Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
92 pending office actions • 77 art units • 92 examiners • 0 of 92 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 168 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology (Kaist) has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, AMRANY, ADI, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The data shows a distinct art unit associated with this portfolio. With only this pending office action, the prosecution profile is focused on a single interaction within the patent office.
The presence of a distinct examiner for the institution's current workload means that the prosecution effort is concentrated under AMRANY, ADI. This examiner is responsible for the only pending matter in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. The distinct art unit involved indicates that the technology is being reviewed within a specialized group.
Practitioners should note that the institutional strategy for this specific matter is dependent on the interaction with the assigned examiner. Because there is only this pending action, there is no broader examiner or art unit data to compare against within the current portfolio. The focus remains on the distinct art unit for all ongoing activity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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. 14 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 | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 20 (22%) |
| §103 only | 25 (27%) |
| §102 only | 3 (3%) |
| §112 only | 7 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 35 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERDERAMO III, RALPH A | 1 | 79.4% | +9.0% |
| MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 1 | 59.4% | +26.1% |
| WALTON, CHESIREE A | 1 | 30.8% | +28.6% |
| LI, MENG | 1 | 86.3% | +20.1% |
| SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 1 | 73.8% | +20.4% |
| MAUPIN, HUGH H | 1 | 87.5% | +6.3% |
| WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 1 | 54.8% | +27.6% |
| LI, YONGHONG | 1 | 76.0% | +22.6% |
| SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | 1 | 64.6% | +47.5% |
| BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 83.9% | +10.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19106975 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL | MAUPIN, HUGH H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505079 | MICROCAPSULE AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 73d overdue |
| 18693295 | OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND LIGHT FOCUSING DEVICE | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 32d overdue |
| 18066637 | META INPUT METHOD AND SYSTEM AND USER-CENTERED INFERENCE METHOD AND SYSTEM VIA META INPUT FOR RECYCLING OF PRETRAINED DEEP LEARNING MODEL | DEVORE, CHRISTOPHER DILLON | 16d overdue |
| 18120277 | CHEMIRESISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND CHEMIRESISTIVE SENSOR AND DEVICE | BERKELEY, EMILY R | 7d |
| 18362763 | METHOD OF DETECTING AND CORRECTING MULTI-PATH INTERFERENCE COMPONENT IN TOF CAMERA | ALCANTARA-RAMOS, EMILIO | 14d |
| 18489172 | PHASE CHANGE RAM DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | PARENDO, KEVIN A | 33d |
| 19289664 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UPDATING DUAL-ORDER-GUARANTEED MAPPING TABLE | VERDERAMO III, RALPH A | — |
| 19250844 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED WORK INFORMATION | WALTON, CHESIREE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253970 | PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING BASED ON REAL-TIME NEURAL NETWORK RENDERING USING SPARSE MIXTURE-OF-EXPERTS MODEL ACCELERATION ARCHITECTURE | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | — |
| 19250844 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED WORK INFORMATION | WALTON, CHESIREE A | — |
| 19210538 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING TASK FOR CYBERSECURITY BASED ON DARK WEB | LI, MENG | — |
| 19171327 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | — |
| 19026558 | ARM REST APPARATUS | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | — |
| 19004643 | LOCATION METHODS FOR FREQUENCY MODULATION CONTINUES WAVE (FMCW) RADAR AND COMMUNICATION DEVICES | LI, YONGHONG | — |
| 19004079 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | — |
| 18981056 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RESTORING VIDEO | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| 2437 | 2 |
| 3648 | 2 |
| 2855 | 2 |
| 1725 | 2 |
| 2183 | 2 |
| 1687 | 2 |
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2147 | 2 |
| 1794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19289664 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UPDATING DUAL-ORDER-GUARANTEED MAPPING TABLE | VERDERAMO III, RALPH A | 2139 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19253970 | PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING BASED ON REAL-TIME NEURAL NETWORK RENDERING USING SPARSE MIXTURE-OF-EXPERTS MODEL ACCELERATION ARCHITECTURE | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 3669 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19250844 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED WORK INFORMATION | WALTON, CHESIREE A | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19210538 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING TASK FOR CYBERSECURITY BASED ON DARK WEB | LI, MENG | 2437 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19171327 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 06, 2025 |
| 19106975 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL | MAUPIN, HUGH H | 2884 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19026558 | ARM REST APPARATUS | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 3631 | §101§102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19004643 | LOCATION METHODS FOR FREQUENCY MODULATION CONTINUES WAVE (FMCW) RADAR AND COMMUNICATION DEVICES | LI, YONGHONG | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19004079 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | 2656 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18981056 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RESTORING VIDEO | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 2661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18966623 | WALKING ROBOT AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD THEREOF | CHU, RANDOLPH I | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18966279 | METHOD FOR OBJECT INTERACTION IN EXTENDED REALITY, DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME, AND EXTENDED REALITY DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE DEVICE | MUSHAMBO, MARTIN | 2615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18964080 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROBE-ADAPTIVE QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 3645 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18862135 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CHANNEL RELATED TO REFLECTING INTELLIGENT SURFACE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | RANEW, BENJAMIN THOMAS | 2465 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18861112 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CHANNEL RELATED TO INTELLIGENT REFLECTING SURFACE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | AHMED, NIZAM U | 2461 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18908040 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERCEIVING TRAFFIC ROAD ENVIRONMENT BASED ON GRAPH REPRESENTATION FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING | PARK, EDWARD | 2675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18692957 | SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | VUONG, QUOCHIEN B | 2645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18887348 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION USING AI MODELS | MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | 2654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18829062 | STRUCTURES FOR PHYSICAL UNCLONABLE FUNCTION USING SPONTANEOUS CHIRAL SYMMETRY BREAKING AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME | VISCONTI, GERALDINA | 1737 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18818474 | COOPERATIVE ISAC METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE BASE STATION BASED ON DEEP LEARNING | BYTHROW, PETER M | 3648 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18837131 | NOVEL LIPID PEROXIDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPARING BIOFUEL AND BIOPOLYMER USING SAME | PAK, YONG D | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18730595 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING OCCURRENCE OF IMMUNE-RELATED ADVERSE EVENTS INDUCED BY HLA TYPE-BASED CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY AGENT | BENZION, GARY | 1681 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18729697 | ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL FOR SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL COMPRISING SAME | BAGILEO, MAXIMILIAN DOMINIC | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18759559 | MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE USING SPIN PUMPING | JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18745212 | MICROBOLOMETER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | COTEY, PHILIP L | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18715678 | ISLET-LIKE ORGANOID EXPRESSING MONSTIM1 IN WHICH INSULIN SECRETION IS REGULATED BY OPTICAL STIMULATION | TIWARI, VYOMA SHUBHAM | 1634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18677860 | ELECTROLYTE FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY AND RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | HOANG, NATHAN NGOC-NGOC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18663199 | Pulse Wave Reproduction Device and Method of Operating the Same | ZHONG, XIN Y | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18657349 | ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES COMPRISING THE SAME | LEE, JAMES | 1725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18649182 | DATA PROCESSING ESTIMATING METHOD FOR PRIVACY PROTECTION AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE SAME | FARROW, FELICIA | 2437 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18644111 | DYNAMIC RAM USING TRIPLE-MODE MEMORY CELL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACCELERATOR USING THE SAME | DANG, PHILIP | 2488 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18703403 | HIGH-RESOLUTION 3D SCANNING METHOD USING REAL-TIME ACQUISITION OF SURFACE NORMALS AND THE SYSTEM THEREOF | BEE, ANDREW W. | 2677 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18628865 | AI-BASED HIGH-SPEED AND LOW-POWER 3D RENDERING ACCELERATOR AND METHOD THEREOF | AMIN, JWALANT B | 2612 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18696031 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING RESPONSE TO CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY BY USING DNA METHYLATION ABERRATION IN LINE-1 | KENNEDY, SARAH JANE | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18613117 | LOW-POWER AI PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD COMBINING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AND SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK | CHOI, YUK TING | 2164 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18693295 | OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND LIGHT FOCUSING DEVICE | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18596282 | SOFT ACTUATOR AND MASSAGE DEVICE FOR VEHICLE SEAT | HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18585375 | TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATOR BIOPARTS BASED ON 3'-UNTRANSLATED REGION (UTR) AND A METABOLIC ENGINEERING METHOD THEREOF | REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 1656 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18443488 | HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE SENSOR AND SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME | NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 80d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18428601 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FAIR FEW-SHOT CIL | HADDAD, MAJD MAHER | 2125 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18423327 | 3D ARTIFICIAL SKIN MODEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | JACKSON III, WALTER | 1638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18420941 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MULTI-LAYERED NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING AND MULTI-LAYERED NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING PRODUCED THEREBY | KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | 3646 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18398355 | ANALOG-DIGITAL HYBRID INTEGRATOR CIRCUIT | NGUYEN, HAI L | 2836 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18575123 | TRANSGENIC ANIMAL IN WHICH APEX2 IS SPECIFICALLY EXPRESSED IN MITOCHONDRIAL MATRIX AND USES THEREOF | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18575259 | DATA CLASSIFICATION METHOD FEASIBLE ON NISQ COMPUTER AND APPARATUS THEREOF | PEACH, POLINA G | 2165 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18536776 | CATHODE MATERIAL INCLUDING BISMUTH-DOPED MANGANITE-BASED PEROVSKITE AND SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL INCLUDING SAME | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18532875 | METHOD OF DETECTING AND CORRECTING MULTI-PATH INTERFERENCE COMPONENT IN TOF CAMERA | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 4100 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18567659 | ELASTOMERIC ELECTROLYTE FOR HIGH-ENERGY ALL-SOLID-STATE METAL BATTERIES | ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18522600 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANIPULATING PARTICLE BY USING OPTICAL TWEEZER | MCCORMACK, JASON L | 2881 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18520276 | NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR WITH IMPROVED LEARNING PERFORMANCE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | METZGER, MICHAEL J | 2183 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has 92 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 77 art units and 92 examiners.
Ralph A Verderamo III has the most, with 1 of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.