Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
22 pending office actions • 15 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nextpower LLC has 23 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The workload is distributed across 18 distinct examiners and 15 distinct art units. The difference between the office-action figure and the assignment figures indicates some repetition in both examiner and technical-unit coverage.
CANNON, RYAN SMITH is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That concentration is meaningful within the listed portfolio, although the broader docket still requires coordination across numerous examiner relationships. Counsel can use recurring art-unit and examiner experience to standardize issue analysis while preserving matter-specific claim strategies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 only | 1 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (9%) |
| §103 only | 2 (9%) |
| §102 only | 5 (23%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (45%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (5%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 3 | 55.8% | +36.9% |
| BAILLARGEON, PAUL D | 2 | 78.0% | +4.7% |
| TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 2 | 52.8% | +25.8% |
| SINGH, SUNIL | 1 | 67.4% | +24.8% |
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 1 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| SINGH, GURKANWALJIT | 1 | 60.8% | +26.4% |
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.5% |
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 49.3% | +31.2% |
| COZART, JERMIE E | 1 | 83.9% | +3.3% |
| AZAD, MD ABUL K | 1 | 81.5% | +20.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18936759 | METHODS OF MANUFACTURING A PORTABLE CRIMPING DEVICE FOR JOINING FOUNDATION COMPONENTS | COZART, JERMIE E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18214953 | MAXIMIZING OUTPUT OF A SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM UNDER REDUCED IRRADIANCE CONDITIONS | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 97d overdue |
| 18396544 | HYBRID WATER SYSTEM FOR AGRO-PV SYSTEM | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 4d overdue |
| 19009273 | SOLAR MODULE FRAME COUPLINGS | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 40d |
| 18945790 | HORIZONTAL BALANCED SOLAR TRACKER | WHITE, SADIE | 48d |
| 19257294 | Frames for Solar Panels | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | — |
| 19173978 | GROUND PILE STRUCTURES FOR SOLAR TRACKING SYSTEMS | SINGH, SUNIL | — |
| 19089406 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MACHINES FOR JOINING TRUSS FOUNDATION COMPONENTS WITHOUT MECHANICAL FASTENERS | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 19054834 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS OF LEARNING FOR ON-DEMAND OPTIMAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) FLEET OPERATION | SINGH, GURKANWALJIT | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18214953 | MAXIMIZING OUTPUT OF A SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM UNDER REDUCED IRRADIANCE CONDITIONS | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 97d overdue |
| 18396544 | HYBRID WATER SYSTEM FOR AGRO-PV SYSTEM | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 4d overdue |
| 19009273 | SOLAR MODULE FRAME COUPLINGS | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 40d |
| 18945790 | HORIZONTAL BALANCED SOLAR TRACKER | WHITE, SADIE | 48d |
| 19257294 | Frames for Solar Panels | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | — |
| 19173978 | GROUND PILE STRUCTURES FOR SOLAR TRACKING SYSTEMS | SINGH, SUNIL | — |
| 19089406 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MACHINES FOR JOINING TRUSS FOUNDATION COMPONENTS WITHOUT MECHANICAL FASTENERS | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 19054834 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS OF LEARNING FOR ON-DEMAND OPTIMAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) FLEET OPERATION | SINGH, GURKANWALJIT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 3 |
| 3678 | 3 |
| 2831 | 2 |
| 3635 | 2 |
| 1722 | 2 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19309083 | ALIGNED INSULATION HOOKING BUSBAR | BAILLARGEON, PAUL D | 2831 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 |
| 19257294 | Frames for Solar Panels | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19173978 | GROUND PILE STRUCTURES FOR SOLAR TRACKING SYSTEMS | SINGH, SUNIL | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19089406 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MACHINES FOR JOINING TRUSS FOUNDATION COMPONENTS WITHOUT MECHANICAL FASTENERS | NGUYEN, CHI Q | 3635 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19054834 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS OF LEARNING FOR ON-DEMAND OPTIMAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) FLEET OPERATION | SINGH, GURKANWALJIT | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2025 |
| 19043096 | ALIGNED INSULATION HOOKING BUSBAR | BAILLARGEON, PAUL D | 2831 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19012735 | SCREW ANCHOR WITH CONSUMABLE TIP | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19009273 | SOLAR MODULE FRAME COUPLINGS | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1722 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18945790 | HORIZONTAL BALANCED SOLAR TRACKER | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18936759 | METHODS OF MANUFACTURING A PORTABLE CRIMPING DEVICE FOR JOINING FOUNDATION COMPONENTS | COZART, JERMIE E | 3799 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18807109 | HAIL STOW SYSTEM AND METHOD | AZAD, MD ABUL K | 2119 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18801932 | INSULATION PIERCING ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | LEE, SEUNG H | 2876 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18789942 | SOLAR TRACKER VARIABLE CONNECTION ANGULAR ORIENTATIONS | BAYNES, KEVIN J | 3678 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18664683 | LINKED SOLAR TRACKERS | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18635529 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS OF INCREASING ELECTRIC VEHICLE UTILIZATION IN TRANSIT FLEETS USING LEARNING, PREDICTIONS, OPTIMIZATION, AND AUTOMATION | CLARE, MARK C | 3628 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18396544 | HYBRID WATER SYSTEM FOR AGRO-PV SYSTEM | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18349577 | PARALLEL INVERTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | QUDDUS, NUSRAT | 2838 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18214953 | MAXIMIZING OUTPUT OF A SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM UNDER REDUCED IRRADIANCE CONDITIONS | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18196843 | SUPPORT FRAMES FOR SOLAR TRACKERS | HAWN, PATRICK D | 3631 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 17989728 | SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM FOR POWERING AN ELECTRONIC ELEMENT | HUFFMAN, JULIAN D | 2859 | §102 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17494607 | D-SHAPED TORQUE TUBE AND BEARING ASSEMBLIES | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2021 |
| 17179156 | TRUSS FOUNDATIONS FOR SINGLE-AXIS TRACKERS | HIJAZ, OMAR F | 3635 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialNextpower LLC has 22 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 18 examiners.
Ryan Smith Cannon has the most, with 3 of Nextpower LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
