Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Iontra Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, creating more examiner variation than art-unit variation. This structure suggests that several matters are grouped within the same technical units while being handled by different examiners.
MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK is the busiest examiner with 2 pending matters. The assignment is not the sole center of the portfolio, so counsel should distinguish examiner preferences from art-unit practice when preparing responses. The smaller art-unit spread may support art-unit-level coordination, while the broader examiner spread calls for individualized prosecution histories.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK | 2 | 38.1% | -14.3% |
| HENZE, DAVID V | 2 | 69.7% | +23.2% |
| SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 1 | 28.3% | +50.3% |
| MAI, THIEN T | 1 | 59.1% | +19.9% |
| ONDRASIK, JOHN PAUL | 1 | 52.6% | +44.9% |
| NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 1 | 67.5% | +24.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200246 | BATTERY MONITORING AND CHARGING CONTROL BY MEASURING ELECTRODYNAMIC PARAMETERS | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 100d overdue |
| 18127634 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS OF NOISY APPEARING SIGNALS FOR BATTERY CHARGING | MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK | 50d overdue |
| 17856675 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT OF A BATTERY CELL | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 25d overdue |
| 18113578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLED BATTERY HEATING | HENZE, DAVID V | 33d |
| 18619129 | ELECTRODYNAMIC PARAMETERS | MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK | — |
| 18433354 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLED BATTERY HEATING | HENZE, DAVID V | — |
| 18240967 | OPTIMIZED BATTERY CHARGING CIRCUIT WITH POWER FACTOR CORRECTION | ONDRASIK, JOHN PAUL | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200246 | BATTERY MONITORING AND CHARGING CONTROL BY MEASURING ELECTRODYNAMIC PARAMETERS | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 100d overdue |
| 17856675 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT OF A BATTERY CELL | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 25d overdue |
| 18113578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLED BATTERY HEATING | HENZE, DAVID V | 33d |
| 18433354 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLED BATTERY HEATING | HENZE, DAVID V | — |
| 18368523 | BURST CHARGING FOR AN ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | MAI, THIEN T | — |
| 18240967 | OPTIMIZED BATTERY CHARGING CIRCUIT WITH POWER FACTOR CORRECTION | ONDRASIK, JOHN PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2859 | 6 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200246 | BATTERY MONITORING AND CHARGING CONTROL BY MEASURING ELECTRODYNAMIC PARAMETERS | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 100d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18619129 | ELECTRODYNAMIC PARAMETERS | MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK | 2859 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18433354 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLED BATTERY HEATING | HENZE, DAVID V | 2859 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18368523 | BURST CHARGING FOR AN ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | MAI, THIEN T | 2876 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18240967 | OPTIMIZED BATTERY CHARGING CIRCUIT WITH POWER FACTOR CORRECTION | ONDRASIK, JOHN PAUL | 2859 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18127634 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS OF NOISY APPEARING SIGNALS FOR BATTERY CHARGING | MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK | 2859 | §101§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18113578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLED BATTERY HEATING | HENZE, DAVID V | 2859 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 17856675 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT OF A BATTERY CELL | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 2857 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialIontra Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Daniel Patrick Mcfarland has the most, with 2 of Iontra Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
