Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Raytheon Company

28 pending office actions • 26 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 179 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
12
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (12)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

1
Hard (4%)
21
Medium (75%)
5
Easy (18%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only20 (71%)
§102 only1 (4%)
§112 only5 (18%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
14% of docket
8
Information Tech
29% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
8
Semiconductors
29% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
29% 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.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN 1 74.0% +21.6%
ZHANG, SHIRLEY X 1 69.6% +14.4%
VO, ETHAN NGUYEN 1 69.8% +16.2%
ANDERSON, FOLASHADE 1 35.2% +38.9%
PIHULIC, DANIEL T 1 87.2% -6.5%
BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 1 80.3% +13.2%
GRACIA, GARY S 1 71.3% +48.8%
GUAN, GUANG H 1 59.5% +55.8%
LI, MEIYA 1 68.7% +25.4%
WIESE, NOAH S 1 83.2% -2.6%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18425933 BEAM DIVERGENCE CONTROL WITHOUT CREATION OF BORESIGHT OR OTHER ERRORS BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 8d overdue
18455568 Refractory Material with Supercritical Fluid-Deposited Interface Coatings WIESE, NOAH S 2d overdue
18603957 PIEZOELECTRIC STRUCTURE PIHULIC, DANIEL T 12d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18062672 SYSTEM AND METHOD SUPPORTING VIRTUAL HALLWAY COLLISION NGUYEN, NGA B 14d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18629625 MULTI-MISSION DISTRIBUTED SPACE VEHICLE MISSION MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE ANDERSON, FOLASHADE 31d overdue
18425933 BEAM DIVERGENCE CONTROL WITHOUT CREATION OF BORESIGHT OR OTHER ERRORS BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 8d overdue
18543560 DISTRIBUTED DYNAMIC MULTI-LEVEL SECURITY DATA GRACIA, GARY S 19d
18458723 ELIMINATING INTERCONNECT STRAINS IN MICROCIRCUITS LI, MEIYA 21d
18638477 MULTI-PORT ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL FOR LASER POWER SUPPLY VO, ETHAN NGUYEN 39d
18680427 DETECTION OF ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS ZHANG, SHIRLEY X 63d
18370102 FLANGE CLAMPING DEVICE FOR SMALL ANTENNA PEDESTALS GUAN, GUANG H 83d
18791606 ANONYMIZED INDICATION AND/OR IDENTIFICATION OF EXCLUSION ZONES FOR UNCREWED AERIAL VEHICLES OR OTHER FLIGHT VEHICLES BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 2
2828 2
3658 1
2447 1
2834 1
3623 1
3645 1
2499 1
3631 1
2811 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18791606 ANONYMIZED INDICATION AND/OR IDENTIFICATION OF EXCLUSION ZONES FOR UNCREWED AERIAL VEHICLES OR OTHER FLIGHT VEHICLES BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN 3658 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2024
18680427 DETECTION OF ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS ZHANG, SHIRLEY X 2447 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending May 31, 2024
18638477 MULTI-PORT ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL FOR LASER POWER SUPPLY VO, ETHAN NGUYEN 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Apr 17, 2024
18629625 MULTI-MISSION DISTRIBUTED SPACE VEHICLE MISSION MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE ANDERSON, FOLASHADE 3623 §102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2024
18603957 PIEZOELECTRIC STRUCTURE PIHULIC, DANIEL T 3645 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18425933 BEAM DIVERGENCE CONTROL WITHOUT CREATION OF BORESIGHT OR OTHER ERRORS BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2024
18543560 DISTRIBUTED DYNAMIC MULTI-LEVEL SECURITY DATA GRACIA, GARY S 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Dec 18, 2023
18370102 FLANGE CLAMPING DEVICE FOR SMALL ANTENNA PEDESTALS GUAN, GUANG H 3631 §112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Sep 19, 2023
18458723 ELIMINATING INTERCONNECT STRAINS IN MICROCIRCUITS LI, MEIYA 2811 §112 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18455568 Refractory Material with Supercritical Fluid-Deposited Interface Coatings WIESE, NOAH S 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2023
18223688 PULSE PARAMETER DETECTION FOR RADAR AND COMMUNICATIONS USING TRAINED NEURAL NETWORKS WOLFORD, NAOMI M 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18327207 INJECTION-LOCKED LASER-BASED BEATNOTE GENERATION PHASE LOCKED TO REFERENCE CAMACHO ALANIS, FERNANDA ADRIANA 2828 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 01, 2023
18203362 FASTENER FOR ENGAGING THREADED OPENINGS WONG, JOCK M 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 30, 2023
18324763 DATA FABRIC FOR INTELLIGENT WEATHER DATA SELECTION SALOMON, PHENUEL S 2146 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending May 26, 2023
18318502 DISTRIBUTED DATA AND DIGITAL DELIVERY PLATFORM FOR INTEGRATED SUSTAINMENT AND MAINTENANCE SINGH, AMRESH 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 16, 2023
18315778 VISIBLE QUALITY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED ALUMINUM MIRROR FINISHING HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE 1717 §103 Final Rejection 87d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18142899 INFERENCE WITH STRICT CONDITIONALS USING REFLEXIVE MODEL BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18133755 UNSUPERVISED PATTERN DISCOVERY USING DYNAMIC GRAPH EMBEDDINGS GARNER, CASEY R 2123 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
18131166 POWER MANAGEMENT UNIT BATTERY SWITCHOVER TOPOLOGY ROBBINS, JERRY D 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18129506 METHOD OF FORMULATING AN ACTIVE ICE-REPULSING NANO-FILLED COATING AHMED, SHEEBA 1787 Other Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2023
18185573 SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY VARIABLE BUOYANCE ENGINE AFRIN, NAZIA 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 212d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18093163 TEMPORAL CO-GRAPH MACHINE LEARNING NETWORKS PARK, GRACE A 2144 §112 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jan 04, 2023
18062672 SYSTEM AND METHOD SUPPORTING VIRTUAL HALLWAY COLLISION NGUYEN, NGA B 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 07, 2022
17934821 DESIGN EXPLORER FOR COMPOSING PRODUCTS USING COMMON MODULAR SUBSYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS COOK, BRIAN S 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17891009 HIGH POWER RAMAN FIBER LASER KING, JOSHUA 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2022
17827610 Switching Mechanism for A Multi-Spectral Laser Transmitter RICKEL, ALEX PARK 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending May 27, 2022
17721896 NORMALIZED TECHNIQUES FOR THREAT EFFECT PAIRING WHITE, JAY MICHAEL 2188 §112 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Apr 15, 2022
16986596 WATERLESS ELECTRICALLY OPERATED PROPELLANT FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 06, 2020

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