Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

NVIDIA Corporation

10 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
0
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

1
Hard (10%)
8
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§103 only5 (50%)
§102 only3 (30%)
§112 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
30% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
6
Semiconductors
60% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MOODY, KYLE J 1 90.5% +7.9%
TRAN, DALENA 1 87.7% +9.7%
NGUYEN, PHIL K 1 82.4% +14.0%
CRAWFORD, JASON 1 84.9% +8.9%
BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. 1 81.8% +11.9%
CHANG, JAY C 1 84.7% +14.5%
PARIHAR, SUCHIN 1 87.7% +8.8%
LIAN, MANG TIN BIK 1 70.3% +26.1%
WHITE, JAY MICHAEL 1 22.2% +100.0%
LAROCQUE, EMILY E 1 80.9% +11.8%

Quick Wins (7)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18178375 LOGIC CELL PLACEMENT MECHANISMS FOR IMPROVED CLOCK ON-CHIP VARIATION PARIHAR, SUCHIN 66d overdue
18419153 PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE CELL WITH SINGLE TRANSISTOR TYPES TO IMPROVE VOLTAGE AND TEMPERATURE STABILITY CRAWFORD, JASON 30d overdue
18646456 ROBOT MOTION GENERATION ON ENHANCED COMPUTER PROCESSORS TRAN, DALENA 23d overdue
18615238 TRANSMITTER-SIDE LINK TRAINING WITH IN-BAND HANDSHAKING NGUYEN, PHIL K 8d
18649309 ADAPTIVE SLEW-RATE BOOSTER MOODY, KYLE J 20d
18407807 OUTPUT LATCH AND AMPLIFIER USING TWO VOLTAGE DOMAINS AND KEEPER CIRCUIT BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. 20d
18494495 PACKAGE LAYOUTS UTILIZING NON-RECTANGULAR PERIPHERAL CHIPS CHANG, JAY C 23d

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
17112795 EFFICIENT SOFTMAX COMPUTATION LAROCQUE, EMILY E 15d overdue
17679681 Reinforcement driven standard cell placement WHITE, JAY MICHAEL 22d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17112795 EFFICIENT SOFTMAX COMPUTATION LAROCQUE, EMILY E 15d overdue
18165874 VIA-BASED INDUCTOR COIL FOR INTEGRATED SILICON APPLICATIONS LIAN, MANG TIN BIK 7d
18615238 TRANSMITTER-SIDE LINK TRAINING WITH IN-BAND HANDSHAKING NGUYEN, PHIL K 8d
18407807 OUTPUT LATCH AND AMPLIFIER USING TWO VOLTAGE DOMAINS AND KEEPER CIRCUIT BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. 20d
17679681 Reinforcement driven standard cell placement WHITE, JAY MICHAEL 22d
18494495 PACKAGE LAYOUTS UTILIZING NON-RECTANGULAR PERIPHERAL CHIPS CHANG, JAY C 23d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2838 1
3657 1
2176 1
2844 1
2825 1
2817 1
2851 1
2837 1
2188 1
2182 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18649309 ADAPTIVE SLEW-RATE BOOSTER MOODY, KYLE J 2838 §102 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18646456 ROBOT MOTION GENERATION ON ENHANCED COMPUTER PROCESSORS TRAN, DALENA 3657 §102 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2024
18615238 TRANSMITTER-SIDE LINK TRAINING WITH IN-BAND HANDSHAKING NGUYEN, PHIL K 2176 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18419153 PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE CELL WITH SINGLE TRANSISTOR TYPES TO IMPROVE VOLTAGE AND TEMPERATURE STABILITY CRAWFORD, JASON 2844 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18407807 OUTPUT LATCH AND AMPLIFIER USING TWO VOLTAGE DOMAINS AND KEEPER CIRCUIT BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. 2825 §102 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jan 09, 2024
18494495 PACKAGE LAYOUTS UTILIZING NON-RECTANGULAR PERIPHERAL CHIPS CHANG, JAY C 2817 §112 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Oct 25, 2023
18178375 LOGIC CELL PLACEMENT MECHANISMS FOR IMPROVED CLOCK ON-CHIP VARIATION PARIHAR, SUCHIN 2851 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023
18165874 VIA-BASED INDUCTOR COIL FOR INTEGRATED SILICON APPLICATIONS LIAN, MANG TIN BIK 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 07, 2023
17679681 Reinforcement driven standard cell placement WHITE, JAY MICHAEL 2188 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 24, 2022
17112795 EFFICIENT SOFTMAX COMPUTATION LAROCQUE, EMILY E 2182 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2020

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