Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
80 pending office actions • 57 art units • 78 examiners • 0 of 80 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 93 patents granted in the last 365 days
Optum Inc. has 81 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The portfolio spans 78 distinct examiners and 58 distinct art units, reflecting substantial dispersion across both examination personnel and technical groupings.
MINCEY, JERMAINE A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That limited concentration means the profile is not organized around one examiner, even though a small number of repeated assignments may justify targeted review.
The spread across art units indicates that Optum’s prosecution activity covers multiple examination contexts within computing and software. Counsel should use portfolio-level controls for deadlines, disclosure consistency, and recurring claim themes, while preserving flexibility for examiner-specific amendments and interview strategies.
The examiner count is larger than the art-unit count, so some art units contain matters handled by more than one examiner. Tracking those relationships separately can help identify whether a recurring issue reflects technology classification, examiner practice, or the facts of a particular application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 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. 19 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 | 15 (19%) |
| §101 + other | 38 (48%) |
| §103 only | 18 (22%) |
| §102 only | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (8%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, JONATHAN C | 2 | 73.9% | +38.5% |
| CHAWAN, VIJAY B | 2 | 87.9% | +11.7% |
| MORRIS, JOHN J | 1 | 61.4% | +20.4% |
| CRAWFORD, GENE O | 1 | 45.9% | +5.7% |
| GUNN, JEREMY L | 1 | 30.1% | +45.8% |
| LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | 1 | 83.8% | +50.7% |
| MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 1 | 28.9% | +26.9% |
| WILLIAMS, TERESA S | 1 | 25.1% | +17.2% |
| LIN, AMIE CHINYU | 1 | 84.4% | +30.9% |
| HACKENBERG, RACHEL J | 1 | 78.1% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18428206 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT MODEL TRAINING USING RELEVANT DATA OBJECTS | CHAWAN, VIJAY B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18400184 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PREDICTING WHEN PRIOR AUTHORIZATION IS REQUIRED FOR A HEALTH CARE PROCEDURE USING STATISTICAL ANALYTICS | CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA | 160d overdue |
| 18314428 | DEEP LEARNING ARCHITECTURES FOR REDUCING INCIDENTAL TRUNCATION BIAS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE | BADAWI, SHERIEF | 53d overdue |
| 18178043 | MACHINE LEARNING MONITORING TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING AND FACILITATING MODEL RETRAINING | DAY, ROBERT N | 46d overdue |
| 18118992 | FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTION FOR MAGNETIC EXPOSURE | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 2d overdue |
| 18149441 | MACHINE LEARNING INSIGHTS BASED ON IDENTIFIER DISTRIBUTIONS | PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS | 8d |
| 18313426 | IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING PREDICTIONS | CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y | 8d |
| 17344510 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE-LEARNING BASED TREATMENT MODELING FOR ONCOLOGY BASED ON INCONSISTENT RAS BIOMARKER DETECTION DATA RECORDS | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 9d |
| 18162157 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DISCOVERING PATIENT BENEFITS UNDER A HEALTH CARE COVERAGE PLAN | REYES, REGINALD R | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19348133 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED AUTOCOMPLETE PREDICTION | MORRIS, JOHN J | — |
| 19056352 | Systems and Methods for Data Record Routing | GUNN, JEREMY L | — |
| 19006055 | Multi-Channel Intent Summarization Using Utterance Shift and Span Detection | KIM, JONATHAN C | — |
| 19005307 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING DATA RELIABILITY OF DIGITIZED TEXT USING CERTAINTY ALGORITHMS | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | — |
| 19002074 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING MACHINE RECOGNITION OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEDICAL ENTITIES EXTRACTED FROM STRUCTURED RECORDS | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | — |
| 18978748 | Systems and Methods for Analyzing and Condensing Encounter-Related Information | WILLIAMS, TERESA S | — |
| 18978755 | Systems and Methods for Analyzing and Condensing Audio Information Relating to an Encounter | CHAWAN, VIJAY B | — |
| 18958676 | PRIORITIZING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN COMPUTING ECOSYSTEMS | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2122 | 4 |
| 2159 | 3 |
| 3625 | 3 |
| 3683 | 3 |
| 2127 | 3 |
| 3682 | 3 |
| 2653 | 2 |
| 3685 | 2 |
| 3687 | 2 |
| 2658 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19348133 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED AUTOCOMPLETE PREDICTION | MORRIS, JOHN J | 2151 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 19072797 | CHUTE COVER FOR DISPENSER | CRAWFORD, GENE O | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19056352 | Systems and Methods for Data Record Routing | GUNN, JEREMY L | 3624 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19006055 | Multi-Channel Intent Summarization Using Utterance Shift and Span Detection | KIM, JONATHAN C | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19005307 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING DATA RELIABILITY OF DIGITIZED TEXT USING CERTAINTY ALGORITHMS | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | 2656 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19002074 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING MACHINE RECOGNITION OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEDICAL ENTITIES EXTRACTED FROM STRUCTURED RECORDS | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 3685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18978748 | Systems and Methods for Analyzing and Condensing Encounter-Related Information | WILLIAMS, TERESA S | 3687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18978755 | Systems and Methods for Analyzing and Condensing Audio Information Relating to an Encounter | CHAWAN, VIJAY B | 2658 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18958676 | PRIORITIZING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN COMPUTING ECOSYSTEMS | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | 2436 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18911948 | AUTONOMOUS CLOUD-BASED POLICY VALIDATION | HACKENBERG, RACHEL J | 2454 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18898974 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ASSISTED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | JUNG, HENRY H | 3695 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18830989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTION-BASED IMAGING OF COMPUTING DEVICES | PAULINO, LENIN | 2197 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18826650 | INTELLIGENT CODE GENERATION | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2171 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18772794 | CONTEXTUALIZED TASK-SPECIFIC GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATION RELATED TO THIRD-PARTY DATA SOURCES | RIVERA, ANIBAL | 2192 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18768131 | ENTERPRISE-SPECIFIC LANGUAGE MODEL TRAINING TECHNIQUES | GALVIN-SIEBENALER, PAUL MICHAEL | 2147 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18740788 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING MULTIPLE MODEL SIMULATIONS | VIRREIRA, ROLANDO PATRICK | 2143 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18737277 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING IMPROVED TRAINING DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS | ANDREI, RADU | 3697 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18736786 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION FROM KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS BASED ON QUERY CONTEXT | HAN, BYUNGKWON | 2121 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18736780 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA EXTRACTION | MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO | 2159 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18731670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO COUNT PILLS | MAI, THIEN T | 2876 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18679924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING CONDITION OF AN ENTITY VIA MACHINE-LEARNING | LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 2128 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18677412 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZING ZONE CONFIGURATIONS | ULLAH, ARIF | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18672358 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MEDICAL IMAGING DATA | ERICKSON, BENNETT S | 3683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18668748 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMOTION-BASED CALL SUMMARIZATION | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18657327 | PROMPT ENGINEERING AND IN-CONTEXT EXAMPLE SELECTION FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | KIM, JONATHAN C | 2653 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18648869 | NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR PREDICTIVE MODELS | ZENG, WENWEI | 2146 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18648910 | USER INTERFACE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR PREDICTIVE MODELS | WASAFF, JOHN S. | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18633751 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING A CLASSIFICATION CODE ASSIGNED TO A DATA OBJECT BY A FIRST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MODEL USING A SECOND AI MODEL | HOUNTON, AWADAGBE GERARD | 2126 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18591292 | GENERATING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROMPTS BASED ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS | SPOONER, LAMONT M | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18436562 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR SYNTHESIZING MULTI-MODAL DATASETS | JABLON, ASHER H. | 2127 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18434959 | REFINED QUERY RESOLUTION BASED ON RELEVANT SEARCH CLUSTERING USING REAL TIME DATA | ADAMS, CHARLES D | 2152 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18428206 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT MODEL TRAINING USING RELEVANT DATA OBJECTS | CHAWAN, VIJAY B | 2658 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18400184 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PREDICTING WHEN PRIOR AUTHORIZATION IS REQUIRED FOR A HEALTH CARE PROCEDURE USING STATISTICAL ANALYTICS | CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA | 3692 | §101 | Final Rejection | 160d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18400043 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING UNNECESSARY RESOURCE RE-UTILIZATION | GEDRA, OLIVIA ROSE | 2853 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18395267 | REAL-TIME MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR PROACTIVELY GENERATING AND ACTING ON USER-SPECIFIC ACTIVITY INSIGHTS | TRAN, AMY NMN | 2126 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18500664 | REFINED SEARCH RESOLUTION BASED ON CAUSAL MAPPING USING REAL TIME DATA | MINCEY, JERMAINE A | 2159 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18483287 | WORKSPACE MANAGEMENT FOR IMPROVED MODEL | HASTY, NICHOLAS | 2141 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 18483180 | CENTRALIZED MODEL MAINTENANCE UTILIZING THIRD-PARTY WORKSPACES | CHAN, HOWIE | 4100 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 18477359 | TRAINING AND TUNING OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR GENERATING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC PREDICTIONS | BALAKRISHNAN, VIJAY MURALI | 2143 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18462846 | REMOTE QUERY PROCESSING FOR A FEDERATED QUERY SYSTEM BASED ON PREDICTED QUERY PROCESSING DURATION | GMAHL, NAVNEET K | 2166 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18365461 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT IDENTIFICATION OF FALL EVENTS | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 3682 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18365364 | SERIALIZABLE SYNTHETIC DATA MODEL FOR DATA DRIFT DETECTION | ADMASU, MAHLIET TASEW | 2123 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18358302 | UNIVERSAL AND MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AGNOSTIC CONTROL AND TRACKING | TSAI, JAMES T | 2147 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18316565 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROCOGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE DISORDERS SCREENING | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 18314428 | DEEP LEARNING ARCHITECTURES FOR REDUCING INCIDENTAL TRUNCATION BIAS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE | BADAWI, SHERIEF | 2169 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18122897 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ANOMALY AND MALWARE DETECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGING DATA | FARAMARZI, GITA | 2496 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 18180380 | GRAPH BASED PREDICTIVE INFERENCES FOR DOMAIN TAXONOMY | SIPPEL, MOLLY CLARKE | 2122 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18118992 | FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTION FOR MAGNETIC EXPOSURE | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 3683 | §101 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18175057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC HEALTH DATA PROCESSING | SHELDEN, BION A | 3685 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 18168774 | REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR OPTIMIZING CROSS-CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | 2122 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOptum Inc. has 80 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 57 art units and 78 examiners.
Jonathan C Kim has the most, with 2 of Optum Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
