Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
204 pending office actions • 101 art units • 191 examiners • 0 of 204 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 627 patents granted in the last 365 days
Infineon Technologies AG is managing 206 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 194 distinct examiners and 77 distinct art units. This large volume of activity reflects a broad and active interest in semiconductor and optical technologies. The 77 distinct art units indicate that the company's applications are being reviewed by a wide variety of specialized technical groups within the USPTO.
MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending office actions. The other pending actions are distributed among the other distinct examiners. The 77 distinct art units for 206 actions show that while some specialized groups handle multiple applications, the individual examiners within those groups are mostly unique. With 194 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage a high degree of variability in examiner behavior and interpretation across its 206 pending matters. Practitioners must manage separate prosecution tracks, as the high number of examiners limits the ability to reuse successful negotiation tactics across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 43 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. 43 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 | 11 (5%) |
| §103 only | 83 (41%) |
| §102 only | 11 (5%) |
| §112 only | 3 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (0%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 91 (45%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3 | 72.4% | +28.9% |
| ISAAC, STANETTA D | 3 | 85.8% | -36.1% |
| TRAN, NGUYEN | 2 | 83.6% | +7.7% |
| JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 2 | 83.1% | +16.8% |
| ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 2 | 79.5% | +12.4% |
| MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | 2 | — | — |
| LIU, XIAOMING | 2 | 86.6% | +10.6% |
| MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 2 | 71.0% | +11.2% |
| CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | 2 | 84.2% | +30.0% |
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 |
| 18661044 | Method for Attaching Metallic Bodies to Thin Semiconductor Dies at Wafer Level | LIU, XIAOMING | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18126729 | MULTI-CHANNEL HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR WITH DOPED GATE FINS | LIU, XIAOMING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17503636 | Interpretable Neural Networks for Nonlinear Control | BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN | 30d overdue |
| 18166892 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY (HUD) WITH A LIGHT BEAM SCANNER HAVING A FIELD CURVATURE MATCHED WITH A HUD PROJECTION | NIGAM, NATASHA | 19d 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 |
| 18476744 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR LOW-POWER OPERATION OF WIRELESS DEVICES | AHMED, NIZAM U | 19d |
| 18329907 | FLUID COMPOSITION SENSOR | SULTANA, DILARA | 20d |
| 18477413 | TIRE FILLING SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS | RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE | 27d |
| 18336643 | Parent Substrate, Wafer Composite and Methods of Manufacturing Crystalline Substrates and Semiconductor Devices | TRAN, THIEN S | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18887160 | CALIBRATION AND MONITORING IN CASCADED RADAR SYSTEM WITHOUT LOCAL OSCILLATOR SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | — |
| 18676021 | RADAR APPARATUSES AND METHODS | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| 18661044 | Method for Attaching Metallic Bodies to Thin Semiconductor Dies at Wafer Level | LIU, XIAOMING | — |
| 18609568 | APPARATUS, SENSOR SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| 18504309 | SUBSTRATE ARRANGEMENT AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING A SUBSTRATE ARRANGEMENT | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 16 |
| 2898 | 15 |
| 2838 | 13 |
| 2899 | 10 |
| 2812 | 8 |
| 2893 | 7 |
| 2843 | 6 |
| 2858 | 6 |
| 2897 | 6 |
| 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 |
| 19057822 | Synchronous Rectifier Scheme to Avoid Cross-conduction in a Fly-Back Converter | QUDDUS, NUSRAT | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19048402 | FLAT SPOT SUPPRESSION IN SIGMA DELTA CONVERTERS | MAI, LAM T | 2845 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19032398 | ROBUST MULTI-LOCATION JAMMER DETECTION FOR SECURITY AND IOT DEVICES | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 |
| 18898392 | ENHANCING THE DISCOVERABILITY OF FREQUENCY-SPECIFIC ACCESS POINTS WITHIN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK | OH, ANDREW CHUNG SUK | 2466 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18898305 | EMBEDDED FACE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | §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 |
| 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 |
| 18794329 | DSRC Toll System Interference Mitigation Solution based on GPS Information | BHATTI, HASHIM S | 2475 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 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 |
| 18775908 | SOFT METRIC BASED BIT ERROR CORRECTION WITH CRC CODES | YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | 2111 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18736111 | GPS-ASSISTED COLLABORATIVE AND SIGNALING-AIDED WLAN DFS OPERATION | PEREZ, JOSE L | 2474 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18675664 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL ARCHITECTURE FOR SPEECH ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM | THOMAS-HOMESCU, ANNE L | 2656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 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 |
| 18630632 | BATTERY CLUSTER CONTROL | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 2118 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 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 | 2846 | §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 |
| 18514964 | RADIO FREQUENCY BAND AND ENERGY HARVESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR OPERATION OF WIRELESS AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICES | MAHASE, PAMESHANAND | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 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 |
| 18478860 | COMMUNICATION AND SENSING SYSTEM | LE, HAILEY R | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Sep 29, 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 |
| 18477413 | TIRE FILLING SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS | RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE | 3666 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18476744 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR LOW-POWER OPERATION OF WIRELESS DEVICES | AHMED, NIZAM U | 2461 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18465884 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVATING SECOND WIRELESS DEVICE TO MITIGATE AGGRESSIVE MEDIUM OCCUPIER | ANWAR, MOHAMMAD S | 2463 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Sep 12, 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 |
| 18338674 | WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN) CARRIER FREQUENCY CORRECTION FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION | MASUR, PAUL H | 2417 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18335009 | LOW POWER CLOCK MULTIPLEXER IN MICROCONTROLLER WITH SELECTABLE POWER DOMAIN OUTPUT | YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU | 2175 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 18096444 | MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY | ROHD, BENJAMIN MATTHEW | 2147 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 17955335 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR CHANNEL SCANNING IN WIRELESS DEVICES | CHEN, JUNPENG | 2645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17513684 | EFFICIENT MEMORY USE OPTIMIZATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK DEPLOYMENT AND EXECUTION | ALGHAZZY, SHAMCY | 2100 | §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 |
| 19172280 | MEMS DEVICE | JOSHI, SUNITA | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 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 |
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Start Free TrialInfineon Technologies AG has 204 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 101 art units and 191 examiners.
Samarina Makhdoom has the most, with 3 of Infineon Technologies AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.