Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Northwestern University

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

114 pending office actions • 64 art units • 106 examiners • 0 of 114 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 111 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Northwestern University is managing 113 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 113 actions are spread across 62 distinct art units, reflecting a very broad range of research and development. The university interacts with 105 distinct examiners, meaning the vast majority of pending actions are being reviewed by different individuals. This distribution across 62 art units and 105 examiners requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to many different individual examiner preferences and art unit norms. The 113 pending office actions represent a substantial volume of intellectual property.

EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This count of 2 actions is the highest concentration for any single examiner in the portfolio. The remaining actions are handled by the other distinct examiners. With 113 pending actions spread across 105 examiners, there is very little concentration of cases. Practitioners should focus on the 2 actions under EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL while also addressing the broader group of 105 distinct examiners. The 62 distinct art units provide the technical framework for these 113 pending office actions.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

114
Total Pending OAs
77
Non-Final OAs
37
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 34 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

19
Overdue
1
Due this week
7
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 34 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (19)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (5)

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.

74
Hard (65%)
35
Medium (31%)
5
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§101 + other22 (19%)
§103 only22 (19%)
§102 only5 (4%)
§112 only3 (3%)
Double-patenting only2 (2%)
Double-patenting + other8 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)51 (45%)

Industry Mix

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

63
Life Sciences
55% of docket
2
Information Tech
2% of docket
2
Communications
2% of docket
4
Semiconductors
4% of docket
24
Mechanical / Eng
21% of docket
19
Business / Other
17% 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.

1,140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
228 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
399 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
10.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 2 61.6% +63.5%
ZHU, JIANJIAN 2 58.8% +82.4%
SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY 2 16.7% +16.3%
HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 2 27.3% +33.9%
SALMON, KATHERINE D 2 42.8% +37.9%
EIX, EMILY FAY 2 45.5% +78.3%
SHIN, DANA H 2 27.0% +27.0%
BUTTICE, AUDREY L 2 47.9% +25.9%
BRUTUS, JOEL F 1 72.8% +17.7%
NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V 1 67.3% +25.7%

Hard Cases (77)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18780061 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED RISK-CLASSIFICATION OF ENDOMERIAL CANCER PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 139d overdue
18245324 CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LUMEN IMAGING PROBE DATA HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 70d overdue
18572345 MULTIPLEXED ANTIGEN-BASED DETECTION OF SARS-COV-2 AND OTHER DISEASES USING NANOMECHANICAL SENSORS MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 67d overdue
17784891 METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING THE IMMUNE RESPONSE REDDIG, PETER J 38d overdue
17421677 RAPID REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 30d overdue
18009384 HYDRATION SENSOR FOR MONITORING AND DIAGNOSIS OF SKIN DISEASES IN ANY ENVIRONMENT AND APPLICATION OF SAME PARK, EVELYN GRACE 26d overdue
19122087 Systems and Methods to Identify Commercialization and Partnership Potential for Research Institutions SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D 18d overdue
18865562 Anatomic Imaging Derived 4D Hemodynamics Using Deep Learning JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 16d overdue

Interview Candidates (18)

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
18249057 USE OF REELIN FOR TREATING CARDIAC DISEASES BUTTICE, AUDREY L 16d overdue
17287668 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF MAMMAL SUBJECT AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 12d
16951638 METHOD OF USING CHECKPOINT KINASE INHIBITOR THERAPY TO MODULATE ANTI-TUMORAL RESPONSE AGAINST CANCER AND SENSITIZE GLIOMAS TO IMMUNOTHERAPY BUTTICE, AUDREY L 57d
19311921 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGHLY PARALLEL ULTRASONIC DETECTION USING MICRO-RING RESONATOR IN AN ARRAY FORMAT BRUTUS, JOEL F —
19259714 HUMAN SPINAL CORD INJURY ORGANOIDS EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL —
19227080 PROGRAMMABLE STREAMING ARCHITECTURE FOR LOW-ENERGY HUMAN-CENTRIC VISION APPLICATIONS NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V —
18941862 BIOACTIVE AND ANTIOXIDANT SUPRAMOLECULAR POLYMER HYDROGELS FOR NEURAL CELL CULTURE ZHU, JIANJIAN —
18929526 COST EFFECTIVE CULTURE MEDIA AND PROTOCOL FOR HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS ZHU, JIANJIAN —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 5
1652 4
3796 4
1635 4
3797 3
1626 3
3783 3
1682 3
1681 3
1632 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19311921 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGHLY PARALLEL ULTRASONIC DETECTION USING MICRO-RING RESONATOR IN AN ARRAY FORMAT BRUTUS, JOEL F 3797 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2025
19259714 HUMAN SPINAL CORD INJURY ORGANOIDS EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 1632 §101§102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 03, 2025
19227080 PROGRAMMABLE STREAMING ARCHITECTURE FOR LOW-ENERGY HUMAN-CENTRIC VISION APPLICATIONS NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V 2486 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 03, 2025
19215178 INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY FOR INTRAOPERATIVE FUNCTIONAL MAPPING POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR 3797 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 21, 2025
19129428 Fluid-Structure Instability-Based Physiomarker LY, TOMMY TAI 3797 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending May 13, 2025
19122087 Systems and Methods to Identify Commercialization and Partnership Potential for Research Institutions SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D 3626 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2025
19111123 TRANSVENUS REVERSIBLE ELECTROPORATION WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 12, 2025
19053742 Efficient Ray-Tracing Rendering Processor with Optimization for Mobile Devices and Support of Inverse Rendering PATEL, SHIVANG I — §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2025
18880219 REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES RESPONSIVE CLEAVABLE HIERARCHIAL METALLIC SUPRANANOSTRUCTURES SCHLEIS, DANIEL J 1784 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
18876553 METHODS OF FORMING STABLE CONDUCTIVE SURFACES CHEN, BRET P 1718 §103§112 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Dec 18, 2024
18865562 Anatomic Imaging Derived 4D Hemodynamics Using Deep Learning JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 3798 §102§103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2024
18941862 BIOACTIVE AND ANTIOXIDANT SUPRAMOLECULAR POLYMER HYDROGELS FOR NEURAL CELL CULTURE ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2024
18929268 METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR EARLY RECOGNITION OF RARE SKIN DISEASES BOYAR, NOAH WILLIAM — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2024
18929526 COST EFFECTIVE CULTURE MEDIA AND PROTOCOL FOR HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS ZHU, JIANJIAN — §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2024
18914929 KERNEL-BASED ERGODIC SEARCH KARWAN, SIHAR A 3658 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Oct 14, 2024
18901448 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL REMODELING PROGRESSION IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 2024
18886300 PLATFORM OF COMPOSABLE MAMMALIAN ELEMENTS OF TRANSCRIPTION (COMET) FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L 1652 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 16, 2024
18842004 (3S,4R)-3-AMINO-4-(DIFLUOROMETHYL)CYCLOPENT-1-ENE-1-CARBOXYLIC ACID AND RELATED COMPOUNDS AS SELECTIVE INACTIVATORS OF ORNITHINE AMINOTRANSFERASE RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI — §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2024
18792715 Synthesis of MEK7 Inhibitors and methods of Use Thereof OH, TAYLOR V — §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 02, 2024
18779742 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PREDICT RADIOFREQUENCY HEATING OF MEDICAL IMPLANTS SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL 2673 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 22, 2024
18780061 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED RISK-CLASSIFICATION OF ENDOMERIAL CANCER PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 3685 §101§103 Final Rejection 139d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18777366 Annuloplasty Ring For Receiving A Replacement Valve MATHEW, SEEMA — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 18, 2024
18775012 ENGINEERED PROBIOTICS FOR DETECTION OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE IN HUMANS DAVIS, RUTH A — §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 17, 2024
18773685 METHOD TO EVALUATE AND FACT-CHECK AN AI LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL CHAT RESPONSE USING DOMAIN- SPECIFIC AND DOMAIN-AGNOSTIC GUIDANCE FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICAL PROVIDER-PATIENT CONSULT SAINT CYR, LEONARD — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 16, 2024
18725885 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CONTINUOUS ORGAN AND ORGAN ALLOGRAFT MONITORING KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN 3796 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 01, 2024
18737061 TISSUE EXPANDER WITH DRUG DELIVERY CAPABILITY THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18737515 Systems and Methods for Latent Variable Modeling of Multiscale Neural Signals for Brain-Computer Interfaces PHAKOUSONH, DARAVANH — §101§102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18737007 COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY PROCESSOR SUPPORTING BOTH GENERAL-PURPOSE CPU AND DEEP LEARNING PHAM, LY D 2827 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18735506 FORMULATIONS AND METHODS FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF TUMOR METASTASIS AND TUMORIGENESIS SHIM, DAVID M. 1626 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 06, 2024
18735858 HUMAN SPINAL CORD INJURY ORGANOIDS EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 1632 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 06, 2024
18648764 ELECTRICAL MODULATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF BRAIN TUMORS HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 3796 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 29, 2024
18640956 CONDUCTIVE ELASTOMER FOR BLADDER REGENERATION WEBB, WALTER E 1612 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 19, 2024
18613535 CONDUCTIVE NANOMATERIALS AND COMPOSITES THEREOF NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D 1761 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 22, 2024
18691863 LIPIODOL FORMULATION FOR TRANSARTERIAL CHEMOIMMUNOEMBOLIZATION ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE 1616 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 13, 2024
18597748 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AN EMOTIONAL STATE ABOUELELA, MAY A 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 06, 2024
18595057 DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC LUNG DISEASES BY QUANTIFYING SPINK1 LEVEL SALMON, KATHERINE D — §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2024
18583685 CATALASE MIMETIC PEPTIDES SHELTON, SYNPHANE LA'SHAWN 1652 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 21, 2024
18420277 HIGH-EFFICIENCY GOLD RECOVERY BY ADDITIVE-INDUCED SUPRAMOLECULAR POLYMERIZATION OF CYCLODEXTRIN CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 1734 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 23, 2024
18418897 LIPOTEICHOIC ACID FROM STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS AND ITS USE TO MODULATE NEURONAL ACTIVITY VIA PD-1 INHIBITORY SIGNALLING IN NEURONS OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2024
18412362 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT OF HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE 1622 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 12, 2024
18404041 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR LIGHT DELIVERY SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY 3783 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 04, 2024
18400950 METHOD OF ELECTRODEPOSITION IN SEAWATER FOR THE GROWTH OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS CONTRERAS, CIEL P — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 29, 2023
18572345 MULTIPLEXED ANTIGEN-BASED DETECTION OF SARS-COV-2 AND OTHER DISEASES USING NANOMECHANICAL SENSORS MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 3791 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18572447 INDOCARBOCYANINE LIPID DERIVATIVES FOR IN VIVO CARGO DELIVERY MCANANY, JOHN D 1625 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 20, 2023
18544247 GENE THERAPY TREATMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION LANDSMAN, ROBERT S — §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 18, 2023
18569070 Systems and Methods for Prediction of Hematoma Expansion Using Automated Deep Learning Image Analysis DICKERSON, CHAD S 2683 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 11, 2023
18531821 METHODS FOR SINGLE CELL NANOPORE SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY AND DATA ANALYSIS SMITH, JENNIFER JOY — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 07, 2023
18517238 HALIDE PEROVSKITE OPTICAL STORAGE AND MEMORY ARRAYS TOBERGTE, NICHOLAS J 2824 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2023
18563509 SELECTIVE SEPARATION OF HEXACHLOROPLATINATE(IV) DIANIONS BASED ON EXO-BINDING WITH CUCURBIT[6]URIL CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2023
18559244 METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PROSTATITIS AND/OR CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME EIX, EMILY FAY 1653 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 06, 2023
18288473 MELANIN MATERIALS FOR TISSUE REPAIR ANDERSON, REBECCA L 1626 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 26, 2023
18556311 3D-PRINTING OF STRONG LIVING SCAFFOLDS KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI 3783 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 19, 2023
18286619 HIERARCHICAL DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORKS-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AN AI PLATFORM FOR SCIENTIFIC AND MATERIALS SYSTEMS INNOVATION KIM, DAVID 3625 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 12, 2023
18283699 TARGETING MULTIPLE T CELL TYPES USING SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACID VACCINE ARCHITECTURE ARIETI, RUTH SOPHIA 1635 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 22, 2023
18283710 CRISPR-MEDIATED CLEAVAGE OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-DETECTABLE MARKER CONJUGATES FOR DETECTION OF TARGET ANALYTES GUSSOW, ANNE 1683 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 22, 2023
18281648 MULTI-LAYER BOROPHENE AND METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING SAME ZHANG, HAI Y 1732 §102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 12, 2023
18240201 DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PRIMARY GRAFT DYSFUNCTION FOLLOWING LUNG TRANSPLANT BUCCINI, MICHELLE CALLAHAN 1675 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 30, 2023
18548175 CELL-FREE BIOSENSORS WITH DNA STRAND DISPLACEMENT CIRCUITS SALMON, KATHERINE D 1682 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 28, 2023
18279034 STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP GENOME EDITING SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS (SNAS) PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA 1631 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 25, 2023
18274019 FABRICATION OF PIXELATED RADIATION DETECTORS VIA LASER CUTTING KERR, ELIZABETH M 3761 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 25, 2023
18225400 SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS WITH DENDRITIC LIGANDS SHIN, DANA H 1635 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 24, 2023
18271782 LIPID NANOPARTICLE SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS GIBBS, TERRA C 1635 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 11, 2023
18270903 BOROPHANE POLYMORPHS AND SYNTHESIS METHODS OF SAME NGUYEN, CAM N 1736 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 05, 2023
18215701 Methods and Materials for Matching Chemistry of Individuals and Human Melanin JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1797 §101§102§112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18334135 TRANS-INTERFACIAL MAGNETIC SEPARATION MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN 1677 §102§103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 13, 2023
18257261 PI3K INHIBITORS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST GLUCOCORTICOID-INDUCED ATROPHY MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 1625 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 13, 2023
18205826 Systems and Methods for Enabling Situational Awareness for Events Via Data Visualization OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 05, 2023
18328967 Portable Closed System for Culturing Cells Using Small Volumes of Capillary Blood MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL A 1796 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 05, 2023
18327725 ELECTRICAL WRITE/READ OF HIGH-INFORMATION-DENSITY MAGNETIC THIN FILM SMET, UYEN TRAN 2824 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
18200932 IN VIVO DETECTION OF SURGICAL MATERIALS RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH 3781 §103§112 Final Rejection 23d Pending May 23, 2023
18035876 ION-BASED METHODS FOR STABILIZING AND IMPROVING POROUS METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORK (MOF) MATERIALS FOR WATER HARVESTING FROM AIR AND RELATED APPLICATIONS HOU, FRANK S 1692 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending May 08, 2023
18251604 A CELL-FREE BIO-MANUFACTURING PLATFORM FOR PRODUCTION OF FATTY ACIDS AND CANNABINOIDS RAMIREZ, DELIA M 1652 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 03, 2023
18251596 METHODS FOR FULL-LENGTH REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION PCR OF LONG RNAs CONTAINING MODIFIED RIBONUCLEOSIDES USING A THERMOSTABLE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE GREENE, CAROLYN LEE 1681 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 03, 2023
18250140 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING PATIENT IMPROVEMENT THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STRIEGEL, THEODORE CHARLES — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 21, 2023
18249057 USE OF REELIN FOR TREATING CARDIAC DISEASES BUTTICE, AUDREY L 1647 §103§112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Apr 13, 2023
18029432 COMPOSITES WITH SURFACE REFINING AND CONFORMAL GRAPHENE COATING, ELECTRODES, AND FABRICATING METHODS OF SAME WEST, ROBERT GENE 1721 §103§112 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Mar 30, 2023
18028934 INTEGRATION OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY MAPPING SYSTEMS WITH ELECTROPORATION SYNCHRONIZED WITH PACING GEDEON, BRIAN T 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
18245324 CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LUMEN IMAGING PROBE DATA HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 3791 §101§102§112 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
18021687 B-CELL BASED IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF GLIOBLASTOMA AND OTHER CANCERS JUEDES, AMY E 1644 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Feb 16, 2023
18021429 GRAPHENE-FUNCTIONALIZED COMPOSITES FOR BATTERY ANODES, FORMING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME YOON, KEVIN E 1735 §102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18017372 GRAPHENE METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK COMPOSITE ELECTRODES FOR LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERIES BULLOCK, IN SUK C 1723 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 20, 2023
18006120 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAPIDLY SCREENING FOR SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF DISORDERS EDOUARD, JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER 3683 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 19, 2023
18005826 ENGINEERED N-GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES WITH ALTERED SPECIFICITIES EIX, EMILY FAY 1653 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 17, 2023
18153872 TANDEM REPEAT PROTEIN SEQUENCES IN PROTEIN-LIKE POLYMERS AND USES THEREOF LIEB, JEANETTE M 1654 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 12, 2023
18004104 HUMAN RECOMBINANT ACE2-FC MUTANTS THAT DECOUPLE ANTI-SARS-COV-2 ACTIVITY FROM CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1658 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 03, 2023
18009384 HYDRATION SENSOR FOR MONITORING AND DIAGNOSIS OF SKIN DISEASES IN ANY ENVIRONMENT AND APPLICATION OF SAME PARK, EVELYN GRACE 3791 §103§112 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2022
18048673 A SYNTHENTIC POLY-TRANSTHYRETIN AFFINITY TRAP FOR DETECTING AMYLOIDOGENIC TRANSTHYRETIN FORMS IN PLASMA SAMPLES OFTRANTHYRETIN AMYLOIDOSIS PATIENTS DUNN, MCKENZIE A 1678 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 21, 2022
17995825 CHEMICALLY TUNABLE OPTICALLY ADDRESSABLE MOLECULR-SPIN QUBIT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS PATERSON, BRIGITTE A 2812 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 07, 2022
17936208 Carbohydrate-Modified Particles and Particulate Formulations for Modulating an Immune Response BASQUILL, SEAN M 1614 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2022
17908809 FIT-FLARES FOR DETECTION OF INTRACELLULAR ANALYTES IN LIVE CELLS DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1682 §102§103DP Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17814211 ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY USING SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS (SNAS) CHONG, KIMBERLY 1636 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 21, 2022
17784891 METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING THE IMMUNE RESPONSE REDDIG, PETER J 1646 §103§112 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2022
17778340 FLUID MECHANICS-BASED ANALYSIS TOOL TO ESTIMATE FLOW DATA FROM PLANIMETRY CATHETER DATA ROBERTS, ANNA L 3791 §101§103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 19, 2022
17775187 MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS AND A PROCESS TO DISCOVER NEW NATURAL PRODUCTS BY LINKING GENOMES AND METABOLOMES IN FUNGI SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA 1687 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending May 06, 2022
17773519 GOLD NANOPARTICLES/NANOSHELLS IMMUNE CONJUGATES FOR ENHANCED IMMUNOTHERAPY AND PHOTOTHERMAL THERAPY FOR HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P 1671 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 29, 2022
17772169 MOLECULAR COMPUTING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOLVING COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEMS NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT 1686 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 27, 2022
17760990 HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN-LIKE NANOPARTICLES AS INDUCERS OF FERROPTOSIS IN CANCER FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1617 §102§103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 16, 2022
17641525 MULTIPLEXED WEARABLE SENSORS FOR PREGNANCY MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. 3700 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 09, 2022
17637410 BLOOD GENE BIOMARKERS TO DIAGNOSE AND PREDICT ACUTE REJECTION IN LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS MYERS, CARLA J 1682 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2022
17625023 METHODS OF USING MODIFIED CYTOTOXINS TO TREAT CANCER KUCKLA, ANNA GRACE 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jan 05, 2022
17621088 FORCED INTERCALATION (FIT)-APTAMERS: PROBES BASED ON FORCED INTERCALATION CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA 1681 DP Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2021
17445285 ENHANCING SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION AND TARGET TISSUE ACCUMULATION OF NANOPARTICLES VIA CO-ADMINISTRATION WITH MACROPINOCYTOSIS INHIBITORY NANOPARTICLES (MINP) WESTERBERG, NISSA M 1618 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2021
17392847 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING A STRICTURE ALONG THE BILIARY AND/OR PANCREATIC TRACT LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH 3783 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 03, 2021
17421677 RAPID REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 1681 §103§112 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2021
17311108 Protein Crystal Engineering Through DNA Hybridization Interactions MOAZZAMI, NAGHMEH NINA 1652 §102§103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Jun 04, 2021
17287668 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF MAMMAL SUBJECT AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 3796 §103§112DP Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 22, 2021
17273438 DATA-DRIVEN REPRESENTATION AND CLUSTERING DISCRETIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGN OPTIMIZATION AND/OR PERFORMANCE PREDICTION OF MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME HANN, JAY B 2186 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2021
16951638 METHOD OF USING CHECKPOINT KINASE INHIBITOR THERAPY TO MODULATE ANTI-TUMORAL RESPONSE AGAINST CANCER AND SENSITIZE GLIOMAS TO IMMUNOTHERAPY BUTTICE, AUDREY L 1647 §103§112 Final Rejection 57d Pending Nov 18, 2020
17054441 SELF-MANAGEABLE ABNORMAL SCAR TREATMENT WITH SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACID (SNA) TECHNOLOGY NGUYEN, JOHN P 1619 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Nov 10, 2020
17076607 SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS WITH DENDRITIC LIGANDS SHIN, DANA H 1635 DP Final Rejection — Pending Oct 21, 2020
17074343 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNTARGETED METABOLOMIC SCREENING PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN 1686 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 19, 2020
17046482 ADDRESSING NANOMEDICINE COMPLEXITY THROUGH NOVEL HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING AND MACHINE LEARNING BEIL, RANDI LYNN 1684 §103 Final Rejection 69d Pending Oct 09, 2020
16773540 MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR GENE DELIVERY IN THE HEART CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Jan 27, 2020
16312973 BIO-ELECTRIC NOSE LEVIN, JOEL D 1633 §112 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2018

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