Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
14 pending office actions • 13 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 76 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation has 16 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 16 examiners across 14 art units, reflecting a broad prosecution workload with examiner assignments distributed throughout the technical area.
LUONG, HENRY T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. That allocation does not identify a dominant examiner, while the smaller art-unit figure relative to examiner coverage shows that some examination groups contain more than one matter.
For counsel, docket control should preserve portfolio-level consistency while allowing response teams to account for individual examiner positions. Art-unit tracking may help identify shared technical treatment, but the examiner distribution requires separate prosecution analysis.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (7%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (14%) |
| §103 only | 6 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUONG, HENRY T | 1 | 76.0% | +18.0% |
| KARACSONY, ROBERT | 1 | 77.1% | +15.4% |
| CHEN, ALAN S | 1 | 90.9% | +6.5% |
| ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 1 | 82.5% | +13.6% |
| OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 1 | 62.1% | +9.5% |
| KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 1 | 62.1% | +27.0% |
| MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | 1 | 56.7% | +7.7% |
| MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 1 | 48.4% | +37.2% |
| FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | 1 | 53.7% | +28.5% |
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18339449 | SCANNER SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING OF MOVING OBJECTS | COOK, JONATHON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678702 | DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 4d overdue |
| 19086756 | DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR NOISY ENVIRONMENTS | LUONG, HENRY T | — |
| 19050383 | OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED ANTENNA ARRAY | KARACSONY, ROBERT | — |
| 18738672 | EXTREMAL EIGENSTATE DETERMINATION SYSTEM | CHEN, ALAN S | — |
| 18660315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | — |
| 18393263 | DISTRIBUTION-BASED RISK MANAGEMENT IN CLASSIFICATION MODELS | MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | — |
| 17901255 | ALIGNMENT OF A COORDINATE FRAME WITH A BORESIGHT AXIS OF AN OPTICAL TRACKING DEVICE | FLYNN, ABBY J | — |
| 16943440 | FLEXIBLE SOLAR ARRAY FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL DEPLOYMENT | TRINH, THANH TRUC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18363472 | Solid-State Cooler Device with Normal Metal Substrates | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 30d overdue |
| 18678702 | DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 4d overdue |
| 19086756 | DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR NOISY ENVIRONMENTS | LUONG, HENRY T | — |
| 19050383 | OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED ANTENNA ARRAY | KARACSONY, ROBERT | — |
| 18615427 | COMPOSITE ARTICLES COMPRISING A THERMAL PROTECTION STRUCTURE, AND RELATED METHODS | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | — |
| 18363647 | METHODS FOR GENERATING AN INTEGRATED LIST OF EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS USING DISPARATE SOFTWARE PACKAGES AND RELATED SYSTEMS | FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | — |
| 18339449 | SCANNER SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING OF MOVING OBJECTS | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 2 |
| 2125 | 1 |
| 2449 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 2123 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19086756 | DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR NOISY ENVIRONMENTS | LUONG, HENRY T | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19050383 | OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED ANTENNA ARRAY | KARACSONY, ROBERT | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18738672 | EXTREMAL EIGENSTATE DETERMINATION SYSTEM | CHEN, ALAN S | 2125 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18678702 | DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 2449 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18660315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18615427 | COMPOSITE ARTICLES COMPRISING A THERMAL PROTECTION STRUCTURE, AND RELATED METHODS | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18393263 | DISTRIBUTION-BASED RISK MANAGEMENT IN CLASSIFICATION MODELS | MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | 2123 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18363472 | Solid-State Cooler Device with Normal Metal Substrates | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18363647 | METHODS FOR GENERATING AN INTEGRATED LIST OF EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS USING DISPARATE SOFTWARE PACKAGES AND RELATED SYSTEMS | FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18339449 | SCANNER SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING OF MOVING OBJECTS | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18158200 | QUASI-LOAD FOLLOWING (Q-LF) HIGH EFFICIENCY FAULT TOLERANT HYBRID ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17901255 | ALIGNMENT OF A COORDINATE FRAME WITH A BORESIGHT AXIS OF AN OPTICAL TRACKING DEVICE | FLYNN, ABBY J | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
| 17592738 | AUTOMATED METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SHEETS OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, PATTERN PREPARATION AND FORMING SYSTEMS, AND SHEETS OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
| 16943440 | FLEXIBLE SOLAR ARRAY FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL DEPLOYMENT | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialNorthrop Grumman Systems Corporation has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 14 examiners.
Henry T Luong has the most, with 1 of Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
