Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
478 pending office actions • 133 art units • 382 examiners • 2 of 478 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 634 patents granted in the last 365 days
Koninklijke Philips N.V. has 468 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters involve 374 distinct examiners and 129 distinct art units, indicating a large and widely distributed prosecution operation across the technology area.
VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S is the busiest examiner, with 4 pending matters. No single examiner accounts for a dominant portion of the docket in the supplied data, so counsel may need centralized portfolio governance, coordinated claim strategy, and systems for monitoring varied art-unit practices.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 134 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. 134 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 only | 23 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 142 (30%) |
| §103 only | 104 (22%) |
| §102 only | 20 (4%) |
| §112 only | 22 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 158 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 4 | 47.8% | +43.0% |
| MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 4 | 14.8% | +40.0% |
| BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 4 | 47.1% | +19.0% |
| JOHNSON, GERALD | 3 | 78.6% | +9.4% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3 | 65.1% | +33.2% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3 | 54.2% | +54.2% |
| LY, TOMMY TAI | 3 | 80.0% | +23.6% |
| YANG, YI-SHAN | 3 | 70.4% | +53.0% |
| BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 3 | 48.3% | +31.5% |
| LANGHALS, RENEE C | 3 | 58.6% | +42.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118687 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGISTERING INTRAVASCULAR AND EXTRAVASCULAR DATA | LY, TOMMY TAI | 15d |
| 18574090 | CAMERA-BASED PATIENT MONITORING IN MRI | LY, TOMMY TAI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15556319 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS OF CARDIAC PERFORMANCE BY SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM CHAMBER SEGMENTATION | ASGHAR, AMINAH | 1136d overdue |
| 16304405 | IMAGE-BASED FUSION OF ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE AND ULTRASOUND IMAGES | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 169d overdue |
| 18209517 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING POSTOPERATIVE BED TYPE | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 162d overdue |
| 18684670 | GUM DISEASE EXAMINATION | BORISSOV, IGOR N | 120d overdue |
| 18270912 | HAIR CUTTER CAP AND HAIR CUTTER WITH CAP | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 98d overdue |
| 18715141 | A HAIR TREATMENT DEVICE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 89d overdue |
| 18030175 | DECENTRALIZED TRAINING METHOD SUITABLE FOR DISPARATE TRAINING SETS | MAIDO, MAGGIE T | 84d overdue |
| 18715186 | ROTATING AN EXTERNAL CUTTING MEMBER OF A SHAVING UNIT | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 73d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16304405 | IMAGE-BASED FUSION OF ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE AND ULTRASOUND IMAGES | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 169d overdue |
| 19092755 | FOCUS OPTIMIZATION FOR PREDICTION IN MULTI-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 23d overdue |
| 18265052 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTRAST IMAGING | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 3d overdue |
| 18574975 | BREATHING PATTERN EXTRACTION | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 9d |
| 18881769 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARALLEL PREPARATION OF MULTIPLE PATIENTS | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 14d |
| 19118687 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGISTERING INTRAVASCULAR AND EXTRAVASCULAR DATA | LY, TOMMY TAI | 15d |
| 18718075 | SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF TISSUE PERFUSION AND TISSUE OXYGENATION | YANG, YI-SHAN | 20d |
| 18039308 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATION OF BRAIN HEMODYNAMICS | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 36d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 43 |
| 3797 | 42 |
| 3791 | 41 |
| 3796 | 17 |
| 3792 | 14 |
| 3785 | 14 |
| 2884 | 13 |
| 3724 | 12 |
| 3771 | 11 |
| 3683 | 10 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19493678 | GAZE INTERACTIONS WITH USER INTERFACES | MIDKIFF, AARON | 2621 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2025 |
| 19412248 | HEAT-DISSIPATING ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | SANTOS RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH M | 3797 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2025 |
| 19473191 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURED CLOUD-BASED PROCESSING AND STORAGE BY DISTRIBUTED ALLOCATION | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 3685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19159653 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING UPGRADES FOR A FLEET OR INVENTORY OF MEDICAL DEVICES | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 3685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19308470 | PASSIVE WIRELESS COIL-BASED MARKERS AND TRACKING SYSTEM | JOHNSON, GERALD | 3797 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 |
| 19157409 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE GUIDED SELECTION OF SENSORY STIMULUS CONTROL COMMANDS FOR TINNITUS | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 3797 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19286658 | ULTRASOUND IMAGE-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF ANATOMICAL SCAN WINDOW, PROBE ORIENTATION, AND/OR PATIENT POSITION | JACOB, OOMMEN | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19284895 | Method and Apparatus for Encoding/Decoding Video Signal | HABIB, IRFAN | 2485 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19282103 | Method and Apparatus for Encoding/Decoding Video Signal | HABIB, IRFAN | 2485 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19276548 | ULTRASOUND SYSTEM WITH DEEP LEARNING NETWORK PROVIDING REAL TIME IMAGE IDENTIFICATION | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19269434 | PRESSURE SENSING UNIT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE PRESSURE SENSING | JACOB, OOMMEN | 3797 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19255666 | ULTRASOUND-BASED DEVICE LOCALIZATION | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 3798 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19243777 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER | BUKHARI, AQEEL H | 2836 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19141113 | SELECTIVELY REPURPOSING CONSUMER DEVICE DATA | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 3681 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2025 |
| 19241858 | MEDICAL SYSTEM SERVICE ENHANCED BY PART REPLACEMENT REGISTRATION | MASUD, ROKIB | 3627 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19140387 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING PLANNING DATA FOR A SURGICAL PROCESS OF A SUBJECT | VAN DUZER, ALEXIS KIM | 3682 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19239089 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAPPING DATA USING SEMANTIC MAPPING BY A DATA MAPPING SYSTEM | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 2169 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19134927 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM ELEMENT FOR CONTROLLING AN INTERFACE DISPLAYING MEDICAL IMAGES | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 3685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19133774 | REDUCING VIBRATION-INDUCED SOUND IN A HAIR-CUTTING UNIT FOR A ROTARY ELECTRIC SHAVER | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 3724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19211908 | ELECTRICAL WIRE CONNECTION IN INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | SHENG, CHAO | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19131124 | INCREASING SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO OF MINIATURE MAGNETO-MECHANICAL RESONATORS | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 3797 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19209252 | NON-INVASIVE PREDICTION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR END DIASTOLIC PRESSURE THROUGH MULTI-PARAMETER ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENTS | JOHNSON, GERALD | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19196215 | INTRALUMINAL IMAGING DEVICES WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC POSITION TRACKING AND REDUCED ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE INTERFERENCE | ALDARRAJI, ZAINAB MOHAMMED | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19192595 | GAP COVERING EXPANDABLE IMPLANT FOR PREVENTING BLOOD LEAKAGE BETWEEN THERAPEUTIC DEVICE AND TISSUE AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19124996 | COORDINATING DYNAMIC HDR CAMERA CAPTURING | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 2639 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19121454 | RADIOLOGY WORKFLOW COORDINATION | SHELDEN, BION A | 3683 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19176428 | ULTRASOUND-BASED CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF PATIENT THERAPY | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §101§102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19120245 | PROVIDING GUIDANCE INFORMATION FOR AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE EXTRACTION PROCEDURE | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19118687 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGISTERING INTRAVASCULAR AND EXTRAVASCULAR DATA | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | AI Ready | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19118374 | FLOW STATE NORMALIZATION FOR FUNCTIONAL CTA | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19098115 | HANDHELD ULTRASOUND SCANNER WITH DISPLAY RETENTION AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA | 3798 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19116670 | DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF PATHOLOGIES DURING A MEDICAL SCAN | VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19092524 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR ERROR CHECKING INJECTION PARAMETERS DURING IMAGING EXAMS | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 3684 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19092755 | FOCUS OPTIMIZATION FOR PREDICTION IN MULTI-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19115750 | PAIN MONITORING | COLLARD JR, DWANE EDWARD | 3792 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19089077 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING AMBULATORY ECG SIGNAL COMPRESSION AND RECONSTRUCTION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19114601 | X-RAY SOURCE ASSEMBLY WITH MULTIPLE FILAMENTS | MALEVIC, DJURA | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 29994655 | HANDLE FOR SHAVER | HYDER, PHILIP S | 2911 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19113436 | USE OF SUPERCONDUCTOR WIRE FOR ELECTRICALLY CONNECTING ADJACENT FIELD COILS IN A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING CRYOSTAT | PATEL, RISHI R | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19113133 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING A SENSOR PATCH ON A USER | GANAN-SINGH, CHRISTINA MERAIAH | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19082279 | SIMPLIFIED SERVICE REQUESTS FOR MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 3682 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19112526 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC STATE ESTIMATION OF A CURRENT IMAGING EXAM USING USER ACTIONS ON A CONSOLE SCREEN | MCCORMACK, THOMAS S | 2686 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19110467 | OPTICAL DETECTION OF ARCING EVENTS IN AN X-RAY TUBE | BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19110198 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING THE PROBABILITY AND DURATION OF ICU PATIENT VENTILATION | VANDER WOUDE, KIMBERLY ELAINE | 3681 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19110213 | GENERATION OF MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL | NGUYEN, DUC MINH | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19110119 | MEDICAL VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MEDICAL VEHICLE | SONG, HOON K | 2884 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19110234 | DETERMINATION OF A SOFT TISSUE-RELATED PROPERTY FROM X-RAY IMAGING DATA | OSINSKI, MICHAEL S | 2674 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19109855 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PATIENT LENGTH OF STAY | PAULS, JOHN A | 3683 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19109579 | MR IMAGING WITH WATER/FAT BO MAPPING | PATEL, RISHI R | 2858 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19109183 | NON-INVASIVE BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT | SHAH, JAY B | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKoninklijke Philips N.V. has 478 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 133 art units and 382 examiners.
Adil Partap S Virk has the most, with 4 of Koninklijke Philips N.V.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
