Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
17 pending office actions • 10 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quantinuum LLC maintains a portfolio with 18 pending office actions, all situated within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed among 17 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units. This degree of fragmentation across 11 distinct art units suggests that the company's semiconductor research is broad, touching on many different sub-classifications. The fact that 17 distinct examiners are involved indicates that the prosecution team must manage a wide variety of examiner preferences and technical interpretations.
The busiest examiner, STOFFA, WYATT A, is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This represents a specific portion of the 18 total pending actions, highlighting the decentralized nature of the portfolio. With 17 distinct examiners handling 18 pending office actions, the workload is highly distributed. This distribution requires a coordinated prosecution strategy to ensure consistency across the 11 distinct art units. The complexity of managing 18 actions across so many different officials is a significant characteristic of this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 5 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 2 | 79.3% | +22.3% |
| JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 1 | 66.7% | +23.4% |
| STARK, JARRETT J | 1 | 70.4% | +11.0% |
| MCCORMACK, JASON L | 1 | 84.7% | +8.1% |
| PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 65.1% | +27.1% |
| LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | 1 | 77.7% | +1.5% |
| MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | 1 | 77.4% | +18.4% |
| TRAN, TAN H | 1 | 61.3% | +32.3% |
| GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 80.3% | +24.1% |
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.4% | +19.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774087 | DETERMINING SPECIES ORDER OF A CONFINED MULTI-SPECIES OBJECT CRYSTAL | MCCORMACK, JASON L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18468892 | CONDITIONAL OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS USING BROADCASTED CONTROL VOLTAGE SIGNALS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 10d overdue |
| 18498479 | METHOD OF APPLYING A DIELECTRIC COATING ON A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 27d |
| 18946375 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR METASURFACE DESIGN | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | — |
| 18753040 | OPTICAL BENCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTICAL PROPERTY-CONTROLLED BEAMS TO ARRAY OF TARGET LOCATIONS | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | — |
| 18605129 | LASER PHASE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | — |
| 18527998 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18475479 | OPTICS-INTEGRATED CONFINEMENT APPARATUS SYSTEM | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18451939 | CHIP INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL TOOL | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498479 | METHOD OF APPLYING A DIELECTRIC COATING ON A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 27d |
| 18946375 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR METASURFACE DESIGN | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | — |
| 18888903 | INTEGRATION AND CO-PACKAGING OF CONFINEMENT APPARATUS AND APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC) SUBSYSTEM | STARK, JARRETT J | — |
| 18753040 | OPTICAL BENCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTICAL PROPERTY-CONTROLLED BEAMS TO ARRAY OF TARGET LOCATIONS | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | — |
| 18738398 | TEMPORARILY CHANGING THE QUANTIZATION FIELD OF AN ATOMIC OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18404144 | QUANTUM COMPUTER PHASE TRACKING AND CORRECTION | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | — |
| 18391773 | FOUR-TONE PHASE INSENSITIVE GEOMETRY FOR MØLMER-SØRENSEN INTERACTION WITH CONFINED QUANTUM OBJECTS | TRAN, TAN H | — |
| 18527998 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 6 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 2129 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18946375 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR METASURFACE DESIGN | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18888903 | INTEGRATION AND CO-PACKAGING OF CONFINEMENT APPARATUS AND APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC) SUBSYSTEM | STARK, JARRETT J | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18774087 | DETERMINING SPECIES ORDER OF A CONFINED MULTI-SPECIES OBJECT CRYSTAL | MCCORMACK, JASON L | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18753040 | OPTICAL BENCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTICAL PROPERTY-CONTROLLED BEAMS TO ARRAY OF TARGET LOCATIONS | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18738398 | TEMPORARILY CHANGING THE QUANTIZATION FIELD OF AN ATOMIC OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18605129 | LASER PHASE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | 3991 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18404144 | QUANTUM COMPUTER PHASE TRACKING AND CORRECTION | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | 2144 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18391773 | FOUR-TONE PHASE INSENSITIVE GEOMETRY FOR MØLMER-SØRENSEN INTERACTION WITH CONFINED QUANTUM OBJECTS | TRAN, TAN H | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18527998 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18498479 | METHOD OF APPLYING A DIELECTRIC COATING ON A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1717 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18475479 | OPTICS-INTEGRATED CONFINEMENT APPARATUS SYSTEM | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18468892 | CONDITIONAL OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS USING BROADCASTED CONTROL VOLTAGE SIGNALS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18456872 | LOW LOSS SILICON NITRIDE AND WAVEGUIDES COMPRISING LOW LOSS SILICON NITRIDE | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18451939 | CHIP INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL TOOL | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18339693 | Machine-Learning Based Quantum Noise Decoder | KASSIM, IMAD MUTEE | 2129 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18190496 | ACTIVE NANO-PHOTONICS FOR TRAPPED PARTICLE INTERACTION | SMITH, DAVID E | 2881 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 17931616 | HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMPUTING SIMULATION OF CHEMICAL SYSTEMS | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 1686 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialQuantinuum LLC has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 16 examiners.
Wyatt A Stoffa has the most, with 2 of Quantinuum LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
