Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
18 pending office actions • 4 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Luminar Technologies Inc. has 18 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Those matters involve 15 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating that prosecution is distributed across multiple examination channels rather than concentrated in one technical group.
HELLNER, MARK is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The limited concentration at that examiner suggests that portfolio management should account for several examiner interactions while still giving focused attention to the matters before HELLNER. The art-unit distribution also supports maintaining technology-specific prosecution strategies instead of relying on a single portfolio-wide response approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 8 (44%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELLNER, MARK | 2 | 90.4% | +8.6% |
| THATCHER, CLINT A | 2 | 80.0% | +12.6% |
| EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2 | 70.4% | +46.0% |
| MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 1 | 72.3% | +27.2% |
| HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| CHEN, CHIA-LING | 1 | 52.5% | +40.3% |
| SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 1 | 76.5% | +30.2% |
| DECARIA, MICHAEL ALEX | 1 | — | — |
| ZERON CERRATO, JOSEPH NATANAEL | 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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526327 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE CHANNEL COUNT | HELLNER, MARK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 23d |
| 18333435 | SMALL APERTURE OPTICAL PERISCOPE FOR LIDAR | SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 36d |
| 17954914 | Lidar Sensor with a Redundant Beam Scan | NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 36d |
| 18960941 | LIDAR RECEIVER OPTICAL LIMITER | HELLNER, MARK | — |
| 18907120 | OBSCURANT REDUCTION FOR SENSOR WINDOW | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | — |
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | CHEN, CHIA-LING | — |
| 18432722 | NOISE, VIBRATION, AND HARSHNESS (NVH) OPTIMIZATION | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | — |
| 18409677 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | THATCHER, CLINT 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 23d |
| 18977241 | INTEGRATED LIDAR AND RADAR SYSTEM | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | CHEN, CHIA-LING | — |
| 18409677 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | THATCHER, CLINT A | — |
| 18396594 | SELF-ALIGNED TRANSCEIVER CHIP FOR COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18381982 | CALIBRATED OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | — |
| 17961650 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH SPECTRALLY ENCODED LIGHT PULSES | THATCHER, CLINT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 10 |
| 4100 | 3 |
| 3648 | 2 |
| 2828 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977241 | INTEGRATED LIDAR AND RADAR SYSTEM | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18960941 | LIDAR RECEIVER OPTICAL LIMITER | HELLNER, MARK | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18907120 | OBSCURANT REDUCTION FOR SENSOR WINDOW | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | CHEN, CHIA-LING | 3645 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18432722 | NOISE, VIBRATION, AND HARSHNESS (NVH) OPTIMIZATION | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18409677 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | THATCHER, CLINT A | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18396594 | SELF-ALIGNED TRANSCEIVER CHIP FOR COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18535212 | NEAR RANGE OBJECT DETECTION | DECARIA, MICHAEL ALEX | 4100 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18526327 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE CHANNEL COUNT | HELLNER, MARK | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18514575 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER LASER DIODE SYSTEM | ZERON CERRATO, JOSEPH NATANAEL | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18511816 | LIDAR ROTATIONAL SCANNER-INDUCED OFFSET COMPENSATION | TRIDICO, JOHN CESARE | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18381982 | CALIBRATED OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18333435 | SMALL APERTURE OPTICAL PERISCOPE FOR LIDAR | SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 3648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 18093041 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH DETECTOR ARRAY | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2023 |
| 17961650 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH SPECTRALLY ENCODED LIGHT PULSES | THATCHER, CLINT A | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17954914 | Lidar Sensor with a Redundant Beam Scan | NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2828 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
| 17385312 | LIDAR TRANSCEIVER WITH COAXIAL TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE PATH | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jul 26, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialLuminar Technologies Inc. has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 15 examiners.
Mark Hellner has the most, with 2 of Luminar Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
