Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
61 pending office actions • 30 art units • 57 examiners • 0 of 61 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 125 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lodestar Licensing Group LLC currently has 59 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are handled by 55 distinct examiners, which is a smaller number than the total 59 pending office actions. The portfolio is distributed across 29 distinct art units, suggesting a wide range of technical focuses. KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions.
The 55 distinct examiners involved indicate that most examiners are responsible for only a single case for the company. This wide distribution across 29 distinct art units requires the company to manage diverse procedural requirements within Computing & Software. KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M, with 3 pending office actions, holds a slightly higher workload than the other distinct examiners. Practitioners should monitor the 59 pending office actions for consistency across the 29 distinct art units.
The 29 distinct art units represent a significant variety of technical examination standards that the company must meet. With 59 pending office actions, the volume of work is spread across many different technical groups. Understanding the specific preferences of KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M is important for the 3 pending office actions they manage, as they are the busiest examiner in this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 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. 18 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 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (3%) |
| §103 only | 19 (31%) |
| §102 only | 6 (10%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 6 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 22 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 3 | 65.3% | +18.0% |
| SUN, MICHAEL | 2 | 88.5% | -1.9% |
| GU, SHAWN X | 2 | 92.1% | +16.4% |
| BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | 1 | 84.2% | +11.1% |
| MATIN, TASNIMA | 1 | 90.0% | +8.3% |
| NGUYEN, THAN VINH | 1 | 91.0% | +4.2% |
| MANOSKEY, JOSEPH D | 1 | 93.2% | -9.2% |
| PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | 1 | 81.9% | -0.4% |
| CHOE, YONG J | 1 | 92.3% | +4.5% |
| HUSON, ZACHARY K | 1 | 89.3% | +6.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19331937 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING AND SHARING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DRIVING STYLE INFORMATION WITH PROXIMATE VEHICLES | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | — |
| 19315067 | HOST ACCELERATED OPERATIONS IN MANAGED NAND DEVICES | MATIN, TASNIMA | — |
| 19294107 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR PARALLEL WRITING TO MULTIPLE MEMORY DEVICE LOCATIONS | NGUYEN, THAN VINH | — |
| 19244826 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ERROR CORRECTION | MANOSKEY, JOSEPH D | — |
| 19243471 | BLOCK OR PAGE LOCK FEATURES IN SERIAL INTERFACE MEMORY | PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | — |
| 19049984 | RECONFIGURABLE CHANNEL INTERFACES FOR MEMORY DEVICES | SUN, MICHAEL | — |
| 19025893 | GENERATING AND EXECUTING A CONTROL FLOW | SUN, MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18595118 | NAND LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL TABLE REGION TRACKING | KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 11d overdue |
| 18435628 | UNIFORM ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATING OF METAL ONTO ARRAYS OF PILLARS HAVING DIFFERENT LATERAL DENSITIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | PARKER, JOHN M | 3d overdue |
| 18326972 | Data Recorders of Autonomous Vehicles | TSENG, CHENG YUAN | 14d |
| 18793357 | POWER MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY | CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | 20d |
| 18959106 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY MODULE ARCHITECTURE TO SUPPORT MEMORY ERROR CORRECTION | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | 21d |
| 18359371 | VEHICLE HAVING AN INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACE | PHAM, LINH K | 21d |
| 18824664 | SUPPLEMENTAL AI PROCESSING IN MEMORY | GU, SHAWN X | 62d |
| 18661326 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | TRAN, TAN N | 76d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18824664 | SUPPLEMENTAL AI PROCESSING IN MEMORY | GU, SHAWN X | 62d |
| 19331937 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING AND SHARING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DRIVING STYLE INFORMATION WITH PROXIMATE VEHICLES | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | — |
| 19022880 | COHERENT MEMORY ACCESS | GU, SHAWN X | — |
| 18397237 | IN-VEHICLE MONITORING AND REPORTING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLES | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | — |
| 18526978 | POWER MANAGEMENT, DYNAMIC ROUTING AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLES | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | — |
| 17149362 | Configuration of a Vehicle Based on Collected User Data | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2138 | 4 |
| 2824 | 4 |
| 3667 | 3 |
| 3665 | 3 |
| 2135 | 2 |
| 2139 | 2 |
| 2183 | 2 |
| 2827 | 2 |
| 2800 | 2 |
| 2849 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19331937 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING AND SHARING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DRIVING STYLE INFORMATION WITH PROXIMATE VEHICLES | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | 3667 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19315067 | HOST ACCELERATED OPERATIONS IN MANAGED NAND DEVICES | MATIN, TASNIMA | 2135 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19294107 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR PARALLEL WRITING TO MULTIPLE MEMORY DEVICE LOCATIONS | NGUYEN, THAN VINH | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19244826 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ERROR CORRECTION | MANOSKEY, JOSEPH D | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19243471 | BLOCK OR PAGE LOCK FEATURES IN SERIAL INTERFACE MEMORY | PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | 2139 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2025 |
| 19219971 | MEMORY COMMAND VERIFICATION | CHOE, YONG J | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19183136 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR STORING AND WRITING MULTIPLE PARAMETER CODES FOR MEMORY OPERATING PARAMETERS | HUSON, ZACHARY K | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19175150 | MEMORY DEVICE WITH STATUS FEEDBACK FOR ERROR CORRECTION | LEIBOVICH, YAIR | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19171878 | FEEDBACK FOR POWER MANAGEMENT OF A MEMORY DIE USING A DEDICATED PIN | DEROSE, VOLVICK | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19057205 | HIGHLIGHTING A TAGGED OBJECT WITH AUGMENTED REALITY | LETT, THOMAS J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19049984 | RECONFIGURABLE CHANNEL INTERFACES FOR MEMORY DEVICES | SUN, MICHAEL | 2183 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19027646 | BACKGROUND OPERATIONS IN MEMORY | WARREN, TRACY A | 2137 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029423 | COMMUNICATING DATA WITH STACKED MEMORY DIES | LEE, CHUN KUAN | 2181 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025893 | GENERATING AND EXECUTING A CONTROL FLOW | SUN, MICHAEL | 2183 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19022880 | COHERENT MEMORY ACCESS | GU, SHAWN X | 2138 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19022863 | DETECTING PAGE FAULT TRAFFIC | RIAD, AMINE | 2113 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19020975 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SCATTER AND GATHER | KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C | 2138 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19004196 | CONTROLLER COMMAND SCHEDULING IN A MEMORY SYSTEM TO INCREASE COMMAND BUS UTILIZATION | ZAMAN, FAISAL M | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18988329 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR TRACKING WORD LINE ACCESSES | TRAN, MICHAEL THANH | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18982133 | SHARING A MEMORY RESOURCE AMONG PHYSICALLY REMOTE ENTITIES | WHIPPLE, BRIAN P | 2447 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18967200 | METHODS FOR ROW HAMMER MITIGATION AND MEMORY DEVICES AND SYSTEMS EMPLOYING THE SAME | HOANG, HUAN | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18961097 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR OPERATIONS IN A SELF-REFRESH STATE | LI, ZHUO H | 2133 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18959106 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY MODULE ARCHITECTURE TO SUPPORT MEMORY ERROR CORRECTION | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | 2112 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18932097 | Re-Routing Autonomous Vehicles Using Dynamic Routing and Memory Management for Border Security Purposes | MOTAZEDI, SAHAR | 3667 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18924858 | DRIVE STRENGTH CALIBRATION FOR MULTI-LEVEL SIGNALING | PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN | 2827 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18922785 | PASSENGER SCREENING | ALLISON, ANDRAE S | — | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18886242 | MEMORY MODULE INTERFACES | ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N | 2824 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18827561 | BLOCK-ON-BLOCK MEMORY ARRAY ARCHITECTURE USING BI-DIRECTIONAL STAIRCASES | YANG, HAN | 2824 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18824664 | SUPPLEMENTAL AI PROCESSING IN MEMORY | GU, SHAWN X | 2138 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18819500 | PARALLEL ACCESS TO VOLATILE MEMORY BY A PROCESSING DEVICE FOR MACHINE LEARNING | WALSH, EMMETT K | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18819725 | Low Power State Implementation in a Power Management Circuit | BEGUM, SULTANA | 2824 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18818430 | POWER MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH BLEED CIRCUIT CONTROL | ZHANG, JUE | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18814856 | INTERFACE REGIONS, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | KING, DOUGLAS | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18801175 | SPARE SUBSTITUTION IN MEMORY SYSTEM | BARNETT, JACK KENSINGTON | 2111 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18795728 | CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURE MECHANISM FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | KORSAK, OLEG | 2492 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18793357 | POWER MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY | CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | 2175 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18756181 | STACKED MEMORY DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 2132 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18752438 | MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES AND MEMORY DEVICES | SALERNO, SARAH KATE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18672755 | REMAPPING TECHNIQUES FOR NAND STORAGE | SAIN, GAUTAM | 2135 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18666369 | PACKAGE-ON-PACKAGE SEMICONDUCTOR ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | TRAN, THANH Y | — | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18661326 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | TRAN, TAN N | 2812 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18655214 | METHODS FOR ASYNCHRONOUSLY SIGNALING UPDATED INFORMATION FROM A MEMORY DEVICE TO A HOST AND MEMORY DEVICES AND SYSTEMS EMPLOYING THE SAME | GIROUARD, JANICE MARIE | 2138 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18642617 | MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH CONDUCTIVE EXTENSIONS BETWEEN UPPER STAIRCASE STEPS AND THEIR CONTACTS, AND RELATED METHODS | PUNCHBEDDELL, SEYON ALI-SIMAH | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18595118 | NAND LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL TABLE REGION TRACKING | KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 2139 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18435628 | UNIFORM ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATING OF METAL ONTO ARRAYS OF PILLARS HAVING DIFFERENT LATERAL DENSITIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | PARKER, JOHN M | 2800 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18420248 | AUTONOMOUS DUTY CYCLE CALIBRATION | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 2849 | §102 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18410753 | Virtual Mirror with Automatic Zoom Based on Vehicle Sensors | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18402618 | MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES INCLUDING STAIRCASE STRUCTURES, AND RELATED MEMORY DEVICES AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS | PURVIS, SUE A | 2800 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18397237 | IN-VEHICLE MONITORING AND REPORTING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLES | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 3665 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18393375 | CONFIGURING A HOST INTERFACE OF A MEMORY DEVICE BASED ON MODE OF OPERATION | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 2824 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18526978 | POWER MANAGEMENT, DYNAMIC ROUTING AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLES | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18505199 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED TARGETED REFRESH OPERATIONS | TRAN, ANTHAN | 2825 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18471890 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR OPERATING NEURAL NETWORKS | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 2849 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18365594 | METHODS OF CHARGING LOCAL INPUT/OUTPUT LINES OF MEMORY DEVICES, AND RELATED DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | LAPPAS, JASON | 2827 | DP | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18359371 | VEHICLE HAVING AN INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACE | PHAM, LINH K | 2145 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18349068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY WARNING NEARBY VEHICLES OF POTENTIAL HAZARDS | DAGER, JONATHAN M | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18326972 | Data Recorders of Autonomous Vehicles | TSENG, CHENG YUAN | 2615 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 17833491 | DRIVER ASSISTANCE FOR NON-AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE IN AN AUTONOMOUS ENVIRONMENT | TESTARDI, DAVID A | 3664 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
| 17498637 | Sensor Fusion to Determine Reliability of Autonomous Vehicle Operation | CROMER, ANDREW J | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2021 |
| 17489448 | Over-The-Air (OTA) Update for Firmware of a Vehicle Component | SOLTANZADEH, AMIR | 2191 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2021 |
| 17149362 | Configuration of a Vehicle Based on Collected User Data | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 3665 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2021 |
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