Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Optum Inc.

32 pending office actions • 26 art units • 32 examiners • 0 of 32 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

32
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
19
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 32 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
1
Due this week
12
Due this month
6
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 32 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (12)Due ≤ 60 days (6)Due later (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.

13
Hard (41%)
16
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only13 (41%)
§103 only15 (47%)
§102 only1 (3%)
§112 only2 (6%)
No statute on record1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
3% of docket
16
Information Tech
50% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
15
Mechanical / Eng
47% 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.

320 h
Manual time on pending OAs
64 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
112 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HASAN, SYED HAROON 1 81.7% +15.2%
HAMILTON, MATTHEW L 1 53.6% +61.9%
MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 1 49.0% +20.3%
ERICKSON, BENNETT S 1 38.2% +44.3%
DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 1 69.4% +4.5%
ADAMS, CHARLES D 1 44.5% +44.1%
CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA 1 9.3% +13.1%
WORJLOH, JALATEE 1 63.3% +38.4%
TSUI, WILSON W 1 61.5% +57.8%
MINCEY, JERMAINE A 1 56.8% +41.2%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19022935 DATABASE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR CONCURRENT WRITE REQUEST PROCESSING HASAN, SYED HAROON 23d overdue

Hard Cases (13)

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
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
17382691 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING RECALCULATION DETERMINATIONS FOR PREDICTED RISK SCORES ALSHAHARI, SADIK AHMED 10d overdue
18745275 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING FOR IMPROVING MACHINE RECOGNITION OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEDICAL ENTITIES HAMILTON, MATTHEW L 4d overdue
18149441 MACHINE LEARNING INSIGHTS BASED ON IDENTIFIER DISTRIBUTIONS PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS 8d
18466140 MULTIMODAL MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT INTERACTIONS GARTLAND, SCOTT D 12d
18162157 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DISCOVERING PATIENT BENEFITS UNDER A HEALTH CARE COVERAGE PLAN REYES, REGINALD R 13d
17517099 PREDICTIVE TARGET EVENT EVALUATION USING SEGMENT VALUATION DISTRIBUTIONS FOR PROPOSED EVENT ALTERNATIVES GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON 20d
18434959 REFINED QUERY RESOLUTION BASED ON RELEVANT SEARCH CLUSTERING USING REAL TIME DATA ADAMS, CHARLES D 28d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
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
19022935 DATABASE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR CONCURRENT WRITE REQUEST PROCESSING HASAN, SYED HAROON 23d overdue
18672358 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MEDICAL IMAGING DATA ERICKSON, BENNETT S 10d overdue
18745275 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING FOR IMPROVING MACHINE RECOGNITION OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEDICAL ENTITIES HAMILTON, MATTHEW L 4d overdue
18523312 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CONTEXTUALLY AWARE DEBIASING TSUI, WILSON W 6d
18736780 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA EXTRACTION MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 14d
18434959 REFINED QUERY RESOLUTION BASED ON RELEVANT SEARCH CLUSTERING USING REAL TIME DATA ADAMS, CHARLES D 28d
18392353 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING STORED EVENTS TO DERIVE DIGITAL RESOURCE OBJECTS WORJLOH, JALATEE 56d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2154 2
3682 2
2159 2
3683 2
3687 2
3625 2
2168 1
2152 1
3692 1
3697 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19022935 DATABASE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR CONCURRENT WRITE REQUEST PROCESSING HASAN, SYED HAROON 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2025
18745275 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING FOR IMPROVING MACHINE RECOGNITION OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEDICAL ENTITIES HAMILTON, MATTHEW L 3682 §101 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2024
18736780 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA EXTRACTION MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18672358 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MEDICAL IMAGING DATA ERICKSON, BENNETT S 3683 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending May 23, 2024
18663807 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GUIDELINE-BASED EXTRACTION OF RELEVANT INFORMATION FROM UNSTRUCTURED DATA DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 2168 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending May 14, 2024
18434959 REFINED QUERY RESOLUTION BASED ON RELEVANT SEARCH CLUSTERING USING REAL TIME DATA ADAMS, CHARLES D 2152 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 07, 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
18392353 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING STORED EVENTS TO DERIVE DIGITAL RESOURCE OBJECTS WORJLOH, JALATEE 3697 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18523312 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CONTEXTUALLY AWARE DEBIASING TSUI, WILSON W 2172 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Nov 29, 2023
18500664 REFINED SEARCH RESOLUTION BASED ON CAUSAL MAPPING USING REAL TIME DATA MINCEY, JERMAINE A 2159 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18494446 DYNAMIC PRECISION TIME SERIES ENSEMBLE SELECTION ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M 3687 §101 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Oct 25, 2023
18466140 MULTIMODAL MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT INTERACTIONS GARTLAND, SCOTT D 3685 §101 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18322091 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR DISAMBIGUATING UNSTRUCTURED DATA FIELDS FOR MAPPING TO DATA TABLES LU, HWEI-MIN 2142 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 23, 2023
18316565 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROCOGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE DISORDERS SCREENING ANTOINE, LISA HOPE 3715 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending May 12, 2023
18314428 DEEP LEARNING ARCHITECTURES FOR REDUCING INCIDENTAL TRUNCATION BIAS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE BADAWI, SHERIEF 2169 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending May 09, 2023
18193752 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED PERMISSIONING OF MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND TESTS MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL 3682 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 31, 2023
18187101 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING FOR BURNOUT PREDICTION LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE 3625 §101 Final Rejection 28d Pending Mar 21, 2023
18122897 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ANOMALY AND MALWARE DETECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGING DATA FARAMARZI, GITA 2496 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18118992 FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTION FOR MAGNETIC EXPOSURE WINSTON III, EDWARD B 3683 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2023
18170278 CORRECTING HL7 OBSERVATION VALUE TYPES USING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 3686 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18165010 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE ACTIONS BASED ON TEMPORAL-BASED PREDICTIONS OF NON-COMPLIANCE TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE 3687 §101 Final Rejection 33d Pending Feb 06, 2023
18162157 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DISCOVERING PATIENT BENEFITS UNDER A HEALTH CARE COVERAGE PLAN REYES, REGINALD R 3684 §101 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jan 31, 2023
18159297 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USER AUTHENTICATION USING CONTINUOUS FACIAL RECOGNITION KHADKA, AMIT 2432 §103 Final Rejection 43d Pending Jan 25, 2023
18149441 MACHINE LEARNING INSIGHTS BASED ON IDENTIFIER DISTRIBUTIONS PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS 2125 §101 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jan 03, 2023
17821269 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING SEMANTIC TABLE REPRESENTATIONS USING A TOKEN-WISE ENTITY TYPE CLASSIFICATION MECHANISM MAY, ROBERT F 2154 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Aug 22, 2022
17820681 ATTENTION-BASED MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES USING TEMPORAL SEQUENCE DATA AND DYNAMIC CO-OCCURRENCE GRAPH DATA OBJECTS DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN 2147 §102 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2022
17811229 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES USING MODEL DEFICIENCY DATA OBJECTS FOR TENSOR-BASED GRAPH PROCESSING MODELS LEWIS, MATTHEW LEE 2144 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2022
17517099 PREDICTIVE TARGET EVENT EVALUATION USING SEGMENT VALUATION DISTRIBUTIONS FOR PROPOSED EVENT ALTERNATIVES GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON 3628 §101 Final Rejection 20d Pending Nov 02, 2021
17468057 UTILITY DETERMINATION PREDICTIVE DATA ANALYSIS SOLUTIONS USING MAPPINGS ACROSS RISK DOMAINS AND EVALUATION DOMAINS ALSTON, FRANK MAURICE 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Sep 07, 2021
17389341 Graph-Based Recommendations DEVORE, CHRISTOPHER DILLON 2129 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jul 30, 2021
17382691 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING RECALCULATION DETERMINATIONS FOR PREDICTED RISK SCORES ALSHAHARI, SADIK AHMED 2121 §101 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2021
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 1687 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 10, 2021

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