Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

22 pending office actions • 20 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 52 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
4
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (4)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.

1
Hard (5%)
18
Medium (82%)
3
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only16 (73%)
§102 only2 (9%)
§112 only3 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
36% of docket
4
Information Tech
18% of docket
4
Communications
18% of docket
2
Semiconductors
9% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
18% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 1 73.6% +29.9%
MENGESHA, WEBESHET 1 47.3% +13.3%
KIM, HEE SOO 1 79.1% +0.0%
OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 1 77.3% +17.6%
AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN 1 76.9% +22.2%
YENTRAPATI, AVINASH 1 74.7% -4.8%
HO, ALLEN C 1 86.8% +17.7%
LEE, HOI YAN NMN 1 43.1% +77.9%
JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1 68.5% +25.0%
ABDULLAH, AAISHA 1 26.7% +43.8%

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
18381214 FEW-VIEW CT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM HO, ALLEN C 239d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
16002329 METHOD FOR PREDICTING AUTISM WOITACH, JOSEPH T 72d overdue
18216679 METHODS OF PREDICTING BONE FRACTURE RISK IN TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS ABDULLAH, AAISHA 25d overdue

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
18381214 FEW-VIEW CT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM HO, ALLEN C 239d overdue
18216679 METHODS OF PREDICTING BONE FRACTURE RISK IN TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS ABDULLAH, AAISHA 25d overdue
18714185 X-RAY DISSECTOGRAPHY AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN 5d overdue
18276349 METHODS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL TUMOR SPHEROID MICROARRAY FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT, HIGH-CONTENT IMMUNE CELL-MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 16d
18237624 NASAL SPRAY USING PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE AND MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDE POLYSULFATE FOR COVID-19 PREVENTION AND TREATMENT LEE, HOI YAN NMN 21d
18911318 SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM WITH STAND-ALONE MODULAR UNITS MENGESHA, WEBESHET 41d
18860798 SKULL FIXATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 54d
18731228 JOINT UNSUPERVISED AND SUPERVISED TRAINING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 60d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2884 2
1693 2
3619 1
3763 1
2443 1
2653 1
2611 1
2672 1
1797 1
3681 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18860798 SKULL FIXATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 3619 §103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Oct 28, 2024
18911318 SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM WITH STAND-ALONE MODULAR UNITS MENGESHA, WEBESHET 3763 §112 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Oct 10, 2024
18776513 SYNTHETIC NETWORK GENERATOR FOR COVERT NETWORK ANALYTICS KIM, HEE SOO 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2024
18731228 JOINT UNSUPERVISED AND SUPERVISED TRAINING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 2653 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending May 31, 2024
18714185 X-RAY DISSECTOGRAPHY AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 29, 2024
18569764 AI-ENABLED ULTRA-LOW-DOSE CT RECONSTRUCTION YENTRAPATI, AVINASH 2672 §102 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18381214 FEW-VIEW CT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM HO, ALLEN C 2884 §112 Non-Final OA 239d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2023
18237624 NASAL SPRAY USING PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE AND MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDE POLYSULFATE FOR COVID-19 PREVENTION AND TREATMENT LEE, HOI YAN NMN 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18276349 METHODS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL TUMOR SPHEROID MICROARRAY FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT, HIGH-CONTENT IMMUNE CELL-MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18216679 METHODS OF PREDICTING BONE FRACTURE RISK IN TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS ABDULLAH, AAISHA 3681 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18035571 NOISE2SIM - SIMILARITY-BASED SELF-LEARNING FOR IMAGE DENOISING WANG, CLAIRE X 1774 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18162894 REPROGRAMMABLE FEDERATED LEARNING LEE, WILLIAM MICHAEL 2145 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Feb 01, 2023
18099749 BIOSYNTHETIC HEPARIN HIBSHMAN, SARAH GRACE 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 20, 2023
18081156 DECORRELATION MECHANISM AND DUAL NECK AUTOENCODER FOR DEEP LEARNING HAN, JOSEP 2122 §102 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 14, 2022
17897349 FORCE MEASURING APPARATUS BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT 3775 §112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 29, 2022
17796715 PATIENT-SPECIFIC ORGAN DOSE QUANTIFICATION AND INVERSE OPTIMIZATION FOR CT NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q 2663 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Aug 01, 2022
17629516 OXIDATION AND CORROSION RESISTANT NUCLEAR FUEL ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID 1764 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2022
17612000 DNA NANOARCHITECTURES FOR PATTERN-RECOGNIZED TARGETING OF DISEASES WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1636 §103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Nov 17, 2021
17426143 SYSTEM FOR EARLY DETECTION OF PLANT DISEASE SONG, HOON K 2884 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jul 28, 2021
17297184 PRINTING NANOPOROUS ULTRATHIN MEMBRANES FOR LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERIES CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG 1751 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending May 26, 2021
16926407 EFFICIENT SEARCH OF ROBUST ACCURATE NEURAL NETWORKS GODO, MORIAM MOSUNMOLA 2148 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2020
16002329 METHOD FOR PREDICTING AUTISM WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1687 §101 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2018

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