Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
11 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innoviz Technologies Ltd. has 11 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 10 distinct examiners across 6 distinct art units, showing broad examiner coverage with recurring technical-group assignments.
NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. Those matters may benefit from coordinated review, while the remainder require examiner-specific prosecution planning.
The repeated art-unit structure creates an opportunity to compare claim scope and prior-art treatment across related technologies. Counsel should use that comparison to improve consistency without assuming that a single amendment or argument will apply throughout the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (36%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (55%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 2 | 27.1% | +55.3% |
| LAM, CHAK FUNG ANTHONY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HODGES, SUSAN E | 1 | 67.1% | +13.8% |
| WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | 1 | 82.2% | +13.1% |
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.5% | +0.0% |
| FLORES, MARK ANTHONY | 1 | — | — |
| CHOI, JACOB Y | 1 | 47.6% | +36.8% |
| CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 1 | 52.5% | +11.7% |
| VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 1 | 9.5% | +7.1% |
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 1 | 77.3% | +16.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19105055 | Systems and methods for updating point clouds in LIDAR systems | LAM, CHAK FUNG ANTHONY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17627980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EYE-SAFE LIDAR | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 9d |
| 19012985 | Rotating LIDAR | HODGES, SUSAN E | — |
| 18843561 | INCREASING SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO OF A PIXEL OF A LIDAR SYSTEM | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | — |
| 18810859 | DEVICE FOR EMITTING A LIGHT BEAM AND PARTIAL BEAM SPLITTER | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — |
| 18364467 | DETECTING OBSTRUCTIONS | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — |
| 17837356 | MULTIBEAM SPINNING LIDAR SYSTEM | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | — |
| 17615381 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TIME-OF-FLIGHT OPTICAL SENSING | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17627980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EYE-SAFE LIDAR | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 9d |
| 19012985 | Rotating LIDAR | HODGES, SUSAN E | — |
| 18843561 | INCREASING SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO OF A PIXEL OF A LIDAR SYSTEM | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | — |
| 18261479 | Dynamic Alignment and Optical Stabilization of Optical Path in an Automotive-Grade LIDAR | CHOI, JACOB Y | — |
| 18364467 | DETECTING OBSTRUCTIONS | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — |
| 17615381 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TIME-OF-FLIGHT OPTICAL SENSING | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | — |
| 17516132 | VARYING LIDAR ILLUMINATION RESPONSIVE TO AMBIENT LIGHT LEVELS | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 6 |
| 2612 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19105055 | Systems and methods for updating point clouds in LIDAR systems | LAM, CHAK FUNG ANTHONY | 2612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19012985 | Rotating LIDAR | HODGES, SUSAN E | 2425 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18843561 | INCREASING SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO OF A PIXEL OF A LIDAR SYSTEM | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | 3642 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18810859 | DEVICE FOR EMITTING A LIGHT BEAM AND PARTIAL BEAM SPLITTER | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18718432 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIDAR BLOCKAGE DETECTION | FLORES, MARK ANTHONY | 3648 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18261479 | Dynamic Alignment and Optical Stabilization of Optical Path in an Automotive-Grade LIDAR | CHOI, JACOB Y | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18364467 | DETECTING OBSTRUCTIONS | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 17837356 | MULTIBEAM SPINNING LIDAR SYSTEM | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
| 17627980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EYE-SAFE LIDAR | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
| 17615381 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TIME-OF-FLIGHT OPTICAL SENSING | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
| 17516132 | VARYING LIDAR ILLUMINATION RESPONSIVE TO AMBIENT LIGHT LEVELS | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialInnoviz Technologies Ltd. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 10 examiners.
Rachel Nicole Nguyen has the most, with 2 of Innoviz Technologies Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
