Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lodestar Licensing Group LLC

34 pending office actions • 28 art units • 34 examiners • 0 of 34 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 136 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

34
Total Pending OAs
24
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 33 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
13
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 33 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (13)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (4)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
25
Medium (74%)
6
Easy (18%)
3
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only20 (59%)
§102 only4 (12%)
§112 only6 (18%)
Double-patenting + other1 (3%)
No statute on record3 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
20
Information Tech
59% of docket
1
Communications
3% of docket
9
Semiconductors
26% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

340 h
Manual time on pending OAs
68 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
119 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LI, ZHUO H 1 89.1% +3.6%
ABRAHAM, ESAW T 1 94.1% +3.2%
SHAAWAT, MUSSA A 1 76.3% +6.2%
NGUYEN, MISA H 1 67.2% +15.6%
LE, KHOI V 1 90.0% +35.5%
MERLINO, DAVID P 1 71.2% +12.1%
GU, SHAWN X 1 92.4% +15.5%
BARNETT, JACK KENSINGTON 1 76.5% +20.8%
KORSAK, OLEG 1 85.6% +8.4%
PEYTON, TAMMARA R 1 90.8% +6.0%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18961097 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR OPERATIONS IN A SELF-REFRESH STATE LI, ZHUO H 9d
18959106 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY MODULE ARCHITECTURE TO SUPPORT MEMORY ERROR CORRECTION ABRAHAM, ESAW T 21d
18824664 SUPPLEMENTAL AI PROCESSING IN MEMORY GU, SHAWN X 62d
18795728 CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURE MECHANISM FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE KORSAK, OLEG 77d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18828510 BLACK BOX DATA RECORDER FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE MERLINO, DAVID P 10d overdue
18902122 KEY ENCRYPTION HANDLING LE, KHOI V 8d
18801175 SPARE SUBSTITUTION IN MEMORY SYSTEM BARNETT, JACK KENSINGTON 15d
18906733 ACCESSING A MEMORY RESOURCE AT ONE OR MORE PHYSICALLY REMOTE ENTITIES NGUYEN, MISA H 33d
18824664 SUPPLEMENTAL AI PROCESSING IN MEMORY GU, SHAWN X 62d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2824 3
2138 2
2111 2
2132 2
2849 2
2133 1
2112 1
3669 1
3666 1
2436 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18961097 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR OPERATIONS IN A SELF-REFRESH STATE LI, ZHUO H 2133 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Nov 26, 2024
18959106 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY MODULE ARCHITECTURE TO SUPPORT MEMORY ERROR CORRECTION ABRAHAM, ESAW T 2112 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18944627 DETERMINATION OF RELIABILITY OF VEHICLE CONTROL COMMANDS VIA REDUNDANCY SHAAWAT, MUSSA A 3669 §102 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Nov 12, 2024
18906733 ACCESSING A MEMORY RESOURCE AT ONE OR MORE PHYSICALLY REMOTE ENTITIES NGUYEN, MISA H 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Oct 04, 2024
18902122 KEY ENCRYPTION HANDLING LE, KHOI V 2436 Other Non-Final OA 8d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18828510 BLACK BOX DATA RECORDER FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE MERLINO, DAVID P 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2024
18824664 SUPPLEMENTAL AI PROCESSING IN MEMORY GU, SHAWN X 2138 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Sep 04, 2024
18801175 SPARE SUBSTITUTION IN MEMORY SYSTEM BARNETT, JACK KENSINGTON 2111 §112 Non-Final OA 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
18793420 Security Configurations in Page Table Entries for Execution Domains PEYTON, TAMMARA R 2184 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Aug 02, 2024
18793357 POWER MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY CHOUDHURY, ZAHID 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Aug 02, 2024
18778802 LEVERAGING A TRUSTED PARTY THIRD-PARTY HSM AND DATABASE TO SECURELY SHARE A KEY WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D 2407 §112 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18778726 ERROR CHECK AND SCRUB FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE TABONE JR, JOHN J 2111 §102 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jul 19, 2024
18756181 STACKED MEMORY DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S 2132 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2024
18661326 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES TRAN, TAN N 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 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
18595118 NAND LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL TABLE REGION TRACKING KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 2139 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2024
18593765 MANAGED NAND FLASH MEMORY REGION CONTROL AGAINST ENDURANCE HACKING WONG, TITUS 2181 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 01, 2024
18442437 TWO-PART PROGRAMMING OF MEMORY CELLS NGUYEN, VAN THU T 2824 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18435628 UNIFORM ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATING OF METAL ONTO ARRAYS OF PILLARS HAVING DIFFERENT LATERAL DENSITIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY WELLINGTON, ANDREA L 2800 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2024
18420248 AUTONOMOUS DUTY CYCLE CALIBRATION ALMO, KHAREEM E 2849 §102 Non-Final OA 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
18507881 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING REFRESH OPERATIONS OF MEMORY BANKS USING A SHARED ADDRESS PATH REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE 2824 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18505199 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED TARGETED REFRESH OPERATIONS TRAN, ANTHAN 2825 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18484300 APPARATUSES INCLUDING CAPACITORS INCLUDING MULTIPLE DIELECTRIC MATERIALS BEGUM, SULTANA 2824 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Oct 10, 2023
18378000 MEMORY DEVICES, MODULES AND SYSTEMS HAVING MEMORY DEVICES WITH VARYING PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS, MEMORY FORMATS, AND OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES NAM, HYUN 2183 §112 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Oct 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 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18359371 VEHICLE HAVING AN INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACE NUNEZ, JORDANY 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jul 26, 2023
18351429 WRITE TRAINING IN MEMORY DEVICES AHMED, ZUBAIR 2132 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18326972 Data Recorders of Autonomous Vehicles TSENG, CHENG YUAN 2615 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 31, 2023
18136250 MEMORY ACCESS GATE LI, SIDNEY 2137 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Apr 18, 2023
17694385 Control of Display Device for Autonomous Vehicle TESTARDI, DAVID A 3664 §112 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2022
17489448 Over-The-Air (OTA) Update for Firmware of a Vehicle Component SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2021

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