378858 | CHIP WITH CRACK GUIDING STRUCTURE COMBINED WITH CRACK STOP STRUCTURE | LOKE, STEVEN HO YIN | 5d overdue |
| 18368251 | Wire Bonding Method and Apparatus | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 2d overdue |
| 18128506 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING CONTACT PAD STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, THANH T | 19d |
| 18329907 | FLUID COMPOSITION SENSOR | SULTANA, DILARA | 20d |
| 18336643 | Parent Substrate, Wafer Composite and Methods of Manufacturing Crystalline Substrates and Semiconductor Devices | TRAN, THIEN S | 29d |
| 18602658 | Security Controller and Method for Performing a Selection Function | ULLAH, SHARIF E | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18128506 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING CONTACT PAD STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, THANH T | 19d |
| 18532322 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR RADAR OPERATION IN WIRELESS DEVICES | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 40d |
| 18944834 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND RADAR SYSTEM | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | — |
| 18888949 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PHASE INFORMATION RELATED TO AN RF TRANSMISSION CHANNEL AND RADAR MMIC DEVICE | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | — |
| 18609568 | APPARATUS, SENSOR SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| 18504309 | SUBSTRATE ARRANGEMENT AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING A SUBSTRATE ARRANGEMENT | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | — |
| 18144464 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | — |
| 18142106 | Semiconductor Package Comprising Structures Configured to Withstand a Change of the Volume of a Potting Compound | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 14 |
| 2838 | 12 |
| 3648 | 12 |
| 2899 | 11 |
| 2893 | 8 |
| 2812 | 7 |
| 2897 | 6 |
| 2858 | 5 |
| 2891 | 5 |
| 2818 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19327211 | TRIGGERING MULTI-PHASE TRANSMISSION PATTERN SWITCHING TO REDUCE EMISSIONS IN TOUCH PRODUCTS | PERVAN, MICHAEL | 2629 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2025 |
| 19315386 | IMPROVED ATTACK DETECTION IN ROUND-TRIP TIMING ESTIMATION | SHAW, BRIAN F | 2432 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19191452 | HMM DECODING COMPENSATION FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION AND MULTI-STRUCTURED DECODING FOR LOW RESOURCE COMMAND RECOGNITION | MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH | 2657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19057822 | Synchronous Rectifier Scheme to Avoid Cross-conduction in a Fly-Back Converter | QUDDUS, NUSRAT | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19032398 | ROBUST MULTI-LOCATION JAMMER DETECTION FOR SECURITY AND IOT DEVICES | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 |
| 18990284 | ADAPTIVE COMMUTATION PHASE TUNING FOR ROBUST CONTROL AND OPTIMAL POWER CONSUMPTION IN BRUSHLESS MOTORS | MASIH, KAREN | 2837 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18911042 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR WIRELESS CONNECTION AND POWER MANAGEMENT | ZHU, BO HUI ALVIN | 2465 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18898141 | WAKE-UP RADIO PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | KAMARA, MOHAMED A | 2412 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18898175 | EMBEDDING A WAKEUP SIGNAL IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM) DATA PACKET | TRAN, MONG THUY THI | 2645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18889617 | CORE TRANSMIT SUSPENSION IN MULTIPLE CORE WIRELESS DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | KAMARA, MOHAMED A | 2412 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18884895 | ATTACK DETECTION IN ROUND-TRIP TIMING USING ADJUSTABLE IMPULSE RESPONSE | WHIPPLE, BRIAN P | 2447 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18824747 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR SCHEDULING-BASED ENHANCED POWER PERFORMANCE IN WIRELESS DEVICES | KUNTZ, CURTIS A | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18821645 | CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET TRACKER WITH MACHINE LEARNING CAPABILITIES | CHERY, DADY | 2418 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18809145 | DEEP LEARNING FOR SCALABLE TRANSMISSION BEAMFORMING WITH COMPRESSED CHANNEL REPRESENTATION | VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA | 2468 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18784522 | EFFICIENT OPTIMIZATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK DEPLOYMENT AND EXECUTION | SUN, CHARLIE | 2198 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18780286 | SECURE TRANSACTIONS WITH AMBIENT WIRELESS DEVICES OVER THE INTERNET | NGUY, CHI D | 2435 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18736111 | GPS-ASSISTED COLLABORATIVE AND SIGNALING-AIDED WLAN DFS OPERATION | PEREZ, JOSE L | 2474 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18645236 | POWER AMPLIFIER INCLUDING MAIN SCPA, PEAK SCPA, AND SHUNT INDUCTOR | CHOE, HENRY | 2843 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18645112 | POWER AMPLIFIER INCLUDING TWO PART MAIN SCPA CELLS | SADMAN, SIAM | 2843 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18608672 | CHARGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARSHALL, CHRISTLE I | 2876 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18581194 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR BATTERY MANAGEMENT AND MEASUREMENT | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 2857 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18441188 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | DUDA, RINA I | 2837 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18428356 | Source Follower Type Regulator with DAC feedback | TRAN, NGUYEN | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18414985 | FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORT OF LIMITED-FUNCTION INTERNET-OF-THINGS (IOT) WIRELESS DEVICES | NGUYEN, PHUONGCHAU BA | 2464 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18543220 | COVERING FOR TOUCH SENSOR ELECTRODE | JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18532322 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR RADAR OPERATION IN WIRELESS DEVICES | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18511863 | COMMUNICATING WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK | HUANG, WEN WU | 2648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18477738 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING VEHICLE SYSTEMS WHEN APPROACHING A ROAD EVENT, INCLUDING A HAZARD EVENT | MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18478860 | COMMUNICATION AND SENSING SYSTEM | LE, HAILEY R | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18453005 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR MEDIUM RESERVATION MITIGATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | NGUYEN, BAO G | 2461 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18451960 | GROUPWISE ENCODING OF NEURAL NETWORKS | ASEGDEW, NATNAEL AREGA | 2122 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18335009 | LOW POWER CLOCK MULTIPLEXER IN MICROCONTROLLER WITH SELECTABLE POWER DOMAIN OUTPUT | YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU | 2175 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18329907 | FLUID COMPOSITION SENSOR | SULTANA, DILARA | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18320804 | Secondary side peak current controlled mode flyback converter | LAXTON, GARY L | 2838 | — | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18310662 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING A UNIFIED DEBUG AND RENDERING INTERFACE | PAN, HANG | 2193 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18178223 | BUILDING GENERALIZED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FROM MACHINE LEARNING MODEL EXPLANATIONS | BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL | 2126 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 18107888 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR RATE ADAPTATION FOR DATA THROUGHPUT ENHANCEMENT IN WIRELESS DEVICES | LY, ANH VU H | 2472 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 17590728 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR PREVENTING TRACKING BY USE OF REPLY ATTACKS | HERZOG, MADHURI R | 2438 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Feb 01, 2022 |
| 17513684 | EFFICIENT MEMORY USE OPTIMIZATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK DEPLOYMENT AND EXECUTION | ALGHAZZY, SHAMCY | 2128 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2021 |
| 17513689 | EFFICIENT QUANTIZATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK DEPLOYMENT AND EXECUTION | THOMPSON, KYLE ALLMAN | 2125 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2021 |
| 19209878 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RESTORING A STATE OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | JACKSON, JAYLUN ARMAN | 2112 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19195179 | Electronic Power Switch with internal Over-Current Protection and galvanically isolated Current Sensing | FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19089118 | PROTECTION OF AI MODELS | SRIRAM, ADITYA | 2491 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19073656 | POWER/AREA EFFICIENT ACCELERATION OF PROCESSOR-BASED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION | SADLER, NATHAN | 2139 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19066722 | ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK SECURITY THROUGH INTEGRATION OF COMPONENT DATA | ABYANEH, ALI S | 2437 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19063945 | PIEZO-ACTUATED PLATFORMS FOR IMAGE SENSOR STABILIZATION | NGUYEN, CHAN T H | 2638 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19059638 | TIME-RESOLVED DISTANCE AND ANGLE DETERMINATION USING RADIO AND RADAR SIGNALS | GUYAH, REMASH RAJA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19058173 | RESOLVING A HARDWARE FAULT OCCURRENCE IN A MULTI-DOMAIN DEVICE | RUSIN, KAYO LISA | 2114 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19056839 | IDENTIFIER FILTERING | LEE, BRYAN Y | 2445 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18983694 | ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADAR DEVICE, METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING A CONTROL ACTION AND METHOD FOR SECURE LOCALIZATION | WOLFORD, NAOMI M | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialInfineon Technologies AG has 190 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 90 art units and 179 examiners.
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