Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Providence St Joseph Health

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Providence St Joseph Health has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are distributed across 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio requires coordination across separate examination channels.

PATEL, SHREYANS A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger pending concentration in the supplied data, so portfolio management should combine centralized oversight with file-specific review for each assignment.

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

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

7
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other6 (86%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
2
Communications
29% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATEL, SHREYANS A 1 88.4% +7.9%
PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 1 58.8% +30.5%
PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT 1 69.4% +19.8%
BADAWI, ANGIE M 1 58.8% +36.1%
HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 1 2.5% +0.7%
BARTLEY, KENNETH 1 36.1% +28.4%
SITTNER, MICHAEL J 1 10.8% +14.8%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17950867 RECEIVING PRESCRIPTION REFILL REQUESTS VIA VOICE AND/OR FREE-TEXT CHAT CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN A PATIENT AND AN AUTOMATED AGENT HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 60d overdue
17950861 OPTIMIZING MESSAGING TO SERVICE PRINCIPALS USING MACHINE LEARNING BARTLEY, KENNETH 18d overdue
18757256 CONSTRUCTING AND APPLYING COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE PATEL, SHREYANS A 17d overdue
18618986 CLUSTER INTERPRETATION USING A PERSISTENCE MEASURE PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 4d overdue
17746820 AUTOMATIC PROJECT PLANNING, BUDGETING, AND TRACKING TOOL SITTNER, MICHAEL J 13d
18311757 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING ERRORS IN COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHOD ROUTING OBJECTS BADAWI, ANGIE M 30d
18360698 AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A VIDEO IN WHICH A PERSON SEES AND HEARS A REPRESENTATION OF THEMSELF DELIVERING A POSITIVE MESSAGE TAILORED TO NEGATIVE FEELINGS THEY ARE PRESENTLY EXPERIENCING PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT —

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17950861 OPTIMIZING MESSAGING TO SERVICE PRINCIPALS USING MACHINE LEARNING BARTLEY, KENNETH 18d overdue
18618986 CLUSTER INTERPRETATION USING A PERSISTENCE MEASURE PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 4d overdue
17746820 AUTOMATIC PROJECT PLANNING, BUDGETING, AND TRACKING TOOL SITTNER, MICHAEL J 13d
18311757 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING ERRORS IN COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHOD ROUTING OBJECTS BADAWI, ANGIE M 30d
18360698 AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A VIDEO IN WHICH A PERSON SEES AND HEARS A REPRESENTATION OF THEMSELF DELIVERING A POSITIVE MESSAGE TAILORED TO NEGATIVE FEELINGS THEY ARE PRESENTLY EXPERIENCING PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2659 1
2169 1
2617 1
2179 1
3686 1
3684 1
3621 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18757256 CONSTRUCTING AND APPLYING COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §101§102§103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2024
18618986 CLUSTER INTERPRETATION USING A PERSISTENCE MEASURE PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 2169 §101§103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2024
18360698 AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A VIDEO IN WHICH A PERSON SEES AND HEARS A REPRESENTATION OF THEMSELF DELIVERING A POSITIVE MESSAGE TAILORED TO NEGATIVE FEELINGS THEY ARE PRESENTLY EXPERIENCING PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT 2617 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 27, 2023
18311757 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING ERRORS IN COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHOD ROUTING OBJECTS BADAWI, ANGIE M 2179 §101§102 Final Rejection 30d Pending May 03, 2023
17950867 RECEIVING PRESCRIPTION REFILL REQUESTS VIA VOICE AND/OR FREE-TEXT CHAT CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN A PATIENT AND AN AUTOMATED AGENT HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 3686 §101§103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17950861 OPTIMIZING MESSAGING TO SERVICE PRINCIPALS USING MACHINE LEARNING BARTLEY, KENNETH 3684 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17746820 AUTOMATIC PROJECT PLANNING, BUDGETING, AND TRACKING TOOL SITTNER, MICHAEL J 3621 §101§103 Final Rejection 13d Pending May 17, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Providence St Joseph Health have?

Providence St Joseph Health has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Providence St Joseph Health applications?

Shreyans A Patel has the most, with 1 of Providence St Joseph Health's pending office actions.

What technology area are Providence St Joseph Health's patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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