Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

13 pending office actions • 13 art units • 13 examiners • 1 of 13 (8%) have an AI response strategy ready • 84 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
4
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
11
Medium (85%)
1
Easy (8%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (77%)
§102 only1 (8%)
§112 only1 (8%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
23% of docket
1
Information Tech
8% of docket
4
Communications
31% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
31% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BUCK, LINDSEY A 1 49.1% +34.2%
ZARKA, DAVID PETER 1 82.4% +12.9%
FAN, CHIEH M 1 27.3% +9.3%
LEE, BENJAMIN P 1 80.0% +17.0%
DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY 1 76.9% +32.9%
HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 1 76.5% +23.1%
MILLER, BRANDON J 1 87.6% +8.5%
BERNSTEIN, ALLISON 1 81.0% +2.7%
MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 1 47.8% +30.9%
LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E 1 61.6% +22.7%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18678702 DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM ZARKA, DAVID PETER 4d overdue
18603397 INTERLEAVER AND DEINTERLEAVER WITH DELAY MEMORY FOR A TRANSMITTER OR RECEIVER MILLER, BRANDON J 5d
18657834 SLING PAD SYSTEM LEE, BENJAMIN P 22d
18510319 MESHED TRANSMISSION LINE BERNSTEIN, ALLISON 28d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18666579 DATA ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FAN, CHIEH M 9d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18181978 ETALON VAPOR CELL FOR ATOMIC SENSING LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E 45d overdue
18363472 Solid-State Cooler Device with Normal Metal Substrates MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 30d overdue
18617393 MATERIAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MATERIAL SUPPORT STRUCTURES, AND RELATED METHODS HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 29d overdue
18903248 LIGHT TRAPPING DEVICE FOR THIN FILM SPACE PHOTOVOLTAICS BUCK, LINDSEY A 23d overdue
18678702 DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM ZARKA, DAVID PETER 4d overdue
18627700 RECURSIVE OBJECT DETECTION FILTER DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY 7d
18657834 SLING PAD SYSTEM LEE, BENJAMIN P 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1728 1
2449 1
2632 1
3641 1
2663 1
3723 1
2647 1
2824 1
3763 1
2621 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18903248 LIGHT TRAPPING DEVICE FOR THIN FILM SPACE PHOTOVOLTAICS BUCK, LINDSEY A 1728 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Oct 01, 2024
18678702 DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM ZARKA, DAVID PETER 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18666579 DATA ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FAN, CHIEH M 2632 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue AI Ready May 16, 2024
18657834 SLING PAD SYSTEM LEE, BENJAMIN P 3641 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 08, 2024
18627700 RECURSIVE OBJECT DETECTION FILTER DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY 2663 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18617393 MATERIAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MATERIAL SUPPORT STRUCTURES, AND RELATED METHODS HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18603397 INTERLEAVER AND DEINTERLEAVER WITH DELAY MEMORY FOR A TRANSMITTER OR RECEIVER MILLER, BRANDON J 2647 §112 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18510319 MESHED TRANSMISSION LINE BERNSTEIN, ALLISON 2824 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 15, 2023
18363472 Solid-State Cooler Device with Normal Metal Substrates MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2023
18181978 ETALON VAPOR CELL FOR ATOMIC SENSING LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E 2621 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2023
18063841 METHODS OF PRODUCING GLYCIDYL NITRATE AND RELATED SYSTEMS ENGLISH, CONNOR KENNEDY 1625 Other Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 09, 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 Final Rejection 41d Pending Feb 04, 2022
17379492 OPTICAL PROXIMITY SYSTEM CHILTON, CLARA GRACE 3645 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Jul 19, 2021

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