Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Johnson Controls Tyco Ip Holdings LLP

48 pending office actions • 27 art units • 42 examiners • 0 of 48 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 75 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

48
Total Pending OAs
32
Non-Final OAs
14
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 47 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

16
Overdue
3
Due this week
16
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 47 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (16)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (16)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (5)

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.

3
Hard (6%)
43
Medium (90%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (6%)
§103 only40 (83%)
§102 only3 (6%)
No statute on record2 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
27
Information Tech
56% of docket
6
Communications
12% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

480 h
Manual time on pending OAs
96 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
168 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUNN, DARRIN D 3 75.4% +23.7%
SHAIKH, MERAJ A 3 57.6% +22.9%
SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2 69.3% +25.9%
SANDERS, JOSHUA T 2 74.6% +35.7%
PRUITT, JUSTIN A 1 62.5% +14.8%
MUNION, JAMES E 1 75.5% +24.4%
PREVIL, DANIEL 1 85.8% +12.6%
KRAYNAK, JACK PETER 1 78.6% +19.3%
MORRISON, JAY A 1 81.0% +23.6%
GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT 1 26.7% +34.5%

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
18579190 SENSITIVITY ADJUSTMENT USING INTEGRATED PASSIVE INFRARED SENSORS PREVIL, DANIEL 110d overdue

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18400798 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING RECOMMENDATIONS MORRISON, JAY A 3d overdue
18400783 CENTRAL PLANT CONTROL SYSTEM WITH EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE EVALUATION GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT 8d
17709003 DYNAMIC ALERT PRIORITIZATION METHOD USING DISPOSITION CODE CLASSIFIERS AND MODIFIED TVC CRANDALL, RICHARD W. 28d
18116974 MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONNECTED BUILDING EQUIPMENT WITH FAULT PREDICTION AND PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE FIGUEROA, KEVIN W 84d

Interview Candidates (16)

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
18579190 SENSITIVITY ADJUSTMENT USING INTEGRATED PASSIVE INFRARED SENSORS PREVIL, DANIEL 110d overdue
18215029 SYSTEMS FOR REFRIGERANT LEAK DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT SHAIKH, MERAJ A 91d overdue
17561041 BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS WITH METADATA CUSTOMIZATION SANDERS, JOSHUA T 66d overdue
18403333 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT OBJECT DENSITY ESTIMATION USING DYNAMIC INPUT RESOLUTION KRAYNAK, JACK PETER 42d overdue
18400798 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING RECOMMENDATIONS MORRISON, JAY A 3d overdue
18106367 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REFRIGERANT LEAK MANAGEMENT SHAIKH, MERAJ A 5d
18400783 CENTRAL PLANT CONTROL SYSTEM WITH EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE EVALUATION GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT 8d
17910240 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING VARIABLE REFRIGERANT FLOW SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS DUNN, DARRIN D 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2117 8
3763 6
2119 4
2118 3
2668 2
2115 2
3762 2
2116 2
3745 1
2688 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18878769 BLADE AND AXIAL IMPELLER USING SAME PRUITT, JUSTIN A 3745 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 24, 2024
18852210 DYNAMIC CONTROL OF DETECTOR SENSITIVITY IN FIRE ALARM CONTROL SYSTEMS MUNION, JAMES E 2688 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18579190 SENSITIVITY ADJUSTMENT USING INTEGRATED PASSIVE INFRARED SENSORS PREVIL, DANIEL 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 110d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18403333 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT OBJECT DENSITY ESTIMATION USING DYNAMIC INPUT RESOLUTION KRAYNAK, JACK PETER 2668 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2024
18400798 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING RECOMMENDATIONS MORRISON, JAY A 2151 §101 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18400783 CENTRAL PLANT CONTROL SYSTEM WITH EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE EVALUATION GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18398007 NET ZERO ENERGY FACILITIES WITH UNCERTAINTY HANDLING COUSINEAU, CONNOR DANIEL 2115 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18389595 BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH CONTINUOUS AIR QUALITY MONITORING PATEL, CHANDNI 2118 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18570593 BUILDING DATA PLATFORM WITH DIGITAL TWIN ENRICHMENT ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R 2119 §102 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18530949 BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH NETWORKING DEVICE AGILITY GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18528218 CONTROLLING FIRE SUPPRESSION BASED ON OCCUPANCY DATA LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 04, 2023
18514736 DYNAMIC DATA-STREAM SELECTION FROM EDGE DEVICES SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 2459 §103 Final Rejection 53d Pending Nov 20, 2023
18560362 SMART ROOM FOR A HEALTHCARE FACILITY MERCADO VARGAS, ARIEL 2118 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18487816 BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH INTELLIGENT VISUALIZATION FOR OCCUPANCY AND ENERGY USAGE INTEGRATION PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Oct 16, 2023
18378515 ACTUATOR OF HVAC UNIT POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 2115 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2023
18372621 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO OPERATE HVAC SYSTEM DURING VOLTAGE VARIATION EVENT DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Sep 25, 2023
18367357 HVAC ZONE CONTROL PANEL ELECTRONIC DISPLAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18244778 BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH HYBRID EDGE-CLOUD PROCESSING LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Sep 11, 2023
18237827 MULTI-CIRCUIT HVAC SYSTEMS AND METHODS BABAA, NAEL N 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2023
18451420 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OCCUPANCY DETECTION USING A VIDEO FEED GILLIARD, DELOMIA L 2661 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
18277556 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS OF A CHILLER SYSTEM TAN, ALVIN H 2118 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Aug 16, 2023
18234116 AUGMENTED DEEP LEARNING USING COMBINED REGRESSION AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELING ERDMAN, CHAD G 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 15, 2023
18227859 OIL AND GAS METERING SYSTEM SUN, XIUQIN 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18227096 BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH INTELLIGENT VISUALIZATION FOR HEATING, VENTILATION, AND/OR AIR CONDITIONING INTEGRATION CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG 2119 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Jul 27, 2023
18343686 ROBOT USE OF DESTINATION DISPATCH ELEVATORS WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18215029 SYSTEMS FOR REFRIGERANT LEAK DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT SHAIKH, MERAJ A 3763 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2023
18265199 BUILDING SYSTEM WITH MULTI-TIERED MODEL BASED OPTIMIZATION FOR VENTILATION AND SETPOINT CONTROL BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY 2117 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jun 02, 2023
18034018 CHILLER SYSTEM WITH SERIAL FLOW EVAPORATORS TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18116974 MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONNECTED BUILDING EQUIPMENT WITH FAULT PREDICTION AND PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE FIGUEROA, KEVIN W 2124 §101 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Mar 03, 2023
18024234 ELECTRICAL ENCLOSURE FOR HVAC SYSTEM SHAIKH, MERAJ A 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 01, 2023
18106367 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REFRIGERANT LEAK MANAGEMENT SHAIKH, MERAJ A 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 06, 2023
18099189 ARRANGEMENT FOR HEAT EXCHANGER JONES, GORDON A 3763 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
18087117 CONNECTED EQUIPMENT SYSTEM SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2117 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18008356 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EARLY CONTROLLED SPRINKLER ACTIVATION LEE, CHEE-CHONG 3752 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Dec 05, 2022
17991451 BUILDING HVAC SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LEVEL MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL SANDERS, JOSHUA T 2119 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17943012 DRAFT INDUCER MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM LAU, JASON 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 132d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2022
17910240 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING VARIABLE REFRIGERANT FLOW SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 08, 2022
17818170 IMAGE-SURVEILLED SECURITY ESCORT SHIBRU, HELEN 2484 §102 Non-Final OA 285d overdue Pending Aug 08, 2022
17882208 HIERARCHICAL SAMPLING FOR OBJECT IDENTIFICATION RHIM, WOO CHUL 2676 Other Non-Final OA 5d Pending Aug 05, 2022
17809171 COLLABORATIVE VISUAL INTERFACE FOR AN OPERATION CONTROL CENTER SHORTER, RASHIDA R 3626 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2022
17839034 BUILDING SYSTEM WITH SOCIAL MEDIA BASED SHOOTER RISK LY, CHEYNE D 2152 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2022
17737873 BUILDING DATA PLATFORM WITH DIGITAL TWIN BASED FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 05, 2022
17712783 APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR RECORDING A MAIL SCREENING PROCESS OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE 2668 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2022
17710603 PREDICTIVE MODELING AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR BUILDING EQUIPMENT WITH GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK HAN, JOSEP 2122 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 31, 2022
17709003 DYNAMIC ALERT PRIORITIZATION METHOD USING DISPOSITION CODE CLASSIFIERS AND MODIFIED TVC CRANDALL, RICHARD W. 3619 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 30, 2022
17672955 PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT DEVICE FOR MONITORING AND COMPARING ATTRIBUTES OF A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OVER TIME FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG 2117 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 16, 2022
17561041 BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS WITH METADATA CUSTOMIZATION SANDERS, JOSHUA T 2119 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2021
17510062 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SEMANTIC TAGGING MHEIR, ZUHEIR 2198 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Oct 25, 2021

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