Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc.

24 pending office actions • 20 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 72 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

16
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
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. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (16)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

2
Hard (8%)
21
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (8%)
§103 only20 (83%)
§102 only1 (4%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
12% of docket
8
Communications
33% of docket
2
Semiconductors
8% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
46% 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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KC, SAGAR 1 87.5% +2.8%
SMITH, ISAAC G 1 72.7% +20.4%
MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 1 55.6% +66.7%
MCCORD, PAUL C 1 69.2% +26.1%
JUSTICE, MICHAEL W 1 83.2% +17.3%
JACOB, OOMMEN 1 78.8% +17.4%
EVANS, KARSTON G 1 70.7% +17.2%
TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY 1 67.5% +21.6%
JONES, ANDREW B 1 70.5% +21.4%
SHIN, SEONG-AH A 1 78.6% +20.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18956813 System and Method for Aircraft Approach Management KC, SAGAR 17d overdue
18621583 System and Method for DMG Passive Sensing in an Environment JUSTICE, MICHAEL W 3d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18589109 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TRAINING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TRAINING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM SHIN, SEONG-AH A 14d
18183512 System and Method for Controlling Motion of a Bank of Elevators CARRASQUILLO, JORGE L 15d

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
18773853 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROBOT PLANNING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 73d overdue
18734621 Systems and methods for soft event detection with event-level thresholding MCCORD, PAUL C 72d overdue
18591583 Control Under Uncertainty using Constrained Zonotopes TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY 72d overdue
18616373 System and Method for Robust In-Hand Robotic Manipulation EVANS, KARSTON G 58d overdue
18590210 LONG-TAILED ANOMALY DETECTION IN IMAGES JONES, ANDREW B 4d overdue
18621583 System and Method for DMG Passive Sensing in an Environment JUSTICE, MICHAEL W 3d overdue
18619583 DEEP EQUILIBRIUM MODEL BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING VITAL SIGNS JACOB, OOMMEN 2d overdue
18589109 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TRAINING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TRAINING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM SHIN, SEONG-AH A 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3657 2
3648 2
3656 2
3645 2
3662 1
3658 1
2692 1
3797 1
2667 1
2659 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18956813 System and Method for Aircraft Approach Management KC, SAGAR 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2024
18933559 System and Method Suitable for Controlling Motion of an Ego Vehicle in an Environment Including Other Moving Agents SMITH, ISAAC G 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 31, 2024
18773853 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROBOT PLANNING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2024
18734621 Systems and methods for soft event detection with event-level thresholding MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2024
18621583 System and Method for DMG Passive Sensing in an Environment JUSTICE, MICHAEL W 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18619583 DEEP EQUILIBRIUM MODEL BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING VITAL SIGNS JACOB, OOMMEN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18616373 System and Method for Robust In-Hand Robotic Manipulation EVANS, KARSTON G 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18591583 Control Under Uncertainty using Constrained Zonotopes TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18590210 LONG-TAILED ANOMALY DETECTION IN IMAGES JONES, ANDREW B 2667 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18589109 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TRAINING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TRAINING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM SHIN, SEONG-AH A 2659 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18586720 System and Method for Radar Object Detection and Tracking Using Cross-Frame Spatial-Temporal Relationality WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2024
18443448 Probabilistic State Tracking Using Unbalanced Probabilistic Filter LIU, HARRY K 3645 §102 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2024
18403195 GENERATING SPATIALIZED AUDIO SIGNALS BASED ON MODAL INTERPOLATION OF IMPULSE RESPONSES MOHAMMED, ASSAD 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2024
18531976 Autoencoder with Non-Uniform Unrolling Recursion BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 2674 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18502918 COMPARING AUDIO SIGNALS WITH EXTERNAL NORMALIZATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2023
18191417 Audio Source Separation using Hyperbolic Embeddings LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL 2694 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Mar 28, 2023
18191815 FREQUENCY ESTIMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COHERENT RANGE ESTIMATION RICHTER, KARA MARIE 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
18183512 System and Method for Controlling Motion of a Bank of Elevators CARRASQUILLO, JORGE L 2846 §101 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 14, 2023
18165641 Systems and Methods for Object Orientation and Manipulation Via Machine Learning Based Control CAIN, AARON G 3656 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2023
18048680 Passive Negative Inductor and a Method for Fabricating the Passive Negative Inductor NGUYEN, TUYEN T 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2022
17817373 Low-latency Captioning System MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S 2123 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Aug 04, 2022
17649578 System and Method for Automated Transfer Learning with Domain Disentanglement TRAN, DAVID HOANG 2147 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Feb 01, 2022
17449968 Calibration System and Method for Calibrating an Industrial System Model using Simulation Failure KIM, EUNHEE 2188 Non-Final OA 169d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2021
17486981 Imaging Photoplethysmography (IPPG) System and Method for Remote Measurements of Vital Signs CROCKETT, JOSHUA BRIGHAM 2661 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Sep 28, 2021

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