Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Minebea Power Semiconductor Device Inc. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, meaning that no two pending cases are being reviewed by the same person. This distribution provides the company with a variety of examiner perspectives across its active semiconductor portfolio.
The prosecution involves 4 distinct art units, which suggests that the 5 pending office actions are concentrated within a few specialized technical groups. Because there are 4 art units for 5 actions, at least 1 art unit is handling more than 1 case. This concentration in 4 units allows for some consistency in the technical standards applied to the company's applications.
The busiest examiner, GHYKA, ALEXANDER G, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 5 total pending office actions for the company, showing that the workload is evenly split among the 5 examiners. For the company, this means that the success of the 5 pending actions depends on the individual decisions of 5 different people across 4 different administrative units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHYKA, ALEXANDER G | 1 | 84.0% | +13.6% |
| DINKE, BITEW A | 1 | 73.0% | +12.2% |
| ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | 1 | 86.3% | +3.0% |
| NGUYEN, KHIEM D | 1 | 85.8% | +12.4% |
| ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 1 | 87.9% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835745 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE USING SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843734 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRIC POWER CONVERTER | GHYKA, ALEXANDER G | — |
| 18841726 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE | ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | — |
| 18729973 | SOLDER AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843734 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRIC POWER CONVERTER | GHYKA, ALEXANDER G | — |
| 18842851 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION DEVICE | DINKE, BITEW A | — |
| 18835745 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE USING SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
| 18729973 | SOLDER AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 2892 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843734 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRIC POWER CONVERTER | GHYKA, ALEXANDER G | 2812 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18842851 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION DEVICE | DINKE, BITEW A | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18841726 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE | ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18835745 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE USING SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | 2892 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18729973 | SOLDER AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 2897 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMinebea Power Semiconductor Device Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Alexander G Ghyka has the most, with 1 of Minebea Power Semiconductor Device Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
