Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Microchip Technology Inc.

56 pending office actions • 43 art units • 53 examiners • 0 of 56 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 122 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

56
Total Pending OAs
48
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 55 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

33
Overdue
1
Due this week
12
Due this month
8
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 55 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (33)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (12)Due ≤ 60 days (8)Due later (1)

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%)
54
Medium (96%)
2
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only46 (82%)
§102 only8 (14%)
§112 only2 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
17
Information Tech
30% of docket
8
Communications
14% of docket
21
Semiconductors
38% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
18% 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.

560 h
Manual time on pending OAs
112 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
196 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUYNH, KIM T 2 82.4% +7.1%
BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 2 78.3% +28.6%
GALT, CASSI J 2 68.9% +16.1%
DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 1 89.3% +5.1%
GU, SHAWN X 1 92.4% +15.5%
SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 1 76.9% +13.5%
CODUROGLU, JALAL C 1 86.0% +6.5%
PENDLETON, DIONNE 1 69.5% +15.8%
YOUSSEF, MENATOALLAH M 1 76.5% +19.2%
ALI, SHAWKAT M 1 88.9% +20.4%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18988880 WRITING OF MULTI-LEVEL CELL DATA TRAFFIC GU, SHAWN X 23d overdue
19034553 DETERMINING HEALTH OF WORDLINES FOR CONTINUED USER DATA PROGRAMMING DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 17d overdue
18937232 System and Method to Efficiently Assist Time-Synchronous Media Streaming and Remote-Control Applications HUYNH, KIM T 14d
18679048 DEVICE AND METHODS FOR SINGLE-CHIP PCIe VIRTUALIZATION HUYNH, KIM T 16d
18951734 GUIDANCE SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED MOTORCYCLE PASSENGERS CODUROGLU, JALAL C 33d
18942876 DEVICE AND METHODS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION ALI, SHAWKAT M 56d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17660015 RECEPTION OF SIGNALS FOR RANGING, TIMING, AND DATA TRANSFER GALT, CASSI J 110d overdue
18964434 DETERMINING READ VOLTAGE BASED ON TEMPERATURE OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 49d overdue
18951259 LOCALIZATION AND MONITORING OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS PENDLETON, DIONNE 36d overdue
17660017 RECEPTION OF SIGNALS FOR RANGING, TIMING, AND DATA TRANSFER GALT, CASSI J 26d overdue
18988880 WRITING OF MULTI-LEVEL CELL DATA TRAFFIC GU, SHAWN X 23d overdue
17664086 PROTECTING A CIRCUIT FROM AN INPUT VOLTAGE BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 18d overdue
18949712 INPUT BUFFERING GATE-TO-SOURCE (VGS) VOLTAGE OF A SILICON CARBIDE (SIC) FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR (FET) YOUSSEF, MENATOALLAH M 14d
18306117 INVERTING CURRENT AMPLIFICATION AND RELATED TOUCH SYSTEMS BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3648 4
2858 3
2132 2
2849 2
2633 2
2111 2
2184 2
2685 2
2838 2
2843 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19034553 DETERMINING HEALTH OF WORDLINES FOR CONTINUED USER DATA PROGRAMMING DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 2132 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2025
18988880 WRITING OF MULTI-LEVEL CELL DATA TRAFFIC GU, SHAWN X 2138 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2024
18964434 DETERMINING READ VOLTAGE BASED ON TEMPERATURE OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 2137 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2024
18951734 GUIDANCE SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED MOTORCYCLE PASSENGERS CODUROGLU, JALAL C 3665 §102 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Nov 19, 2024
18951259 LOCALIZATION AND MONITORING OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS PENDLETON, DIONNE 2689 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2024
18949712 INPUT BUFFERING GATE-TO-SOURCE (VGS) VOLTAGE OF A SILICON CARBIDE (SIC) FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR (FET) YOUSSEF, MENATOALLAH M 2849 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 15, 2024
18942876 DEVICE AND METHODS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION ALI, SHAWKAT M 2633 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Nov 11, 2024
18940056 PHYSICAL MEMORY BLOCK HEALTH BASED VIRTUAL BLOCK NGUYEN, THIEN DANG 2111 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2024
18937232 System and Method to Efficiently Assist Time-Synchronous Media Streaming and Remote-Control Applications HUYNH, KIM T 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18927229 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SOFTWARE PROGRAMMABLE CACHE MEMORY KHAN, MASUD K 2132 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2024
18926670 AUTHENTICATION OF FILES SCOTT, RANDY A 2439 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2024
18923751 PULSE WIDTH MODULATION CIRCUIT TO GENERATE A FEEDBACK CLOCK SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET 2842 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2024
18908932 SMOKE DETECTOR LIGHT SOURCE AND SENSOR TO EMIT AND DETECT POLARIZED LIGHT PHAM, QUANG 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 08, 2024
18909937 GENERATING A LOGICAL TO PHYSICAL DATA STRUCTURE FOR A SOLID STATE DRIVE USING SECTORS OF DIFFERENT SIZES YEW, CHIE W 2139 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending Oct 08, 2024
18892276 REDUCING STARTUP TIME OF A TRELLIS-BASED MLSE DECODER FAN, CHIEH M 2632 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2024
18763534 CONTROLLING WHICH MEMORY SOURCE IS UTILIZED FOR FETCHING INSTRUCTIONS BY A PROCESSOR OF A MICROCONTROLLER ALCANTARA-RAMOS, EMILIO 2183 §103 Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Jul 03, 2024
18750206 ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) PROTECTION CIRCUITRY FOR REDUCED INTERFERENCE FROM BULK CURRENT INJECTION (BCI) NOISE BARNIE, REXFORD N 2836 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18737148 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR FEEDBACK CONTROL IN SWITCHED CONVERTERS JACKSON, LAKAISHA 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18679048 DEVICE AND METHODS FOR SINGLE-CHIP PCIe VIRTUALIZATION HUYNH, KIM T 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 30, 2024
18660355 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING DATA FROM A DEGRADED RAID VOLUME USING AN ACCELERATOR ENGINE GUYTON, PHILIP A 2113 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 10, 2024
18644380 PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION NOTIFICATION BASED ON USER PRODUCT SPECIFICATION ALLEN, WILLIAM J 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2024
18642020 ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE CLAMP CIRCUIT CONTAINING A DISABLE CIRCUIT TO SELECTIVELY DISABLE A DISCHARGE CIRCUIT SREEVATSA, SREEYA 2838 §102 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2024
18630327 PROXIMITY DETECTION FOR LIFE SAFETY DEVICES WU, ZHEN Y 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Apr 09, 2024
18613346 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PHYSICAL IDENTIFICATION OF MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS CRAWLEY, TALIA F 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2024
18611441 DETERMINING BERLEKAMP DISCREPANCY VALUES NGUYEN, STEVE N 2111 §112 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2024
18602151 PASSWORD DONGLE FOR GENERATION AND RETRIEVAL OF SECURE PASSWORDS DUFFIELD, JEREMY S 2498 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18589479 MOBILE MICROSCOPE TO ANALYZE SAMPLES USING A MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION NETWORK BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18444319 METHODS OF FAULT DETECTION USING A PERIODIC SIGNAL MONSUR, NASIMA 2858 §103 Final Rejection 49d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18430152 DETERMINING LATENCY AT A PHYSICAL LAYER ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N 2441 §103 Non-Final OA 182d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18424125 CABLE FAULT DIAGNOSIS USING RECONSTRUCTED REFLECTION SIGNALS HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER 2858 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18413114 INDUCTIVE SENSOR DEVICE WITH INDUCTOR COIL FORMED IN REDISTRIBUTION LAYER (RDL) REGION YENINAS, STEVEN LEE 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2024
18400911 TELEMETRY SYSTEM INCLUDING A SENSOR STATION ARRAY AND AN AERIAL DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM YANG, JAMES J 2686 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18533252 ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH SUBSTRATES LESS THAN 50 µm THICK AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE CHAMBLISS, ALONZO 2897 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Dec 08, 2023
18531232 COMPRESSING HIGH FREQUENCY EMISSIONS IN 10BASE-T1S DRIVER BY USING MULTIPLE STAGE NOTCH/BAND STOP FILTERING POOS, JOHN W 2896 §102 Final Rejection 33d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18510714 MUSCLE STIMULATION VIA BRAIN WAVE SIGNALS TRANSMITTED THROUGH BODY COMMUNICATION LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER 3796 §102 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2023
18381776 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION OVER MULTIFUNCTION PINS BEGUM, SULTANA 2824 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2023
18473081 MODULATING POWER CONSUMPTION FROM A POWER SOURCE THAT SUPPLIES A DATA-DEPENDENT POWER CONSUMER SINGH, AMNEET 2633 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18471047 SELECTIVELY ENCODING OR DECODING PIXELS OF AN IMAGE VIA RUN-LENGTH ENCODING OR DECODING OR GRADIENT ENCODING OR DECODING HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18453979 SETTING A PERFORMANCE MODE OF AN RF RECEIVER FRONTEND SHERIF, FATUMA G 2649 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18354559 METHODS OF PACKAGING MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES UTILIZING PANELS AND RELATED TEMPORARY STRUCTURES KIM, PAUL D 3729 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18202356 ELECTRONIC PACKAGE INCLUDING IC DIES ARRANGED IN INVERTED RELATIVE ORIENTATIONS IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 26, 2023
18306117 INVERTING CURRENT AMPLIFICATION AND RELATED TOUCH SYSTEMS BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 24, 2023
18095777 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM TO IDENTIFY ACTIVITY IN A RECEPTICAL CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE 3655 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 11, 2023
18153002 PARALLELED TRANSISTOR CELLS OF POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES ALMO, KHAREEM E 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jan 11, 2023
18064971 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE WITH BACKSIDE LEAD FOR CLOCK TREE OR POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK CIRCUITS HANUMASAGAR, SHAMITA S 2814 §112 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
18061338 CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM GENERATION KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Dec 02, 2022
18056139 VIDEO-DATA ENCODER MAHMUD, FARHAN 2483 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 16, 2022
17988285 INTEGRATED RESISTOR VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2022
17935446 SECURE BOOT ASSIST FOR DEVICES, AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES BAE, JI H 2176 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 26, 2022
17862693 ANTI-FUSE DEVICE WITH A CUP-SHAPED INSULATOR TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2022
17664086 PROTECTING A CIRCUIT FROM AN INPUT VOLTAGE BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending May 19, 2022
17662975 DETERMINING A STATE OF A PNT-BASED TIMING SIGNAL JUSTICE, MICHAEL W 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending May 11, 2022
17660017 RECEPTION OF SIGNALS FOR RANGING, TIMING, AND DATA TRANSFER GALT, CASSI J 3648 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2022
17660015 RECEPTION OF SIGNALS FOR RANGING, TIMING, AND DATA TRANSFER GALT, CASSI J 3648 §102 Non-Final OA 110d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2022
17456496 RECEIVER PROCESSING CIRCUITRY FOR MOTION DETECTION AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES HODAC, ERIC KHOI 3648 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2021
17409940 CARBON NANOTUBE (CNT) MEMORY CELL ELEMENT AND METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2021

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